Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-02
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8. T. Chronicle.
There has ectne into the posses-lon Of
the Cbrar. III the first naDb~r of volume
/ of the w YORK Hsrad. I-s1e3 on the
:J.h o. May, I1S5. Il l. little tatterso,
four-rare sheet. each page about l. ~
Il inches IN zize. and ~ tue head % the
fir. of xhich stands. ia mods. 'yp@.
Vs,reIsg He-1ld. IL E4s penny paper
and xas pabltshaa bv James Gordon
H.pne,, 4 Co. a. % Wall street. base-
rnenf story. Cniise't present HsT1td.
the ars; column Was not devote TO
- dirsctorv tJr advertisers. nor were
its pages filed With Advertisement IL /
looked ANYTHING b1t prosperous N -
makeup. and bs who did not study iis
columns would never have believed tnls
journalists infant ~ 5e possessed u
sufficient VT lifv 70 ouflTv@ and OCtstrfp
every journal then Ia existence -
weak vas the bantlinc thai, having p7o-
IIshed it, first n1mb@r au "Wednesday, X
was com eiied - sink back Iato IN IN
fantile sleep Of f0nr day=. 70 gam
strength for the next is-u~. which an
editorial announced was to De- 90 tae
succeeding Monday.
Bennett senior evidently was not -
tie ne mode ~ thinking WITH men
VITO start nsvspapf 'r@ n71adsy@, thoQ q
be. like thev do nor, kueS that TIE
world cannot he made ~ stand still VITO
promises, winch he, Ike tie latter, PR
sisted IN making neveTthri@s-- In to
Commencement of An eB,ef py1se OF TINS
kind" he sey- in his lesdlug editorial
at il not Necessary 10 say Fsach. We
know sa.s the fair OphelI4. what ve
are. but We know not what We may b..
No doubt be did not know. "Pledge1
and promises In these enlightened
times" he continues. ARE not ex sctiy
go current in the world 80 safety-fGnd
notes or even the United States Bank
BILLS In debu's Of this kind mtny
talh Of principle, political principle.
party principle, Ar sort OF steel trap
20 catch the public. We mean to De
perfectly understood on TINS point. and
therefore openly disclaifn All steel traps.
all principle. az II ~ called. all parry, ALI
politics. Oar only guide shall be good.
solnd practical common sense. applIca-
cable TO the business and bosorns Of Inen
engaged In every day life.
The reader needs oulv 70 he reminded
Of the various and sometimes Inexpli
cable changes of policy IN which the
| HeraH periodically INDUCES la proof
that the promise Of James Cord n Ben
net the elder IL being kept even 70 this
day by James Gordon the younger.
The Introductory next gives A good de-
scription of what newspaper ought to
be, and the owners Of local papers who
have abandoned gravel mines, the
stock boards, political officers. or the
Law courts. for the editorial sanctuD.
fatI
ing:
We shall endeavor TO give record OF
facts on every public and proper subject
stripped Of yerbisge and coloring, with
comments when suitable Just, independ
ent. fearless and good tempered. II the
Herad wants the mere expansion which
MANY journals possess. We shall try to
| make II up ia industry. good taste ,brev
ity, variety, point. piqnancy and cheap
ness. II IL equally intended for the
great masses of the community. the
merchant, mechanic, working people,
the private family a. well AZ tae public
hotel, the lourneyman and his employer.
the clerk aud his principal" Ev.ry
editor in California, no doubt, will
subscribe tn the above. and insist that
his paper has been following exactly
day publish the following item about
their own contemporaries as James
Gordon Emmett did IN the same mum
Der, containing his views on what u pa
per ought To be Theatrical criti-
Cism IL at a low ebb. The lively Star
! has Abandoned the field. the steady
| imc1-icdH ditto, the foD,meTc'ai never
entered. the Tjn~s is nauseatIng. rite
passim the maWish trash on Miss Pail
| lips Beuueit's proof reader had evil
| deutly not yet been furnished with a
| dictionary !. the Transcript Is inoompe-
tent the J.GerspHnIH more incompe-
tent, and the Sun most Incompetent.
| Let's have Change" And then fol
| lows this notice of Miss Phillips and
CRITICISM Of her critics Miss Phil
| lips ~ at Boston, but she does not APP
pear to- create such sensation IA Fanny
! kemble. although she Is "a more philo
sophical artist, but not so fascinating
Mrs. l.. has been much injured bay her
| opium eating critics here"
Having relieved himself on the SUD
| jet of theatrical criticism OH the second
| page he devotes quarter of q column
| To the police reporter on the third page.
| This gentleman then, IA now. was given
| To putting the news III cast-iron forms
uninterestlng and Supplying to man
| and beast. The ready made diagram of
the scene Of "a murder. 30 desperately
chung to by the modern criminal news
detective, in which A stands for the AK
| with which the deed was done. h for the
blood as II flowed out of the victim =
veins. & for the corpse with its gaping
wound, ID for the dagger that WAS not
! used. T. for the exit through which the
murderer fled and + for the fool who
came to describe the tragedy, seems
even then To have been in existence. and
this Is the manner ia which the founder
of the Herald alludes tn him: Police
Reports-ln this department of news
papers there exists a gross want (
taste. utility or propriety, and more es-
pecially among the small daily papers.
| Ignorance. insipidity and inanity reign
triumphant. lake for example the fol-
lowing paragraphs, extracted at random
| from the New York Sun and others
| Here follow a number of specimen re-
ports, of which this one Is fair sam
| pie: james Anderson was brought up
on suspicion Of stealing a coat, bat
whether he was guilty Of not We could
not learn, for he escaped from the hands
Of Justice"
"rhis trash" continues the Herald.
IL headed y lice Office and pompously
set forth as reported expressly for the
Sun. etc. IA ole of the caterers for the
public taste We felt il our duty 10 say
this much on the subject of p lice re
porting. Az We are generous and cen-
tie, with this We shall stop. deeming 1t
also somewhat irreverent towards a be
neficent Providence TO inquire too mar
rowly what are those motives .nscruta-
ble TO mortal ken which dispose him In
his infinite wisdom To drop down block
heads here and there to edit newspapers
like weeds in a garden ere the rose has
put forth its bud or the hyaointh opened
| it's blossom 10 the morning"
But the reader il perhaps anxious TO
know what the first number of the Her