The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-05-06

-Ae1o NoitlHued LOT Il week the editor
threw up his job in disgust and pre-
scented his interest in the paper to the
other partners.
About this time the advertisement
OF saloon was handed in and in
serted. 1t caught the eye of Casey and
there came q quick and imperative de-
mand for its withdrawal 4 council of
war was held. II was realized by all
the partners that crisis had been
reached. To take out the advertise
ment meant that in future The Garden
City Times would be not a newspaper
for all classes, but one lined up on the
side Of temperance. On the other hand,
TO allow it to remain meant the with
drawal of the financial backing. The
partners were young and brim full Of
confidence. They fondly believed they
had San Jose at their feet. Besides,
| they chafed under constraint. What
did Casey know about running a paper
anyway? He was a grabbed old has
been-a man with one idea. Let him
pull out his money. The Garden City
Times could stand the loss, for every
thing had thus far gone to show that
it was securely founded on the rock Of
| favorable public opinion. SO it was re-
solved. The advertisement stayed in
and Casey went out.
This action took place on the second
day of the second week of publication.
The news spread. Within twenty-four
hours every man in town who had
bill against the paper presented it with
the abrupt request for instant payment
The neat little song ambulance pre-
pared by the partners in anticipation
of the rush, was received in silence.
| The expectation had been that an en-
core would be demanded. Forced to
| the wall the partners paid out all their
available cash. Then they began to
| breathe freely again. In many respects
| it was like a run on bank. But many
| banks had weathered such storms and
so would The Garden City Times
| weather this one. Markham was
sanguine that the Rubicon had been
| crossed and he drew such picture
of the future that when he had finished
his partners would not have hypothe-
Gated their respective interests in the
| paper for many thousands of dollars,
| though at the moment there was not
| enough coin of the realm in their jeans
to purchase coffee and doughnuts to ap-
pease hired mans appetite.
But the period of citation did not last
long The printers, led by Dan Toy,
the foreman, wanted assurance that
they would be paid at the end of the
week, else they would quit in body.
From optimists the partners became
passimists, and the falling-in spirits
affected the tone of the paper. The
local columns ceased to display either
sparkle, dash or romance. Markham,
instead of skdrrying about town with
a smiling face ana an eager, confident
look in his handsome eyes, dawdled
| listlessly in the editorial room and
city and managing editor, who was
also the editor-in-chief, republished
his own articles with by request
over each in brackets. The inevitable
end was approaching. Despite favor
able public opinion, the windy pro
misses of enthusiastic friends and the
| important fact that the paper had come
| into the field TO ''fill a long-felt want, y
there was a conspicuous and lamenta-
| BILE lack of the silvery sinews of war.
| 1t takes money to make the mare go.
After ten days of experience the part
ners came to the conclusion that as
| they couldn't either fish or cut bait,
they would go out of a business that
required the doing of either. So they
| collected all the bills due on advertis-
| ing, paid off the printers and then
slowly wendell their way to st. James
| Park, where seated on a bench IN a
shady spot they divided S2S into three
equal parts, pocketed each his share
and talked of emigrating to the South
| Sea Islands.