Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-19

pal stores Amid tho smoke and ruins
our people looked upon tho ashes OF
their hopes and property, while the
Federal army took possession and pro-
ceeded 10 enforce military law.
Mr.. JAMES A. CowARDrS and Mr.. HnN-
RY X. E1LYsoS now became sole owners
Of the franchises Of the paper, and re-
solved to resume publication at once. To
that end they made all their arrange
ments. but were met with stern "no
from the military commandant. The aid
the Dispatch had given the Confederate
cause could not be forgiven readily.
April 2. 1865, the paper was suspended,
and permission 90 resume publication
could not be gotten until the December
following Many competitors we're al
ready in the field. We entered the con-
test with the wing, Enquirer, Times,
Republic. Examiner. and Senfinet as
our morning contemporaries and the
EUening bulletin as tho afternoon pa
per. One after another they failed. All
ore dead but there IS new Times, and
in place Of tho Bait>tn we have the
.Sfnfc and the Democrat There arc
also here two morning German papers,
the Stats G0zetto and the Anzeiger.
The Dispatch resumed publication in
1865 in the building on Governor street
Immediately in rear OF that now occupied
by the Postal Telegraph Company, from
which it removed TO its present location.
There has been simply an alteration OF
name and not OF ownership in the
change from CowARDIS x ELIYsoN to
the Dispatch Company, for upon the
death OF the founder one oil bis sons
succeeded to his position.
It is simple gratitude to the people
who have encouraged and sustained us
for forty years to say that our adver-
Using patronage is now larger than ever
before 4; that we have more subscribers
in the city and in the country than ever,
and no daily paper in the South Allan
tic States EQUALS the Dispatch In circu-
lation. We are now printing a six-page
sheet; we shall print 6, 8, 10, II. or "A,
lust as the pressure OF news and a1ver-
hsements renders necessary. From time
to time we have been bantered with COM
parsons made between our paper and
various other dailies which appear in
eiebt-paee form the eight pages SEEM
ING to possess in some persons magma
tons peculiar virtues, whereas the real
difference in size is about the same as
between four quarts and one gallon.
1t is always a serious question whether
the old, familiar features Of newspaper
oupht to be changed The Baltimore
Sun, the Philadelphia Ledger, and
the New York Journal Of Commerce,
eminent examples OF journalism, have
tensciously held to their four-page forms,
but printing, as the Dispatch does SIX
or eight pages when the room Is needed
Ono way or another we shall always
mako space for the news. To get 1t we
are almost daily increasing our facilities.
We have long been praised for the ex-
cellence Of our city and State news. We
now give almost as much attention to
North Carolina as TO Virginia. We fire.
quently print from two to five columns
Of Washington dispatches. New York
is also a field we CLEAN well. Indeed,
what with our own correspondents scat
tered over all the land, and the I'M
rivalled facilities possessed by the Asso-
ciated Press, the fruits of whose work
at home and abroad we enjoy, no
other southern paper can excel us
in furnishing intelligence to the pub
lie. though some of them do leave us far
behind in boasts. The use OF "plate
matter" always abhorred by u.s. has be-
come so general that the unobservant
person is apt to be deluded by this
stuff, which is manufactured III Columns
ND North and sent out to all sorts OF
buyers.
We set our own type. No compost
ton that can be done in our office Is
done elsewhere, and the stsreotyping
process gives to the reader every morn
ing a sheet printed from new metal
from fresh types, as it were.
But enough OF this. We have been
talking to our great family of readers and
have become gsrrulous.
To all our friends we send the greet
ing Of this birthday morning, with the
wish that they may hold to their you'll
as the Dispatch does to its. despite two
| acora veara Dassed.