The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-26
KIND REMEMBRANCE.
An Employc and Friend.

san Marcos. Texas, May 2l.--S est erday' 8
Post first brought 10 our town the sad
| intelligence of the death of MIR. j. l.. Wat
son, the late president and founder OF The
| Houston Post as it exists today.
| ! MAS aware that this noble man had
| been forced some months since, to retire
| from active business, and had gone to
| Asheylle. y. O., for medical treatment.
where it was hoped that he would improve
aud perhaps regain his usual health Blu,
| all these expectations proved Elusive, and
the once active brain and warm sympa-
thetc heart are stilled In death.
wish 10 add my tribute to the nobility
OF character that made Mr.. Watson the uni.
versai feVort'c, not only of his many emf
plOyes. hut Of the general public as we'll
March i, 1891, WAS engaged by Mr. Wat
son as general travelling agent of The Post,
and during the intervening years have
had many opportunities to note his bust
ness methods. which we're always fair, pro-
gress,ve and omen handed. He paid his
travelling men more literally than any
other paper in the entire South, and al
ways sought to secure experienced men
for this position. With the great public
at large he was equally generous, giving
the laboring classes everywhere. when out
u
columns of his paper, He was never afraid
of the people he had an abiding confidence
in them which called forth all the better
elements in their nature, Many tOling
men at the mines and in the great pineries
Of East Texas. as we'll as others among
the agricultural classes all over the State.
have told me- Yes. | Will pay The Post
If 1T takes the last cent have got on
earth" Thus the confidence reposcd by
Mr. Watson in the general masses was
fully refrigerated by them, and has made
The Post the paper Of The people and for
the people. Mr., Watson was tho first
publisher in the State to give two papers
a week for one dollar year he also re-
duced the daily from $40 TO So. and carried
out broad rauged policy with ncwsdcacrs
and poStmasters which at once attracted
the favorable notice of these parties and
made them co workers for The Post.
These great reforms and the evident de-
sire of Mr.. Watson to give the public a
great newspaper at tho loves, possible
rates, were hailed overywhnre with delight
and rapidly extended the circulation of
the paper. In these matters IT Will be
seen that Mr. Watson WAS a new insplrs~
ton in the fcld of practical journalism, |
This added 10 his charming address. his |
quick and brilliant conception of the lead |
ing issues of the day, placed him without |
doubt among the greatest living newspa- |
per men of thc country
AS an evidence of this the great paper
upon which he has left the impress OF his |
matchless genius stands as living wit
ness and will for time 10 come. though the |
moulding hand that gave IL form and !
vitality lies cold In death. the mind that
conceived It has left It in charge of those
who are Well qualified 10 carry 1t forward
on the same lines indicated by its founder.
To this writer MIR Watson was the en-
hodiment of kindness. and as l think Of
the Young life gone out. the memory of his
many acts of heneficencc good will and
sympathy rise before me like fragrant
incense from the urn of life,
W. u. Carey
Ennnral Travelling Aprni Houston pnat