| Show j A LONG SERVICE lump IIII 1 I i 7 scars I Ill III l C II I H n It St Louis July Jl 31 Charlee rl Jones dones Jo Of Os Osborn l horn born rn the ht St fit OtT rondet of 01 f the theA Associated A Press reu I S to IK a II continuous service of or 4 i years N and entitling him to the distinction of or dean of the Ih Associated Press Jre celebrated hU hIs hi eightieth birthday anniversary today toda Mr Ir Osborn Of born who bo is I familiarly known knon throughout the service leMke MS tie Major an n honorary title retired from active work tour four years year ago Igo but ts is still Mill the St SI Louis office ottice In lit an advisory capacity lie He Is It remarkably hale ami anti hearty hart anti and nd very vera active artle despite his years Ut n Maj laJ Osborn Ohorn was Will born In Itt Ill N V 1 learned telegraphy telegraph In Pitt burl burg Pa PaIn In II ISH 1547 and came Ime to 0 St 81 i a aJI a j tel let I telegraph operator from Cincinnati In Itt ISM lies Two years later he entered th t the service of or the Associated Prees ai RI an operator and shortly afterward wa WI ap 11 correspondent lu While Maj Osborn Os orn was learning te Is telegraphy tee In Pittsburg he lie became bl ac cc acquainted Cerne e who Ibo ho was we then i a messenger mes ho In the tele telegraph lob graph office Osborn was 1188 sent by hg b the lime telegraph company to 10 Chicago o In lit 1151 as lii manager lr or of that part of 01 o the system known as It the th Telegraph rosa cam Patty Inny IRtI lit lie found lound the headquarters bd to tobe tob tobe be b located In a very rr ramshackle frame building that threatened to 0 fall down without warning Ills His Art work was WU to 10 move Into IntI hotter better quarters quarter In a neis noci brick building about bollt M it fp fees t square on lark Clark street the th o building bulWIn In III at t the time He II was wac manager of or she tb root rom company pany flAn for t t two to yearn After becoming of 01 the Assi Associated l Pro s sat i at It St t I 1 Louis ls the pony ft express vl 1 for rr sending fleas to San Sen Francisco newspapers wa nac a organized Maj o 0 Sc horn born would gather a hatch batch of or new IW mid and send the bundle to Tip Tipton ton Mo Io by II railroad Tiptoe 11 marked the th terminus of or the tM only road na that thai rAn rum west ft from St Lout LotI From rom this road NoS fr grew w what l I Io is now o nc the tb Missouri Pacific sya F tern ternAt At Tipton the news ne bundle was WAI de delivered d delivered livered to the till M stag ta it and reached IU its destination d In la about three thee w week k |
