NEWSPAPER MEN.
Royally Entertained by the City of
Norfolk, Va.
More tlian seventy newspaper men, nu-nibers of the Gridiron Club and the i apitol press galleries, were the guests I f the eity of Norfolk, Va., Friday and Saturday of last week. The occasion \\;ts the convention of the .Atlantic |)eeper Waterway .Association, which was attended by President Taft, and at which he was the chief speaker.
Norfolk proved a royal host and an elaborate program of entertainment was jirovided. Friday afternoon the party boarded a special train for Cape llenry by w,ay of Virginia Beach, and at the (.'ape an old-time oyster roast in honor of the President and invited guests was enjoyed. In the evening there was a special smoker and reception to the visiting newspaper men by the citizens of Norfolk.
Saturday morning the President and newspaper men made a trip around the harbor on specially chartered boats, visiting the Norfolk Navy Yard, war vessels and railway and coal terminals, l.uncheon was served on board the boats. In the aftertioon there was a dress parade at I'ort Monroe in hotior of the visiting tiewspapcr men and guests.
The Norfolk cctnmittee on the reception and the entertainment of the press cotisisted of .Alvah H. Martin, chairman; J. S. Barron, W. R. Bout- well. Idoyd flitghes. Harvey L. Wilson, 1 .. D. Starke, K. F. Murray and .A. .McK. Griggs. The members of the Wtishington sub-cotnmittee having that end of the affair in charge were Edgar C. Snyder of the Omaha Bee, chairman, .'ind Louis Garthe of the Baltimore .American and Irving C. Norwood of 'Hie Washington Star.
Among the newspaper men composing the party were;
David S. Barry, Providence Journal; David S. Barry, Jr., Pnvidence Eve¬ ning Bulletin; Ira E. Bennett, Wash¬ ington Post; John Boyle, Wall Street Journal; T. W. Brahany, New York Tribune, Milwaukee Sentitiel; C. K. Berryman. Washington Star; Arthur Blanchard, Niagara Falls Gazette.
Charles .A. Cotterill, Associated Press; Harris M. Crist, Brooklyn Eagle; Donald .A. Craig, New York Herald; Robert Dongan, New York Sun; J. Harry Cutmingham, Hie Wash- itigton Herald; .Arthur W. Dunn, St. Louis Star; P. A. Dc Graw, fourth assistant postmaster general: George L. Edmunds. New A’ork World: If. J. Elliott, London Times: John W. Flcn- ner. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
John .A. Fox, special director rivers and harbors congress: Richard Lee Fearn, Winnipeg Telegram; Willard French, Boston Evening Herald; John
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B. Gessner, Wheeling Intelligencer, New A’ork Mail; Isaac Gregg, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Herald.
Henry Hall, Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph; Charles .A. Hamilton, Troy Times; James Hay, jr., Washington Times; R. H. Hazard, United Press ■Association; A. M. Jamieson, American News Service; Perry S. Heath; George Griswold Hill, New York Tribune; Dr. H. L. E. Johnson; E. B. Johns, Cin¬ cinnati Enquirer: Rudolph Kauffmann, The Washington Star; W. C. Keegin, Salt Lake News.
Charles E. Kern, Associated Press; J. Henry Kaiser; Frank B. Lord, Phil¬ adelphia Evening Bulletin; John E. Lathrop, Portland Journal, Spokane Sportsman Review; Willis L. Moore, chief of the weather bureau; David R. McKee; John P. Miller, Baltimore Sun; Herndon Morsell, Alex. Mosher; An¬ gus MeSween, Philadelphia North -American.
N. O. Messenger, The Washington Star; Oiarles W. Metzgar, Pittsburg Leader; Thomas O. Monk, New York Sun; Frank P. Morgan, Toronto News; Charles W. Moore, H. B. Nesbit, Pitts¬ burg Press, Kansas City Star; Irving
C. Norwood, The Washington Star; Gifford Pinchot, chief forester. Depart¬ ment of .Agriculture; James D. Pres¬ ton, superintendent United States Sen¬ ate press gallery.
D. G. Pfeiffer; Otto Praeger, Dallas News, Galveston News; Ernest Hazen Pullman, Buffalo Evening News, Helena Record; Charles C. Randolph, .Arizona Republican; W. F. Roberts, Buffalo Times: Gus. .A. Schuldt, Elmira .Adver- fiser: Tliomas R. Shipp, secretary na¬ tional conservation commission; H. W. Schulz, Oklahoma City Times; Ed. B. Smith, Baltimore .American; William Wolff Smith, Buffalo Evening News, Great Falls Tribune; Edgar C. Snyder, Omaha Bee.
Hubert Snowden, .Alexandria Gazette; Fred Starek. Cincinnati Enquirer; Wat- terson Stealey, Louisville Courier-Jour- nel; .Alfred J. Stofer, Montgomery Ad¬ vertiser, Memphis News Scimitar; L. William Travis, Topeka Capital, Leaven¬ worth Times; R. W. Tracy, Indianapolis News; M. F. Tighe, New York Ameri¬ can Journal.
George Uhler, inspector general steamboat inspection service; Leroy T. Vernon. Chicago Daily News; H. B. Walker, Newark Evening News; Henry L. West, Washington Herald; Frank L. Whitehead, Washington Post; R. W. Woolley, Associated Newspapers of London.
PRESSMEN.
Plan Active Warfare Against Tuber¬ culosis.
