Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-09
DISCUSS WORK
OF 25 YEARSON
CITY'S PAPERS.
Editors and Writers Review
Quarter Century at Pleas
ant Banquet

iormer newspapermen, most OF Them
connected with The Patriot during
The Orr ownership, wnen hat news
paper was in The hey DAY of It's
political power and prestige n Penn
iylvania politics gathered ,ast cve-
ming at the Country Club of Harris
purg, The guests OF A. Boyd .1amtl-
ton, political editor of the Harris
burg Telegraph, and James p. Nc
Cullough in charge of the COM
mercial printing and mechanical de-
partments of the Telegraph, in cele-
bration of the twenty fifth anniver-
sary of their ,entry into newspaper
work. Just 25 years ago Mr. Hamil-
ton and Mr.. Mccullough entered the
service of The Patriot, the former as
a reporter and the latter as an en-
ploye of the business office. About
them were gathered last night many
of the men who at that time helped
make newspapers in Harrisburg int
that time, owners, editors, iepol tei 5.
printers, business managers and
pressmen, together with many of the
/ younger newspapermen of the city,
most of them connected with the
Telegraph.
The affair was one of the most
delightful in the history of news
| paper life in the city and brought
| together men who had not crossed
each others paths in years. d. A.
/ Orr. controlling factor jof The
Patriot quarter century since, dur
ing whose ownership the paper en-
joyed a distinction and influence
seldom attained by newspapers out
side the larger cities, was the guest
of honor and was introduced by
Toastmaster Hamilton in most af
fectionate terms as imam who had
left his mark upon the newspaper
life of the city and upon the political
history of his state"
Mr.. Orr in response delivered an
address that carried him back over
that period of his newspaper career
when as editor of The PatiIot he had
crossed swords with the Quays,
Harritys the Guffeys and other
dominant political forces of the state
and when the newspaper he had con-
trolled had not feared even to at
tack certain evils within the man
agement of corporations even as
! great and powerful as that which
then controlled the Reading Hallway.
| Mr.. Orr was given an ovation when
/ ne arose to speak, the guests rising
and cheering him to the echo. He
/ had come down from Chambersburg
where he now resides especially for
the dinner and brought with him
wealth of "reminiscences and a speech
as keen and incisive as the style that
used to make his editorial pen the
delight of his friends and the terror
of his enemies. Incidentally he told
for the first time a lot of very inter-
esting unwritten political and news
paper history.
Pleasing Addresses
T.. j. StackpoIe. president of The
Telegraph Printing Company, who
was reporter and later city editor OF
the Telegraph when Mr.. Orr was IN
control of The Patriot paid a high
tribute to the honesty, sincerity and
ability of the former owner, and said
that the young men who had come
out of his school had displayed these
same high qualities to a remarkable
degree. Mr.. Stackpole spoke in high
terms of both Mr.. Hamilton and Mr..
| Mccullough, interspersing his re-
marks with stories of his association
! with brilliant newspapermen of this
and other cities in the days agone.
Addresses were also made by
/ Thomas Nj. Jones, president of the
| Legislative Correspondents Associa-
ton, who refused to talk history"
and Gus NJ. Steinmetz, managing
editor of the Telegraph, who was
a reporter and afterward managing
editor of The Patriot during the lat
ter days of the Orr ownership Will
liam III. Bennethum, Jr., now of
DIVES, Pomeroy anu Stewart, Wa.
began his newspaper career on The
Patriot; Wellington G. Jones, sport
ing editor of the Telegraph, who was
city editor of the old Morning Call:
Fred M. Irltle, sales inamaser UI e.
! Telegraph Printing Company; Boyd
Nj. Ogelsby, advertising manager of
the Telegraph, and by V. Hummel
Berghaus and c. Laurence Shepley,
representing the Mccormick news
| papers.
Those present included ID. A. Orr,
r. j. Stackpole, DR.. Hugh Hamilton.
Charles f. Spicer, John Handiboe,
who was associate editor of the old
Patriot; Thomas NJ. Jones, Yelling
ton q. Jones, Gus M. Steinmetz, V.
Hummel Berghaus, c. Laurence
Shepley, Boyd NJ. Ogelsby, Penn l..
Throne, one of the old Patriot re-
porters; &. l.. Rupp, foreman u1 1ne
! Patriot in old days; A. r. Michener,
/ III. Bruce Mumma, w. II. Bennethum,
Jr., who was Patriot reporter some
twenty years ago; j. II. Hillegas,
| who was also one of the galaxy OF
stars on The Patriot; f. M. Tritle,
Charles P. Meek, A. ]. Simmars in
| The Patriot press romm twenty -nve
years ago; Sam Byrem, one of the
old printers; Robert +. German, w.
! ). Meek, VINO was operator ON TAD
Patriot in some stirring times; Frank
II. Oyster, George Ross fun,
E. l.. Baum, who was advertising
manager of The Patriot under the
Orr management; r. n. Bernheisel,
Floyd Lear, Edward Ripper Harry
! A. FTy, Frank Mcdonald, mem,
Henderson, Floyd Hopkins, who did
newspaper work some dozen years
back, w. s. Worst, Bion Welker,
city editor of the Telegraph, who be-
comes the Telegraph's twenty-third
star in its service flag when he leaves
next week to join the colors, II. A.
Reed, Paul Fettrow, Ralpn ohraedieS
Allen Sangree, Reid Romig and
others.
Walter r. Stenger, managing
editor of The Patriot twenty "a !,
ago, sent a letter from the South
greeting the old crowd as did others
connected with the old Patriot man
agement. b. f. Meyers, who was
editor of the Star Independent who
could not be present, also sent greet
ings, while John r. Ball, of the
Pittsburgh Post, was present on be-
half of legislative correspondents.
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