Evening journal., 1899-02-01
rorNnNG oF THE INpEX.

YER Index was founded. Five years
ago Il went into the hands OF Thomas
+. Dunn. the present proprietor. In
observance of this fifth anniversary
us f-rm has heen altered from the
blanket-eheet four-paga folio TO the
more convenient eight-page qua
The Wavfarer has in his possess 81 .ae
frst copy OF the Dover Index that was
ever printed, and he feels sure than
the present management will not take
exception TO a bnief statement as toI
how It came into his possesslen.
There were IN Kent county Two
Democratic factors. One. the sauls-
bury faction, had the Dover Delawar-
can for It's organ. Il wac edited by
United states Senator Eli SALISBURY,
assisted by his nephew, Jchn r. Sau.s-
bury and Charles Fem, a printer OF
the old school and a local writer Of
some merit The other, the wolcoM
faction, had no organ; and the need Il
one was keenly felt The Wayfarar
had completed his apprenticeship on
the Smyrna Times. then, as now, under
The editorial management OF Robert D.
Honecker, Sr.. whose son Bcb, now as
seoiasea with him, was then running
around the motr polls Of Duck Creek
hundred in shirtwaist and kniclSer-
bJlkers. Al that time there was an
opening for a journeyman printer on
the Dover state Sentinel OF which
Henry Cannon was editor and e. b.
Iouderbough manager and foreman.
The Wayiarer left Smyrna and went
TO Dover, where he "stuclS type" and
did local and coHoquial work OF politi-
cal character for Mr.. CannOn.who wae a
Massey Republican, Addiclsism being,
at that time, a thing unknown in Kent
county. After several months on the
Sentinel an offer was made to the
Wayfarer by ex-Sheriii Francis NJ
Dunn to become foreman OF new pa
per to be started In the Wolcott IN
terest by the leaders Of the county
This offer was accepted Office rooms
were rented. the plant ordered, and
then came brief period OF waiting
for its arrival. When II did come the
Wafarer laid the job and body type
and got everything in readiness for
the issuance OF the first edition. II
was to be a red-hot editorial affair.
EN-Sherin Dunn was business mana
ger and local editor, while the edi-
torla, writers were Hon. James L.
Woicou, Henry C. Carpenter.
Colonel Ezekiel r. Cooper and
othen equally prominent in the anti
Salisbury movement. The editorial
work Of metropolitan daily was
never more carefully considered. These
statements are made because they are
no longer state secrets, but public
properly. Mr.. wolcott wrote a hand
which was so Characteristic that il
kept a compcsitor guessing from the
time he began setting one Of his edi-
toria.s to the time that he sncsned IT,
Not only that. but in his endeavors to
emphasize or modify statements. Mr..
Wolcouhad badhablt OF so cuttingup
a proof that correction was outlines
equivalent 10 resetting the article
Henry C. Carpenter was just the re-
verse He wrote an excellent hand
and seldom made changes in proof ID
his copy were followed strictly. The
Wayfarer has never known but one
man who became more exercised over
a grammatical or typographical error
in one Of his articles. and that man 4.
John S. Rossen, Of this city. Tn,
Wawarer has known Mr.. Carpenter +,
be in q perturbed state for severa
days because a sentence in one OF hi.
editorials began "He don't know" ia
stead Of He doesn't know wherea.
Congressman Handy. who is botl
highly educated and an educator. use
'dcn't' in preference to doesn't
claiming that 1t means the same an,
is also a time-saver. But Mr. Carpen
Ter contended that doesn't stood 70
does not and "don't' for do moi
and what he said went in those palm
days Ct Democratic rejuvenescence Il
Kent. Colone' Ezekiel T. Cooper's con
was more than chirographical drear
lit was horrible nightmare.
printer could only make about ha
time on it, and the facr that a man ha
cen engaged in settingup one Of his ed
torials was taken as an EXCUSE at an
time for but half a galley Of type b.
ing set up in five hours A print,
without a good guesser might as we
have attempted to set In English II
inscription On Cleopatra's Needle as
ackle enc Of the co,oneFs anti-Saul
bury editorials There never was
more crying demand for a typewrir
than in those days But AFTER Il
printer had done his guessing and t.
colonel had gone into elaborate CO
'ections and explicit Instructions rel
tive to the marginal notes on /