The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-26
UNIQUE PUBLICATION.
An Annual Dinner Issue 5i the Montgomery Adverissr of
 More Than Usual Interest.

Chattanooga Times.
 Over in Memphis a year or so ago the printers on one of the big dalies used to get out a paper of their own-a paper in which they co'3ld say what they pleas ed about anybody they pleased. At the
 head of the editorial column was a notice saying that f'"rhis paper appears regularly whenever it gets ready" and another to
 the effect that had the largest circu- kaIlon in the shop" It was a breezy sheet and its appearance was awaited with fear and trembling by those it had picked for victims, but something hap pened to 1t and 1t went the way of the
 world.
 The brightest sidelight to Southern
 nually or oftener'' is paper gotten out by the employees of The Montgomery Ad- vertiser, The latest issue. copy of
 which has just reached Chattanooga, IS | little things of its sort that has come this way in some time. It made its appear | ance this time in connection with the an. nual dinner of The Advertiser force, and l to one on the outside 1t would seem that l the paper must have been enjoyed more than the dinner. The dinner was given in honor of F. P. Glass, general mana ger, and Major W. W. Screws, editor7in- chief, and naturally these two gentlemen also got much space in the paper. Chang ing about a little the old sentiment about the singer and the song, 1t is safe to say that MT. Glass and Major Screws may forget tne ulnnel' p"S eHeS ""AA ~O-sN-
 The paper is in the form of The Mont gomery Advertiser reduced several times in size. It Is nlledl with sensations in which employees of The Advertiser are
 supposed to have figured. has its Per
 sonal Mention department, devotes an
 appropriate amount of space to editorials.
 contains some bright verse, has news Of double heads" and devotes nearly a page
 to the, annual dinner. Writers in all the
 departments are allowed to go ahead
 with the bridle off, and what they say
 about each other and aDoHt . tnings nIrt In Clashes between circulation and adver- Using men are aired. little peculiartties of the city editor and his staff are not foreman and his printers are rapped' hard and often. All is written in the best Of good nature, but there seems to have been no effort to conceal anything. One or the most interesting TtaI festSfes stSftstcs contains a list of all who had started in to work on The Advertiser at some time during the year and then got hence hur- riedly." The advertisements ana the ''Gossip of Men and Matters" are other notable features.
 The references to Manager Glass and Major Screws are naturally the longest and most numerous in the paper. fhese gentlemen are touched up" on the mat ter of salaries, the matter of policy and their gentle art of firing is given prop CT prominence. Beneath an the humor- ous criticism of the two, however, there is an undercurent which shows that both have the confidence and respect of the force and have put themselves more in the light of fellow-workers with their men than that of "bosses.
 This little paper, all through. Is exactly what one would have expected from the men who get out The Montgomery Adver- tiser. The Advertiser has grown rom very little to one of the best papers In the South, and the men who work on 1t could hardly get out anything bad.