San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-15
RECORDS OFTHE PAST
HOW A NEWSPAPER WAS RUN IN THE
OPENING OF THE PRESENT CENTURY.
What II Contained. How Fresh Waslts News,
Who Advertised, And how II G0mpar-
ed With the San Aatunlo Light,

tonic Ledger of 1856, comparing
it with the LIGHT Of the present
day, and of chronicling the result
in a recent issue. In this article
he will go farther back, to the
opening of the present century,
and show the difference in news
paper service then and now.
The observations are based up
on the Ulster County Gazette.
published in Kingston, Ulster
County, New York, by Samuel
Freer s. Son, on Saturday, Jan
uary 4, 1900. 1t is Number SO OF
Vol. IT,, showing that it had then
been in existence some time, but
it has long since been dead" and
it's existence is merely memory
of the past.
The paper is four PACED and has
four Is m measure columns to the
page, of II 2xl2. The material is
of the crude kind used in those
days.
Having regard to the facilities
of gaining news it is evident that
the publishers were enterprising,
but there is not a small country
paper in any isolated part of Tex
as that could not give better and
fresher news, and yet for the time
their newspaper was deservedly
credited with being model and
enterprising paper.
On the first page there is a re-
port of the meeting of Congress,
when John Adams was president,
dated Tuesday, December lOth,-
fifteen days preyiously,-a report
from New York dated December
23rd,-12 days previously-giving
news from London, received by
sailing vessel "Factor" from Fal'
mouth, England, and culled from
English papers up to October
24th,-over 10 weeks Previously
giving interesting news OF the
war between Great Britain and
Holland and of the sanguinary
struggle of the Swiss in their en-.
deavor to establish the Helvetian
republic. There were also ex-
tracts from the London Gazette of
October Goth, giving official re-
ports respecting the former war.
The second and third pages
have thick black borders and rules
for this issue records the funeral
of General WashingtOn-Ameri.
cas- first president.
On the second page the war news
is continued. There is a report
from Archduke Charles as to the
Swiss war dated Denaberchinger,
October 18th; news from Paris,
dated October 18th and l4th, CIV
further war reports and the return
of Buonaparte and generals to
France, after their di astrous de.
defeat by Nelson at the Nile, and
the route of BuOnaparte's forces
in Egypt; there is a report
from Strasburgh, dated October
9th, showing that the French
army of the Rhine had retaken
Mannheim and Frankfort, defeat
ing the RussO.Austrian allies; an.
other report from London, da ed
October oath, shows that the Duke
of York, the predecessor of the
Prince OF Wales son now bear.
ing the title, had been leading the
war III nOIiduu anu WdS CNdSuot-
ing under treaty.
Under date December 10th
there is report of General Mar.
shalps speech IN the House OF
Representatives, eulogising the
Illusions Washington, in which
he first used the immortal phrase /:
"First in peace, first in war and
first in the heart of his country"
1t shows the resolutions passed
in the Senate and in the House
upon Washington's death, their
presentation to President John
Adams and his appropriate aud
affecting replies.
The third page gives an account
of WashingtOn's funeral, dated
George Town, December 2Oth,-
fifteen days previously,-tbe de.
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