Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-10-10

The Phoenix feels pardonable degree of
pride in the handsomely printed clean and
readable sheet which it presents TO its readers
to-day. Whether to the average non-profes.
sional eye the difference in the mechanical
appearance of the paper to-day and a month
or two ago is altogether apparent, we shall
not undertake to say for, in spite of the use
of old and we'll worn machinery, The Phoenix
has always managed to go to its readers in de-
cent and legible print. Within the past
month, however, our work rooms have been
removed from the third floor of Ranger &
Thompson's block to quarters on the second
floor especially fitted up for them, and the
occasion of this removal was taken advantage
of to replace our old press with new one
from the well-known mandatory of @. b.
Cottrell & Sons. With many excellent press
es in the market, we believe this, comprising
as it does every modern improvement, to be
the best machine made for work in its class.
At the same time a new engine and boiler,
both of the most approved manufacture, were
added, and our facilities for rapid and excel
lent work are now so complete that it gives
us pleasure to show them to our friends.
In our composing room improvements
scarcely less marked have been made-im-
provements which, added to those already
named, give The Phoenix a thoroughly we'll
equipped printing office, with all that this
term implies to members of the craft.
Our satisfaction in these improvements is
great, but it is only justice to ourselves to say
that it is not equal to that which we feel in the
fact that our efforts to serve our readers have
been SO well appreciated and responded to as
to bring us the prosperity which allows these
improvements to be made. Our dividends"
have been faithfully turned back to benefit
our patrons in the shape of these increased
facilities, and under this new departure we
hope, and shall steadily try, to serve our
friends in all departments of our business
more acceptsbly than ever before.
If we may be allowed word of retrospect,
we may say that it is now just one year since
we announced our reduction in price to 81. 80
per year. The experiment which we then
ventured upon was doubtful one, but the
result has abundanty justified its wisdom.
| Before the first of January last our lis. OF
subscribers had increased by 90 per cent. All
through this year the increase has been steady,
and our list was never so large, never 80 well
paid up, and the future prospect never so en-
couraging, as to-day. In the direction of still
greater increase, and in answer to repeated
inquiries on this point, we here take occasion
to say that The Phoenix will be sent to new
subscribers from the middle of October to
Jan. l, 1886, for $1.5O, the regular yearly
price.
And, since we are talking business, we may
may mention that, while the improvements
in our own quarters and those of our imne'
diate neighbors, are not yet all completed,
they are so far advanced that it is entirely
safe for all persons who owe us for subscrip
tions or other indebtedness to come or send
up the stairs for their payment. We are al
ways at home, and our latch-string is always
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