The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-22
FRIGHT VASSAR GIRLS
,,,x A NEWSPAPER AT AT
FWo INTO HIGHLANDS.

prls'0i > snio and span and To
S S and Beer are S'r'''''
booed. -. c,.,,rsd1
49,, YORK, July ga substantial aan
"" brick building. Atlantic
tsrs -: Independent" in great Ie''srS
HigllaI-'. dor Within cases for dozen
over " 1s.t case by an open windo"
PRIMER mich the ocean breeze comes dritt-
tnTo' s1-m. for the inside pages OF our
ins' . ~ living half made up on the I'M
rsS' ~. .tons an engine, big cylinder
P1'ias = t,,siness-like looking desk streWn
pes . = a couple Of sunburned, whole
WIZ f-f sticking type, ayoung woman
'ol -l' ~ -, in restaurant French the days
se s' - s.rs for a neighboring hotel and an
p. =, r,,nning a large hand press, as II 1t were
O'l.- machine, turning out neat JoD
Ss'"-o urinting. The hardwood floor IS as
o. Wv, = like man-o'-war's deck, 1t were
cea- r,ornjng hoiystoned. There IS no
s,' eve. Nor Of tobacco, no reminder OF the
80 -,..sca NJ flies and spiders or uncleanness
eAls'e-ffo I'M No attempt has been made
ID az! ~; ~ bric-a-brsc. but the place sshlnes
70 leV- rss+ness absolutely foreign TO the
wiz newspaper office, and bears out
AYe' tt tba vouug typos in his assertion that
on SabSIe amount Of ''pT' made there IN
~ s-1 yaars could be held IN the hollow Oh MS
na VIZ sorord & Lingle" are the editors and
.-,+rietors of a weekly paper whose pros
Pgp,- warrants them in indulging the ex-
f.tsIion of turning it in year or Two,
t3,,r1g the warm weather months at least,
a ;nro daily. They make snug little IN
Inv ~ in addition out Of job printing. Leon
va means Miss Ella S. Leonard, and her
'-.-tnsr i, Miss Caroline G. Jingle, Nassar
Pp-I. botb Their building is new one
ir.t nutup by the firm for its own accomrno-
3o+idn on one of the best corners OF tne
business street Of the growing summer re-
NV, Atlantic Highlands, and upstairs there
i,a cosy little private Office where maya
,inas futter their leaves against the sober
coysrs If Homer and where the two news
nsna. women told me how they came to
embark in such an unusual venture.
Tour wears aud half ago they were
senior a1I Junior respectively in the girls
cllers planning their futures. Neither
vi.bei n teach, each had done little re-
porting. A country newspaper Of the in
termittent type, appearing regularly for
three months, then relap5ing into lnnocuous
ds,uetuds for three more, was
for sale. Then and there
they bought i, and sent a practi-
csl printer from PouGhkeepsie to take
charge Their maiden editorials they con-
signed to the post, and spent their time be-
tween Rotations Dracticing diligently at Q
cass0f types which, in preparation for the
severed; practical side Of their undertaking
bal become part Of their furniture Of their
dorm orv. When Miss Leonard gradua-
ted she assumed the edtcrship of the hide
padeut in person. In six months she felt
abe to dispense with her hIgh-priced fore
men aud manager, and in six months more
she was joined by Miss Lingle, and the
PAPER has now been rather more than three
years under their joint control.
People took us as a Joke in the first
place, said Miss Leonard, who is a slender
young woman, with bright, straighttor-
ward eyes, a modest but direct manner aud
short curly. dark hair; "but jest grows
stale in four years, and now nobody in town
is accepted more seriously. The first occa-
sion wien | was able to see that we had
auy real influence in town affairs was when
tie borough was Incorporated about two
years ago. The settlement at Atlantic
Highlands was started like that at Ocean
Grove by religious association which sold
It's land on its own conditions and levied
taxes The association delegated the con-
uoi otafairs to committee of stockholders,
only one OF whom lived in the place the
year round, and for outsiders it was clear
case OF taxation without representation.
Necouldnt audit the accounts, and taxes
might run for aught we knew up toward
tne Long Branch altitude, which is above
t M! eyel Of New York city. Well, one week
MISS Lngle was away on vacation and the
one competent printer whom | had in the
once left me. A druggist who took a good
ueal q interest IN our doing dropped in.
Hello, you all alone here?
4es, I'm deserted
no., row are you going to get out paperr
ELL can't get away from the office
3plck up items, aud I've been thinking
MaV perhaps the best way out of the diff,
t tly might be to get up borough sensa-
toni '''''' A01 +n0opora-
'"Exqcdy.'
'"pll talk il IN for vo,, o,,l .,,..
ions AAu oo-AecV opln-
NO. not word had been said about incor-
plallon up to that time, but in less than fonr
IN 'n' 'ls preliminary legal steps had been
sd @ou alter the first issue of the paper
in, gra..llls the measure a public meet
a1d vas caIed immediately Miss Lingle
10 stayed away. We knew it would
tS,+ ' a 70 success to lot it appear
| by p o we're being led by the nose
80 acouple OF girls. The sentiment Of the
The 0, u was overwhelmingly in favor of
ms,i Ih,oJscI. IL was winter and onlv two
me- o1 VI tAe association we're in town
| beiH, V ,- 10 us and said they were MOI
cSe1eo eealed Ialrly. We promised them q
lion lion st aoI themselves, wrote up incornora.
/ ing TIGoNu tline aud called second meet.
asocio Us oIe we attended ourselves. The
sDe,k ~ members were there. but did NOT
ownars g 10 necessary petition signed nv
was 500 soor u . Lair the property of the nIacs
70 deto Ur teauy and when the special election
| q 49, Inc we question was held wa co,
There NO. IL favor out Of total of Ia
over b,,- vs. SUM. eoiiie opposition after it was s1i
| The ssec So We are the best Of friends viii
for tho sI raa people now. 1t was a care
and. tf p1psl t9e place got self-govornment
paper 'o aot mat IS small matter, tbf
n. rnG So, ne borough printing. FxeT use
to call i''G 3n ran down stairs in resnonse
PRESIDE Han los "one of the editors SST Tbe
wanted to vi oor tho association, it appeared I
| for startin Cc'su1g The paper about a scheme
lands ing a bank in Atlantic 'I Hon.
Miss To,-,
junior r'' n ngtnard hasn't told you,n said tbe
broad partner, sweetfaced girl "t wit In :
eyes .. tIS[ehead and biz exnr maSn 20
and TIA, mat she is her Own ApI e ;sv
Wien u9 rs that boiler down ns sta;Sa
never soa vac press was put IN ,be s'd hrS
aud sd a large printing press in she bo- Lao i;Fl
in po-iaod pretty closely as if o ia M
sibe nanaoo ohe wanted to be the I r p1%oeo
:. rb.-a4ager i stead Of 10. nc OHo respon-