Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-12
The "Chronicie" enuennial.

Augusta Chronicle and ConstitltttonaEist.
We have heretofore called attention to
the fact that the Chronicle was establish
ed IN 1888, and with this year completes
a century OF existence. In the beginning
the paper was a small one, a quaint
looking little gazette, printed on old
fashioned type and containing very
moderate quantities of rather venerable
news. But that day was the dav of small
things for other matters than journalism
This State of Georgia was then made up
OF but ten counties, all told, being in 8
sparsely settled strip along the Savannah.
As the State grew the paper grew, and
now that, at the end of an hundred
wears, the little old-fashiOned weekly
gazette has developed into the modern
daily newspaper, so has the State
brOadened out into a common wealth of
fair proportions aud noble capabilities. 1t
is something for a paper to say: We
are now a century old, but that gratifca-
ton is much intensified when it can make
the event the occasion of something more
than mere Vain-gl Ory-when, in ceIebrat-
ing its own centennial, it can, through
that celebration, turn the eyes Of all TO-
ward the prospects and advantages of its
native State. We esteem it a most for
tunate coincidence that in the year when
the Chronicle completes a century Of
journalistic experience the attention Of
the whole United states, and, we NAV add.
of much of Europe, toe, is directed toward
the South. The great exposition at New
Orleans is the opening OF a new world to
many eyes. The Old-time dolce far Rieate
South, the theOrizing South, the war
waging South, men know, but how shall
they know the South of to-day unless we
bring them down into the land t. see.
At New Orleans are exhibited innumer-
able evidences of the glorious natural
dOwry Of the sunny South. The wealth
wherewith the good Creator hath blessed
it is there displayed, Our sisters to the
right ard to the lett of us are officially
known there, aud have, as it were, their
sim manuals and heralds there to pro-
claim an manifest their capabilities ana
their resources.
The other day, noticing the centenary
OF the London Times, which antedates
that Of the ChrGnicie by only two or three
months, we took occasion 10 state the be-
lief that the New Zealander who is to
behold from London Bridge the ruins OF
st. Paurs would have in his hand a copy
Of the morning edition Of the paper
published amid 1.-THE wreck Of matter and
the crash of worlds" IL may not be
immodest, comparing ourselves with due
humility to the "thuuderer" of the British
empire, to confidently predict that, a2es
hence, when trans-ROcky Mountain cow
BOYS NAV hunt wolves among the dis
mantled corridors Of the capitol at
Washington, the Chronicle will be issued,
and that the editor of that day may Won
der AZ the old iogyism Of this, TO US, UNI
paralleled era OF progress, as the present
writer maryels az the dizziness Of jOurn-
alism one hundred years ago.
What has not been done the Chronicle
proposes, i'm its centennial year, % do. IL
means n make Georgia knONn-all GeOr-
gia-Georgia from Nickajack 10 the sea;
toe land and its soil and sky and people;
it, trees and fruits and crops and mines;
IFS farms and factories, It's cities and It's
fields: who we are, and what we have and
do. are the themes our centennial edition
will dilate ON. For 100 years the people
OF Georgia nave sustained the Chronicle,
and on It's ceutenarian birthday 10 means,
I'm an issue 10 fail like snOw-llakes all over
the country, % repay the debt ofgratitude
by sounding their praise.
The Chronicle will publish 10000 copies
Of It's centennial edition.