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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1911)
-1 mmzm 1 well known by hi connection with th pony vxpre acre the plain. When Beo Holladay came to Port land he thought h hould hv a P prt upport hi project and wu not atlsfled with the rrer here. So h concluded to have ono of hi o-n. with Jame O'Meara a the editor. O'Meara hal published a weekly here years be fore, callej the Standard. That was In the 'SO. 1 was reluctant to go into a competition that would doubtless , iwt us a!l heavily, ami I offered to sell Holla. Uy the paper for i:o.i. He MtM he didn't want to Interfere with me. but preferred to estabiUh his on paper. So he Issued his paper, putting ut bo'h a morning nd evening edition and sT.ing both for J5 cenu a week. Th.- gnateet trouble was that the rail road men would go to merchants and it II them tf they didn't advertise In the railroal paper they could not have the ra.lroad's itronatfe. The oregonlan made thins a little h-irj. r f ir Holladay than he ex isted. After awhile he grew some- ?i it ti'ct of his paper, as It was . ootlr.s; a little too much. O'Meara wss a very extravagant man. He and his mm were all working by the piece end a printer would make 1100 a week. r."f rythlr.g was made "fat." or double l. i.le l. and they were ail working by th thousand em. O'Meara drew his Jt0- a wrek. and moat of the others nid. too. so that Holladay. whose Ger man money was running low. was cetttng short of funds. He called a meeting of the people on the bulletin, oregonlan and Heraid and we all went up to his house and had a conference. O'Meara was a laiy ft-ilow and he stood in with us. so that put through an agreement unJir which Hotladay agreed to stop hi morning paper, and rrtnt only the evening edi tion, leaving us In the morning Held. That suited O'Meara. because he didn't Ike aorklng ntghts. Then The Gre gorian began to pick up again, and .. .. tnVinr monev. In about nlno month after that I made l000 run ning The Oregonlan. But the money I made I put right back Into the pa per. Improving It. K..r ihti time II. W. l.'orbett and lAhn it V it. hell acre struggling fo the Senatortlp. Mitchell had the, benefit of Holladay Influence and moncj". and Corbett had money of his an. Corbett wasn't satisfied with The- Oregonlan. so he offered to buy the paper If I aould sell It. de t faring that U I didn't sell It he would -art a papr of bis own. I couldn't make money alth another paper- In the field, so I sold out a thre-8?th Interest to Corbett on a valuation basis for the paper of J i). 00 J. retaining two-firth. It ' at that time that the corporation aa organised. The sa to Cornell caused ....rm of H V. Scott's connec ttort with The Oregonlan. and W. Lair Mill camo In- Mr. S. ott fiil over to lh Bulletin. Holladay' paper. The war bec:ime more furious than ever. Holladay went back Into the morning B-ld. and we both k-aued on Sunday. It wss hard work for me. r.ut IIMladar's money was getting shorter a'l the time. He had to tail on politicians for money to keep up M paper. Thrn ram hard time. The Hultetln finally became so hard up that It couldn't get the news . th owner couldn't pay for It. I had a difficult time keeping them from stealing my pews. It was nol easy o g-t out Th Oregonlan without giving the Bulletin boys a chance to get a . ot . They would watt for The Ore gonUn. and then put all their men at work setting up th Bulletin from The tregonian. liefore Holladay became so em bar -raised, the three paper bought the ni tog'ther. I made a mltake in not shufJng them out In the first place, for as It waa arranged the new cam t. u In such a way that any one paper was respon sible for the whole bill. Tony Noltner. a Democratic politician for 4' year. ho publish"! a paper In Corvat !n ahich was suppree-d In aar times. r -ueJ the news for two year, at my etperjte. The other newspapers were supposed to pay it mc and I was re sponsible to the California State Tele-gra-h Company. I finally ecurd ex i liiive telegraphic ervlce. and then worked hsrd to keep the others away frent It. The result ft It as that I ought the Bulletin office at Sheriff lie. II. W. Soott. In the meantime, had become Collector of Customs. Af-i-r the expiration of hi term of offlee Mr. Scott bought part of Mr. Corbett interest In the paper. The stockhold m of the raper were H. W. Scott. H.W. Corbett. W. Lair Hill. Barney Oold- .mlth. Ir. tlson Bowlby. Alanson MinroAB. H. T. Thompson and myself. The Bulletin went out of existence In IS7S. Gradually Mr. Scott and l ac quired all Th Oregonlan stock, and were sot owner at the time of hts death. Mr aoctatlon w-lth Mr. Scotl from 177 to lfl was close and unin terrupted, though I did not always rind mvself In full harmony with his atti tude or policies on pubilr questions. In we had considerable oppo sition from the Northwest New a It was started by Knstern people. It sj a very good raper. But after a year or two It failed. Th next on waa the Morning Sun. In the early