The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-18
GENERAL CHARLES H. TAYLOR Editor and Proprietor
Boston Globe.
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and Miss Grace Taylor. The family will
remain in California during the winter.
General Taylor will be here about two
weeks. 1t is his first visit 10 the State.
He was never before west of Chicago and
the size of the land toward the sunset, he
SAYS has made vivid impression on
him. He reached here by way of New
Orleans and Texas.
General Taylor has for nearly twenty
years been at the front of journalism in
Boston. He took the paper when it had
been run only about year and began to
put life into it. He was soon a great
factor in all the affairs OF New England.
At the present time his paper circulates
something over 200, 600 copies daily and
reaches to almost 100000 on Sunday
General Taylor holds that it is always the
inside of the Office that kills it, never the
on; side. He thinks there is room for any
paper anywhere that has good man in
its Office. There may be better papers
there, he says. but this one will make
money and have influence and be an
abiding thing.
tits his opinion. too, that illustrated
papers have come to stay and that pretty
soon every daily in the country of any i'm
portance will have colored pictures.
said he. Where there is one artist now
there will be two in two or three years.
Illustrated papers have come to stay.
Pictures are a feature. The people want
them, and 1t is astonishing how the daily
papers have improved in making pictures.
Il picked up the other day a copy of
Harper's Monthly thirty years old. Why.
the pictures are better by far in the dailies
now than in the periodical OF that time.
| remember seventeen or eighteen years
ago we had pictures of the Board of Al
dermen and they were bad that they
made the Aldermen look like a lot of
thieves and thugs. Newspaper art has
.imp proved greatly since then and it will
keep improving"
Regarding the condition of business in
the East, General Taylor says it is i'm
proving, but slowly. In little while, in
his opinion, it will be good.
There were some, he said, who ex-
pecled that prosperity would come with
bound simultaneously with McKinley's
election, but of course this could not be.
We will have to make progress gradually.
1t could not be expected that after such
an extraordinary period of dizziness we
could reach a. prosperous condition i'm
mediateiy.
"But there never was another time in
the history of our country when one day
was TO settle whether we should have
good times or bad times. My opinion
is that we will move along pretty much as
now till spring and then things will open
out and we will have three or four years of
the greatest prosperity the country has
ever known. That is, unless there is an
extra session of Congress, as has been
talked OF, it will start at that time. If
there should be an extra session to re-
model the tariff it might be around mid
summer before they get it settled. This
would delay the prosperity that otherwise
would reach US in the spring.
lin New England enormous sums were
held back from investment and made
conditional on the election of Mckinley.
One man in Boston proposed TO build four
big houses at a cost of 81, 000, 600 il Nc
Kinley were elected. If not he would not
invest anything. Since then the contracts
have been given, and pretty soon this
money will be paying for grading, cement.
lumber, la Dor and finding its way to all
classes. 1t is true in thousands of oIher
cases there and over the country.
"We polled the greatest Republican