The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-17
F, 6, CARPENTER
A VISITOR HERE
BEST KNOWN NEWSPAPE r M AN
IN AMERICA SPENT A FEW
HOURS IN WHEELING.
Proposes to Write a Series Of Articles
Descriptive of Great American
lndustrialsm.

| The best known newspaperman IN
America was visitor in Wheeling Tor
a few hours Yesterday. In thousands
of American households the name OF
Frank G.. Carpenter is known for the
interesting stories of travel which he
has contributed to large number Of
American newspapers for upwards OF
thirty years. Mr. Carpenter. who was
a visitor in Wheeling yesterday for a
few hours, called on the Wheeling
News management and incidentally
outlined some plans for his work dur
ing the coming year. Ordinarily MI.
Carpenter maintains headquarters at
Washington, D. c., where he has a
we'll equipped office, but each year he
makes few trips TO the various
American newspapers which are MS
customers, and his face is familiar IN
the leading newspaper offices Of the
country. Speaking Of his work for the
coming year, Mr.. Carpenter said:
II propose TO write series OF
articles descriptive of the great Amer.
lean industrialism. Few Of us realize
the extent, magnitude and variety of
the great industrial works that have
been created and are being developed
in Amrica today. Their progress dur
ing the last ten years has been little
short of phenomenal, and has covered
many different lines in. many different
locations, and | expect to find in the
study of these great developments
material for series Of articles Of the
most interesting character Among
the things of which ! expect to make
special studies are the coal and iron
industries in the south, the new
things in cotton. the new farming of
the south, the petroleum fields in the
south, the chemical industries of the
south, the great steel industry OF the
Ohio valley, the anthracite mines and
miners, the great cities of Lake Erie,
the corn belt of the Mississippi valley.
These and many other like subjects
during the coming year l propose to
study at such length as is possible,
and to make each one the subject OF
a newspaper article. | hope to make
them both instructive and interesting,
and l believe that herein l will find
field that will command the attention
Of a great many readers"
Has Record for Copy.
Speaking Of his own work, MI. Car
penter said: For thirty-four years /
have furnished to the American press
each week an article ranging in length
from 5000 to 10000 words. l can say,
| think, without boasting, that this is
record that is not equalled by any
other newspaperman in America, and
the articles I have furnished have
been the result Of my own studies,
travels and observations. l enjoy the
work and feel that my readers gen.
orally enjoy the matter which | pre-.
pared. hope sometime to be able TO
present the result OF my studies. and
labors in series of books, but up to
the present time have found the news
paper work too absorbing and too in
teresting to give it up for anything
else"
Mr.. Carpenter left for the east last
night after spending few hours in
Wheeling. Mr.. Carpenter is an Ohio
man. He was born at Mansfield, O.,
and received his early education in
Mansfield. His first newspaper work
was done nearly forty years ago in the
office Of the Cleveland Leader. From
Cleveland he moved to Washington
where he was a newspaper correspon-
dent, and about thirty-five years ago
be took up the special work which has
made his famous. He is thin, wirey,
nervous man.. alert in appearance and
an exceedingly interesting talker. His
travels have carried him over prac-
tically the entire globe, and there is
little of the known world concerning
which he cannot talk interestingly and
instructiYely. The series Of articles
Outlined will be published in the
Wheeling Sunday News beginning in
the near future"