days when opposition came In It divide: up the business. I had always aimed to spend verythJng I made In building up the oarer. Having no capital. I he p.rer. Having no capital. I pent all th earning In buying new nd aiming to make The Oregonlan be equal of any one of the California papers. So when an opposition paper , ame In. It took oft all the profits, t el that very thing killed the opposition to speak. The reason I couid not make money a the reason they failed. On after another they went out of existence until the town grew large enouxh to support two paper. (1 in J " " - -- . i in fact, we were dolr.g so well that we thought we wiyild put up a bulld- Irg of our on. v' had alwaya rent- e. b-for thaf. and being near the ater front the floods bothered u. ii t'ma the flood from the river . so bad that the b.) in the press room had to wad about In the atrr. It kpt ri'ln until at laet it struck the ,,r r,.. nr We nrlnted mouth .pt.a for th city edition on the'Job upaTair. i tnins ut hi-iin-. 10. We didn't rrl the tapers to the country on time that .lay. Aftr this experience w made up tvir mins e wouu nave mote, hlch w did befor the preenl Ore- minds e would have l more. fc-ontan building wa really finished. At nrst th composing-room a well as th. pressroorn wa, the cellar. In M4 the bt-t rood or ail came, ana to keep the waler out of th ne btllld. leg w had to use pumps. Th water nt,w has a larg and Important collec Hatked In from th sewers, and except Hon of Oreaoti rellos. In-ludtng early Xor tie pumiis. Ua water would have Mwjjr aad. otLer pubUcaUoaa, iUUI tctl VI. . - Before that we had thought the flood of '7. which came up on Front street about four feet deep, would be the highest water mark. It was fortunate for us that we left the water front when we did. aa the flood or 4 would have prevented us from Issuing the paper at all. The water was ten feet deep on the floor of the building we had formerly oc cupied. When we went Into the new build ing, the Marquam block waa Just be ing started, and the Portland Hotel waa under way. There a no busi ness at all on Sixth street. In the hard times of 1S9J we suf fered like everyone else. We were then putting up the present building, and. like every other new bulldln. It cost about talce as much aa originally pUnned. To finish it we effected loan with the Equitable Life for 1100.. 000. We paid the money before It be came due. but after we recovered from that the depression wa tlll felt. But the hardest time I ever had. not ex cepting the hard time of "92 and '93. waa In the "70s. when Ben Holladay was after me. In all my newspaper experience the only personally disagreeable thing I ever had to meet wa when I came near having to fight a duel. It wa In early war lime. General Alvord was at the time stationed at Vancouver, and Major Framl wa Paymaster General. The news came to u'one day that Lieutenant V. T. Welker had been dismissed from the Army for dis loyalty. We published the tory the same day, and on the second day . Welker walked into my office with Captain John C. Alnsworth a his friend, and told me unWea I publicly apologised wtthln two or three day I have forgotten which he would call me out. I Immediately wrote to Gen eral Alvord about It. and he cnt me the official announcement of Lieuten ant Welker discharge and the gen eral order. I armed myself with them against the time when the Lieutenant would return. But the next I heard of Welker he was over at Victoria, and Idn't come back. a thrillln- experience we naa t,irinr ihn Chinese riota here. - k.n u . .r. r.hirA to barricade the office. We opposed the driving out of the Chinese, and I have a long list of name of person who signed state ment supporting us In our conten tion. An effort was made to mob the plant, and threats of burning u out were made That wa In the earty "0. Purrrfg that time we sent Alfred Ilolman to Seattle, to write up the riot there. They thought o much of him. that from that experience he waa made editor of the Post-Intelligencer. The election that year hlr.ged on whether or not Governor Tennoyer should have a Chinaman ash hi shirts n ,ha Spring of 1S3. when Coxcy nJ mJ1 arm- were In the public eye, wo w.re Kan threatened by a moh. Three times we came near otrina burned out. In tho big fire of 17J were on the river bank. The fire came down Washington street. Then at another time, when the Cosmopol itan Hotel, on the river front, across the treet from u. caught fire, we very nearly burned out, too. Our building caught fire several time. At another time park from th ferryboat set our office a-flre. Sparks frll in cracks of the board at th rear f the building one Sunday and burned the edge of the paper on which we were to print The Oregonlan next morning. We ent out the paper with the edge burned. When the ho tel burned we moved our thing out. and moved them back again after the fire. The hotel fire was In the '70. That w-y the hotel where B. G. Whltebous'had hi tage office. II wa clled the Arrlgonl Hotel before that and waa named for the proprietor. At one time I had the better of Arrlgonl. Cider was hlppd In to him from the country In barrets. The similarity be tween his name and that of The Ore gonlan caused one barrel to be sent up to my house. Some of the country people couldn't spell Oregonlan -very well, so I supposed somebody had sent down a barrel of cider to me a a am ple. an! I used It- Arrlgonl traced It up and found It was sent to my house. But by that time I had treated all the bov at the offl.