The members of the Scranton (Pa.) local of the International Pressmen’s Union plan to take an active part in the crusade against tuberculosis now being waged by that organization.
.\ tract of five hundred acres has been purchased in Tennessee and a model sanitarium will be erected in the immediate future.
New Democratic Weekly.
The National Democrat, a weekly publication, will be launched at Des Moines, la., on December i. It will be issued by the National Printing Company, of which W. S. Hutton is the he"d. .Associated with him in the venture are William Porter, E. G. Hutton and C. O. Long.
THE CENTURY CLUB.
St. Louis Republic Prints History of
i 100 Year Old Paper.
The St. Louis Republic, which ' founded the Century Club of .American i Newspapers last year, has issued a booklet giving the history of all the
- too year old newspapers in the L'nited
I States.
Of the 82 newspapers that have been published regularly for too years or more, the Philadelphia North American is the oldest, having been founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1728 as the Pennsylvania Gazette. The Saturday Evening Post also claims unbroken descent from the same ancester.
The membership of the Century Club includes fifty-five dailies and twenty-seven weeklies; twenty-two are published in New England, thirty- eight in the Middle Atlantic States, ten in Ohio and Indiana, eleven south of Mason and Dixon’s line (four of them in Virginia) and only one, the St. Louis Republic, west of the Mississippi.
One paper of the eighty-two is published in a village of less than 1,000 inhabitants—New Market, Va. New York boasts of four and Philadelphia two.
For more than a half century the proprietary control of the St. Louis Republic has been in the Knapp and Paschall families. Since 1828 a Knapp or a Paschall has been at the head of I either the editorial or business department of both.
The present editor, Charles N. Knapp, is in the forty-second year of his active connection with the Re-
- public. For twenty-two years he has
' been the executive head of the paper. The head of the business office, Walter B. Carr, is a Paschall.
A FINE SHOWING.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle Breaks
All Former Records.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is doing big things in the way of increases and breaking advertising records.
On Nov. 7, 1909, the (Chronicle printed its fourth Fair edition. It was a loo-page paper—one of the largest papers ever printed in the South, and carried 7,896 inches of paid advertising. which is said to be the largest volume ever carried by a newspaper in the Chronicle’s territory.
Considering the fact that .Augusta is only a city of 55,000, this tells a comprehensive story of the conditions prevailing in “the rich Savannah River Valley” and of the regard in which the Chronicle is held by the merchants and manufacturers of Augusta.
This edition of 110.544 lines breaks the Chronicle’s own record, which was 79,800 lines.
One advertising man handled and secured this stupendous volume of advertising, as well as handling the entire foreign and local advertising for the daily, Sunday and semi-weekly editions.
Mr. C. B- Hanson, advertising manager of the Chronicle is to be congratulated on this remarkable showing.
New Ohio Daily.
Official announcement has been made that a new Republican paper will be launched at Zanesville, O., some time before the holidays. Well known local Republicans are said to be behind the venture.
THE OLD WAY AND THE NEW.
j A Comparison of the Time When
Newspapers Exchanged Abuse.
People are sometimes inclined to think that there is too much, abuse exchanged between newspapers and that personalities are rife. They little know of the change which has come over the Canadian press of late years. In the good old days, when George Brown was the leading light of Canadian journalism, the fur fiew in reality. Then a paper was not considered a good paper unless it occasionally took “a whirl” out of a few individuals in merciless fashion, says the Toronto Saturday Night.
The early issues of 'I'he Toronto World—which was started by three young men from The Globe staff—would also prove illuminating. George Brown’s roast on the oratorical style of the late William I.ount. when that well-known man was a youthful member of the Ontario Legislature, possessed a cruelty that no newspaper today would be guilty of.
.A specimen of the old-time amenities . was the retort of the well-known writer. I James Fahey, who had accepted a nom¬ ination to the Legislature. Fahey had lung trouble, and The Telegram said that if the gentleman got elected to the House he would be “coughed down.” I'ahey promptly replied that if the editor of The Telegram ever got elected anywhere, he would be coughed up and swept out.
NEW EQUIPMENT.
Several Massachusetts Papers In¬
creasing Press Facilities.
The Newburyport Herald is putting in a Hoe web perfecting press, and an outfit of stereotyping machinery. This new press is capable of turning out twelve-page jtapers at the rate of lo.otX) copies an hour, all delivered, folded, pasted anil counted.
.\ sixteen-page Hoe press has been I ordered for the Haverill Record, to¬ gether with a complete stereotyping I plant, which will soon be producing pa- I pers at the rate of 200 or more copies a ! minute.
The Boston News Bureau is installing a new Hoe stereotype web perfecting press with high-speed folder, capable of turning out 40,000 eight-page papers an hour. It will also print and gold sixteen-page papers as well as other prod- nets at proportionate speeds.
Another Massachusetts paper getting increased press facilities is the Fall River Globe, which will be printed on a three-roll Hoe press with a capacity of 20.000 or more papers an hour of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 14 pages, or 10,000 16, 18.
I 20 or 24-page.
The Watkins (Minn.") Leader has
suspended publication. Lack of patronage is given as the reason.
The WANTS ADS Tell the Story in Philadelphia
The Morgen Gazette, the great German daily of the city, is a leader in this class of advertising. Together with the Evening Demokrat, recently purchased, the Gazette offers an exceptional opportunity to advertisers. Send for rates and further information.
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