Passaic City record., 1892-01-30

were destroyed by hre tuesday
evening. Partially insured.
People generally have the idea
that the arrival of snow and cold
weather means greatly diminish
ed sick list, and, in fact, we have
heard the remark frequently made
that seasonable weather would be
good thing for sufferers from the
grip. Statistics, however, show
that each season has its own par
ticular complaints. We regret to
add that we cannot assure our
readers of speedy departure of
the influenza, as an inquiry among
our physicians favors the belief
that the grip will not be banished
by a cold wave.
Since the Benjamin Franklin en-
tertainment given two weeks ago
at the residence of Mr.. E. M. Skid
more on Paulison avenue many
persons have asked who this Mr..
Skidmore is We explain by say
ing he is comparatively new res
ident in Passaic He is a subscri-
ber to the RECORD. For twenty
one years he was an attache and
City Reporter of the New York
Evening Post subsequently, sand
for eight years, Clerk in the Po-
lice Courts of the City of New
York; and for the past twenty
seven years, up to January 4, 1892,
Bond Clerk in the United States
Custom House, Wall street, New
York, at which date he resigned.
He is a progressive, whole-souled
citizen, as was evidenced by the
banquet which he gave to his liter
ary friends as above stated.
Profitable advertising is not
done through placards, directories,
guides, etc. The legitimate news
paper offers the surest means of
reaching the largest number of
people and engaging their atten-
ton, and is the medium employed
by the best and most successful ad-
vertisers. 1t is not transient pub
lication with only the life of an
hour, but finds interested readers
weekly throughout the year, and
always contains something fresh to
engage and hold their attention.
1t ingratiates itself as a member
of the family circle and becomes
part of their very lives. 1t contains
nothing that does not come under
their observation, and that which
it proclaims it itrepeats and reasserts
so persistently that it is neither
forgotten nor disregarded.
Mr.. Washington I. Paulison was
the first gentleman to step into
our new quarters in the Howe
building and lay down one dollar
for the RECORD for 1892. Several
others have followed his example.
We tender to him and them our
thanks. Postmaster Benjamin E.
McGrew is the first and only one
this year to mark his paper sRefus-
ed" and throw it back into the
Office. We thank him for it, how
ever, as it filled a demand which
could not otherwise have been
supplied. We do not imagine it will
pay even a government official to
show petty spite toward fellow
citizen-because of just criticisms.
AS we look down on his pate from
our windows in the Howe building
we wish him happy career, and
when we get everything in working
order again we will have something
to say about the pretty building and
its equipments which Mr. Willett
has erected on the site where at
one time Campbell, Morrell & Co.
had their main office in one story
frame shanty, and where the pro-
prietor of the RECORD had small
printing office in the days when
Passaic business improvements
were in embryo.
If newspapers should one day
print the contents of the waste
basket there would probably be
riot. There would certainly be
trouble in many homes, arrests in
many directions, shot guns in
another, trouble all around. But
the patron never sees the waste
basket. He glances at the beauti-
full pages, complains if one letter
out of fifty is upside down, growls
if one name in five hundred is
wrong, kicks because his commune
cation signed taxpayer has
been condensed into respectable
English, frowns because the editor
did not take advice about publicly
telling his neighbors about his
shortcomings, and is generally dis
gusted. He knows his share of the
waste basket; but if he could have
one look at the contributions made
to that receptacle by his neighbors
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