Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-28

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1t is without the brilliant editorial pen
of Henry Watterson; it would have been
quite as much Of an flnpossiDility with,
out the energetic and sagacious manage
ment of Walter Newman Haldeman.
Though well known among newspaper
publishers everywhere, and to ALI people
of his native state, Mr.. Haldeman's life
of business has made him less familiar
ly known to the general public than his
colaborer, Mr.. Watterson, but he is a
man of remarkable character and with
career as full of interest as it is of sue
cess. T..
April 81 Mr.. Haldeman celebrated his
sevonty-first birthday. His years sit
well upon him, and in spite of them he is
still constant and tireless worker. He
is native of Maysvillo, KY. His father
was of Swiss origin, but both his par
ents came to Kentucky from Pennsyl-
vania. He began life as clerk in a Louis
villo business house, having received his
education in the schoolssat Maysville.
General Grant was his schoplmate dur
ing part of the time. In 1910 he Joined
the newspaper workers as 'bookkeeper
for the Louisville Journal, edited by
the brilliant George d. Prentice. In
1914 he became owner of The Daily
Dime, a paper which had been unsuc-
cessfully run for about eleven months,
and which he took to secure dc, t.. He
thus began by accident his career as a
newspaper publisher. -
In June, 1914, he enlarged The Dime
and changed its name to The Morning
Courier, a paper whose name is still pre-
served in that of The Courier-J Journal.
During the next ten years he took in at
different times q humber OF partners,
but always bought back the interest he
had sold. Tho task of establishing the
paper required patience and hard work
and only ore of his indomitable pluck
would have stuck to it. By 1854 he had
| it on paying basis, and in 1859 he in
corporated publication company. Mr.
| Haldeman's time was mainly devoted tC
| the business interests of the paper
though he wrote great deal and wrote
well, There are few better photographers
and his close supervision of every par
of tho paper and his energy and liberal
ity in gathering news under the difficult
conditions then prevailing in the ives
won success
In 1861 The Courier, which sided will
the south, was suppressed by Genera
Robert Anderson and the office seized
Mr.. Haldeman avoided arrest through
the timely warning of one of his employ
ees. who overheard two Federal officer
discussing the plans for capturing him
He made his way to General Buckner'
headquarters at Bowling Green, KY, IL
September. 1861, and soon after, at tn
direction of the Confederate authorities
began the publication of The Courie
within the Confederate lines. He es
tablished an office and an associate ed
itor at Bowling Green and went himsel
to Nashville, where the paper was sc
up and printed, because of the imposs
, bility of securing the necessary outfit q
the smaller place. The paper retaine
its Kentucky identity by its Bowlin
Green date line, and the Louisville Bow
ing Green-Nashville Courier furnishe
many merry jest to the Federals an
the northern papers. I.
The paper, which was issued who'll
from Nashville after the Confederat
/, evacuation of Kentucky, was succe'
from the first. 1t became instantly
favorite with the army and the peop|
of the south, and attained q circulatio
Z limited only by its mechanical facilitie
Securing reliable news from the mort
l was a difficult matter but that W;
+ what was wanted within the Confede
: ate lines, and Mr.. Haldeman met ii
demand. He gained in those tryiI
times an experience both of the value
news and of the possibilities OF an o
. ganized news service which has stint
been valuable to him. A numbe{ Of o
n tive men were employed in the DANCE
GUS service of procuring files Of northel
n newspapers for The Courier, and SO pc
o feet and. regular was the. SERVICE tn
II the military authorities relied on II
!, Courier for information. The adve
u lures of these messengers in passir
through the lines in search OF news we
\, often exciting.
" After the war Mr.. Haldeman I
sumed the publication of The Couri
at Louisville, and in 1868 it was conso
,r dated with The Journal, WHICH h
,e then passed from the control OF N
Prentice to that Of Mr.. Watterson. I