The Republican journal., 1901-12-26

trade, THIS factory IS allowed TO remain
idle: whether anything is being done to
secure the establishment of an in
dustry which meant so much to Bel
East? We cannot answer these ques-
Clons,
Where are the wild pigeons?" asked
MI. 7. A. Thompson in the December
number of the Maine Sportsman: and
we wish that he, or some one, would
answer the question more definitely
than does the quotation he gives from
kingsleys Standard Natural History.
What protection is, or was, needed to
guard against their final determination.
The mackerel with which our bays used
TO TEEN season after season, at about
Jhe same time, come no more, but are
abundant elsewhere, and there is no
hint of their probable extinction. The
pigeon, however, is said to be disappear
ing from its haunts in the western States
as well as in Maine. Mr.. Thompson re-
calls their abundance in this State 30
years ago, but the writer can go back
some 20 years farther; having many
time, nearly half a century ago, sat in a
brush camp and helped to spring the
net by which hundreds of pigeons at
time were captured, alive. Some were
confined in pens to be fattened for the
table, and many were shipped. They
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6he shore of the tide water river at Ma
6 hiaS. 1t is now up to Major Holman
T. Day to sing a song of the vanished
wild pigeon.
One of The Journals many friends
this country, as well as in foreign coun-
tries-sent us copy of the centennial
edition of the New York Evening Post;
and the other evening, seated before a
blazing fire of drift wood, we read it
from first page to last. OF some of the
early publishers we have no recollec-
t5ion, but most of the editors names were
familiar, and some of those employed
upon the paper in the last half century
we had known personalities Nordhoff,
later of the Herald and for many years
its Washington representative; and
John R. Thompson, the lite rary editor.
The latter was a Southern writer of
cote, friend of Edgar Allen Poe,
and was the editor for several years of
the Southern Literary Messenger, pub
lished at Richmond, Va. This maya
zine was discontinued during the civil
war, and Mr.. Thompson subsequently
went to Europe where he remained
several years. On his return to this
country he became editorially connect
ed with the Evening Post and died in
harness in 1872. The story of the first
Ersf century of the Post is told by Will
Elazn Cullen Bryant, for many years its
editor, while the present editor, Horace
White, tells of the past fifty years. The
Post is, no doubt, influential within
certain limits, but according to Mr.
Whites view it has in the last fifty
years made and unmade presidents and
shaped all important legislation. Its
Judgment has been infallible; its pre-
dictions were always verified. There
is this, however, to be said: The Post
mas always had the courage of its con-
victions. 1t espoused the anti-slavery
cause at a cost in loss of business that
was we'll nigh ruinous, and on other
issues has often been opposed by all its
New York contemporaries. Substan-
tial prosperity came to it at last, which
it still enjoys. Contributions from mem
beers of the staff, past and present, fol
dow the articles by the editors in this
centennial edition. That of the Wash
ington representative is specially inter-
+esting. What is treated of as ancient
history at the National Capital covers
period when the writer was in active
service there, and among the names
mentioned are those of many persona
friends. One would judge that it wal
more difficult today to get at STATE
secrets than it was rs or more year
ago, but the old-tjme correspondent,
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