Evening star., 1917-03-25

Nits StdT ana CnaTleS IuF Hc"S-
papers Of the southwest. Some have been
editors and managers of their papers
meantime. like George F. Miller OF the
Detroit News and David S. Barry OF the
Providence Journal. Among other old
timers are Jerry A. Mathews. long with
the New York Sun. and now with the
Detroit Journal, Toledo Blade and Newark
Star Eagle: A. E. Heiss Of the Traffic
World. Ernest G. Walker. for many years
with the Washington Post, and later
with the Boston Herald and the Spring
held Republican; Isaac Gregg of the New
York World bureau. Harry c. Stevens.
lately put in charge of the bureau OF the
Minneapolis Journal; Henry Hall, the sill
ver-tongued orator Of the Gridlron Club.
now of the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph; Henry Z. Eland. then with the
New York World. now the Wall Street
journal. and Angus McSween OF the Phil
adelphia North American.
Mostly Men of Experience.
Few cub reporters" go through the
Preston mill, for. as a rule. the CORE
spondents assigned to Washington are
men of experience. but many of them
after sojourn in Washington are trans
ferred to important desks in the home
office. W. +. Wiley. managing editor of
tha Cincinnati Inquirer, once represented
that newspaper here. Frank II. Kent.
managing editor of the Baltimore Sun,
went from the Washington bureau. Rob-
ert Lincoln O'Brien was for many years
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Evening Transcript. then was made its
editor, and is now editor Of the Boston
Herald. James Thomas Williams, jr..
editor of the Boston Transcript. began
with the Associated Press here and later
had charge of the transcripts Wash
lngton bureau. Jackson S. Elliott. Wash
ington manager of the Associated Press.
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Washington Times. Harris NJ. Crist, who
began his apprenticeship under the late
Addison Il. Atkins. Washington CORE
spondent for the Brooklyn Eagle. succeed
ed Mr.. Atkins upon his death, and is now
managing editor. Arthur Il. krock was
Courier-Journal AID Evening Times and
returned as managing editor. Henry
Shrof Brown. after many years with the
Washington bureau of the New York Her
aid. became publisher of that paper
With others with Washington expert
ence are Walter f. Harris. publisher of
the Petersburg Index Appeal; Richard
Hooker, editor of the Springfield Eepub-
lican; Wells F. Harvey. who owns the Big
Rapids tMich.) Pioneer Herald: John P
Gavlt, managing editor of the New York
Evening Post. and Reginald Schroeder,
who served the New Yorker Staats-Zei-
tung nearly twenty years as Washington
correspondent before going to New York
10 superintend the paper.
In the Foreign Field.
In the foreign field are Ed l.. Keen,
for many years chief of the United
Press bureau in Washington, now in
charge of a London office of that or
ganization; Robert T. Small, who was
with The Washington Star for many
years. was White House man for the
Associated Press in the time of Roose-
Welt and Taft. then took charge of the
southern division of the Associated
FresS, and today represents that or
ganization in England. and Oswald F..
Schuette, former correspondent OF the
Chicago 1nter-Ocean, and Carl Acker-
man, who saw service in the Washing
ton bureau of the United Press, both of
whom have been in Berlin during the
war.
Women are admitted to the press
gallery as readily as men, if they rep
resent daily newspapers; but it is a
peculiar fact that never more than one
has been member of the gallery dur
ing session. Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball
had the longest period of service. rep
resenting Kansas newspapers Miss
Marie Mattingly. now married and liv-
ing in New York. represented the Dem
yer Evening Post, Miss Bessie Beatty
the San Francisco Chronicle and Mrs.
Mary K. Brooks the Fort Worth Rec
ord George F. Richards was a corre-
spondent prior to 1900, and since his
death Mrs. Richards has taken up
newspaper work. and ably represents
New Hampshire. Massachusetts and
Maine newspapers.
Many Serve in Public Life.
Out Of the press galleries during
supt- Preston's term of service many
men have gone into public life or other
high position who were Washington
correspondents when Mr.. Preston took
office. President Mckinley appointed
two men to be Commissioners of the
District of umbia-Henry q. F. Mac
farland of the Boston Herald and the
Record and Henry L. West,
now secretary of the National Security
League, who was for many years DO
litical writer for the Washington Post.
having previously been its city editor.
Robert ]. Wynne. representing the New
YORK Press twenty years ago, was
made Postmaster General by President
Roosevelt and served also as consul
general at London.
Three assistant secretaries OF the
treasury were Louis A. Coolidge. al
ready referred to; Robert 0. Bailey.
formerly of The Washington Eveninp
Star and later of the Associated Press
force Of the Capitol and the White
Bank. and Sherman 2. Allen OF the
New York Herald bureau, now assist
ant secretary of the federal reserve
board. John Callan O'Laughlin of the
Chicago Tribune was assistant sec
retary of state for several months un-
der President Roosevelt, who also ap-
pointed Walter Z. Clark of the New
York Sun bureau Governor of Alaska.
John NJ. Carson one of the founders OF
the Gridiron Club. left Journalism to
become chief of the bureau of manu-
features.
Late Maj. Butts Newspaper Service.
The lamented Archibald W. Butt. who
went down with the Titanic, was for
many years the representative of
southern newspapers; later he became
a major in the regular army and was
aid to Presidents Roosevelt
and Taft. Maurice Splain, after more
than twenty years in active newspaper
work here. on The Evening Star and
other papers. became marshal of the
District OF Columbia under President
Wilson. Robert w. Woolley, formerly
in charge of the New York World bu-
reau, was director of the mint and
resigned to become publicity manager
Praeger. who came to Washington to
represent Texas newspapers, was made
postmaster of Washington by Presf-
dent Wilson, and is now an assistant
postmaster general. Thomas w. Bra
hany saw number of years of sery-
coming secretary of the tariff board
and later assistant secretary to Presi-
dent Wilson. The late p. V DeGraW.
who directed the old United Press bu-