Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-19
the writing on the wall that his example
will DO largely followed between now and
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CHARLES +. lIAsBRooK

n I season in his years when most men
4 contemplate retirement from the cares
and burdens OF active business life Charles
Il. Hasbrook came TO Richmond and assumed
the general management and editorial direc-
ton OF The Timcs-Dispatch. Today, after
moro than six years OF devoted service to
this newspaper, and through it TO Richmond
and Virginia, his duties arc ended. His
voice and his pen are stilled forever. He
often had expressed the wish, once voiced
by his friend Eugene Field. that when the
call for him came il would find him serving
That wish was granted.
The death of Colonel Hasbrook removes
n notable figure from the world of news
paper making, one who had known init
matcly and worked with the old-school Jour
nalists, Dana, Pulitzer. Bennett, Greeley,
Cockcrill, Mumford, and others or that dis
tnguished group of newspaper men who
passed on before him. Yet, having the ad
vantage of such training and such personal
relationships, and imbued with all the best
traditions of American journalism, lie was
not of the old. or personal, school He was,
indeed, one OF the few connecting links be-
tween the old and the new schools, and to
The Times-Dispatch lie brought all that was
desirable from both.
When on April 1G, 1914, he assumed
charge of this newspaper, Colonel Hasbrook,
in few effective words, outlined what was
to be his policy. That policy he compressed
into the words accuracy" ''promptness"
and fairness" and his watchword was
Justice, Justice to the small, as we'll as
TO the great, to the rich no less than to the
poor" justice that would not permit the
sacrifice Of Independence to win the favor
OF any interest, however powerful With
what fidelity he carried out that policy in
the making OF this newspaper only those
who worked with him day in and day out,
year following year. can understand. In
deed, his whole life. so far as the public is
concerned can be summed up in the two
words service" and Justice" and to these
ideals he was faithful unto the end.
When he came to Richmond. Colonel Has
brook, known as the successful publisher Of
representative newspapers in the East and
West, made his first business incursion into
the South He was not Southern by birth,
yet he came OF old Virginia stock was a
Democrat of the Tildcn- Cleveland school, and
was possessed of sympathes in accord with
the traditions and sentiments of the new
territory into which he had come TO make
his home. Thus fortified by ripe experience
as we'll rs by sentiment he quickly became
identified with the city and State OF his
adoption, and to him The Times Dispatch
became not merely newspaper but an in
sttution' inseparably bound up with tho
moral and material wcl-being of both their
success always closest TO his heart
TO members Of the working force of this
newspaper, the death of The Colonel
brings a sense OF grievous personal loss for
in their relations with him they realized
that he took deep interest in them indi-
ydually and with intelligent foresight
planned for their welfare