Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-09-10

ways pathetic This particularly true Of newspaper IN
stuton that has panned century and that has included
on its staff galaxy of brilliant men,
The Montpelier Journal announced its suspension on
Saturday in the following valedctory to the public:
with this issue the Journal Publishing company sus-
ponds the publication of the Montpelier Morning Journal
1t has been the aim of the to produce
ve uptodate daily morning republican newspaper at the
capital with and belief that the public would
support such enterprise sufficiently to warrant Its con-
tnuance Experience has demonstrated either that the
field is limited that newspaper of the kind mentioned
is not appreciated From either aspect it deemed ad
visabe suspend it's publication. All unpaid bills will be
adjusted and persons indebted to the company
quested to settle the same"
Happy the Journal that in death faces Purgatory of
unpaid bills Thus closes newspaper older than the
Spirit of the Age of Woodstock, which ended its pubica
ton in its seventyhrd year July 26 1913 to give place
to the Elm Tree Monthly. The Waterman of which the,
Journal daily oshoot founded in November 1906,
under the of the vermont Precursor, by Clark
Brown who in the following sold to Samuel Goss,
and the latter in December 1907 changed its to he
Waterman"
The size of the pages the Waterman at that time
twelve by eighteen inches little larger than the Free
Press page folded each way and in with most
newspapers of that period its news mostly miscellany,
what would be regarded ancient history in the
shape of letters from Europe and elsewhere several months
old.
In 1910 Samuel Goss sold the Waterman Ezekiel P
Walton famous in Vermont journalism and still
ISOLATED with the centuy-od Vermont Register and
continued the publication for half dozen Mr.
Walton having become sole proprietor not later than 1917
The Waterman, which had absorbed the Vermont AntiNa
sonic party the State Journal in the late hrtes fol-
lowing the death of that political organization continued
under the combined and under the control of the Wal
ton family E. P Walton Jr, having purchased the paper
from his father in 1858 In 1868 passed into the control
of j. j. NJ Poland thus introducing another family
which has become famous in Vermont journalism politics
The elder Walton had interesting financial experience
not unfamiliar to pioneer newspapers At time he be-
pressed for that his newspaper plant
about to be attached for debts when he happened
Der copies of Washngon's Farewell address he
had recently printed which packed away and had
escaped the sheriff General Walton started out with team
peddlng the address, and he had sold sufficient copies
to relieve him from financial embarrassment.
j. NJ Poland retired from the Waterman and State
nal January $780, and the paper conducted by o-
seph Poland until April 1882 when sold to w. w.
Prescott who conducted only the Waterman which he
merged the Green Mountain Freeman but also the
Chronicle and the New Hampshire Journal both of the last
named being Congregational newspapers.
Mr. Prescott July 49, 1886 sold his newspapers to D.
Webster Dixon for many years connected with the St AL
bans Messenger associate editor with Albert
Clarke who subsequently became editor of the Rutland Her.
ad and still later secretary Of the Home Market club of
Boston.
In 1888 Mr. Dixon sold the Waterman and Chronicle to
Arthur Ropes company and then began of the
brilliant journalist recorded in Vermont newspaper
dom. Mr.. Ropes splendid writer and though he
frequently INDUCED in the most caustc criticism and
sionaly dipped his pen if NORWOOD and vitrio you al
ways wanted to read what he said.
In discussing the Vermont system of legislative repre-
sentaon for example, Editor Ropes wrote characteristic
editorial beginning with this typical paragraph "The Bur-
lngton News testing the resisting power Of it's young
Uranium by bucng against the States Legislative system 1t
nsdecng s efforts in butting against the Senate but
that ro~r rock of offence the borough basis
c representation in the House. very proper target
for head adamanne hardness and titanic force The rock
give such head odds and complaceny await the issue
Men have grown old and many have died in laborng
the State House of Representatives republican in the
of its constitution The accomplishment of this
form likely to judging from past experience only
when the Green Mountain ridge lowers it's crest and Mount
Mansfield and Cancels Hump descend to the level of the
waters of Lake Champaign
On Saturday, November 6, 1897, the Montpelier Daily
Record Charles F. Buswe manager made its initial bow
to the public and it claimed to have forced the publication
of daily edition by the Argus and Patriot combination
of the Patriot established by Isaac Hill in 1926 and the
Argus brought from Bellows Falls in 1868 by Hiram Atkins,
who bought the Patriot The struggle later resulted in the
taking of the Record by the Waterman and it's
tnuance evening journal the Chronicle having been