Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-04-24
Thirty YEARS A PRINTER.
Bulletin Editor Among the Ink Bar
rels u Generation.

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Today is the thirtieth ami
versary of the initiation of the
present editor of the BULLETIN,
whose name appears, according
to law, sin a conspicuous part Of
the paper" to the printing bust
ness. In the first nearly eight
years in which he was confined
exclusively to the "art preserva-
tive of all arts the subject of
these sutobiographic remlnis-
cences handled the "leaden mes
sengers of thought" and manipu-
lated hand, treadle and steam
presses in several printing offices
OF Nova Scotia, besides one of the
leading book and job printing
houses of New England.
Beginning to write for the pa
pers, first in slight correspondence
and next by request of the editor
employing him, twenty-three years
ago, he entered responsible edi-
torial work on the first of Janua-
ry, 1875, and has never suspend
ed 1t since excepting while travel
ing to the Hawaiian Islands in
1884. Chief editor of two weekly
papers in Nova Scotia, one of
which-the Eastern Chronicle
has been leading journal for |
more than fifty years, he Joined |
the editorial staff of the Montreal
Daily Witness in 1880, and is still |
an occasional contributor to that |
paper. Part of the time he was
there he was editor, besides, of |
two weekly papers issued out of
the Witness Office.
The writer has in his time been
the telegraphic correspondent of
two daily papers in the city of
Halifax, and the paid contributor,
under either permanent or special
arrangements, of the Halifax
Morning Chronicle, the New
York Herald, the New York
World, the Los Angeles
Times, the San Francisco Bulletin,
the Louisville Courier-Journal,
the Sydney, n. S. w., Bulletin,
the Japan Gazette, the Paris LII Il
lustration and the Hawaiian Star.
Also editor of the Honolulu Bull
letln, under several distinct owner
ships; the Honolulu Daily Herald,
his own property; the Hawaiian
Daily Gazette, the Pacific Com
nercial Advertiser, on this asso-
'late and managing editor, and the 1
initial series of the Independent
1t is in no vain or egotistical
spirit that this outline of an ardu-
'us career amidst the ink barrels +
8 given. But the day that marks s
he completion of the period {
If a whole generation, in
employment bringing the sub. s
ect into intimate relations with {
he public of many lands, s
s more than a birthday. The s
motion it chiefly produces is one :
It profound gratitude for the s
MEASURE of health that has enabled g
ne-who, to use a homely down &
asst expression, was not "overlv IS
trong" at the outset-to not ONLY g
york hard for all these thirty 6
ears, with few and slight inter S
options of illness and none of g
ccident, but to hold his own, in IS
measurable degree, with many S
who had more sI
EDUCATIONAL advantages than were IS
fforded by the old gray school. s.
ouse, hidden among the spruce &
Goods, from which he graduated s.
1 midterm, accompanied by kind IS
'kens of reward from a wee bit e
schoolm am, when the SHOWS e
ere melting in the spring of s.
367, before there was a Dominion :
Canada, in the ink of whose poll.
cs he first imbrued his hands
I'd whose electoral suffrages he
rst exercised. G,