The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-04-12
FRIDAi. APRlLIe. Isys.
4 wan,an's Experiences ON a Now-papc

wanian's Experiences ON a Ne,yspaper,
Mrs. Elizabeth ii. Black, OF milwaukee
writes to Mrs. William NJ Field OF her
experiences In experimenting the getting
out OF a charity edition OF the Milwaukee
Journal on the twenty-second day OF Feb.
ruary. The paper contained fifty. six
pages and netted tho ladies s4,775.eo.
Mrs. Black says:
You know there la In my com position a
no smull per centage OF ''love OF fun" IN
the publishing OF paper l thought saw
no end OF lark Most speedily was my
mind dlsabused CT this idea when found
myself duly Installed as business mana.
ger. The position was accepted only on
the representation OF the srtfui Mr. Boyd
lwho by the way has brought one OF your
lovely Wilmington girls to Milwaukee as
bis bridel and that 1t meant what appeal.
cd so strangely to me, mo writing"
simply the systematic establishment of
work among corps of assistants 1t
sounded both almple and delightful, alas!
tuat It should have developed SO complex
and narrowing.
Committees Of two or three were ap-
pointed to walt upon merchants bankers,
lawyers doctors, manufacturers, anybody
ana everybody, to the end that liberal ad.
vertisements be secured. 1t won't take
You long to fiad that the financial quo
cess OF your paper depends almost entire
secured. The circulation. which at one
time seemed TO any uninitiated mind the
paramount question. was speedily recog-
nized as decidedly secondary.
Charity purses being opened, it did not
matter about circulation OF the paper, as
the money was to go to coed purpose,
and the business fairly brought In the
lady solicitors.
Oh! the 10y of latterly declining solicl.
tations for advertising space. after work
Ing so untring to secure such! May you
experience the like.
With all my heart | hope you will meet
with like success In the good cause for
which you are working aud that you Will
have occasion 10 remember the l4th of
April CD as ''red.letter day" as we Mil.
waukee girls are ever sure to recall tho
22d OF February OF 1895?
1he Women's edition in our city no
doubt Will be very successful one ar.
tistlcally and financially.
TIE funeral OF Governor Marvll was
conducted yesterday with the same plain
manner that always clung to the Gov.
ernor. The body was laid out for review
In the south side OF the paTlor reposinR
In handsome large mahogany coffin,
dressed in the clothes he wore when he
was sworn in as governor at Dover, in
January. The body was reviewed by all
the dign itarles of The State. besides sew
eral thousand persons from the lower end
OF the State who held the governors
memory In the highest esteem and had
driven miles to take last look at his
kindly features now cold In death. The
body was placed in ahesrse at $500 clock
and was followed by the family and
friends under military escort, who walked
from the house to the NJ. T.. Church,
where services were held over the body.
From there the body was removed and
Inferred In the Methodist Protestant
Cemetery. Two special trains had brought
: the Legislature and large number OF
Wilmngtonans to the funeral. The gov.
ernor's wealth 10 estimated to be fro m
e25o.0)o to s500,o0o