-e. Ir. O. P. 8. Plumracr. who conducts a drugstore at Third and Jefferson streets, was at one time manager of the California State Telegraph Com pany, and uted to put in a bill to me every Saturday night for the tele graphic news of the week. If I didn't . . i i riuin't set anr more new s. At that time I had to pay $1S.S0 every Wf.lt ,n ,iCCTaph tol!s. Sometime It m.ouM run nt,,, than that. At ono time I came very near being hut off. Mr. Davidson, who w look ing after the office while I wa In Pa-K-m. refused to pay the bill. beos he said It was too high. So they sent the Mil to mo with the assurance that the news would be promptly stopped If I did not pay. Many people do not realise that It costs The Oregonlan more for Its tele graphic news than It does the Chicago dallies. The telegraph toll are graded upon a calo according to the distance. Chicago Is nearer the great new cen ters, hence ha to pay le In tele graph tolls. When I took charge of The Orego--i .r. r a.t.t-mlneJ to enforce cash pay ment for subscription and of weekly to m. printer employe and ' ' ,.,f- t -one home B s,., right without.- dol- pocket, but. with the com- f,,llng that the men In my of- ,d In 180 I cut off on.lHl)UlK .ubscrlber. and while t materially reduced the cir- . t,on ,t that time. It paid In the Jf Th 0regonUn hM ,ue w"ed whf. h,,, haVe failed. It ms to me that I. Is largely because it h been conauowa on oujmtn principles, and not as a sort of public gratuity. It has from th first been the fundamental policy of Th Orego nlan to get the new at any cost ami to print It fully, accurately and Im partially. The Oregonlan ha been at l. d much by good fortune, but I think I may fairly say that It has al mJ, en and mer It opportunities l.lMkb lllalsrleal Datl Throurit th Oregon Historical So ciety, which occupies rooms In the I'ortland City Hall, much Is being done to collect and preserve Information r...,.r(lln nrMn hlstnrv. This or- ' -- - gsnlsatlon wa formed on December i. ! tempt to organise had b-en mad. Th AsMn w m m I 4 p A am V I W. vaA f a n ifJ " w -lc..- ,ld c. B r; secretary. F. E. Toung. . " " . r, " I ne socieiy TOE MORNING OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, H. W. SCOTT. THROUGHOUT CAREER, AMONG FOREMOST AMERICAN EDITORS Eminent Journalist, Whose Death Occurred in 1910, Left Impress of Scholarship, Remarkable Men tality and Broad Vision on Editorial Page of The Oregonian, Which He Directed for 40 Years. DURING practically all of It exis tence as a dally newspaper the editorial page of The Oregonlan ha been the rerbal Imprint of the wis dom, foresight and literary attain ment of one man the late Harvey Whltefleld Scott. Fashioned of that brawn and endur ance that enabled the Western pio neer to subdue the wilderness and if that strong mentality that Is never turned backward by any obstacle in the pursuit of knowledge, Mr. Scott brought to The Oregonlan in 1865 a physique, a perseverance, an ambition, a grasp of dally problems and a liter ary style that have had few parallel In moderfl Journalism. He schooled his subordinate along the same line of endeavor. o that today the recog nized editorial standard of The Ore gonlan Is a lasting monument to him who passed away In Baltimore on the seventh day of last August. Mr. Scott came to Oregon in 1852, then a stalwart boy of 14 year, driv ing an ox team for hi father, John Tucker Scott, over the rough Oregon trail from far away Illinois. He reached Oregon with an education that would be considered meager for a boy of 14 years In the present day. but with a knowledge of hard work and an ability to accomplish It such as are found among few youths In these later time. ' The boy first work In Oregon wa In aiding hi father In clearing land In Yamhill County. The family remained there but one year, however, and then moved to what Is now the State of Washington, settling near the present town of Shelton, on what a still called "Scott Prairie," about i0 mile north west of Olympla. Four year were occupied In arduous toll, with Inter mittent attendance at the primitive schools of the day, and broken once by service with the white settler In quelling the bloody Indian outbreak of 1855 and 1856. From early boyhood Harvey Scott exhibited a thirst for education. In 1857. hearing of the pioneer school which then ranked as an academy but held tho title of Pacific University, he determined -to pursue hia studies at Forest Grove. The means of communi cation bet wen Puget Sound and the Columbia River at that period