Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28

Transcript w. B. Shaw, and the Lon
don England Telegraph
At this date 187l) the Star was To-
Gated at the southwest corner Of Penn
sylvania avenue and Eleventh street.
where the Postof1ce Department Build
ing now stands, and was represented in
the press gallery at the Capitol by its
editor, Crosby S. Moves, and by s. H.
Kaufman and James r. Dooley.
In few years the correspondents
had greatly increased and Newspaper
Row was quite probably at its height
along about 1880 or 1895. After this
the newspaper representatives began to
move elsewhere and today a memory
OF the place is all that Is left.
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TO the writer, the most interesting
l. place along the Row was the tele-
graph Office at the corner of Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Carrying telegraph mes
sages, before the automobile and bike,
was real mans job. and a boy was
expected to fill it. 1t was not an I'M
common occurrence to be awakened at
2 or 3 o'clock in the morning, If you
happened to be on that night, and to
receive a message to be carried to Sol
dier's Home. or perhaps Anacostia, or
some other out-of-the-way place You
can imagine that it took very nervy
little chap to do this.
Many of our messenger boys of today
would quit cold II asked to walk to
Anacostia to deliver message at about
l or O'Clock in the morning and We
could hardly blame boy, for 1t would
be asking a whole lot of him, especially
If he were in any way timid. Many will
recall Elijah J. Bugbee, manager for
some time of the Atlantic e. Pacific
Telegraph Co. and later with the West
ern Union. He was an unusually fine
man and the boys under him always
held him in high esteem.
1t was indeed logical TO locate the
Press Club Building at the head of
Newspaper Row, If for none other than
historic reasons, as a memorial, per-
haps, to the newspaper men of by-gone
days who have long since gone to their
last reward. Glad are we. however, that
there are still with us few of the old
time knights of the quill. Just the other
day the writer saw John Boyle, who
has probably In his time written enough
matter to extend from Washington to
San Francisco, and year ago he was
visited by George Curtis, formerly of
the Washington Chronicle, and one of
the charter members of the Washington
Press Club, which held It's first and pre-
liminary meeting on September 10, 1867,
in the Office of the National Republican,
northeast corner of Tenth and D streets
northwest. He was looking for the
writer's father on the strength Of the
similarity Of names and seemed quite
disappointed to learn that his old friend
had been dead since 1876. Though a
veteran newspaper man, yet Mr.. Curtis
was remarkably well preserved and be-
lied the fact that he must be getting
along in years.
Charles A. Hamilton, former presi-
dent Of the National Press Club, and
the Washington correspondent of the
Buffalo Times and the Troy Times, is
another veteran who still carries on
with the pep Of youngster and there
is no doubt quite number, including
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, who could
still earn good living with their pens
If they found 1t necessary.
Speaking Of the Washington Press
Club brings UP the point as to
whether this organization was or was