The Washington herald., 1913-04-18
EBOYS' EXTOL
charlie Mann
Writers Mourn Friend Who
Closed Press Gallery Doors
His Last Time.
HALSEY SUCCEEDS HIM
Newspaper Men Pass Resolutions and
Attend Funeral Of House
Employe.

Resolutions expressing the deep affec-
ton which members Of the two press
galleries Of the Capitol held for Charles
II. Mann. superintendent Of the House
gallery. who died Wednesday morning.
were read and adopted at meeting of
the correspondents in the House press
gallery yesterday afternoon. Maurice
Splain. of the Philadelphia Record. drew
up and read the resolutions. copy OF
which the standing committee of cor
respondents was instructed to forward
to Mr. Mann's family.
Handsome floral tributes were author
lied. and the chairman of the commit
tee was instructed to appoint commit
tee to attend Mr.. Mann's funeral. which
was held last night at the undertaking
establishment of George p. Zorhorst. 0l
East Capitol Street. Interment was pri-
waite.
Press Loses Friend.
The resolutions adopted recited:
1T Is only the simple truth to say
that in the death of Charles H. Mann,
for more than a generation in charge of
the press gallery of the House Of Rep
resentatives, the political writer's of the
American press. and especially those
stationed i'm Washington, have lost a
singularly faithful. active, and thought
full friend and the House one of its
most faithful and efficient employees.
Charlie Mann, through the long years
Of hfs service in the press gallery, never
grew weary in trying to facilitate the
work of the newspaper men regularly
admitted there, or who came occasion
ally to Washington on special missions.
No matter how many hours he had been
on duty nor how exacting the duties OF
the day had been, Charlie Mann was
never so tired that he couldn't respond
promptly and laughingly to just one
more call for help. small or important,
from any one of the 200 men who fire.
quented his baliwick.
Their interests were his, and hardly
a correspondent who has spent any con-
siderable time in Washington in the last
thirty years but fell under real obliga-
tons to Charlie through the 1atter's
care and persistence in getting to him
messages or information ii was essential
for the correspondent to receive prompt
ly.
Charlie Mann went soldering in the
civil war as a boy, and through life he
kept the true spirit of the soldier.
Though he was seventy-four years OF
age when he died. he never permitted
his increasing years to serve as an ex-
CuSe Tor exemption from the most OlS-
agreeable or exacting of his duties. Last
years national conventions found him
on the job day and night, refusing 10
give VI his post to younger men. Oblig-
ing and kindly as were his relations
with those who frequented the gallery,
yet he showed the spirit of the soldier
by insisting that the rules of the House
regulat ting the gallery must be observed
by all.
"As a boy. he went into the civil war
full of exuberant spirits at the prospect
of excitement, buoyant as the true hunter
starting to the hunt, thinking nothing of
danger or the game. AS veteran, old in
years but boy in spirit, Charlie Mann
went into that last war with the enemy
who sooner or later conquers all. without
sign of fear or hesitation, refused tC
shield himself against pain with anes-
thetics. stood the long torture of the sur
geon's knife without a whimper, and
when he seemed on the road to recovery
told Of his agonizing experiences as ar
old soldier would tell of such things. as a
part of the days work. Mourning beside
the bier of such friend, we realize our
sorrow is almost wholly selfish He had
lived his life and deserved his rest. and