Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

In 1861. when The Evening Star was fiji
teen years old it was purchased by Mr..
Crosby 5. Noyes who has from that time
been editor-in- chief; Mr.. S. H. Kaufman,
who h;.3 been its publisher; Alexander k.
Shepherd George w. Adams, who was then
the Washington correspondent of the New
York World and Clarence b. Baker, and in
the following year The Evening Star News
paper Company was Incorporated by a spe-
cial act of Congress. The connection OF
Messrs. Shepherd and Baker with The
Evening Star was of short duration, their
interests being purchased by the other
three members of the company. The price
paid for The Evening Star by its new own
ers was 100000 and for that sum they re
ceived a press, boiler, engine and some
type, supplemented by a growing circula-
ton and the good will of the Washington
public-but only from ten to fifteen thou
sand dollars worth of visible property.
1t then had circulation of 1000, at ten
cents a week. 1t was at that time a four
page paper, six columns to the page, and
the columns were not very long nor very
wide Unbounded faith, unceasing energy
and well -directed enterprise have developed
it into the splendid newspaper of today, with
an average of nearly twenty pages an issue
over a hundred columns of reading matter
and advertising, and the columns much
longer and wider than the columns OF the
original Star. The price of the paper IS
sun 10 cents "a week But ii gives lis read
ers from ten to twenty times as much read
ing matter as it gave them thirty years ago,
and this reading matter costs to gather 1t,
edit and print it, from thirty to fifty times
as much as it did then. 1t is the support
given The Star by its advertisers and its
readers that enables it TO give Washington
such paper as this. 1t is only by the con-
centration of support that d newspaper in
a city of this size can be developed as The
Star has been.
If the people of Washington had failed
to cooperate with The Star the city would
never have been furnished with anything
like the completeness of its present news
service. special features and careful editing.
These can only be secured by liberal eX-
penditure. 1t has been the settled policy of
The Star from the beginning to anticipate
every demand of its readers; not only to
keep abreast of the march of progress in
the world of journalism, but to take adj
vantage of every opportunity to make a
better, a more up-to-date newspaper.
In pursuance of this policy the proprietors
of the paper have made it a RUE to eXpend
a large part of its income every year in pro-
curing more rapid and perfect mechanical
appliances and in securing the most
reliable and highest grade of ser
vice in every department, thus i'm
proving in every way the appearance and
character of the daily output of the estab-
lishment-their efforts in these directions
eliminating in the erection, as the perma-
nent home of The Star. of new building,
I,la nd an
adornment to the architecture of the ma
tional capital, but which, in its equipments,
Appointments and facilities, and in the ele-
gance and comforts of its accommoda tons
as well, is probably not surpassed, If in
deed it is equaled, by any newspaper estab-
lishment in the world.