The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-05
SPECIAL EDITIONS.

The spirit Of the state Of Washington IS
admirably shown by the enterprise OF its
newspapers No city was too small to have
special edition Of its local paper rejoicing
over past growth, demonstrating present
resources and cheerfully welcoming the
future. How very creditable many OF
these really are can only be appreciated
when il is known that in some Of the
Younger communities the task fell upon
willing patriotic editors, who made per-
sonal efforts far beyond the power of their
localities TO adequately compensate now.
Other cities Of the Pacific coast followed
the custom. The San Francisco Chronicle
published forty-page edition and Is thus
on a par with Seattle. The Portland
OregoHiaa had one of thirty-two pages.
The Salem, Oregon, StatesBsoH appears
with special edition of twenty-four
pages, in which the progress Of the city Is
told by writer and artist. The Satesman
is particularly jubilant over the fact that
the city has doubled her manufacturing in
dustries during the year, a sure indication
of substantial prosperity.
The Washington newspapers afford con-
siderable variety in their treatment of
their topic, and some of them have resorted
to considerable ingenuity in order to
present an original appearance.
The Tacoma Ledger has twenty-four
pages of very ereditably prepared descrip-
tive matter, devoted principally to COM
parison of conditions in the proximity of
Commencement bay during the past few
years.
The Tacoma Globe discards the news
paper shape and presents a beautifully
printed publication, mainly devoted to
illustrations of buildings in the city and
portraits of prominent citizens. Typo
graphically the edition is exceedingly
handsome.
The Tacoma Ners is equally distinctive,
as it allots most of its space to descriptions
Of the principal stores and industrial
enterprises Of Tacoma. It's twenty-four
pages make good display for an after
noon paper.
The Spokane Falls Review fully sustains
the character of the state on the eastern
sides of the Cascades 1t takes thirty-two
pages to do justice to the wonderful
growth of the Spokane and the adjacent
country. A very unique feature of this
edition is wheel of progress" With
Spokane as the hub, it gives on the spokes
the population, valuation, real estate
transfers, grain crop, ETC.. of the city in
1880 and 1890, the contrast rendered more
striking by the shaded lines showing the
relative proportions. The large number
of towns springing up through the Palouse
country occupy very considerable share
of the RcrieiO's pages.
The Fairhaven Herald is an illustrated
edition, the local energy of its citizens re-
ceiving chief attention, as it should. The
edition is printed on fine paper and is full
Of elegant sketches of local scenes and
buildings. 1t is one of the best of its kind
issued in the state.
The Beliingham Bay Rereille, in its six
teen pages, has quite novel feature. 1t
prints the daily and weekly together The
daily being smaller in size, is printed
within the columns of the larger weekly.
The fourth city in Washington the dis
tinetion conferred upon Whatcom by the
Rcpeiile, needs no better evidence to go be-
fore the world of its rapid and assured
growth than the matter presented in fhis
edition and the manner in which it is
given.