, 1878-03-23
CALIFORNIA JOURNALISM.
The S.p Franrisco Call

The San Francisco CAL has lately added
to its establishment a "Li.htEing Press, y
capable of printing, folding and delivering
20, coo sheets an hour. 1t Is pronounced the
most perfect printing machine IL use. and
cost the proprietors $50 600 In its issue CT
March 10th. the Gail devotes over fifteen
columns TO description of tits wonder..g |
press, and at the same time gives history
of the paper, from its first issue IN the year
1885 down to date. The Call has Outstrlp-
pel al its competitors, and to-day is with
out . journalistic rival Oh the Pacific coast.
This success has been attained by unswery-
ING honesty of purpose and untiring advoca-
CIV of measures tending to the general good.
From the first the Gail aimed to be the peO-
pies paper-tlIe advocate of the rights and
interests of the masses and with all the
changes incident to It's long career 1t has
ever remained true to this idea. We have
mere the secret of the Calls success sue
cess that has left all its competitors in the
background. IN its historical resume the
| Cal riyes sketches of the different writers
who have been employed on the paper and
| gave il its distinctive character. In tins hist
the editor of the Walla Walla STATESMAN Is
assigned the post of honor and gets an elsb-
orate notice. As matter that viii possibly
interest our immediate friends We give place
TO that part of the article personal to our
self Referring to the year 1857, the Cal
says:
There was no overland telegraph: and the
| iron horse of the transcontinental railroad
did not snort till some twelve years later.
1t was hard work to make All interesting news
paper ont Of the meagre material furnished
by dull city, and the Eastern news only
arrived by the steamers of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company once, and sometimes
twice. a month. The hard worked printers
wanted some editorial help, as the strain
was getting somewhat heavy. Accordingly,
after duly considering the matter, they
engaged gentleman named Newell-Wm.
| H. Newell writer of more vigor than
elegance, with thorough knowledge of the
local politics and politicians OF the day, and
a scent so keen for offences andotficial crook
edness that he would have put our modern
| detectives to the blush. He was painfully
slow writer, but when his articles were
launched they went right home, bored into
the object aimed at like Congreve rocket,
and tore the target to pieces. 1t was his
pen that shattered the political administers
tion of the San Francisco branch OF the
| United States Mint in the latter part OF
! 1857. There were many rumors abroad
| previously that matters were not all right at
| the mint Bien had been arrested for steal
ing gold planchets by means of wax attach
ed to the soles OF his shoes, and larger per-
| ceutage of loss than that allowed by govern
| ment was detected III the melter and refin-
| er's department Mr. Haraszthy, who held
that important position, attributed this loss
| of the precious metal to volatilization. He
| gave out that 1t went up the chimney, and
had curioas-looking zig gag eonhiylnces con-
| structed on the root to catch tine fugitive
| oro in its passage. Some persons also pros
| pected the vicinity, and asserted they had
| discovered minute deposits Of gold in the
| chinks of the asphal.um
Newell chose to believe that the mischief
was more serious than appeared on the sur
face; that there was la1ity, if not criminsli-