The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-22
COL. HALDEMAN HERE
NOTED KENTUCKY NEwsPAPER MAN TALKS OF JoURNALIsM.
Tells How The Courier-Journal Grew from Small Paper Founded Before the War by
 His Father.

Col. w. Bruce Haldeman, veteran news paper owner of Louisville, Ky. and one
 of the best known men in the South, spent yesterday in Montgomery en route
 to his Louisville home from Naples, Fla, where he has large landed interests and
 a winter home.
 Colonel Haldeman often passes through
 Montgomery on trips to and from Florida, but he stayed day in Montgomery yes
 terday for the first time in twenty-five Interest him. He left at GAS o'clock yes
 terday evening for Louisville.
 T visited your historic old State Cap itol today for the first time in many years," said Colonel Haldeman in an in-
 terview with a representative of The Advertiser, and found 1t to be one of
 the most interesting places ever vis-
 tted. Since l was here the Supreme Court wing has been added to the old
 building around which clusters so many memories of the Confederate cause. and 1t has been otherwise greatly improved. also observe with the greatest pleasure that Montgomery is joining in the great wave of progress that is sweeping over
 Colonel Haldeman is General Manager
 of the company which publishes The Louisville Courier Journal and The Lou
 W. N. Haldeman, now in the S0th year of his age, is President of this com
 pany. Notwithstanding his great years this venerable newspaper man visits the office of The Courier-Journai daily and newspaper which Is the outgrowth of his
 business sagacity and years of experi- ence.f
 The Haldeman family of which this dis tinguished newspaper man Is the head, has been prominent in Southern journal ism for half a century and Col. Bruce
 Haldeman and his father have been associated for three decades with Henry a 1ANE tnA UMN Prentice the opportunity to make him self famous as a. writer.
 Col. Bruce Haldeman is typical Ken lucky Colonel. He Is easy of approach. raconteur. and talks. talks and talks of matters that interest and hold the attention of intelligent persons. Having been in and about newspaper omce every capacity from police reporter to heavy editor of great daily he is one of the best informed men in the country
 The story of the founding of The Cour- fer Journal Is full of interest. and no one can tell 1t like Colonel Haldsman; .
 My father. Col. W. N. Haideman." he said, was publishing The Louisville Courier many years before the war. He was meeting with more or less success when the war between the States came on. Our family were intense sympathiz- CTS with the Southern States, and you may be sure The Courier expressed the opinion of its editor with firmness and by the the FeSeral and my father was forced to flee from Lou isville. I was IA years old and at col- lege, but l left the school room ana as child joined Morgans cavalry; we and myself returned to Louisville. The great heart of Kentucky sympathized with the South and father took up The Courier where he had left OH, n,,sh e in It's columns and the paper made money rapidly.
 There were two other daily newspa- pers in Louisville at this time. The Jour nal and The Democrat. George ID. Pren- lice was writing paragraphs in The Jour nal, which was bitter rival of The Courier. The Democrat was haif- hearted sort of paPer with an indifferent to Louisville from Nashville and succeed ad Mir. Prentice on The Journal. Then Mr. Prentice was employed as para grapher on The Courier. In the mean my course and began my newspaper ca- reer as utility man in the counting room of The Courier. From this position De- came police reporter and during these many years have filled nearly every po- sition on The Courier and its successors
 Tn 1868 my father, Colonel Haldeman, in consolidating The Courier and The Journal. The consolidation came near Idlllilk luTOuBn DCGduSc fhC pany which owned The Journal insisted on calling the new newspaper The Jour nal Courier. My father declared that The Journal was the old ar paper of the two he would have noth- Ing to do with the consolidation scheme l unless The Courier came nrst. He had his way and the paper was called The | Journal. In. 1870 The Courier | Journal absorbed The Democrat and The | Journal then controlled the morn- | ing field in Louisville.
 MT. Watterson and MT. Prentice own cd stock in The Journal and in this way | acquired an interest in The Courier | Journal. MT. Watterson was early made | editor of the paper and he occupies that position until today. He lives twelve miles from Louisville and goes to his home eaf1y each evening. He is an early riser and writes the most of his matter after he has had his 6 O clock breakfast
 "Will Mir. Watterson allow his name to be presented to the next National Demo- cratic Convention for the presidency?' Colonel Haldeman was asked.
 Then Colonel Haldeman. who has evil | dently been In the hands or ubiquitous and persistent newspaper reporters be- lore, smiled. ,, ,. ! month ago." said he, "I remarked to | Mir. Watterson that l observed he was being mentioned as Presidential timber. | He laughed and said something that | sounded like sufficient unto the day is | the evil thereof and that was about all 1f the satisfaction l got out Of him. | l. kx.