The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-27
A VENERABLE WEEKLY
The Sentinel Of Freedom
Reaches the Century Mark
Its Strange Typographi-
cal Errors.

Inc Following article appeared in the
Newark Daily Advertiser Of Tuesday,
rms weeks issue of the Sentinel al
trbeeuuotn rs the thirty-fourth issue Oh
as one hundredth year Of its existence
,,eWe CAL attention to this fact because
oI curious mistake which has been
ths the nu a,mosT from time immemorlal, il
discovered at this time that the enurne.
1Suso n,,r OF me issues has been incorrect.
1om, therefore. instead Of being sVS.
BE- s. ..T SaN 30 y S- yhols 4 Nc sa1 S;ls5 Il sahsS ss !:
lnaspuch as the Sentinel Of Freedom
wsS as born On October s. 1896. IT follows,
The first issue of the Sentinel Of Free
dom DON was On Wednesday, October s, ifs8.
per pas fpom chat e aaihgs e e iIs 4 for od The Rs,
twenty-three leap Years and one day fogg
fo Tg,ss ef publis e from Wednesday
century cen, year. or $500 weeks. Of the Sem
l In OF Erceeedqrn will come to a close on
5 - lea /, ls sSs + n WIN astonish the reader
oyer the calendar year to October 5, 1896,
put the discrepancy is accounted for In
q ssInp ,bar way, In every, g weeks or ss4
calendar year Ct. s65 days. IL 100 Sve yea tas
fRneref Q there is a gain Of 100 days
- anaSnluch Is there are "A leap years
for the change OF publication, the differ
ence Of l2o days is readily accounted FOR.
a Gar l@gfe aeeieefed Ct E the ssk ssa s ! had b , syIs
and had failed to see how the lapse ~
TINE in ten decades was setting at
beneath the venerable title.
II mas come to pass through these many
decades that mistakes have crept into
A few mistakes were made In 4Ss7 am az.
p%arently these were never detected. cav
taIniy they We're never corrected. In this
= Mn ne e conseesfive r agsn,yIn ssrs i Wsqs f or y
bered alike. each Issue bearing the le-
was discovered in the iiftieth week ef ana
the proprietors, awaking to the fapt
u usa5 bs an error had been made, said Let
was accordingly begun on July q 1870. hui
ne error Of 1887 was perpetuated. Several
v vear m M q We're made in subsequent
dom" has been wrongly numbered by
virtue Of the mistake of half a century
ago fa,s J ,1ds error is reetifed in the issue
sssatIasis has BEG been s eabIis h dwnii t h aas
rance hands a number Of times. each
Ter: Ye De.'' biy !, Year Il psae pa6er for Ras the gro bet
originally It was a four column. four
page = paper, and n its FIRST number ap-
SOldtHl dCCOunI OF the re-
fusal of Washington to accent a re-elee-
ton as President of the Tinted States.
tbs II, 81 d~eelination Of a third term took up
all on the fourth and last. On the Sec.
ono and a good part of the third pages
a sban nSist n fun lrs TIE ELECTION law as It
for anything else, after the advertise
ments had been accommodated.
aaS ifttie paper grew and prosrered. It
IN this State. 1t welded a vast inf1uence
and that influence was ever on the side
or right and truth and Justice, as far as
IN its fourth decade. it rave life q re
nNewark Daily Advertiser" and since
gone hand in hand together. the one an
pearing week after week., the other visit
ing the homes Of it's patrons day after
anfailing in IT'S regularity as the days ana
weeks themselves.
1t happened, through the natural ten-
that must be supplied, that the off,
spring became more important, more vg-
9rous. more powerful than Its parent.
harmony between sThe Sentiner' : and ars
The Daily,-to use the terms by which
are SO generally known-been inn
.stand..each prosperous in its own field.
fulfilling its mission. each seeking
70 pc e welcome visitor to the home and
rs power in the right direction, and by
the right methods. Viewing the nasf
considering the present. and estimating
the future. it is not too much to pre-. |
Ilct tbat these two agencies and media
public. opinion will continue upon their
TO a time whereto ftheeye of the
present cannot see. Let us hope, at least. |
that this high future may be IN store
Tor them. ana that It may be even more
realized than in the past hundred
Years which have smiled kindly upon
of whose future PROSPERITY |
md progress the founders could not have
even the slightest conception.
Compared with the first issue of tsThe |
,.entinel Of F~reedom"-the "Cn in the
Title was itself a typographical blunder-
ne current issues are as day is to night.
me original sixteen columns have been
TO ffty-six columns and in fhe
after day "Sentinels', there is more
news N one issue. than appeared in the
That it approves itself to its weekly
leaders is shown by their unwayerins
ind loyal support.