The record-union., 1891-01-10
JOURNALISM.
Review Of Its History
in Sacramento.
THE 'REcoRD UNION
Its Past Progress and Future
Promise.
GRAND PRINTING PLANT.
--latest Improved Methods known to
journalistic Art.
THE OLD SYSTEMS ABOLISHED,
And Lett Behind in The Grand March Of
Modern Improvement.
IT WILL Be A MODEL NEWSPAPER.
Among Other FEATURES Of the Record Union" Will be
the Publication Of the Decisions Of the SuDreme
COun as fast as They are Rendered.
THE OLD SYSTElIS ABOLISHED,
And Lett Behind in The Grand March Of
Modern Improvement.
IT WILL Be A MODEL NEWSPAPER.
Among etnGr FEATURES Of the Record Union" Will be
the Publication Of the Decisions Of the Supreme
Court as fast as They are Rendered.

On former occasion, many years ago,
when the time seemed to demand such a
retrospect, the RECORD D-UNIoN engaged
itself upon the task of sketching the his
tory of journalism in the city of Sacra-
mento. It was then a work of mingled
pleasure and of pain, of both pride and
regret, to ascertain with what warrant it
had come to be a proverb that Sacramento
is the graveyard of journalism and
how much there was of wholesome teach
ing to be CLEANED from the glance over the
careers of successful and unsuccessful pa
pers in this community.
1t is more than fifteen years since that
review was made; that it served a useful
purpose cannot be doubted, since from
that date to this the founding and burying
OF newspapers, which to that time had
averaged three to the year, has almost
ceased. We may, indeed, conclude that
the publication OF that obituary and his
torical page served to check fatefll am
bition, and to call a halt in the procession
to the journalistic toInbs.
Up to the date referred to there had
been established in Sacramento in period
of 26 years, no less than 7S journals of
with an ambition to make impresses deep
and lasting upon the civilization of the
age. OF that exceeding great number no
less than 66 had died up to November 6,
1875, and passed to that forever from
which there is neither waking nor return
of mortal parts to enrich the soil of pro-
gress or serve the purposes of man even
never so humbly. They were the bodies
of high hopes and crushed ambitions, of
human energy misdirected, of laudable
exertion that o'erleaped itself, whose re-
mains were the mold and dust of imperial
Caesars not cen turned to clay" or fit
Ito stop hole to keep the wind away"
Their bones went to nothingness, and
their deeds to pitiful forgetfulness, that
breaches solemnly of the littleness of the
parts we play, and the haste with which
man forgets man, and tramps unheeding
over the ashes Of lofty aspirations and the
wreck OF ruined hopes.
THE TIME FOR REVIEW.
The occasion upon which one of the
earliest and one of the living enters upon
new era III its existence, and fresher for
the race than ever, equipped by an age of
experience and grounded in the conf
dence and esteem of the people, suggests
the time as fitting for taking rapid
glance over the field so thoroughly ex-
plored in 1875, and of bringing down the
record to the present hour.
The RECoRD-UNIoN to-day puts aside
its honored forms, hallowed by so many
undying memories interviewer with the
history of the State, and which are mex
tricably worked into and form part of
the most stirring and portentious actiyi-
ties that have characterized the romantic
history of the Pacific coast. Assuming
new form without abandoning any of the
features that have made and maintained
it a cleanly, helpful, vigorous, prescient,
independent and broad-minded journal
of the age, it robes itself in new garments
won by its faithful devotion to public in
terest and human veal, and by its untir-
ing industry and economic conduct. 1t
comes to its friends to-day in form in
keeping with the times and its high
worth, augmenting its importance, con-
serving the convenience and comfort of
its readers, and abreast with the best
journalistic standards of the age. It pre-
sents itself with wonderfully increased
facilities for publication and for the gath
ering and dissemination of news; with
new and elaborate dress of types, COM
plete, to the remotest and least conse-
quential bit of metal; with marvellous
and rapid press of the latest and best pat
tern; with stereotyping machinery of the
foremost order; with an increased force
of skilled workmen, and with a trained,
trusted corps of newspaper men whose
interests have Tor very many years been
identical with pride in the journal they
serve.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
While it was not the intention to boast
of new features nor of the increased
energy with which the RECORD UNION
corps feels inspired, it is proper here to
announce that, under its new form, the
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