Connecticut western news., 1914-04-16
THE OLD SCRIBES
What Has Become of the Old News
 paper Fellows.

come of the jolly old Connecticut news. paper fellows" of 25 and 80 aud B years ago? A vigorous lot they were, gener- ally. and while some of them have hung their "30''aon the hook and lat go their | pencils forever, there are many of the old group still actively in the Jnurnal- istlc harness. thongh qnrte a. many more have abandoned the grind of 1 Journalism for other, and generally more Lucrative and more distinguished, if not more useful fields of activity. <
 "Tom" Reilly. who "covered" the legislature for many years who was one of the founders of the Merid.u | Journal; who could smell u sc Iop as far as horehound could scent a Welsh rabbit, and who ouce managed leagu- baseball as side-line, forsook journal ism after he had been elected mayor of Meriden five or six times, and is now serving his second term as Congressman from the Second district.
 "Tom" Weaver. who, in the 70s and sos, kept the news columns of the Hart ford Post bristling with things that were so-or as good as so-has long been, is now. and ever shall be superintendent of schools in Hartford.
 George P. Mclean wrote his stuff for the Hartford Post in such poetic prose and such attractive style. that he was employed by the state for two years to write Thanksgiving and Fast Day pro- clamations and slgn all the new laws. aud now he is United States Senator from Connecticut.
 "Chris' Downey, of Waterbury, who inherited several fortunes and earned several more with his pen; who has established half-dozen papers in his time and never wrote a lie that he couldn't prove, is still at work, writing interesting "reminiscences for the Water bury Sunday Republican.
 "Jule" Sterling, who used to write those Munchausenistic, hair raising news stories for the World and the Bridgeport papers, and who hasn't for gotten how, to this day, lives in elegant retirement in West Haven.
 George O. Waldo, who is easily the dean of Connecticut journalism, is still writing editorials on the Bridgeport Standard, and his pen is apparently as virile as it was a half-century ago.
 Ed. Lounsbury, who has held down practically every desk in practically every newspaper office in New Haven. is now journalizing in Seattle, Wash. ing5un.
 Charlie Kenuey has done everything that Lounsbury has done, except go to Seattle, and is still doing it. He walks with the same military erectness that distinguished him 30 years ago.
 J. M. Emerson, who made the old time weekly publishers shake their heads ominons1y when he changed the Ansonia Sentiaet from weekly to daily. just 30 years ago-when only the big cities had dailies-has long been en. toying the fruits of that rashness, in serene and leisurely contemplation of the joys of living, and in active and ap- preciative participation in the aforesaid joys. F s-...@. >., ,..... "Nod" Osborn began to write pieces to print in the paper over 35 years ago. and although he won the title of Colonel and maintained it on the bloody battle fields of Niantio and in the gory han- quet- halls wherever Governor Walters gallant staff made a charge, still his pen is mightier than his sword ever was. He is still ill harness, as editor in- chief of the New Haven Journal Cour. fer. ., 4e9 -. ..--. "Rufe" Lyon, who, did brilliant work on the Bridgeport Farmer, forsook the sanctum long ago, and is now a pros- porous agriculturist in Bedding, Conn.
 Arthur w. French, who could out Ripple Kipling in the quality and quan- tity of his poetic productions, and who wrote plays and operas between his newspaper assignments on the Farmer.
 Jim" Scott, who in the last two generations has trained more cub re. porters than any other man in the state, IS still at it, and occupies the managing editors desk on the New Haven Union. 4 O. F. Chapln is still the brain-room director of the Waterbury American, where he has been going on fifty years, and he looks good for going on fifty years more. ...J. -..E .
 Amos, F.. Wilder, the scholarly journal ist, of New Haven and elsewhere, is now on his way home from Russia. where he has been for many years as United States Minister. He can get any of his old newspaper jobs back, if he wants it. -....
 Billy" Countryman, who was one of the Hartford hustlers, in the old days, has been, In Washington for the last twenty years, and has fat job in the Census Bureau. g.