The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-29
Five Of Important Office in
District Filled Through APP
pointment Of Members Of
the Press Local System
Unique In This Respect.

New York. March 2S.-The New York
American today says:
While many American cities have in
augurated the commission form of gov
eminent. the National Capital alone has
demonstrated the success OF that form
OF municipal management under the ex-
elusive control and supervision Of news
paper men.
The system in Washington Is not elect
i've and the fact that every important
executive ONCE in the District OF Column
bia Is filed by q trained newspaper
writer IL due to tho belief on the part
OF President Wilson. charged with the
duty OF filling these offices. that their
varied experience. as observers, especially
qualities them as the heads of the i'm
portant departments that guide the af-
fairs Of the small area of territory with
in which is situated the Capital of the
United States.
There are five OF the important Offices
within the gift Of the President and each
OF them has been filled through the ap-
pointment of members Of the press with
whom the Executive enjoys personal ac-
quaintance. These men are Louis Brown
low and Oliver P. Newman. Commission
ers OF the District Of Columbia; Otto
Praeger. postmaster OF Washington:
MAURICE Splain. United States marshal
for u District OF Columbia, and Ray
mond w. Pullman. major and chief of
the Metropolitan police force of the Dis
trict. who was appointed by the Com
mlssieners.
KNOWN n Globe Trotter.
Louis Brownlow, the most cent
appointee of President Wilson to the
Board Of District Commissioners, has
been a globe trotter for a number of
years and brings to his office a fund
of information picked up all over the
world. bearing upon municipal man
agcment and a varied experience that
should make his administration sue
ccssful.
Now in the prime of So years. Mr..
Brownlow was born IN Missouri. lie
began newspaper work in humble
fashion at the age of -, on a country
country. where there was then and
is today no railroad. His first ex-
perience in daily newspaper work was
on the Nashville Banner, at the age
OF -. whence he jumped to Louisville
on the Courier-Journal under "Marse"
Henry Watterson, Iarer becoming
editor of the Times. the afternoon
edition of the Courior-Journal
In 1904 Brownlow came to Wash
lnSton AZ the representative OF the
Banner and Post. succeeding Albert
Halstead, who went to Birmingham as
United States Consul and who, in
turn. had succeeded Archie Butt. who
went into the Spanisn-AmeriCan war.
afterward became major. was per
sonal aide to the President and went
down on the Titanic. Within year
Uric Woodson, Democratic national
from kentucky. wired
Brownlow to come out and take
charge Of his paper. the PaduCah News
Democrat. the editor. irwin 5. Cobb,
now ma gazine writer. having gone
to New York. But Washington APP
pealed to BrownlOw and another year
found him back at the Capital
Brownlow has visited the Orient
three times: South America. three
times; Europe. the same number. and
has circumnavigated the globe once.
On all these trips he paid especial
attention to the work of civic bodies
of all countries. municipal adminisr11-
ton. and the methods of betterment
of the working classes.
Louis Brownlow did not seek his pres
ent job. 1t sought him out PrcsIden.
Wilson knew him personally and he
lieved him the man for the place and
that belief seems to have been fully justi-
fed.
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