Evening star., 1899-03-25
THE SUCCESS OF THE STAR.
Why 1t Prospered Where So Many
Other Papers Failed.

That The Star has had so success
fu: career an old typo remarks, lis
to be attributed to the fact that it has al
ways been a newsy, entertaining, progress
sNe paper. L may say it has been a paper
published for the people from the first
When l look back L can recall some few
attempts to establish a paper which had an
equally if not more promising outlook
than The Star had in its infancy. In the
4O's several papers were born but to die
in a few years. if not in a few months. We
had the old Intelligencer and the Globe in
old times. both great political organs, each
having its following. but the masses of the
people seemed TO want bright. newSy
sheet neutral ia politics. They wanted, too,
Il sheet within TIE reach Of the masses
which would give the local news 1t is not
TO be wondered that before the days of The
Star. when the Baltimore Sun published a
local letter, and Col Joe Shillington, as it's
agent. ess&yed to increase its circulation,
some success resulted.
bee That Bn.zed Out.
ut was in 1915. believe. when we had
a paper called the Bee. This was published
by Josiah Melvin, who afterward published
the American Organ; l.. y. Gobright, the
first agent of the Associated Press here
and Girard Suth, who subsequently settled
in New Orleans. of which city he became
mayor ne bee : printing offiCe was To-
Gated on 9TH street opposite the Baltimore
and Potomac depot, and the business office
and Sarctum in i frame building on Penn
Sylvania avenue near 9th street Uhe site of
the St. James,. The Bee was of but short
life the lethargy of the public being the
cause Of its decease. Mr.. James y. Davis
whose office was on the south side of Penn
syEdnia avenue near 18th street, essaye
the publication of daily, but l forget the
name, and it is of but little consequence
for it was shOrt-lived. This was about $50
In addition TO the old IntelligenCer. the
great whig authority, and the National
ILlJn. which had succeeded the Globe as
The democratic organ, We had the National
Era, whose radical anti-Slavery PRINCIPLES
were lar in advance Of the public sentiment
OF this section of the Union. The National
l mon was heartily hated by the great ma
1trlty Of the citizens. These, however,
were not tie papers for the people, and the
want of a spicy, newsy little sheet was
frequently discussed.
Other Failures.
'.Messrs. Winner and McGul tried the ex-
pertinent early in the sos, by the issue OF
a small sheet from their Office on y and Sth
streets. relying mainly on the advertising
for support. In this they were Joined by
Mr. Thomas @. Connolly. and finally sold
out 70 him, the attempt by the latter to
keep life in it proving abortfve. Too much
pohtlcs-f0r II had advocated the election
OF Gen. ScOtt-Caused its demise. In addi-
tlon 10 the papers noted before, we had the
National W hIg, published by FentOn in the
4Vs, on the avenue between Sd and IA
streets; the Republic, published by the
G-deons on 9th street during the Fillmore
administration, early in the sos; the
t"tt9n Plant, published by Sage in
the aps; the American Organ, the know
IL thing paper in the same decade Jo-
slah Melvin being the publisher and Yes
pdSlan Ellis the editor: the SATURDAY. Even
ing News. by Justice VIM. Thomson and
others which l cannot now recall All
these have found their way to the news
paper graveyard though hard fights were
Joseph b. TAFT TO start and Dug Wal
4ach. his associates and successors to
nurture and develop what is now the bright
Star the Oldest and best paper in the
capital"