Evening star., 1948-12-01
Frank B. Noyes' Death Ends Long Newspaper Career
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was a systematic and discriminating
reader, with the valuable faculty OF
remembering most of what he read
Included with the classics was the
Bible, which he read from start to
finish three times as youns man.
Sold Newspaper Extras.
He remembered selling extras on
President Grants first Inauguration
in 1859, when he was years old
sitting on a high stool in The Star
business Office, passing out the
papers at 2 cents a copy. He remem-
bered the boardwalk laid along
Pennsylvania avenue for the occa-
sion. He took his first summer jot
at The Star when he was Is years
old, doing odds and ends around the
business office. He got on the pay
roll when the late Samuel H. Kauff.
mann, then president of The Stal
Co. asked him to contribute to the
yellow fever fund.
How can I contributed" he asked
'T get paid only rs cents a week
and my father gives me that fol
blacking his boots"
"You are on the payroll now" said
Mr.. Kaufman, "at So per week.
out of which there was taken, a.
quid pro quo, a contribution for the
yellow fever fund.
After several summers of work
and then regular employment in
The Star business of11ce-with some
incidental and inconsequential re-
porting, including theater reviews
= for he was always fond of the
theater-Mr. Noyes became in 1886
at the age of %, treasurer and busi-
ness manager Of The Star. The
paper had a circulation then OF
about 10000 1t usually was printed
on four or six pages, except on Sat-
urday, when it became eight pages
There was no Sunday Star. Mr.
Noyes recalled arguing with his
father and S. H. Kaufman that
advertising revenue could be OBJ
tanned for the support Of an eight
page paper every Ody.
Knew Famous Newspapermen.
During his early years as business
manager, Mr.. Noyes came to know
other newspaper publishers around
the country. He attended meetings
of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association with Mr.. Kauff-
mann, one of the earliest ANPA
presidents. He met the late Adolph
s. Ochs for the first time-before
Mr.. Ochs had gone to New York and
bought the New York Times-when
the young publisher of the Chata-
nooga Times dropped by The Star
ofice one day to find out something
about new sterotyping device.
Their talk was the beginning of a
lifelong friendship. AS young man
he had also come to know Victor
Lawson of the Chicago Daily News.
When Col. Henry Watterson came
to Washington, he and Frank
Noyes would celebrate the visits with
dinners at Chamberlain's. Most of
the editors of the country knew
Crosby Noyes and, through him,
came to know his son.
Mr.. Noyes'' official connection with
the Associated Press began in 1894,
when he was elected a director and
member of the Executive Commit
tee of the former Illinois corpora
ton, predecessor of the modern AS
sociated Press. But an understand
ing of the part that he played in
development of the Associated Press
requires some familiarity with the
rather involved background of press
association history in this country.
The first cooperative news service
was formed in the office of the New
York Sun in May of l848. 1t was
composed of six later seven) prin-
cipal New York newspapers of the
day-Ahe Herald, the Courier and
Enquirer, the Journal of Commerce,
the Tribune, the Sun and the Ex-
press, and it chose as name "The
Associated Press" The New York
newspapers formed the association
as o cooperative method of gather
ing news for themselves, from time
to time selling this news outside of
New York for terms which some
times included the reciprocal fur
nishing of news, by the clients, to
the New York Office Subsidiary
relations were established with other
groups, such as the Western Asso-
ciated Press "a Michigan corpora
ton controlling the field west of the
Alleghenies), the New England AS
sociated Press, the New York State
Associated Press and the Southern
Associated Press. There were also
local associations in such cities as
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
Revolt Against News Domination.
In 1882 the Western Associated
Press srevolted against the domina-
ton Of the New York Associated
Press. But the quarrel was patched
up by an agreement under which
the relations of the two organiza-
tions and the conduct of their joint
business were entrusted to a COM
mittee Of five men, three represent
ing the New York organization, two
the Western association.
Competing organizations appeared
from time to time One of them,
the United Press, became important.
This United Press is not to be con-
fused with the present news service
Of that name. There was no con-
nection whateverD 1t became evi-
dent that there was a curious
connection between the operations
Of the New York Associated Press
and of the new United Press. The
United Press was obtaining access
to the joint Associated Press news
report and New York members of
the joint committee in charge of
the Associated Press were covertly
soliciting papers to take the United
Press service.
In 1891 an agreement for exchange
of news between the ostensibly rival
services came to light and it was
found. moreover, that the general
manager and the three New York
members Of the joint Associated
Press Committee had become stock
holders in the United Press and
were financially interested in its
prosperity.
The indignant Western Associated
Press changed IFS memhers m tho