New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-02-26
DEATH or VETERAN PRINTERS.


Fr0s The tfbssy Er<stsS getrHss
More than forty years ago-indeed il 10 nearer dry
than forty-we we're en- apprentice where ali she pews-
papers in this State were suspended In hles aitscbed
TO pieces Of wire inserted in the walls around the Office.
So s ssp ss' ,Ss y. di
recognize and identity most, II not all Of them from
their general appearance, without being shown either
titles or imprint.
iarities. The Nsm-York Colombian was printed on
paper as blue a. indigo; while that on which IAs
OrSage County Patriot came forth was as yellow 40
Mrs Skewtons curtains TIE Ersing Fos! IVES
readily recognized by q" Gaens Head, he desisn
of vhish Was TO guide patients 10 that fountain OF
health over which "Dr. HON presided. There were
20 "Pctorias," and but few "Cuts," in those days.
The albany Register, therefore, was the sdnratoD
OF children Oh account of tai, upright Indian, with
head dress OF feathers, rife ana mnshrat, who
informed the public that {" Elisha Dom paid cs.h and
the highest price, for fur' at his store n CoS n
people were informed that the Goddess Of Fortune
waited with the utmost impotence at the oftsee OF
the "Messrs Waite of Newf York, and of the Mcesrs
her yotaries" through the fundamentally Of tickets
in "Owego Bridge" or Union Lot.eries 70 De
drawn under the auspices of Simeon De WITT and
other officials And throughout the State, itS Journals
staring cepitas, and bad illustration OF "a good
Samaritan celebrating the virtues Of " Lees Pulls
and "Rodgers's Vegetable Pulmonic Detergent"
OF all these only The Ner- YORK Commerce.. 40
srn Budget, Lonsmgburgh CARTE, Scheaectady
Cabinet, ontario Messenger, ontario Reportory,
B,ooklyn Star, Republican .4drocot. BATAVIA, Oswe-
60 Go:e and 6f tSs srss s SsSs ar STATE
Brooklyn and Buffalo were then scarcely known 40
Villages while Syracuse and Rochester did not els:
even by nsme And OF the editors and Proprieters Of
the journals of 1871, how few remain The venerable
Thomas Walker, then editor and proprietor Of Ike
Columbian Ga:eife, Utica and now President Of the
the old Bank of Utica, may be styled the Father Of
the New.Yo'k Press. We gratefully rem"mo ss, 70
him an ipdulgent employer and kind friend in 1913.
Frapcis Han, of The Nerskork Commercial Adesr:.
User ranks next to Mr.. Walker in years, and second
10 professional and personal integrity and yr'
Skinner Of the old Albany Caste, Ia next in rank.
| With Azariah e. Flsgg, widely known for bis long
and upright life OF public usefulness, then editor and
| proprietor of The Pahstvygh Rrpr6liea", and our
esteemed friends Mix, then of The Montgomery Re
publican and Fsirchild, nov Of Cazenovis, but than
editor and proprietor Of paper in Chenapgo the roll
a. far our memory serves, has been called. bev-
eral boys, including Edwin Croswel John q. Cole,
Augustin q. Dauby, who were then, or coon aftsS-
ward, learning the rudments OF the " Art Preservs-
tive of all Arts" survive But James Watson Webb,
William c. Bryant, lsaae Pait, and other prominent
editors Of these times, are but comparatively modsrn
iuyentions while Greeley, Cassidy Willis, Raymond,
Bjgeow &c. better II not older soldiers) belong to
| the juvenile Glars.
| But we wander from our purpose, which .sssimpy
10 record the death, toe 81 int, at Mil~ashes,
where he has resided for some fifteen years OF Para
clete Potter who was proprietor and editor, early
as 1906 Of The Povghkeepsie Journal apaper which
he conducted for nearly thirty years. He was man
of talents and energy widely known aud universally
e.tetmed. He removed 20 Wisconsin simultaneously
with n p. Tsllpsdge Dr. Judd and other prominent
citizens Of Duchess. !s-... Il 4.
The deceased was an elder brother OF the Episcopal
Bishops of New-York and ylvauia, and he'd ct
tanned 70 his 18th year. =
Norman futile, another veteran printer, died ct
Troy on Saturday. He was emphatcsy . working
~ man nr aunn
stood "at case for half century. Mr.. futile was
proprietor of The Troy Sentinel thirty year, ago,
when OryiDe L. Holley, who made bis editorial debut
among us IN 1916 ne editor of Review In kew-York,
was editor lane also in 1889 be wss one Of the propre-
tors of Tie Troy Daily Nall Mr. Tu'tle ives pre-
vousIy proprietor Of The albany RepuS!'cas. We
in 1875 He maintained throughout the character Of
ON honest man and good citizen. f..f