Iowa Gleaner Maryland News Washington National Standard Shelby Republican New Northwest Ed. Washington Gazette Ed. Washington Chronicle Irish Republic Boston Journal Laporte (Ind.) Herald Detroit Herald Congressional Globe Ed. Washington Chronicle Lancaster Express Davenport Gazette Alabama State Journal Washington Star Rutland (Vt.) Herald Washington German Advertiser Chicago Tribune Delaware (Ohio) Gazette Congressional Globe Idaho Statesman Minneapolis Tribune Boston (Mass.) Plowman San Francisco Alta California Taunton (Mass.) Gazette Boston Transcript Chicago Journal Cleveland Herald Toledo Blade Washington Republican Congressional Globe Baltimore Gazette - London (Eng.) Telegraph New Orleans Times, et al. Cincinnati Times C. S. Noyes. S. V. Noyes. W. O'Brien. W. G. Overton. U. H. Painter. G. W. Partridge. E. F. Peck. Donn Piatt. Charles A. Pillsbury. 66 66 66 Ben. Perley Poore. · J. P. C. Poulton. C. N. Richards. J. Henry Riley. 703 Chicago Evening Post Philadelphia Evening Star There are no less than four News Associations represented in the above list. Then there is an enterprise called the Bureau of Correspondence, a European idea, represented by J. C. Gallagher. These furnish many of the lesser journals throughout the country with cheap and condensed dispatches of events in the national capital. Another association was formed in New York in January, 1870, which is called the American Press Association, which intends to furnish news to all those papers not recognized by pre-existing combinations of this sort, and especially in opposition or in competition with what is known as the New York Associated Press. Most of these journals, besides their desks in the galleries of Congress, have their bureaux, where they meet, receive news, and prepare their dispatches at all hours of the day and night. Twenty of these offices are in close proximity on Fourteenth Street, and their location is known as Newspaper Row. There is only one foreign journal recognized in Congress-the London Telegraph. L. Q. Washington is its correspondent. The London Times and one or two other European journals stationed correspondents in Washington during the rebellion. Many papers are represented in the national capital, but not with desks and seats in the galleries of Congress. Members of Congress, from Colonel Matthew Lyon, of Vermont, in 1798, to the present day, have more or less indulged in newspaper correspondence. Illustrated Papers. 705 CHAPTER XLV I. THE ILLUSTRATED PAPERS. NEWS PICTORIALLY REPORTED AND DESCRribed.-Wood-ENGRAVING IN THE UNITED STATES. -HARPER'S FAMILY BIBLE. -THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPERS.-FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWS, HARPER'S WEEKLY, AND HARPER'S BAZAR.-SINCLAIR'S PHOTO-ZINCO.-THE NEW ART.-EXCHANGE OF ENGRAVINGS.-OUR NATIONAL GALLERY. ILLUSTRATED papers have become a feature. Every newspaper stand is covered with them. Every railroad train is filled with them. They are "object-teaching" to the multitude. They make the battlefields, the coronations, the corruptions of politicians, the balls, the race-course, the yacht race, the military and naval heroes, Napoleon and William, Bismarck and Von Beust, Farragut and Porter, Grant and Sherman, familiar to every one. They are, in brief, the art gallery of the world. Single admission, ten cents. When Avery, and Reid, and Horton, and Baker, and one or two others, engraved for the New York Herald, the art, for newspaper use and illustration, was but little known in the United States. There was some taste in drawing, but rather rough and slow work in cutting. It was a task to get the smallest and simplest diagram cut. News engravings have to be rapidly executed to be of value. In 1861-25, during the Rebellion, Waters made half-page maps in one day. Such a piece of work, indeed, to illustrate a brilliant victory, was accomplished on one occasion in one night. News of the battle came at tea-time; the map appeared in the next morning's Herald. But the block was in twenty pieces, and twenty engravers worked on it at the same time. Thirty-five years ago there were not as many engravers in the country as worked that night on that one map. There was an excellent engraver living in New York about thirty or thirty-five years ago, named Adams. He was almost the first engraver-artist in the United States. He was a pleasant, quiet, thoughtful man. It appears that he read the Bible. He was our Doré. In going over the pages of that great book, some of the wonderful events narrated there suggested to him the idea of sketching them on wood. He did so, and cut them himself during his leisure hours. The work was an agreeable one, and he continued it till he had accumulated a large number of beautiful illustrations of the Holy Scriptures. They grew in value, and he purchased an iron safe for them. It had occurred to him during this work that the Bible, fully illustrated, would be a popular publication, and one Y Y that would compensate him for his labor of love. Applying to the Harpers, he found they would be delighted to undertake such a work. The interview between the artist and publishers resulted in Harper's Illustrated Family Bible, so well known a quarter of a century ago. When the incident was related to the writer, Mr. Adams's share of the profits of the work had reached the sum of $60,000. These illustrations showed great taste and were well executed, but the art has made such progress since then that they are excelled by some of the exquisite engravings of the present time. Our illustrated newspapers live on wood-engravings. The two most important ones are Harper's and Frank Leslie's. Before either of these appeared, the Messrs. Beach, of the New York Sun, and Barnum, of the Museum, each contributed $20,000 for the establishment of an illustrated weekly in New York City; and Gleason and Ballou, of Boston, had made the attempt to introduce these publications in America. The two latter made fortunes, and Ballou built the St. James's Hotel. Among the artists engaged on Gleason's Pictorial was Frank Leslie. Boston, probably, was not large enough for him to swing in freely and safely; New York loomed up before his artistic vision. Ascertaining that Barnum intended to issue an illustrated paper, Leslie started for Iranistan, and arrived there on Thanksgiving day, in 1852, just before dinner. Introducing himself to Barnum, he stated his business. "Why, this is Thanksgiving day, and dinner is almost ready. Never mind; business is business," said Barnum. So he gave up turkey and family, and talked over the project. It ended in the departure of the artist for New York by the train of that evening, and Barnum satisfied himself with a wing of a chicken. In this way Frank Leslie became the managing foreman of the Illustrated News of New York, and made his débût in the metropolis. This paper appeared on the 1st of January, 1853, and its circulation ran up to 70,000 copies. It lived one year. After the suspension of this publication, or, rather, after it passed over to Gleason, Frank Leslie issued one which is now favorably known as Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. His establishment has grown so extensively that seventy wood-engravers are constantly and actively employed. Illustrated papers in German and Spanish, as well as in English, are issued therefrom. He publishes the Chimney-corner, Ladies' Journal, Pleasant Hours, Boys' and Girls' Weekly, and the Budget of Fun. The aggregate circulation of his weekly and monthly issues average half a million copies weekly. One hundred thousand copies of the Chimney-corner alone are issued. One of the former contributors to Frank Leslie's paper was John J. Ryan, now the redacteur en chef of the American Register in Paris. The present managing editor is E. G. Squier, so well known for his early researches in the Valley of the Mississippi, and as the author of sev |