were over rough trails that led through dense forest and across the larger stream only where they could be forded. The boy, then 19 year of age, . . ' T. ACCOM PANTINO this article are pictures of the first and third presses that were used In printing The Oregonlan. The smaller machine wss taken from New Tork Stat to San Francisco by Thomas J. Dryer. There, early In July. 1850. he met William W. Chapman and Stephen Coffin who had gone to California from Portland to ar range for the publication of a paper In this city. Mr. Dryer crae to Port land th editor of The Oregonlan. and the press, one of the old Itamsge jnodais, arrlvad here la November. !. I . . y m-w MirtMITT 4 TvT PTTI T UVTCT I ' 11 K5T FKliSSliS USED Ul Ltl& UKUUUiMAiN oiii xva ) t . " ... ' .. . - :. J f i - ' , - r " . . I If . ; .J ..... ' ! jewrsjr, " m n mm - w m .i inniui" . swwkV ,f i i , "r;.l " ' 1 ! i I - - - MH ' - I . ,Js , ;th i 3 L f - il J "-v-l !. - ' . ' . . . . .j l - , ' ' IT- A'a . . ,,.. ,r .- TTTSTTf- . . .toi....A..,..-j.aai f aA W 1 v-wwMi . m , , v- U! .... Lj ' .n- ? made the Journey overland on foot, swimming the stream that intervened and carrying hia clothing and books on hia back for nearly 200 mile. He had sufficient money only for a few months of schooling, and when his funds were gone waa compelled to leave the university and go to work. In 1859 his father returned to Ore gon and settled on a farm at the foot of Gales Peak, three mile west of Forest Grove. On this place there was a sawmill and the younger Scott worked there at times, and on other occasion helped clear the lands be longing to neighbor. His earnings be came a fund to be used In further prosecution of Ms studies, which were pursued at both Forest Grove and Oregon City, but mainly at Pacific University at Forest Grove. Often he waa the only atudent in his class at the pioneer university. He waa finally graduated from the Institution In 1863, becoming its first alumnus. In addition to manual labor on the farm hi early work included school teaching, and shortly after graduating he went to Idaho, remaining there a year during the gold mining excite ment of the early '60s. Mr. Scott returned to Oregon in 1864 and took up the study of law In the office of Judge E. D. Shattuck In Portland, and later was admitted to the bar. During one period The Oregonlan, after it had been acquired by H. L. Plttock, wa without an editor, and Mr. Plttock wa In Salem filling the office of State Printer. Judge Shat tuck occasionally ' contributed to -the editorial column of The Oregonlan and under pressure of private business at one time recommended Mr. Scott for that work. The latter undertook the task of writing editorials for a few days, or until Mr. Plttock could send a man from Salem to take edi torial charge of the paper. The temporary work of Mr. Scott ' Impressed Mr. Plttock and the readers of The Oregonlan favorably, and when. In 1865. Samuel A. Clarke retired as editor of The Oregonlan, Mr. Scott was offered tho permanent position. He gave up entering a legal career and accepted the offer. Mr. Scott was oditor of The Ore gonlan from 1865 to 1875. Following the sale of a controlling Interest in The Oregonlan to H. W. Corbett, Mr. Scott severed his connection with the paper. M waa annointe.d Collector of Customs for the Port of Portland, and at the . a. - -A i x d.. at niMjiji - g cue .f 3 cavciwr.t The press was used by The Oregonlan until March. 1851. when it was taken to Olympla. Wash., by A. M. Berry, first foreman of, The Oregonlan. There It was used. September 11. 1852, In printing the Pioneer, the first paper north of the Columbia River. It was later Installed for the publication of the first paper Issued In Seattle, and Is now In the museum at the Univer sity of Oregon. A Washington hand press was the second machine used by The Oregonlan. It was later taken to Idaho. It Is not knowa wbr this press is today. 4. 1911. ' ' " ' FEBRUARY expiration of his term of office, Mr. Scott bought part of Mr. Corbett's in terest In the paper, and again assumed editorial charge. During the 33 years that followed he was in continuous service as editor-in-chief of Th Oregonian. Ad vancing age did not Impair his facul ties, but he grew in mental breadth to the last days of his career. Even dur ing the severe stage of his last illnes he continued to give the editorial page his personal sdpervlslon and direction. He suggested topics for discussion and almost daily there appeared an article from his pen. His labors ceased only on the day that, accompanied by members of his family, he departed for Baltimore to undergo the surgical operation that accentuated a weak ness of the heart and brought' about his death. Mr. Scott set a notable example for the other members of The Oregonlan staff. He wai In his office mornings and afternoons, and seldom ended his labor or studies before 10 o'clock at night. He was an omnivorous reader of newspapers, periodicals and stan dard literature. He was a close stu dent of history, of