El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

NS$NSA%##W ment In January,
~Ss~F| 50, d ais health
r NJ MCKEE bee me Seri GU $
lv impaired by close attention to his
duties when his interest was purchased
by r Nj. Mckie, who became sole pro
prietor until Septem Der l, 50. when he
30 d the plant good will, etc, to f. w.
Brown aud A. B. McKie.
During the administration OF Mr..
McKie the HERALD was Sunday paper
and the SUNDAY HERALD was ca 'erl'
looked for each week AS it was sure to
have soue racy ticles of local t-rest.
In March 1887 Brown sold out n 5 IN
tereSt to h is partner and IN 1885 MI
McKie ven'ured in the field OF daily
Journalism which was then occupied by
the morning Tins and the Even ng
Tribune. In The fall Of the same year
Mr.. Brown retur ed to t1e city anc
purchased the paper Of Mr.. Mckie as
sociatipp with him Fred Town ed, a
bro'her of City Attorney townsend, in
the oxner-h d. A mOntn later Town
send sold to Richard Rule aud under
the mana cement of Brown and Rule. In
the spring of 1889 the paper ndered
valuabl- service to the republican pa ~
in the memo able More h ead-krai auer
campaign. The services of the paper
in that campaign and the following ex-
citing events onnected Herewith paved
the way for the formation of stock
company which WAS entered into heart
lily by Mr.. w. E. Jess"p, then local
agent of the Southern Pacific company
here. now in Guat-ma a, a. u. Eos e.
and some other local republicans he
company was formed in the latter p ~
of 'S9 and January 80 Mr.. Brow ms
interest was purchased outright ana
Mr.. Rule was given stock for his, the
company taking p secession OF the plant
February 10, 1890. Mr.. Rule was elect
ed president of the company and made
general manager. the ed1 torlal control
also Remaining in his hands. ID. l.
Capell was employed as business man
ager, which position he has held ever
since Before the cousumatiOn of the
stock company the Peco5 Valley lrr ga
ton company. which was booming Ed
dy. had made Mr. Rule a good offer to
take charge of a paper to be started at
that place. He accepted the place ana
for a time spared enough OF time to
keep the HERALD up to the standard,
but "a Eddy's in erests demanded mere
of his time the HERALD vas neglected.,
the company was forced to put new
man at the editorial helm and Charl
Hollub was chosen for the posi- ion.
Financially the HERALD was not sue
ceeding so in the latter part of '9l
meeting of the stockholders was held
and after choosing directory J.
A. Smi h was chosen president OF the
company with instructions tn ralghten
the affairs of the company out AMI II
possible pat the paper on paying basis.
Mr.. Smith after looking over the aha's
offered to take charge of the pap r for
one-half of its net earnings guarantee
ing the compa y against loss under his
management. From December 1891 to
DeceD Der 1892 he ma aged the paper
OIL that basis a d then lea-ed the plant
at fixed rental cont nuing the lea-e
until the end of 1895 when through fail
ing he alta he felt it best to have the
company accept an offer from j. Nj.
Hawkins to ease the plant and give his
other bus ness intereStS his undivided
attention. During Mr.. Smiths admin
istratiou tn. HERALD had its ups a I'd
downs aud only be persist mt efO WAS
it built up 10 the standard at viii h it
was turned over to Mr. Hawkins. The
efforts OF Mr. Smith were encouraged
and assisted by Mes RS. Foster. Stevens,
McCu'cheOn and Cap II who have
served with Mr.. Smith "a directors and
helped b IN with their advice and other
suhsta tial aid. Mr.. Hawkins held up
the standard of the paper and turned
the plant ba ok to the company in good
shape NJ. Smith not feel Ike as
suming the entire respOnsib lily of The
paper again so he plant is now run for
the count of the company with the
general manager: A G.. Foster, as
sociate edit r; r. J. Jessup, 10 al editor:
2. j. Stephe son, tele sraph editor: II
l. CapeIl, business mana Eer: F. w.
Brown, manager job department: Her
bert Maple. foreman news departme nt:
John McNaughtOn. artist J =. King
has done some good work as solicitor
for the daily and will, with the advent
of this edition call upon our business
men to fill up our columns with adve"-
Using matter. The columns of the
HERALD attest the ability of the editor
ial stat while the work turned out
from the job department and the pOpu-
larity of the business methods together
with the long service of each shows
that Messrs. Brown and Capell are the
right men in the right place The get
ting up of this souvenir edition wa> in
trusted to Messrs. South worth and Mil
likep, gentlemen who came to the HER
AID highly recomme uded for this work.
Several d appointments have been en-
countered in the work and some of
those who subscribed literally towards
its success have become impatient at
the delay. The engravings were near
Iy all made by the HERALD'S own art
ist, JOhu McNaughtOn and are general
ly speaking quite creditable to the art
ist as well as the paper. With the
facilities at our command this edition
has been quite an undertaking for the
HERALD and we have labOred under
the disadvantage of its being our first
attempt Should we feel called upon in
the future TO repeat the venture we will
prepare to be more prompt and in every
way posi- BILE profit by our experience in
this our maiden effort,