The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-05

Senfembei l, lSS7, I became connected with The Advertiser as travelling repre- tentative md since that time have been actively esnnscted with the paper in some capacity and have seen the paper grow ana inTease in circulation and adver- tisin~ yatronage until it has surpassed the city in its metropolitan pretensions ana b,s extended it's power and influence over 1he entire State.
 Ierving the old quarters on Perry Street ana moving into its more modern and coivenient building on Dexter Avenue .Sd Lawrence Street causes reminis- c,nces both sad and pleasant in connec- aon with the old location.
 It has often been said that the average life of the newspaper worker is short and that but few are able to stand the wear and tear of the unusual hours and the reversal of the laws of nature-the turning of night into day. This has been strikingly demonstrated in my own ex- perience on The Advertiser for 1t Is a remarkable fact that of the many en- ployea in the business, editorial and me- chanical departments of the paper there are but two remaining who was on the paper when I went with 1t, except the Editor, Major W. W. Screws and the Business Manager. MT. F. P. Glass. The exceptions are Mir. w. W. Screws and MT. w. w. Waldo.
 When I look back over the past fifteen years I can hardly realize that all my co-laborers and fellow workmen of that time are gone. Some haNs gone to other papers, some have retired, while others have passed over the river and are at rest under the shade of the'trees."
 A Fight for Existence.
 When I began to work for The Adver- h. Axlxf he of "a paper was at its height and The Mont gomery Dispatch was making desper- ate effort to take the field. It was a question of endurance-''the survival of the fittest'-and the story of how The Advertiser survived is fresh in the minds of the people of Montgomery. There was not, room for two morning papers in Montgomery and the wasting of great deal of energy and persistence and the expenditure of large sums of money in an intellectual effort to supplant The Ad- yertiser, the old established paper, proved the fact It was fully and satisfactorily demonstrated that The Advertiser was "the fittest' and it's competitor succumb- ed to the inevitable.
 Since that day The Advertiser has had the morning field to it. self and that it has taken ev- cry advantage of its opportunities and kept pace with the times, the judgment of the people will fully testify. There was a time in the history of the city of Montgomery when not half so much mat ter was printed and half the news of the day printed as is now to be found in The Advertiser each day.
 Men Who Have Worked Here.
 But of what wished to write was of those who have been on the paper since my connection with it. In the editorial department there were MT. Chappell Cory, who was one of the proprietors and night editor; Mir. Francis Barlow Lloyd, the city editor. and Antony F. Robertson and W. W. Screws. Jr., report CTS. Later on there were R. E. L. Smith and w. V. Brumby and later Maxie Pep perman in the city department. All of them did good work and made some rep utation for themselves
 Mir Cory left the paper some five years afterwards to go to The Birmingham Age-Herald, and he now resides in this city, devoting his time and talent to cor responding and furnishing special news to outside newspapers. having quite a number of the leading dailies of the coun- try on his list.
 The sad and untimely death of the gen. erous. manly and true Lloyd need not be recounted here. A bigger heart than his never beat nor a truer friend never lived than he. I knew him intimately and loved him like 6 brother. and have al- ways known that he was worthy of my confidence and deserving of my friend ship. But he is gone and no good can be accomplished by reviving unpleasant memories here.
 Antony Robertson drifted to the West and became connected with The Dallas xuha ha m ad xnav- editor. He is now a special writer on The New Orleans Times-Demo- crat.
 R. B. L. Smith went from here to Chi cago, where he worked some time with The Record and other papers of that city.