Show I t NEWSPAPER MEN IN TAfT PARTY Six Star Newspaper Writers Accompany Executive on Entire Journey THEY ROSE WITHOUT PULLS PULL WORK WAY TO TOP BY HARD WORK AND TALENTS Every member of ot President Pre Tafts en entourage enI entourage I except six has IMS been the subject of ot extended newspaper comment These e esix six are the men who make a business s of ot i writing about bout others othere They are virtually aristocrats of oC the newspaper world occupying occupying occupying positions po which many a hard worked managing editor might well covet Their names are Harry L Dunlay New NewYork NewYork NewYork York World Robert H Hazard Hasard United Press William Hosier Hoster Ho ter Hearst News ser service serlee service vice lee E A Fowler New York Sun press pres pre association Sherman P Allen New York Herald and Robert T Small Associated Press They are the most unobtrusive of ot the entire party hut nothing not escapes ca their keen and after every imp reception they go o over with the President the salient facts which are to tol tobe l ht be f printed for on such a trip as this happenings left out are more than tan those that are printed These correspondents are trusted by their editors to Judge ju e what shall be printed and what can caa ca be omitted How ever yellow an American newspaper may be It is seldom that an appeal from froma troma a high official based b sed on the grounds of ot public policy polley falls tails to suppress almost any news story At first cance t g nee nce it seems like a pretty nice way of ot earning a living Just rid riding ridIng riding ing in a special car about the country and watching the big crowds pay their tributes to the ruler of ot the nation would be attractive to most persons but to the themen themen themen men assigned to write the news of oC the trip It is a very old story Most of at them have been sent on trips to Europe de departing departing departing parting so 80 suddenly they scarcely had time to pack a a suitcase Nearly every one of at them earned his present pre ent position without any adventitious aid Robert Small the Associated Press Pressman Pressman Pressman man is a 8 son of oC the late Admiral Sigsbee but if It any of ot the others had in influential relatives they have never made madeth th the fact known The careers of ot H I L Dunlap and R II H give some idea of ot how a cub reporter transforms himself Into a star newspaperman Began In St Louis Hazard and Dunlap both did their first regular fUlar r newspaper work in St t Louis Dunlap was a reporter on the St Louis Republic beginning in 1893 ICE and Hazard Hazan started on the now defunct Chronicle in inthe inthe the same me year faculty for read reading readIng reading ing manuscript accurately and rapidly soon became apparent and at the Republican Republican lican national convention he was captain of fourteen reporters who were covering the convention He took all the sepa separate separate separate rate writings of ot the fourteen and recon reconciled reconciled cUed them then arranged them just as they were to go to the printers and when they reached the office all the city editor had to do was to send them downstairs It was the first time an event of ot such magnitude had not produced confusion in inthe the composing room before the matter got Into the paper Dunlap was soon discovered by the ever eer watchful Joseph Pulitzer whose whole famous saying I always buy the best brains has been illustrated in the making of ot the New ew York World and the St Louis Louts Post Dispatch Dunlap was made managing ing editor of the which poal tion he held until his health being slight ly impaired Mr Pulitzer called him to the nt palace of ot the publisher at Bar Harbor and told him to take Mrs Mra Dunlap for a European trip He also all told him to stay until he was fully recuperated recuperated recuperated When Dunlap came back the Washing ton billet was given him in n preference to 0 the more exacting duties of a managing editor Although he has never had bad a photograph taken nor was he ever the written up to any extent there is s per haps hape no more competent and modest newspaperman In the United States than Dunlap Not quite 40 years yean of age he has seen most of oC the civilized countries of ot the world and has an acquaintance among statesmen and diplomats that few other correspondents have been able to rival Richard Hazard Hasard after aCter brilliant work in St Louis was called to New York and has gradually been bet n elevated by the league to his present reSent poal tion William Hester Hoster the Hearst star Is a man whose name is familiar to any reader of the Hearst papers because the most important story in tn those papers papera usually bears the prefatory legend By B William Hoster r He Is hi a successful ex exponent exponent exponent of the late Charles A Danas theory Whatever the Lord Almighty permits to happen I am not too proud to report Hosters Hesters Peculiar Art Hoster is peculiarly able to tell the most salacious details of a Gould divorce case casel or similar news story in a manner which omits nothing but without offending the most aesthetic sensibilities He has made that sort of work close kin to art Sherman P Allen ABen is one of those New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Herald men who always have so much expense ex nse money and who if they the stop at any except the highest priced ho hotels are ant t to h reprimanded In a eahl from Paris signed Biped James Gordon Ben Bennett Bennett Bennett nett Allen Is 18 a typical New Yorker and his colleagues say that this trip is the best thing that ever happened to him because he always had the average New Yorkers limited conception of ot the west Allen like Uke the corps of which he is a member is a B man who won his spurs by hard work and a little luck luckE E K A Fowler of ot the New Sun con contributes contributes contributes tributes many western stories and ab abstruse abstruse abstruse criticisms on all aU sorts sorta of subjects when he Is not busy untangling the skeins of ot diplomacy in Washington Robert T Small is always an n object of oC interest to most of ot his colleagues because cause what he sends to the press pres association goes to most of ot the big newspapers The correspondents however usually cover the th same samp subjects ts in their own special 8 e style and language for tor the very reason of their being bemer sent along demands the justification of ot improving if possible po on the ordinary press reports At all the receptions these the e correspond correspondents are stationed where they can see everything that goes on and in reality they are quite as much of ot a safeguard to tha th President as a the secret Ferret service men for tor there is not one of ot them who would not sacrifice his own life lite to save the ex executive executive executive |