the Bible, of Shakespeare, of Milton, of Burke, and of the ancient classics. He not only read Milton' "Paradise Lost," but committed so that 50 years later ho could repeat the Immortal poem word for word. Latin and Greek authors were among his favorites, and he read their works almost dally. Observers look upon Mr. Scott's grasp of the monetary question as de picted in the editorial columns of Tho Oregonian and his fearless and vigi lant opposition to what was then tho prevailing sentiment In the community as one of the most notable examples of his strength of mind and soundness of logic. Western development and growth and an advancement of Portland, and Oregon In particular, received much of his best endeavor, and to his writ ings on these subjects it is acknowl edged, i largely due the great rail road development now in progress in this state. . Mr. Scott took time from his private labors to participate in and encourage many efforts to advance the civic, edu cational and .commercial welfare of the community. He was president of the Lewis and Clark Fair Corporation, and the Government appropriation for that fair was due to his efforts in Washington, D. C; he was a member n isirraTw ' l V v.. -x 'v - - i ,r - r W'T'S - ' V : . Aifv - - m0..-f:-M ..a-C. r The other press here reproduced Is a single-cylinder Hoe, which was In stalled by The Oregonlan in 1862, more than-a year after the paper had been Issued as a dally. Louis F. Chemln came to Portland to set up this press. He became foreman of the pressroom in which position he remained for many years. This wss the first steam press north of San Francisco, although steam was not used in It operation for orae time after it had been Installed. It wa used by The Oregonlan until 1S71. It Is still being operated In the office of the UUisboio Argus. 1 a 6 " I -wA -w-e.r of the Portland Water Board that built the present water system, and of the State Text Book Commission: he was president of the board of trustees of the Pacific University at the time of his death; he assisted in drafting the present charter of the City of Portland; he aided In the reorganiza tion of that great news-gathering medium, the Associated Press, and was one of the directors of the organ ization; he was offered by President Taft, but declined, the post of Ambas sador to Mexico; he took a deep inter est and a considerable part in politics but was not a seeker for office; he attended as delegate many Republican state conventions, and was a delegate to the Republican National conven tions In 1876, 1880, 1884 and 1904. Mr. Scott died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., Sunday. Au gust 7, 1910, at the age of 72 years, leaving a vacancy on The Oregonian that will probably never be filled In the complete sense of the word. Services In memory of his death were held at Pacific University, Forest Grove, September 29, 1910, when a notable character sketch of Mr. Scott was given In the course of an address by William D. Fenton. Mr. Fenton said In part: "And what of this man? What were the strong lines upon which he builded character? Physically he was a man of splendid proportions, magnificent presence, strong and courageous face, and massive head. Ho was diffident, somewhat blunt and direct in manner, and disinclined to mingle freely with his fellows. He had lived much of his life in the study and surrounded by his intimate associates. His early life was passed in the fields, the forest, and the freedom of a sparsely settled country. His student life was singu larly free .from the diversions that attend modern university life. He had no opportunity for anything besides hard manual labor and severe mental discipline. This, indeed, gave color and scheme to his whole career. Goethe has well said: 'Talents are. best nurtured In solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world." He was the most remark able English scholar this state has produced. His knowledge of the Eng lish classics was absolute. He thought as Shakespeare and Milton wrote and every hedgerow of England was his playground. Nor did his knowledge of English literature limit his other great achievements. The Latin mas terpieces were his pastime. His tren chant style was the product of his early study of the great masters of English prose-. Macaulay and Burke, Addison and Goldsmith were to him the choicest companions. He never tired of that great masterpiece of Edmund Burke, delivered in 1780, at Guildhall, In Bristol, and as he con templated the clatter and noise of the demagogue of our modern times he could say with Burke: "No, the charges against me are all of one kind; that I have pushed the princi ples of general justice and benevolence too fat- farther than a cautious policy Would warrant, and farther than the opinions of many would go along with me. In every accident which may happen through life, In pain and sor rbw, in depression and distress. I will call to mind this accusation and be comforted." It has been said of him ONLY FOUR PAGES