Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-06-09
The Evening Paper.

Cincinnati Times Star: The sups-
rior merits Of an evening paper,
when compared with those of n
morning issue, have been acknowl-
edged. The one Is history of to-
day, the other a history of yester-
d Y, the one is current, the other is
q back number. The name of the
triumphs of the evening paper is
legion. For the issue that comes with
the growing of the cock the business
man has no time save that which he
snatches as he bolts his breakfast
anl gulps down his coffee. He
q ances aethe head lines, notices the
latest quotation of the product he
has to SELL aud then abruptly eX-
changes the paper for his hat, For "a
critical reading of the news he de-
pends upon the hours following his
O'Clock meal. Then, with slippers
on and his feet mounting the back
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himself for double duty, viz: digest.
ing the hearty meal of the day and
digesting the days history.
Nothing in the evening papers cs-
capes the readers eye; telegraph,
local, editorial, miscellany aud adj
vertlsementI, are all devoured. 1t
is not n lunch Of news but verita-
ble banquet. The morning paper is
only nIbbled at, the evening paper
is devoured. The advertiser Is
awaking to this expensive fact; the
man who has been pilloried in the
vesper addition will swear to its
truth and offer a multitude of ac-
cusing witnesses as cumulative tes-
timony.
The only people who are slow 10
realize the superiority Of the vesper
addition Of n newspaper are those
VINO are connected with the addi-
tions of the matin, but even the
morning newspaper men are yield
ing To the iuvitable, and, in actions
which speak louder than words, are
extolling their rivals. Has not our
whilom llow-townsman, NJ. Hal
stead, that Nester in morning
journalism, gone over, body and
hreeches, to the realm occupied by
the evening papers? Has he not had
his well-known name lowered from
the morning Commercial Gazette
flagstaff and holsted on the highest
pinnacle of the Brooklyn Evening
Standard-Unio office? Radical
changes Of this kind might have Oc-
curred with men less welded to the
business or who had not had so
many years experience turning
night into day, SO many years, M
deed, that the optic nerve Is said Ia
haveuudergoue such radical changes
rs Ia begin To partake of the proper
ties of the nerves which regulate the
great round eyes Of that noble noe
turnal bird Known as the owl, That
Halstead should jump from the
morni0g tripod to the evening was
an event fraught with unusual sig
nihcauce, Ii was Bacchus beading
the Murphy movement, Euterpe
joining the snciety for the suppress
sion of music. As We have already
remarked, however, this movement
was the inevitable. MIR, Halstead
wanted to keep abreast of the times,
aud 50 he became "A commentators on
the histoCy of to-day rather than that
of yesterday lie was determined TO
he no hack number, To he sure, he
still MAINTAINS a precarious connect
ION with a morning paper To the
Commercial Gazette he sends what
slops over from the Standard Union,
and perhaps warms up Tor the G. O.
a readers of this morning what tbs
:. u. readers of last night feasted on
= The goDSlne wine of his intellect
4 the sparkle, the bead. the bouquet
!. all 20 TO the great evening paper
a the roadvrs Of the morning Rnnel
2; only get the lees Of that which th