Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-03

During the recess death claimed two
very popular members of the corps.
James Gray. as chief of the Washington
bureau of the Minneapolis Journal, had
made a very large circle of acquaintance
who shared with his bereaved family their
grief at his loss.
Equally distressing TO the Washington
corps was the announcement of the death
at Rochester, n. Y, of Eltng A. Fowler.
Mr.. Fowler had been a resident of the
National Capital about seven years. in
the position of chief of the New York
Sun bureau, and was regarded work
er of the foremost rank and ability
The Associated Press continues under
the direction of Jackson S. Elliott. The
Capitol staff will be headed by Grafton
s. Wilcox. whose years of experience will
qualify him for this position Associated
with him will be Labert St Clair. Fred A.
Emery, Robert Dougan. kirke l.. Simp-
son and Bond z. Geddes Messrs. st
Clair and Emery will be assigned to the
House wing of the Capitol Mr.. Dougan
will assist Mr.. Wilcox with the Senate
work and Mr.. Simpson will specialize on
army and navy legislation. Mr.. Geddes
gives his special attention to the work
of the Supreme Court.
Changes in the U. P. Bureau.
The United Press Bureau is in
charge of J. p. Yoder who is well known
to the newspaper workers of Washington.
Mr.. Yoder has been with the organization
about seven years, having served in the
New York and Boston bureaus. At the
beginning of the last session of Congress
he returned to the Washington office in
the capacity of assistant manager to
Lowell Melett Mr.. Mellett recently was
promoted to the foreign service of the
United Press. and. following the policy
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NOTED on his merited work.
Three new men come to his bureau.
John Nash, a former employee of the
Norfolk Ledger Dispatch l.. b. Nickel,
who has a wide experience. gained in
the middle west, where he served
manager of the st. Louis office and at
Kansas City; T. II. Kelly of southern
newspapers, and more recently OF the
New York office of the United Press.
and Howard l. McEwan. who has
worked on North Carolina and Ohio
newspapers. The Capitol staff will be
made up of Howard l.. McEwan. John
Nash, T H Kelly and Charles r. Nc
Cam, the latter being assigned par
ticularly to the Supreme Court work.
The International News Service bu-
reau enters upon its second session an
der the direction of John Edwin Nevin.
e r. Sartwell heads the Capitol staff,
with w ID. Hassett located at the
House end and Robert T. Smith to
chronicle the happenings in the upper
-
office comes to the Washington bureau.
replacing f. Barry Faris, recently
made general news manager at New
York.
Staff of the Central News.
w. A. Crawford heads the local staff
of the Central News. with Alfred l.
Geiger at the House and Nelson NJ
Shepard for the Senate side.
The bureau of the Hearst Newspapers
will be in charge of John l. Eddy. who
has been for many years in the employ
of Mr.. Hearst. For three years ne was
a resident of England for the Hearst
publications and with his services in
the middle west comes to the Wash
ington bureau well equipped for lts
work. For the New fork end ne WI!
have the assistance of II. II. Stansbury
and Lewis Wood, both men of expert
ence in political work, Tarleton Col
Iier from the home office of the chi
tention TO Illinois matters. and j. r.
Nourse who is added to the bureau
from the California service, WIZ iook
after Pacific coast news Tor the En-
aminers at San Francisco anu IL"
laurence Hills, from the home ONCE
of the New York sun. who has served
that paper almost twenty years as
sumes charge OF their Washln T.7 ~
reau. succeeding the late EltIng A.
Fowler For the morning edition he
vim have the assistance of Jerry A.
Mathews and Elmer Murphy. while ".
X Wisehart and Albert Fox are ac-
credited TO the afternoon edition.
New Faces From Boston.
Charles D. Warner, in charge of the
christian Science Monitor bureau. Will
have as assistants two men whose
names are appearing for the first time,
Edwin Newdick and w. l.. winchester,
both come from the home Office
other changes noted are Theodore q.
Joslin, who is added to the Boston
bureau, under William l..
brigham: oliver Mckee, who comes
from the New York office of the World
to assist in the bureau under Charles
:. Albert: Richard d. skinner. who VIII
do editorial work for the Boston Her
aid E. B. Johns. of many years eA-
perience with Washington newspaper
work. will represent the Star and Her
aid of Panama. Paul Moore of the
Richmond Evening Journal: Jullan
Pierce, as representative of the New
York Call: Edwin Bradley Hard. eNpe-
rienced in newspaper work in upper
New York state. who recently assumed
charge Of the Alexandria Gazette; l..
Harper Leech, for the Memphis Press
and Texas dailies: Guy Mason. with
the London Daily Telegraph. and Cur
tice n Hitchcock, who comes from the
home office of the New York Times TO
assist in the bureau under Richard v
Orl han