IN INITIAL SUNDAY PAPER Giant Publication of Present Day Has Developed From Small Folder in Less Than 30 Years. LESS than 80 years go, namely De cember 4, 1881, the first issue of The Sunday Oregonian was pub lished. It consisted of four pages. The Issue of December 4, 1910, consisted of 81 pages. These figures tell part of the story of Its growth. Like The Morning Oregonlan. the Sunday paper was a development. It was conceived and launched before demand for a seven-day paper had been voiced. As in all other matters which contribute to the Intrinsic value of a newspaper, the founder of this Journal kept ahead of the procession. When publication of The Sunday Oregonlan began Oregon had only 175,000 inhabitants, all told; Washing ton 75.000; Idaho too small to be con sidered. Not a single train left Port land on Sunday In 1881, nor for more than a year thereafter. Steamboats to Astoria, to the Cascades, to Kalama in connection with the Northern Pacific, which operated a line to Tacoma, did not run on Sunday. There was no way for out-of-town subscribers of The Mornirfg Oregonian to receive the Sun day Issue on the day it was printed. These conditions did not deter the owners. They set out to make a paper so good in every way that a consider able number of people throughout Ore gon and Washington would want it even when It was one day behind time. The Sunday Oregonian was almost an instantaneous ' success from the financial point of view. It was estab lished without flourish of trumpets. Thirty' years ago the art of publicity as practiced in the 20th century was unknown. Enterprising newspapers Just did things and trusted to the read ing public for whatever reward was their due. No canvassers were sent out to secure subscriptions nor solicitors for advertising. On Monday, November 28, 1881. six days in advance, the lead ing editorial announced the coming of The Sunday Oregonlan. Among other statements the prospectus contained the following promise: "The Sunday newspaper is a neces sity In every considerable community. Such newspaper, properly conducted, fills a large and widening field. It not only supplies the news, the staple of the true newspaper, but touches or treats a great variety of matters for which large numbers are accustomed to look Into a paper on that day. . . . As a separate and Independent paper The Sunday Oregonlan will occupy a special domain of Its own, and while It cannot yet be a metropolitan Journal, as no paper published in a small city can be. It will in every way be equal to Its opportunities and to the business which Its field will afford." Whether The Sunday Oregonlan has in every way been equal to its oppor tunities let the Pacific Northwest attest. In the first Issue the only reference to Itself was contained in this para graph: "On the 4th of December. 1850, the first number of v The Oregonian ap peared. This day, December 4, 1881, Just thirty-one years later, we begin publication of the paper every day In the year. The coincidence is acci dental, and therefore perhaps the more worthy of notice." For some years The Sunday Oregon lan maintained the distinction of a separate and independent newspaper. While the personnel of the editorial, news and mechanical departments of the Sunday Issue was almost identical with that of the w-eek-day paper, the subscription and advertising depart ments were not merged with the older (organization until attar tb middle 'SOl. that he was Intolerant of the opinion of others, but his intolerance was that of a man who looked above and be yond the petty Jealousies and clamors of the hour. He was conscious of his power and strength, and used both to demolish error or defend established principles of government. He was not a mere mercenary, giving of his brain and life that he might lead the popu lar craze of the hour. He was a writer of the old and better school of Jour nalism, free from catchword and self righteousness. He had profound and abiding faith in the stability of our institutions, and steadily held to th landmarks of experience. His death at this time of social and economic unrest Is a public calamity. Such men are needed to guide, steady and direct the future, and to such men the future must appeal, to restate and re-enforce the elemental truths of popular gov ernment equal and exact justice to all, and special privileges to none. Justice that does not preach destruc tion of the fruits of sobriety. Industry and thrift, but protects those who have struggled through poverty, like him. to become useful factors in our com plex civilization. Special privileges to none j the sense that all men are equal before the law and all agencies created by that law shall be held un der Just control, without hypocrisy or clamor and without injustice or revo lution. "As a scholar he wa without any superior, as a writer without a suc cessor, and as the product of our pio neer life he had few if any equals in all that makes life and character val- uable. "It is not necessary to speak of the