THE WASHINGTON HERALD SUNDAY rUNE 7 1908 T- 1- p I PICTURESQUE OLD GUARD OF NEWSPAPERDOM OF TODAY it of the en- ¬ and serving as librarian in the Portland Members Who Know from Per ¬ that attracted the attention The Unusual Way that M H tire newspaper world and much lay at¬ Library ho was engaged as editorial tention as well writer of the Oregonian by its owner and sonal Experience Whether Lv de Young Became a Famous Worked In AVnihlnffton publisher Henry Plttock with whom he is associated at the present day Some Before ho wont to Los Angeles took the Pen Is Mightier Than the and twelve yeah later he bought a large in ¬ EditorHow A J Blcthen hold of the struggling weekly that he has terest in the enterprise which he still developed papers SwordSome Famous Ed ¬ into bne of the leading owns of Seattle Won His Biggest of the country Otis got his newspaper One who served the Oregonian for many itors Who Were Messenger training in the government years asked to write a sketch of Mr Newspaper Success After He printing office aiTedltpr of the first Fed ¬ Scot said Boys eral soldiers paper the Grand Army Not long since a visitor In Portland Been Wiped the Printers Apprentices Journal as Washington correspondent for from Melbourne having heard his host Had Out in an Ohio dally and as head of a paper mention Mr Scott as a distinguished citi¬ Errand Boys c In Santa Barbara Ho was one o tfie zen asked how the editor had earned his Financial Panic of 1893 title men who nominated Lincoln the first I time and he has boon active Inrtho coun ¬ Ho does the thinking for Oregon Republican was tho witty reply And hes been do S IIAUAVOOD cils of the Bftity since war By JOHN days Despite his threescore years and Ing it ever since I came here forty years rate in loss than a year the Bann had Prominent among the Interesting and ten he is exceedingly active and like ago the inside track in Nashville and there picturesque presentday Old Guard of the oldfashioned editor keeps his hand Scott n Journalist were n longer eight but just three newspaperdom which will soon be much nnd eye on every department of his Mr Scott is a journalistthis word Is dallies in that city In evidence on tho firing line In tho paper not misused when you speak of himwho Wattersons success in Nashville se ¬ fastapproaching Presidential compalgn- Cnpt Henry King the veteran editor of preserves tho ideals set up and tho tradi ¬ cured him the managing editors chair of the Louis GloboDomocrat a r nre dozen mon who actual St left tions honored by Horace Greeley Charles old Louisville not a halt from newspaper office to go to the war and the Journal He had experience know the A Dana the first Samuel Bowles and city personal whether when tho war was over although for- ¬ been In that long before be sot about pen is mightier than the sword tune pointed in another direction It was Henry Wattorson yet he keeps his paper to bring his paper and ita bitterest rival Henry Wattorson of the Louisville to a newspaper office that ho returned abreast of the rapidly changing spirit of the Courier together He succeeded the CourierJournal a truly national charac- ¬ There are many older editors than he the times While ho has added all the year he went to Louisville and became ¬ twentiethcentury popular ter who was sixteen when ho wrote his but few have seen as many years of con features that the power behind the com-¬ demands the editorial page real editorial first widely copied editorial and became tinuous service With the exception of taste retains bined enterprise though ho did not suc ¬ years in the army been the old vigor the intellectual richness so excited over his success that he- the four it has ceed to the title of editor until a year practically lifelong and the abounding catholicity that have or two later following the death of his couldnU sleop o nights was a staff officer ¬ He was but a small boy when he was ever marked him for distinction In Amer- predecessor During years h for tho Confederacy and toward the end ican newspapordom the that 1 apprenticed to the Quincy Whig at was making his national reputation as of the contest Its chief of scouts Quincy Ill and ho stayed with tho Whig All his life ho has boon a student prac- ¬ ALDEN 1 1JLETI1EN CAPT HENRY KING Very HARVEY W SCOTT editor of the CourierJournal he Capt Henry King editor of the St until ho became Its editor That is a much of his store of knowledge and tically lived office Of the Seattle Timce Of Uw St Louts n Of the Portland Orezooian in the and the first Louis GloboDcmocrat was In tho service habit of his He stays When tho civil GtolD mt hie view of things great and smell that few he was on paper he affect months that the of his country all through tho civil war war broke out ho did not quit he took- the welfare