Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1904 — Noted Correspondent and Traveler. [ARTICLE]

Noted Correspondent and Traveler.

Few newspapers in the United Stales are able to command the services of hs brilliant a corps ut c. rresp indents as that of. L’tie Ulitoago Record-Herald. Ls choice f a IVasbiogton correspondent is i dicative ot i'he Record-tL raid’* p ilicy of obtaining the best the-e i+ to be had. Walter Wellman, toe well-known authority on po iicai subj lets and one of the ablest writers‘of the day, ac's in that •apacity. Mr. Wellman was born in Men tor, Ob e. Njv. 3, 1858. Af-ttre-age of 14 he began his newspaper exp -Hence, establishing at tti-o age a weekly piper in the tit le (own of Sutton, Neb. In 1878 n* returned to Ohio, and a year lai r < stabiished the Cincinnati E. em g Post. In 1884 he became the Washington oerreep indent <>f the Cti'cago Herald, and in 1892 h*visited Central America and th* West Indies and located the landing place of Columbus ou Wat iing’s (San Salvador) Island, and marked the spot with a huge stone monument. Mr, Wellman’s dash -s for the north pole are well known Io 1894 he made the of hi* two arctic voyages of exploration, reaching the latitude of 81 degras northeast of Spilzbergen. In 1898 he returned to the North, penetrat ed to Franz Jo c ef Land, returning again to this country in 1889. On each trip he met with wonderful success in the discovery of new islands and lands ani brought hack with him scientific data and information of great value to the American Geoaraphical Society. Mr. Wellman has been a vol ominous writer for scien'ifio mag azines and popular periodicals. Oi returning from his aro’ic trips he renewed his connection with The Record-Herald, and is now the Washington correspondent of that pater. His incisive discus sion of contemporary affairs hss given him a high place in the regard of statesmen and scientists of lhe day.