sweetness and purity of his private life of tho endearment of home or of the fellowship of those who were close to him. He -wa3 all that any man should be in all these close and sacred relations. Robert C. Winthrop has well said: " 'The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity is that of a good character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to tho youth of his native land is that of a shining, spotless ex ample.' "In his last years lie -was much given to reverie and reflection, as is usual with men who have lived to some purpose. His views were steady and strong and settled, but somewhat softened, and held with larger char ity because better understood and more generally accepted. In these days of jetsam and flotsam in public life he saw the emptiness of much that is said and more that Is done, and the littleness of the pygmies that sometimes struggle over place ami power and it was only when driven that his great editorials rang out like a call to battle. But he has fought his last fight, he has answered the last roll call, he has written his last burning- sentence. He was ready to lay down his armor, but his state wa not ready to see him leave the battle field, and as he saw the precious mo ments go, when the summons came, his tired and weary heart gave voico to the beautiful words of John Green leaf Whlttier: "That death seems but a covered way, Which opens into light. Wherein no blinded child can stray ieyona me miner hikui- There were separate carriers, separate contracts for advertising, separate In dividual subscriptions in' city and country and separate accounts. How ever, The Sunday Oregonian was never separate and Independent in the sense that The Weekly Oregonian has al ways been. Subscribers of The Weekly seldom see a copy of the daily paper, though many of them take the Sunday paper, not especially for its news, but for the many other distinguishing fea tures. On the other hand, subscribers to The Morning Oregonian were eager for the Sunday edition from the start. Desp'te the lack of distribution facili ties a very large percentage of sub scribers outside of Portland, satisfied to read it one day late, took the Sunday paper. In Portland and the immediate suburbs there was universal instanta neous demand. When, in 1S82. the O. R. & N. Company established daily trains and again in 1S83 the Northern. Pacific and O. R. & N. made up a trans continental service the circulation grew rapidly. A few years later, with Sun day trains to the north, south and east, readers of The Sunday Oregonian out numbered those of the weekday paper. Since then this relative circulation haa been maintained, or rather The Sunday Oregonlah has steadily In creased its lead. During December, 1910, the average circulation exceeded the daily l.y more than 13,000. In a general way it may be said that ever since The Sunday Oregonlan was founded the best effort of every mem ber of the staff was put forth upon it. Of course Its staple has ever been Its news. In this direction no expense which could be kept within the income of the paper was considered too great. As the paper grew new features were added, especially designed to meet the need and teste of every reader in the home. The variety of human Interest topics touched upon is almost Infinite. No one department was pushed for ward to the detriment of another. When more space was needed,, the pa per was enlarged. Eight pages suf ficed for a few years; then 12, then 16. 24 and on up to the time when, under pressure of advertising, the regular edition has required 90 or more pages. Any one of half a dozen departments now calls for larger expenditure than was involved In the entire paper when it started. The telegraphic markets, a subordinate feature on Sunday, con tain more words than the Associated Press carried daily in 1S81. Cost of the special news service exclusive to The Oregonlan, daily and Sunday, Is far larger now thrn the tolls of the Associated Press. For1 more than ten years there were no illustrations. About 1S90 this popu lar feature was taken up. New pro cesses of zinc etching made it possib'? in newspaper work. These were at once seized upon. For ten years illus trations were confined to line draw ings. Then came half-tones and with them the need of skilled staff photo, graphers. Then printing in colors. Following a policy from which it never swerved in half a century, the manage ment always kept ahead of the proces sion in new features, as well as the old. Merely to sketch the features which go to make up the several sections of The Sunday Oregonian would make a small volume. Of. the earnest mental and physical labor of hundreds upon whom depends each issue it is not nec essary to speak. And with what result? Let The Sun day Oregonlan itself give answer. Pub lished in a sparsely settled region" for the Pacific Northwest by compari son with the Middle West has small population it is eagerly expected once a week and eagerly read by more than 300,000 men. women and children.