The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

were adopted, with rules for adver-
Using and job work. But these rules
were not closely adhered to. And
here let me observe that it is idle to
adopt rules of this kind if they are
mot carried out in good faith by all.
All the other professions have their
rules, to which they strictly adhere.
If it is worth five dollars to make n
motion in court, a subscription to a
good newspaper should be more than
two dallrs per annum. If a visit by
la physician is worth two dollars. an
advertisement of fourteen lines should
be worth the same for one insertion.
Gentlemen, it would not become me to
thrust advice upon you, but let me
urge you to look to your interests as
other professions do; to do good work.
charge full prices. and not underbid
each other for public patronage.
Wheeler, in his history in 1851.
gives list of "A papers then pub
lished in the State; and Mr.. Bennett,
i'm his chronology in 1853, added 80
to Colonel Wheelers list. Many of
these have ceased to exist; some of
them are continued under different
names, and not less, / presume, than
two-thirds of the editors living in
1851 have passed away. do not
know accurately the number Of news
papers and periodicals now published
lin this State, but l think | would not
err materially if I should assume the
number to be one hundred.
[ am painfully sensible, Mr.. Presi-
! dent. Of the omission and imperfec-
| TONS of this address. 1 have referred
| only to the Oldest presses and to the
Oldest editors and executors, with
incidental illusions to modern editors
land writer's for the ress. l think L
! have not commended unduly those I
| L, 4
sketch the lives and services of all
these laborers in the fields of mind,
whether present or absent on this oc-
casion. I would respectfully suggest
that the Association appoint some one
to continue the history of the press
at each communication of your body;
and when, in the judgment of the
Association that history shall have
been fully written, that committee
be appointed to condense it into a
book, to be printed for perpetual
preservation.
Among the dead not already men
toned, trained writer's for the press,
but not editors, ] recall the follow
ing: DR.. Joseph Caldwell, Archibald
d. Murphy George e. Badger William
Castor, Francis L. Hawks. William b.
Shepherd. f. Moore, William A.
Graham, William H. Haywood, Jr., Bed
ford Brown, Charles Fisher, Bartlett
Yancy, Louis d. Henry, Robert
Strange, John Gray, Bynum, Warren
Winslow Edward Jenner Warren,
Henry w. Miller, Robert b. Gillian,
Edward Conigland Romulus M.
Saunders, Charles f. Fisher, Asa
Biggs, james B. Shepherd Perrin
Busbee, Fl. w. Hustled, William Hoop
err. Abram w. Venable. John II.
Haughton, Charles Manly, Henry r.
Clark, Henry I. Toole, John A. Gill
mer. John M. Morehead. John III.
Bryan, William II. Washington. Many
others might be added. Some of these
were editors for a short time, but
editing was not their profession. Dr.
Caldwell wrote much in favor of in
ternal improvements and public
schools and Archibald D. Murphy was
one of the finest scholars and writer's
of his day. Some of his ablest papers
in the way of reports may be found
in the journals of the State Senate
from 1912 to 1918 inclusive.
1t would be impracticable, as | nave
observed, to sketch modern presses
and editors. This must be left to the
future. But / cannot forbear to refer
to Henry S. Fleetwood. native of
Boston. who lived and taught school
for many years in fIillsborough, the
author of the beautiful verses, THE
Marriage of the Sun and Noon He
established a paper in Wilmington,
and died soon after of apopleXy; and
George w. Sites, the accomplished
writer whom the people of Salem and
Winston so well remember, who sat
when a boy at the feet of Words
worth and Poe. and listened ito their
harmonious numbers. And john w.
Cameron of the Wadesboro ARGUS.
whose car" Ar was so brilliant, and all
too brief for the State he loved so
well. And the two Fultons, Price,
Burr and Engelhard, of Wilmington;
Mayhem and Pasteur, New Bern; Ma
chen, McWiliams, Houston ana
Dimmock, of Washington; Raboteaus
Busbee, Lawrence, Wilson, Meredith
and Pell, of Raleigh; Hybart, Cam
eron, Bayne and Sherwood, Of Fayette-
Vile; Thomas ]. Holton, of the Char
lotte Journal, who was reared by
Philo White in the "Carolinian" office
Salisbury; Atkin and Edney, of Ashe-
Vile; Webb of Halifax; Yancy and
Paschall, of Oxford; Robert N. Yer
trell, of Warrenton; of some IN the
western part of the State, and indeed
in every part of the State, including
the great Albemarle region, whose
names I cannot now recall, but VINO
have left behind them on record mark
ed and honorable proofs of their at
Itainments and labors as members OF
And there are many Journeymen
and foremen, modest intelligent, I'M
lobstrusive men, who deserve notice
land commentator. If the editor is
the big wheel of the mill. they are the
driving wheels, without which the mill
would stop.
Among these I may notice Thomas
Covington, for so many years the
foreman of the Register office, VINO
trained a number of young men Tor
usefulness as good printers. incluulng
such men as Mr. Hale and Mr.. DaVld
C. Dudley of Raleigh, who Is one OF
the oldest printers in the State anu
much beloved and honored by Inc
printer of Raleigh. John 4. west,
Esq, of Raleigh, deceased for some
years. formerly a foreman and pup
Usher in New York. gave MT. Greeiy
the first job that brought him INTO
notice as a good printer. Mr. Greely
remembered him affectionately. ana
when a candidate for the Presidency
wrote him that if he should be elected
he. Mr.. West, must hang up his nat
in the White House and stay Win
him a long time
The press has done more than all
things else to diffuse intelligence