The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-30
A WORD TO JOURNAL READERS.

On next Sunday the Journal will begin
the publication of an illustrated double
supplement in color, an addition which IL
has had in contemplation for some time in
order 10 meet the demand of a large class
of patrons. Four pages of this supplement
will contain comic pictures and other mat
ter especially intended for children's enter
tainment; the other four will be made up of
matter of more general character and
will include fashion and other features of
feminine interest and a pictorial treatment
of current topics Color-printing, which is
constantly improving in quality, and is now
a vastly different thing from the first crude
productions of a few years ago, has be-
come an Indispensable part of book and
magazine making, and promises TO become
equally so to the newspaper. While news
paper processes, the rapid presses, the soft
paper. etc. do not yet produce the fine ef-
fects found in weekly and monthly publica-
tions, the results are by no means unsatis-
factory, and often extremely good. Photo
graphic reproductions are made very clear.
and drawings are, as a rule, excellent.
since their very boldness makes any de-
feet impossible to conceal and calls for
especial care on the part of artists. In
cidentally, too, it may be said that artists
of highest rank gladly give their attention
to this class of work.
Other departments of the paper are being
improved in various ways. In the future.
as in the past, the Journal i'm all its edi-
tions. will avoid sensational methods, but
the field of legitimate news Will be covered
better than heretofore. 1t has a well-or-
ganized and constantly growing corps of
t,oc
| been the cause of much complimentary
| comment. Its news facilities in other
| fields are of the best and it's special serv-
| ice not to be excelled. This latter serv-
| ice includes a regular Washington corre-
| spondence, letters of New York financial
writer, and occasional correspondence from
| all the large news centers. To these have
been added a weekly New York letter on
dramatic topics by Mr.. Franklin Fyles. the
| first of which will appear next Sunday. Mr..
Fyles is dramatic writer of high standing
| and authority, and what he has to say of
matters theatrical will be worth reading.
Arrangements have also been made for
| the publication of a series of short stories
on railroad themes, ''romances of the road"
| they might be called, written by Frank
| III. Spearman, who has attained a wide
| reputation for the production or realistic
| fiction in this line. The first of these will
| appear in next Sundays issue.
Also on next Sunday will be begun the
serial publication of Harry Leon Wilson's
entertaining novel, 1.-THE Spenders'-a book
classed as "the best of the year. by a
majority of reviewers. 1t is an amusing
and realistic story of contemporary Ameri-
can life and is sure to be enjoyed. This
serial will run in both Sunday and week.
| day editions.
| Altogether the Journal is offering a re-
markable series of attractions. 1t is not
given to boasting, but can say as a simple
matter of fact that the seven papers fur
nished to it's readers each week are the out
| come of desire to provide them with a
high-class newspaper complete in all de-
tails and of a purpose to make each sue
| cessive edition Improvement, if possible,
| on those which have gone before.