, 1889-02-07
EEEUNT


therewiIh ceases. L Is Il c.rr -i-v IL
which I have lalogeI iac,z-unt.y
3uriuE the past t1riy, yrur5 Iutar
spring Of 1871. fresh from college. I
began husine-7 lie 10y the purchase
Of the PUUEI SoJSp WEE6LY Arey5
and job printing Office, from ]Tr {.
". Philbrick. the Successor IF tie
late Alfred &. Pettygroye, founder
of the paper and lis business. The
paper was at that time small pat
ent-inside weekly Entering upon
the duties of editor. bu-i.e-z man
ager, printer, Office boy. solicitor
etc, 1 have since grown mp with tie
business and with the town. In
June, 1882, l began publishing d
daily edition-a small, experimental
thing at tirst-Under circumstances
that led every newspaper publisher
in the Territory to expect failure to
result from the effort Neither cdi-
tion of the paper, however. has ever
missed an issue holidays excepted
and the DAILY has grown until it Is Ii
handsome, seven-column paper. all
home print, of course, a credit to the
city, and a powerful factor in moving
forward every material interest Of
the public. 1t has 10y no means been
all that [ might have wished, or
would have been able to make it with
a larger patronage; but it has fully
occupied its field, and, without boast
ing, it challenges any paper on the
Pacific coast to make better shows
ing in proportion to the support at
tainable. Port Townsend has been
public spirited and enterprising, too.
1t Is and has been the best newspa-
per town in Washington Territory,
in proportion to-its size. The ARGUS
has been an aggressive factor in con
nection with every public interest
political, social, moral and CONNER
cial. In doing so, it has necessarily
had antagonisms, yet it has had a
liberal patronage, and occupies to-
day an impregnable position in the
esteem of the public it serves. 1t Is
on solid business foundation. and
besides that is on the high road of a
successful, upward career. 1t has
been a part of my personality so long
that l feel a sense of personal loss in
retiring; however, there is real pleas
ure in knowing that the new editor
is both able and capable, and in an
ticipating a brilliant career for the
paper under his management. He
will have my hearty good Will and
earnest co-opeYd-on, as we'll as that
of my friends, hope, in improving
and building up the paper to the
fullest extent warranted by its sup
port. l bespeak for him continua~
tion of the liberal patronage accord,
ed to the Argus in the past, and pre-
dict also both for him and for the
paper an enlarged sphere of useful
ness.
The times are auspicious and his
toric. Port Townsend is prospering,
as never before, under he impetus of
a boom that bids fair to speedily out~
strip that of every other city en- this
famed and phenomenally prosperous
Puget Sound. Washington Terri
tory, on the moulding of whose des-
times The ARGUS has accomplished
its full share, is now approaching its
transition period to statehood. There
are fields of labor ahead as import
ant as any left behind. Fresh lau-
rels are to be wrestled from stubborn
Fate, as attractive as any alre dy
won. The ARGUS has been a power
felt and recognized even by its op~
ponents. Its new management will,
we predict, measure up fully to the
expectations of a critical and exact~
ing public.
MIR. W. F. Newell, late of Walla
Walla, young man whom we are
proud to Introduce to Port Townsend
as one of her acquisitions, and who
has purchased my interest in the AR
GUS Publishing Company, mounts the
editorial tripod-a gentleman trained
and experienced in newspaper work.
who will devote his talents and en-
ergies to the work at hand without
reserve or distraction OF force. As
for myself, l am so thoroughly iden-
titled with Port Townsend, and SO
thoroughly in love with it, that
shall remain here. journalism has
been prosperous and profitable pro.
fession with me, and l leave it with
regret. After twelve years of hard
labor in the treadmill, however, lit
tie rest will be welcome. I shall
have an office, and business, as per
announcements elsewhere in these
columns, and hereafter to be made
TO the many warm personal
friends who have enriched my life by
their confidence and unselfsh devo-
ton, and to the public that has hons
ored me by its favors, 1 desire to ex-
press herein my grateful acknowledge
ment. To the Press of fhe Terrie
tory and elsewhere, with whom ex~
changed courtesies. and measured
daggers, words would fail me in any
attempt 10 record my feelings. They
have been kind and induIgent far be.
yond my deserts, and I am conscious
of sentiments that are actually clan
nish toward tham a. against the