Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-03-12


The following card appeared IN the
Edinburg Sentinel of last week.
"cARD FROM DIR. TRIPLELT.
Mt Jackson, Va. March 3, 1897.
Editor Sentinel
Dear sir,-The public reports OF dam.
ages to my river dams at StOnewall and
Valley Star Mills are anything but cor
rect. The break in either of them can be
repaired in few days when the stream
"a down The last weeks Herald has my
Stonewall Mil dam entirely gone, hav.
ing picked up he report and made no in 3.
curry as to its correctness. The results of
such gross misrt presentation can prove
more hurtful than actual damages sus-
tanned ours truly,
j. l. TRIPLETT.
We cannot understand why DR.. Trip
lett should make target of the HERALD.
The report to which he refers had been
published in the Baltimore Sun, before it
was In the HERALD and had not been
contradicted.
The Strasburg Ntios. OF the same week,
that the item was published the HERALD,
published the following;
"The portion of the dam at Tripletts
Mill (''Stonewall Mill") which withstooa
the high water several weeks ago, when
abont sixty feet of 1t was carried away,
was Carl led away ffom bank TO bank Oh
Monday night. This will cause loss OF
hundreds of dollars to DR.. Triplett He
will put an extra force at work at the
"yalley Mill," to supply the large &C.
mand for his flour"
The Shenandoah Talley at New Mar
ket. the same week Published the fol-
lowing;
at is reported here that tue portion of
the dam at Stonewall mill, east of this
place. which wlthstood the high waters
of a Jew weeks ago, when about sixty
feet of it was carried away,) was washed
away Monday night. This Will cause
considerable loss to Mr.. Triplett."
The Edinburg Sentinel, the paper the
Doctor selects to publish his card against
the HERALD, the same week. published
the following;
"The remaining part Of the mill dam i
Triplett's "Stonowall Mill" was washed
away by the high water Monday night.
IL will be remembered that part OF the
dam was washed away some weeks ago
These papers are all published at the
same time and none of them received
their news from the HERALD.
The information upon which relied
was received from one Of DR.. Tripletts
employees and we. as well as the Others
believed it to be correct. So long as the |
river renamed high the impression with
many persons was that the dam was en-
tirely washed away. When our atten-
t,on was called to it, by Dr. Triplett, we
received from him the first intimation
that the entire dam was not washed
away and we made a correction in bis
own language as nearly as we could re-
member his words. Did any other paper
do as muchl
The following is the notice as it was
published in the HERALD.
"The dam at the Stonewall Mill on the
river near to Sn, was entirely washed out
by the high water of few DAYS ago.
About go feet of the dam had been car
ried away by the ice several days since"
We can hardly believe that Doctor
Trplett intended to injure us by placing
the entire burden upon the HERALD. 1t
may have been that he recognizes the
fact that the HERALD is exceedingly
cautious and always endeavors TO publish
the facts as they are. that he deemed 1t
Necessary to publish card, in another
paper in addition to the prompt correc-
tion which he knew the HERALD would
make,