of the world ho has really did live in the editorial rooms that ed to recruit while waiting for his first a vacation enlisted as private in an policies writes editorials orders news given to his readers This is his lifes During that time ho was on the staffs of a rifles In their hands The Irresponsible he might be close to his work wound to heal Sheridan when ordered Illinois regiment got into the thickest glances at proofs and personally directs labor ho will probably keep It up the jawsralths didnt hold a mass meeting Gens Greenville M Dodge and James B regi- ¬ ¬ Ills nn Editor by Grant to send his bost infantry of the fight berore some people knew It every department of his paper From next ten years He has an ampla for which was to be the signal for attack on Father of Con- ¬ McPherson and so was In the thick ment to Fort Delaware to guard tho had commenced and stayed with the every tune but he cant break the habit of hard Chinatown but slunk back to San Fran- ¬ Watterson is one of the few members newspaper prisoners held there sent Agnus noon to midnight day of tho year the fighting He started his federate he is at his desk end busy But his cisco like whipped dogs In this local of the Old Guard who Is the son of a apprentice In a countr zouavos Thus whon Agnus was brevot stood simply law earner as an general office door is always open and any man crisis Mr Soott for and Journalist distinguished in his flay and office and barring years of tho civil ted brigadier of volunteers a few order generation M the weeks before the wars close ho had or woman or boy or girl who wants to Harvey Watterson the war his whole life has been passed In see him may do so without the formality Public speaking is not to his taste father in 49s and KTs was clearly won the honor In the South- ¬ ¬ back the both ¬ though on all occasions he Is in newspaper offices west and In the Virginias of a card A certain sternness of counte- get Tennessees most famous journalist Dur- Gen Charles Taylor of the Boston nance and parsimony of words are the to make and he seldom H vied ora- ¬ ing the early SQs be edited a paper in Globe whose newspaper position was Enter Business Office of Paper safeguards of his time but there are Ho has little of the art of first ago at-¬ Washington At time his son Henry of boy In Boston enlisted Lata In 1S64 Cot Agnus married the many who have found that his heart Is tory yet a few weeks when he that that errand was boy was office of as a private In a Massachusetts regiment daughter of the then senior proprietor of as tender as a womans and there are tended as an honorary pallbearer the a but it in this his funeral of the oldest reporter of the Ore- ¬ he became when he was only sixteen and during a the Baltimore American Shortly after few men with a keener sense of humor father that first interested age seventy In body gonian and was called upon by the mitt ¬ in newspapers and was fired with an am ¬ charge on tho Confederate stronghold of tho close of hostilities he resigned his At the of sound severely wounded in tho intellectual vigor of fifty Harvey ister without previous notice or hint to bition to become an editor himself When Port Hudson was im- ¬ commission and entered the business ¬ say few he made the roost Gen H G Otis of the Los Angeles V Scott editor of tho Portland Ore a word his father quit running the Washington proud he office of the paper From that day to gonlan continues to put his impress daily pressive ever listened to and Union the son was fifteen The next year Times who Is of the fact that my good Ingersoll out bulkiest of bulky Sunday this ho has been hot only ono of tho lead upon the groat newspaper that he cre-¬ it was fortune to hoer the latter began editing and publishing gets the all Wendell Phillips to newspapers received promotion for gal- ¬ Ing newspaper men south of Mason and ated His vocation and his diversion are nominate BalM and his first paper the New Era lantry displayed In battle both In the Dlxona line but ono of Marylands most hard work To this he has been trained speak of OConnell In Philadelphia there ta James Elver civil war and In the Philippines- famous residents As the head of a Re- ¬ slnco childhood Got 2 n Week son of the Inquirer who when he land- ¬ publican paper in has gen ¬ ed from England in this country in A Baltimore a Stato that At fourteen he came the plains across The first newspaper Job of Gen Charles 17 Power In erally been strongly Democratic he has from Illinois with his father when he was nine years old found em- ¬ ¬ a farmer H Taylor like Scott private in war Gen Felix Agnus a pewer on tho Balti- been compelled to take part In many hard who settled in the wilderness of Oregon- a ployment as a telegraph messenger boy yielded 52 week He Bos- ¬ more American