The Washington times., 1909-12-13
SUNDAY EVENING ISSUE
IS A DECIDED SUCCESS
Seven Evenings Week Newspaper Demonstrates That
Public Appreciates Getting News While 1t Is Still
Fresh-An Experiment indicated

| two men had been rivals. No one was
so competent TO point the moral Of Har-
riman's death, to forecast the future
/ Of American railroad development. TO
| give the people of the nation warning
with railroads as Mr.. HIN. The Sunday
! evening issue Of September % aocomp-
/ lished the apparently impossible.
One of Three.
! From Mr.. Hill. who had given out
/ only three real interviews In a long and
| exceptionally busy life and none with
in the past fifteen years, Il obtained
and published a talk which covered two
pages. And from his positive declara-
ton at the outset that nationwide rail-
road monopoly was a practical impossi-
/ bility to his criticism Of our American
public school system at the close, 81 was
ar interview to rank in interest, im-
pOrtance and form with tho few great
est achievements Of American inter-
viewers.
In politics the achievements % this
edition Of The Times have been consist
emily noteworthy. 1t was tho means Of
informing the nation Of the crisis IN
California over the rejection Of Japa-
nese students from the public schools;
| Of President Tafts upholding Of Secre-
/ tary Ballinger; Of important develop
! Presidents purpose to win the South
/ OF the appointment of +. Dana Durand
/ TO succeed 5. n. d. North at the head
/ OF the Census Bureau.
| In general news this Sunday evening
edition gave the names of the victims Of
the only large disaster which has at
tended the American digging of the
Panama. Canal: recounted the burning
] OF historic SnfOn Hall Ctn11nrrn 10
/ ark, and announced the hnding Of the
yacht Of John Jacob Astor. Ambassador
| Griscom's appeal for aid for the suffer-
| ers at Mes6ina was first published in
this edition. as was the news of the
| death OF ". I. Buchanan, diplomatic
! agent OF this Government, and the i'm
| pressive accounts of the funerals Of Ed
! ward Everett Hale and Edwin H Har-
riman-
The District OF Columbia has provided
as much news for the Sunday issue as
for any other. The very first Issue CON
| tained two announcements of large I'm
portance 10 Washington-the Presidents
determination 10 have the Commiss. oner
OF Labor investigate the office u IN,
! District Building Inspector ami the
finding OF the special school house COM
mission that the local school buildings
did not expose the children 70 avoidable
danger from fire. Since then II has
set forth the charges IN the paving
scandal. Mrs. Maybdck's remarkable
arraignment Of COngTe ss for its neglect
Of the District Jail. the shaLe-up in the
] faculty Of the George Washington Med
lcal College, and the disconttnuanCe of
football at Georgetown University.
| News has become too much a tab
loid thing in American papers. As 70
the biggest stories Of the year the pub
Tic wants particularly 70 know Of the
| human side and where there Is so much
70 print on so many subjects the temp
taoon Is - --l----s=C everything TO a
bare skeleton.
one feature OF the AIunsey Sunday
evening editions has been an extremely
successful counteracting OF that ten
dency. The subject uppermost in the
public mind has been selected each
week A special correspondent has b. en-
assigned to cover It on the spot, 20 yet
TO the bottom. and above all 10 tell the
story so that its human side shall OBJ
tain the attention II merits. The result
work.
Close Studies.
From the kidnapping OF little Billy
Whitla % today's study OF the murder
Of Mrs. Ocey Snead there have ap-
peared IN series what might be termed
| newspaper photographs OF the most
thrilling incidents Of the year, or serious
thoughtful studies Of the greatest cues
tions. Whether II was the career Of un-
fortunate Bob Eastman and IT'S untimely
ending at WoodhilI, Md, or an investi-
CATION Ike that into the sugar frauds,
or an interview with a national dgure
Ike Mr.. Hill. II has invariably been
largely news. That kind of an investi-
cation could hardly fail to produce In
formation not previously printed. And
Il has had an interest for the reader not
| gurUassed by that Of the lending article
IN the successful magazines.
| The variety OF subjects so covered has
been enOrmOus-from the murder OF
Elsie Sigel to the first threatened
schism in Christian Science; from the
Icareer Of Mrs Tom Pierce TO an analysis
OF aviation and an intimate account OF
: the Wright brothers. After the first
/ of these special articles appeared there
was no reasonable doubt n feature had
been found which gave enViable dlstinc-
ton to the Sunday issue and that judg-
ment has since been sustained by
steady buying for the sake Of these
articles from the day Of their appear
ance throughout every weekday fol
lowing until the next Sunday supplants
the former with its corresponding study