Evening star., 1937-05-23
FAME GAINED BY OLD PAPER
National lnegencer Served People of Capital for Years With
Distnction-Occuped Headquarters Which Witnessed
Great Changes in Washington.

best families Of the city and even to-
day many of the descendants of those
who worked on this paper point with
pride to the fact that their fathers or
grandfathers were connected with this
newspaper, that supplied the people
OF the District of Columbia with the
news OF the day for nearly seventy
years.
Among the assistants in the edi-
torlal rooms were Mr.. Cannon, j. G..
Gallagher, w. A. Read, N. SARGENT,
Mr.. Oates, A. G. Allen, Joseph Law
renson, L. A. Gobright and John Sess-
ford
In the business department we find
recorded the names Of Maj. Thomas
Donoho, who went there as a boy dur
ing the War Of 1912; Levi Boots. who
accepted a commission in the Regular
Army and served in the Mexican and
Civil Wars, attaining the rank of
colonel; Samuel Glenn and John F..
Coyle. whose father was a compositor,
and Edward Fletcher.
An old account tells us that George
M. Grouard was the general foreman
of the office, with Samuel McElwee in
charge of the composing room and
Edward Deeble Of the bindery. Will
liam Woodward and William Kerr pre-
ceded Capt. Moore as foreman. Cab
rlel Barnhill, James King, -
Amldon and Joseph Handley were
pressmen in the olden time, and after
the wheel for motive power was super
seeded by an engine, yellow man
named Clarke ran it.
The carriers of the olden time were
all grown men, most of them natives
OF Ireland-the McCarthys, Gal
laghers, Corridons and Haggertys be-
ing recalled. "+s
N THE composing room before 1920
were Simon Cameron, Francis
Coyle. Andrew Ttate, John H. Wade,
John Erskine, Thomas G. Foster,
Judah Delano, Thomas Larner, John
S. Gallagher. Michael Cation, George
Cochran, James Wilson, w. Kerr,
Joseph F. Reed. John Brandon.
Patrick Crowley, Martin King, Joseph
Balm and James A. Kennedy.
Between 1920 and 1880 the follow
ing were compositors: Luther Sever
ence, Lambert Tree. James O'Bryon,
James Clephane, Thomas Herty, w.
Faithful, John Stockwell, Andrew
Rothwell, Jehiel Crossfeld, John
Frank, James King, John Bailey, An
drew Carothers, Enoch White, Michael
Larner, Samuel Sherwood, William
O'Bryon, John T. Whitaker, James
Handley, James Thompson, Thomas
bowling, John Dowling, Enoch Ed
monston, T. K. Collins. Robert c. Ber-
ret. John T. Butler, Jonathan Wilson,
William Woodward, Eugene Laporte.
John Hart, Lynde Elliot. Ferd Jeffer-
son, Thomas Francis and w. w. Halli-
day
Between 1880 and the early 4O's
the following were among the en-
ployes: Christian Klopfer, ]. F.
Holiday, E. Kleiber, NJ P. Crider, T.
j. Halliday, A. P. Cunningham, C. P.
Wannell, w. Edelin,, 10 Gales John
son, E. B. Robinson, Oscar Alexander,
G. w. Hodges, Joseph L. Bennet, John
T. Towers, L. A. Gobright, w. A. Ken
nedy. John L. Smith, W. E. Morcoe,
Eleazer Brown, R. A. Waters, Jona-
than Kirkwood, Lem Towers, Thomas
G. Foster, James E. Given, F. J.
Waters, Henry Polkinborn, A. T. Cavis,
E. M. Spedden. j. c. Franzoni, Colum-
bus Drew, Josiah Melvin. j. G.
Sample, Joseph B. Tate, founder of
The Star; Samuel Sherwood, J. T. C.
Clark, r. W. Clark, Joshua T. Taylor.
Jehiel Cross1eld, c. w. Petit, John
Larcombe, Frank McNerhany and
James T. Crossfield"