The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-03-17
NEWSPAPER NOTES.

A newcomer in Maine daily journalism
is the Watervile Morning Sentinel, pages,
neat, newsy and up to date in all respects.
We particularly like this sentence from the
salutatory: "All that can be written to adj
vance the material welfare of the State we
love so we'll will be presented as occasion
may demand or as inspiration may prompt"
Hon. Cyrus W. Davis, mayor of Waterville,
is publisher, and Thomas F. Murphy, Esq,
editor-iE- chief.
Newspaper buildings in New York reach
high valuation as may be seen by the follow
ing figures: The Sun is $3.50, 600; the Mail
and Express, $765,9O0; the Tribune, $1.OOO,-
600; the Times, 81, 245, 600; the World, 2,oOO,-
600, and the Herald S2,1OO,OO0. The Sun
building was built so years ago and was
originally Tammany Hall. Dana bought it
for the Sun when the new hall was opened
in -Four teenth street. He paid $4,000 and
laid out $4,000 in alterations, but the bare
lot would now bring five times its cost.
The Old Town Enterprise completed its
sixteenth year with the last issue. 1t was
just twenty-three years ago the first of Feb
ruary last that its founder and present pro-
prietOr, Chester w. Robbins, then lad of
sixteen years, entered The Standard Office
as an apprentice. He served his appren-
ship faithfully and honestly, and after going
to Kentucky and devoting a year or two to
study at Berla College, he returned East
and again took position on The Standard,
where he labored until the beginning of the
year 1888. He then returned to Old Town,
the home of his bOyhOOd, and founded the
Old Town Enterprise ROckland Mass,
Standard.
s. A. D. Smith wv R. Pattangall) tells in
Machias Union of visit to the Lewiston
Journal office:
When l came into the Editorial room, the
Editor was just writing an editorial on the
Japanese War.
lie was writing it out of the Cincinnati
Enquirer with pair of shears and was do
ing an awful good job.
The Journal is full of original work of
| that kind.
After had introduced myself and we
had started talking, a young man came in
gested that they hadn't published anything
| about Prohibition for three days.
! The editor ran through his Diary care
| fully and finally directed him to look up
| the journal of March End, 1882.
"YOu will find there" says he, ga STIR
ring article entitled, NO Rum for Maine, -
print that, just glancing over it to see if
there are any dates which want changing -
Then he turned to me and he says:
"This literary life is terrible wearing on
the brain, MIR. Smith,
"It is that says I, especially getting
up the jokes in paper like yours. Who
does your funny things? If there is any
thing that has soothed and comforted me at
the close of days when l have been worn
and tired, it has been the reading of the
jokes in the Lewiston Journal"
"We all help on that" he said. "Holman
Day left drawerful of them, which we
still use. Then we get some from other
papers of course, but not many. There is
sort of flavor about an original Lewiston
journal joke that is different from any
thing else in literature, and we like our
own brand
"Why we have some that we use every
few days. We couldn't part with them and
they seem just as good as they were when
we first set them up years ago."
"Ive noticed" says L, ga sort of a sad,
pathetic touch in your humorous column
which had about it much of the saDctity OF
age"
eyes," says he," land in that respect, it
is good deal like much of the news that
we print"