The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-31
Particulars Orthe Sale orthe wasp.

t. Jackson, late of the post" The
following details of this important
event in American journalism, fur.
nished by the San Francisco CORE
| spondent of the P. c. ADVERTISER
| will doubtless be read with interest
by old Californians and Hawaiian
friends of Mr.. Macfarlane. Our CORE
spondent writes:
Mr.. E. G. Macfarlane, the former
owner of the "Wasp," has been suf.
fering in health so severely since his
return to the Coast that his medical
adviser told him plainly that he could
not live in San Francisco, and must
leave there, further recommending an
extended tour in more sunny and less
foggy chimes, as long rest was most
essential to ensure his permanent re-
| covery. Mr.. Macfarlane, who had
been living in the country for some
weeks, entered into negotiations with
| Colonel Jackson, formerly proprietor
of the Exchange" and the 'Evening
POST which resulted in the transfer
of the property to the latter gentle
man, who took formal possession of
the "Wasp" on the Goth instant.
Mr.. Macfarlane will continue to
travel in California till August 18th,
when he expects to leave San Fran
cisco for Honolulu. After brief stay
in this city he will continue his Jour
ney to Australia OH tour round the
world. Under Mr.. Macfarlane's man
agement the Wasp has ranked in
the foremost place among the journals
of the Coast. 1t has been fearless and
outspoken, denouncing political jobs,
swindling corporations and Infamous
low life with no unsparing pen. 1t
has been admired by the upright and
honest, and feared by the crafty and
the cunning. Mr.. Ambrose Bierce
will probably retain his position on
the staff under the new management.
His friends sincerely regret the
reason that has led Mr.. Macfarlane to
dispose of his property, but congratu-
late him upon the success he has
achieved, which is apparent from the
price that he obtained, $4,000.
The last number of the sEWasp',
issued under Mr.. Macfarlane's man.
agement was an excellent one. His
farewell cartoon disclosed, in "ring,"
many of those who have been for
years the subject of his keen satire and
the first recipients of his merciless on
slaughts. We join our correspondent
in the hope that Mr.. Macfarlane will
soon be thoroughly restored to health
and able to resume his connection
with the Journalistic profession for
which he is so admirably adapted.
E. c. MACFARLANE'S vALEDICToRY.
This is the last issue of the "Waspr
under the ownership of e. c.. Mac
tarlane & Co., and the management
of h. &. Macfarlane, the condition of
whose health compels him to retire
temporarily, it is hoped-from the |
eXacting though congeniaI profession |
of journalism. The relations thereby |
between ourselves |
and our cLienteLe-are somewhat ex-
2eptlonaI, having not altogether
commercial character but partaking
Of the nature of sympathetic afffn-
ty. The names on our lists of sub
'cribers are, in most instances, those
If men and women whose favor and
support carries with it an assurance
If something more than literary ap-
sincere and lively in
crest in the principles we have adj
7ocated and the application that we
nave made of them to public affairs.
Of the warmth CT this feeling we
nave had such evidences, oral, writ
en- and practical, as we believe to be
unparalleled in the history of any
American journal. That we have
lot been insensible to these precious
manifestations of goodwill, nor mac
essible to the contagion OF the sen
iments of which they were the ex-
PRESTON, has, we venture to think,
'een sufficiently demonstrated by our
york. If ever we have betrayed the
ust expectations founded on clear
iscernment of the trend and ten
ency of that work we do not know
+; if ever we have disappointed
hem it has been through no altered 1
urpose, but from that faIlibility
which makes all high endeavor fall
hort of its intent. We have com
ounded no felonies, relinquished no
ighteOus animosities, nor at the
of self-interest abated one
1t or title of our original hos
lily to any rogue or set of rogues. !
he bead-roll of malefactors for the g
nrest of whose souls we have ever s
Ibored contains all the old names,
nd we hand it over to our successor 9
l the hope that he will continue the d
ngentle ministrations in the old a
brit, for the purgation of their a
finds and hearts. We retire with an
weakened conviction of the rascal
y of the Railroad Gang, the Water
Ompany, the "Chronicle" newspaper "
I'd the whole saints calendar of dis t