The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-08

hints Of fashion for women and take and
edit dry suburban copy and boss the
reporters and direct the composing room
and get the paper off the press and hus-
tie the circulation manager around. The
whole establishment was on one fioor--if
/ remember correctly, II was in one big
room. Even the compositors forgot how
To swear during her administration and
IL is recorded that the office boy washed
his face each and every morning before
he came 10 work
Mrs Heaton survived those strenuous
months Of working and watching. Bar
barossa recovered from the typhoid. And
The News pulled through, somehow.
A newspaper organization, especially
perhaps. that of a new newspaper, is a
good deal like a sieve. Men are sifted
through II rapidly and new men get
aboard to follow their predecessors
through
Ten years or more have seen n lot OF
changes in the personnel of The News
since the Heaton's made their gallant
struggle. Some OF them have been very
young men who profited vastly by the
experience and have gone elsewhere 20
de remarkably we'll One OF the first
reporters on The News of the Heaton
DAYS came here as an apprentice. He
agement greatly He took his hard
knocks to such good purpose that he is
now the chief editorial man on thrlv-
ng daily not a hundred miles from Provi-
dence.
Another who came later, is we'll es-
tablished with the great organization OF
the New York Sun. The New York
formal kidnapped two of the office force.
when that newspaper was fighting for
recognition, and they proved valuau,s
and have made good names for them
selves In the larger world of metropolitan
journalism.
There was drummer who came to The
News with the notion that his ability TO
sell other sorts of goods ought to us
valuable In selling advertising space on
The News. With no other newspaper.
perhaps, could he have been able 10
make a better test of that notion. When
he got his training he went abroad and
now represents one of the biggest New
York newspapers in its advertising de-
partment. Another fellow came out OF
college TO learn how TO sell advertising
space and, after one OF those experiences
that only n struggling newspaper can at
ford, he too. went abroad and Is known
throughout the country as the liveliest
kind of an advertising sharp. Still am
other came and after learning all The
News could teach him in that lne-and,
into the advertising business for him
self and today he is at the head of his
own advertising agency in New York.
So this newspaper, during It's progress
upward has proved fine training scnool.
Men have come, in its different depart
ments, and men have gone-and all OF
them, | should say, have proiited unusu-
ally by their association with this news
paper. one of them, who managed the
property for while, had an Illuminating
experience In the matter of things finan-
cial, whereby he was led TO study of
financial subjects on large scale. and Is
now writer OF eminence and is regard
ed as an authority on economic questions.
lie found The News n first rate school OF
finance. as Others had found IL a good
training school for reporters and adver-
using men and office men and the like.
out OF former News proofreader n
contemporary recently developed a whole
managing editor. The News has thus
offered. In the past. exec ptional oppor-
tuniues for bringing a fellow out and
finding out what he was worth. IL never
has afforded a bed OF roses and the stren-
cellent discipline and excellent training
IL has been a school OF Journalism OF the
most practical and severe kind. fell
low that has gone through The News mill
was equipped to hold his own and better
with the newspaper crowd anywhere on
earth. And most OF its alumni have
maue ConSluefaDle names Tor themselves
In important fields OF newspaper work
and effort of kindred sort. IL was never
a comfortable refuge for shelbacks and
the shiftltss and faley who occasionally
dropped In dropped out again as promptly.
on the whole. the work that the men
who have made The News have performed
has commanded nUblic confidence.
That idea has always been instillcd INTO
every man who was I'm any way connect
ed with this nowspaper-to get the con-
hdence OF the people for The News. Prob
ably no community on earth was harder
10 establish n newspaper In than this city
of Providence. Newspapers have been
started before and every failure made IL
more difficult for the next one 90 get n
foothold and the failure OF that one was
the quicker.
But n it was hard to establish n news
paper I'm this community. there was al
ways consolation To be found in the prov
erb that there Is nothing harder TO kill
than ncwspaDer-nOt even cats. So
The News lived through the hard times
from 80 90 o. even n II did not always
thrive as abundantly as might have been
wished. Many another business in this
town failed TO hold on and not few
splendidly established properties went to
pieces during thcse lean years
But the only time that recall that The
News skipped an Issue was when q bliz-