The Newtown bee., 1894-12-21
THE EDITOR WHO wEIr 10
BEGAN AS AN APPRENTIcE.-m' TORIAL ON JAY COOKS PANIC.
 BOUGHTON's vENGEANCE.-. PER POWER AND EDITORIAL D1,

AOAAAAS o-N oA1 >o"Jh Q AN4I< BOUGHTON's vENGEANCE.@1 PER POWER AND EDITORIAL Dl The Americans golden ann gilds the annals of an honored p@ have attained even momentary1 hence during it's progressive proal proper motive for pardonable prf} terbury itself has always warme cestral fervor, as I am third in from the Rev Luke Wood, sixth list of IA pastors who have serI honored First church., Fifty yes when the American was launchtf the stormy and perilous journalis' that First society was about cred fourth church building, and the three other religious organizati0iI copal, Baptist and Methodist, in lage, already feeling the thrill q featuring life that has since de irto the busy hum and jostle thriving City of Brass.
 It had been my boyhood's wish to master 8 trade, one of m3 utary lessons that we might lear| despised Jew but though tlj strengthened with my growth, not until I had nearly attained estate that the thoughtful kindn} 5. Chase, Esq, furnished me the tunity, by entering the office American, then a morning daily apprentice. I recall the strud master the nightly vigil and w type; the midnight trlps for q graphic dispatches, which told days the terrible tale of Chicag@ f1agation and the masterful m Germany's conquering armies fI Rhine to riotous Paris; the coI toll for over 24 hours, in an unw] to atone by unusual diligence fd in taking up a trade. MT DA1 then managing, or trying to max business office. Good habits ax| endurance finally conquered,
 have a way of doing, and I prep} 8 year of study by reviving m
 memories in the Waterbury,
 schools, meanwhile having char
 Americans weekly makeup and
 tisement setting. MT Kinney v
 ing the American of that day, b}
 8 tough siege of typhoid fever q
 from school, the editorial ch
 vacant and I was asked to try td it. This I did till May of 1878,
 reluctantly bade adieu to gcnez|
 ployers and left a position of inI
 Importance and pleasure to bee.
 change editor on the Springfield
 lican. I shall never forget my {
 torial for the American in thai
 1873, when Jay Cooke's financf precipitated a panic. 1t was . <
 ject for slim youth, but I was Z
 not experienced, and have nei
 afraid to try. regret that a-
 destroyed my house while IM
 ing the NEwTowN BEE, b
 Americans and other mementosI
 Waterbury work, and now, far
 Riverside, Cal, which Charlol
 Warner discovered to be tho
 America, I have only a poor md refer to.
 The editorial office and co|
 room ascended to the third noo| brick building adjoining the Wells block, and in the latter] second floor, was the press rool Steele was business manager, q . Beach local editor, and genial O| bins had but recently left the IT , Americans only newspaper . take charge of the type-setk1|
 famous Beecher trial occurred lyears, with it's columns of yerl ' port in the New York Tribuxl 2 condensed into readable shapG| 3 evening edition, for the Amerl i greeted sunset glow, instead o1| 2 ting Sol's uprising. had chaS| q telegraph, as well as the ed1tl d umns, and adopted the prind # each issue should present . col
 connected summary of the woE| i, cipal happenings, no matter q |; published elsewhere. The q
 was laid for that system of vfc| D reepondence which has sfnco le weekly American % just1Y| E. throughout western ConnecflG| k. The editor himself, reuc1| IS nished material for the local c@
 the evening of April 22, l876, ,y old Methodist church was poG P doors to see him lead MIss TT m Webb into the presence Of th1| si. E. G. Beckwith, H. B. Smith / IL Williams, who employed two S Sw in addition to . prepared mn1| of mula, in making them husban
 Thereafter their home was e z b. with . refreshing ride to an1 1e city in charge of jolly Condu
 to usher fn and wind up fhD
 torfal labors. 1I
 The creditor is not aiho1
 that hie path of duty lAy fll x. Haven jail, where ho Was G .a Ieventful Sunday becanoo Ju l. ton was o enraged ae Ee11n E. his judIcial head, as he m . election, that he haled m . <. before him and, m deGnnoD . | iustice, himseIf peoopu1c1 cs | ofIensive languaEe- n sS gcnerosity pan n p<1l M mofnIng. as . wl1p af 1r Z Z bads fse poooihl1 l1 .se 0Hlet1ess 1a6eoD ooeT
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