The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-22
THE OLD SCRIBES
By John Rodemeyer In Connecticut
 Western News

come of the jolly old Connecticut newspaper feIIows'' of 5 and 30 and s5 years ago? A vigorous lot they were. generally, and while some of them have hung their 1902 on the hook and let go their pencils forever. there are many of the old group still. actively in the Journalistic harness. though quite as many more have abandoned the grind of Journalism for other, and generally more Iucra- tive and more distinguished, if not more useful fields of activity.
 Tom Reilly. who ..covered" the legislature for many years; who was Journal; who could smell a scoop as far as a. horehound could scent a Welsh rabbit, and who once manag- ed league baseball as a side-line, for sock Journalism after he had been elected mayor of Meriden five or six term as Congressman from the Sec ond district.
 Tom Weaver, who, in the 7os and 8os, kept the news columns of the Hartford Post brfstling 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 stuif 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 proclanations and sign all the new laws, and now he is United States Senator from Connecticut
 "Chris'i Downey. of Waterbury. who inherited several fortunes and earned several more with his pen; who has established a half4dozen po- pers in his time and never wrote a lie that he couldn't prove, is still at work, writing interesting reminis- cences for the Waterbury Sunday Re publican.
 ..Jule'' Sterling, who used to write those Munchausenistic hair raising news stories for the World and the Bridgeport papers, and who hash [ forgotten how. to this day. lives in elegant retirement in West Haven. z George C. Waldo, who is easily the dean of Connecticut Journalism, is still writing editorials on the Bridge port Standard. and his pen is appar- ently as viriIe as it was a haIf-century ago. Ed Lounsbury, who has held down practically every desk in practically every rlewspa per office in New Haven, is now journalizing in Seattle. Wash ington. Charlie Kenney has done every thing that Lounsbury has done, ex- eept go to Seattle, and is still doing l 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 theiI heads ominops1y when he changed F the Ansonia. Seminal from weekly to a daily, just 30 years ago-wlaer only the big cities had dailies-has long been enjoying the fruits of thai temptation of the joys of living, and in active and appreciative participa. ton in the aforesaid joys
 Mod" Osborn began to write pieces to print in the paper over 3E years ago. and although he won the title of Colonel and maintained it or the bloody batt1ede1ds of Niantic and in the gory banquet-halIs wherevel Goyernor Walters gallant staff made a charge. still his pen is mightier thar his sword ever was. He is still il harness. as or-in-chief of the New Haven JournaI-Courier. Rufe' Iyons who did brilliant work on the Bridgeport Farmer, for sock the sanctun1 long ago, and is now prosperous agricuIturist ir
 Redding, Conn.
 Arthur W French. who could out,
 Ripple KipHng in the quality ane quantity Of his poetic productions and who wrote plays and operas be tween his newspaper assignments or the Farmer, is now a sedate deacoI in Monroe, Conn.
 linn 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 tn.
 managing editors desk on the New Haven Union.
 C. g. Chapin is still the brain-room director of the Waterbury American where he has been going on f1ft5 Iyears, and he looks good for going | f,Y1 Fly xrkas Amos F. Wilder, the scholarly. jour, l na1ist, of New Haven and elsewhere lis now on his way home from Rus,
 sia. where he has been for many years
 las United States Minister He car 1 get any of his old newspaper job.
 back, if he wants it.
 Billy CountTynan, who was ons 1 of the Hartford hust1ers, in the ok
 days. has been in Washington for tn, last twenty years, and has fat jof in the Census Bureau.
 J. B. Dennis, who covered the Con
 necticut river section of Middlese, county for the New Haven Union un til he became a deputy collector O internal revenue under the late Al
 exander Troup, during Clevelandl ] the New Haven Palladium, is nov l publisher of the Hartford Post.
 Joe Vaill. the genial genius O the old Winstead Herald, wf1ho uses to eall his dog Snyder becaus that's his name, abandoned activ, newspaper work good many year I ago, and has managed the Connect cut end of every great national expo sftion since the Centennial. He i now living with his son, in Pennsyl
 yania, broken in health but vigorou
 in mind and cheerful in spirits.
 Charles Hopkins Clark, who wield the editorial scalping cleaver wit
 the delicate dexterity of a Comanch
 1adr-dresser, h has been .it'' in tn
 Hartford Courant establishment for generation and a. half: and his ad
 mirers hope and his enemies fea
 that he will be 1t and there for a
 much longer.
 W. O. Burr. who inherited both hi
 fine newspaper instinct and his fin ; newspaper, the Hartford Times, wa |