The Washington times., 1902-01-26

| Mirror announced in one of his issues
that he had not been too sanguine in his
hopes of securing 500 subscribers. as the
larger portion of that number had al
ready been enrolled in Washington
| Georgetown, and Alexandria
Then, too, the hustling reporter was al
that time an unknown quantity The
same editor stated on one occasion that
ne rad been compelled to omit the pro
| ceeulnss IN Congress because the gentle
/ an who wrote them had failed to send
| them in.
The issue for January To- 1885, stated:
! Having taken conious notes of the tes-
| tiniony in the trial of Joseph Woods for
the murder of his wife, which ended last
Wednesday. we shall endeavor next week
| TO present our readers with a faithful re-
| port of the trial. II will be a work of
! great labor to nut our notes into publish
! ing order. but we shall do it cheerfully to
! crafty the public curiosity
Plainly the stenographc reporter had not
entered the local newspaper realm at that
| time Think of a modern reporter requir-
ing d whole woeh and 4 half to transcribe
notes which he had made in longhand of
a trial which lasted but three days Again:
We shall next week publish the names
OF the grand jury, together with the i'm
pressive charge delivered to them by Chief
Justice Cranch. at the opening of the
court on Monday last. We are sorry that
we cannot find room in our present number
for this extremely excellent charge, which
the grand jury unanimously solicited for
publication
Subscribers Hard to Please
The following is an editorial regarding
the size of the Mirror
Several of our subscribers have OBJ
jected to any enlargement of our paper
until we have completed a small volume
of 26 numbers, as they wish to have their
papers bound. There is. moreover a Diff
hcuity in procuring at this time of good
quality. the imperial size. Under these
circumstances, We intend to issue at least
five supplementary half sheets in the
next five months TO supply the wants of
our literary readers Another editorial
states:
We intend to issue this paper in the
future regularly every Saturday morning
and to employ none but experienced car
riers. who will have the whole day be-
fore them in which to perform their duty
We have already ascertained that at least !
fifty of our regular subscribers did not |
receive their papers; that others receiv- |
ed two papers, and some who are not sub |
scribers had the Mirror" thrown into !
their houses or yards. We beg that those |
who did not receive their papers will call |
for them at my Office or dwelling house on I
Louisiana Avenue. If any of our sub |
scribers could spare us their last weeks |
paper We should be greatly Obliged to
them; otherwise. We shall probably have
to republish the trial of Joseph Woods, |
such has been the anxiety of the public
to read it"
An objection to School Vacations.
The majority of the schools of that day
ID1,, 81
then a prominent teacher in this CITY,
said in an interview for the Mirror"
Il consider vacation from school of
six days a loss of eighteen days to the
for the following reasons: First |
because, for some days before the eX-
Dected vacation the children are dis
racted planning how they shall dress,
east, visit. etc. Secondly,-when the idle
lays are over they return to school with
'eluctance, have a great aversion TO
study, and some are sick for weeks after.
Thirdly. when ! gave my pupils summer
'acation OF eight or ten days in August,
more of my scholars were sick during ,
hose days than during the whole year.
quit the unjust practice. ,
Il never did, never will. permit the
'ouths committed TO my care to destroy
heir time in idleness and vice, and re- ;
eive money from their parents without ,
rying 10 give it full value.
Many of the advertisements inserted in
he papers at that time were ludicrous {
II the extreme. The advertisers did not ,
hesitate in the use of words The fol-
owing is a fair sample of large number ,
# those. !
John NJ. Farrar, having at a great ex- I
ense enlarged his establishment, has +
ispensed with the usual way of serving
p oysters out of dirty trough. All his I
ysteTs are served up in a cleanly man 1
er, by a skillful and obliging waiter" +