The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-07
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1hs paper mas Deen 80 Ianlll"' I" NV
Democrats of Virginia for ten years that
its transfer and sale to Frank Hation' q
leading Republican, eSciies unusual com
ment
Mr.. Stilson HHtchins announces thai
other business calls for his constant AZ
teniion. and refers to the career 81 the
Past in personal and professional terms
which call attention to one Of the bril-
liant newspaper successes Of the period
beginning len years ago in the field
which had been known as the newspaper
graveyard. where lay buried the
time.honorcd IahH@encT, edited By
Gales and Seaton. the Southern Press
the In0n. and many another corpse oil
mistaken enterprises or vain attempts
The Tni0n was the name Of two proml-
nent failures. one under Mr.. W W. Cor
coran and Hon. Montgomery Blair, and
the other n few years later under a rich
syndicate that placed it with full equip
mcnt and a supposed competent man
arcment in the old GLOBE binding on
Pennsylvania avenue, where the ghost OF
the old ateHigencer still sialked among the
rich literary relics, files and libraries OF
the old journal.
THE C1ronicie was posed in a very
dignided and picturesque attitude in a
beautiful building on the south side OF
the avenue. and had the look OF being
successful. but Nh Stilson Hutchins and
Mr.. John Cockerell were very soon en-
sconced in their elegant quarters, and the
Chronicle was consigned to the catacombs
of Washington journals with the only
consolation 10 It's friends that IL was in
good company. even In death, surmount-
ed bv a monument that carried good in
scripdons 10 make an honorable de-
mise
Mr Hutchins brought to his enterprise
an ample professional equipment, and
about one-fourih tho capital that had
brought these other papers 10 death )
door Fletcher, bis business manager
was such a particular man Of business as
would have graced the pages Of Dickens
He was The picture of serene self conf.
dence unrufled by even the fire that
once suddenly enyeloped the new build
ing Of the Pest and cleaned it out in
twenty minutes
Though this was P NJ, the Post was
published as usual the next morning, and
of course had the hest account Of the
fire. Mr. Hutchins on the most difficult
field OF journalism in the whole country,
demonstrated the use OF thorough
knowledge of the ethics OF modern
journalism.
The dash and hunor OF the P0st at
once attracted attention, and the heavy
leader" was always relieved by some
scintillating paragraph that made The
editorial page shine and caused the
Washingtonian to think that he was
badly left every morning if he had not
read the Past
We tell this long anecdote partly that
the people may see the lessons that teach
modern journalism and tho effects on
the columps of the Richmond TIMES
II is well enough 10 criticise public af
fairs. hut. nowadays it has to be done
with a peculiar style 10 suit eaci
peculiar subject or else You
had as we'll the town crier wrote the lines
The moral is to cultivate the TIMES ant
learn from its valuable aud picturesque
columns concise bulletin of the daily
news and running comment on the
same, that will keep the average either
intelligently posted on subjects that hi
has not The time to study himself