Page:Portland, Oregon, its History and Builders volume 1.djvu/692

506 patronage driven off. It is now published by Mr. C. H. Clute as a legitimate enterprise.


 * The Milwaukie Record, Milwaukie, Col. Jas. P. Shaw, editor and proprietor.
 * Mount Scott News, Arleta, H. F. Pfeifer, editor.
 * Mount Scott Tribune, Lents, Byron E. Crawford, editor.
 * Sellwood Bee, Sellwood, Charles I. Price, editor.
 * St. John's Review, St. Johns.

The following is a summary of the Daily Press of 1910.


 * Managing owner, H. L. Pittock.
 * Asst. manager, C. A. Morden.
 * Managing editor, Edgar B. Piper.
 * City editor, O. C. Leiter.
 * Sunday editor, N. J. Levinson.
 * Night editor, Paul R. Kelty.
 * Weekly editor, W. J. Cuddy.
 * Telegraph editor, L. K. Hodges.
 * Markets editor, J. M. Lownsdale.
 * Advertising manager, W. J. Hoffman.
 * Circulation manager, A. K. Slocum.
 * Superintendent mechanical departments, David Foulkes.

This seems to be the proper place to insert such mention of Harvey Whitefield Scott, who was for forty-three years editor of the Daily Oregonian, as I am capable of making. I first met Mr. Scott in the editorial room of the old Oregon Statesman in 1866. He had come to Salem to call on the young lady he afterwards married. And as he entered the old sanctum he towered above the surroundings as a giant. His stature and strength were prepossessing. I was then the editor of the Statesman, which had a larger weekly circulation than the Oregonian, of which Mr. Scott was the editor. He was then as ever afterwards as positive in his political views, and as ready to express them, as at any time in his life; and we soon got into a warm argument over the respective merits of the then "greenback" currency, and the strictly gold and silver currency, the advocacy of which distinguished Mr. Scott's editorial career. But from that time we remained friends throughout life, although often differing widely about men and measures.

The main characteristics of Harvey W. Scott were his great capacity for work; for long continued strenuous mental combat for what he deemed right, and against what he deemed wrong; for his courageous advocacy of his opinions; for his great comprehension of all the factors influencing the progress of society and the welfare of mankind; for his intimate knowledge of the history of peoples and governments; and his ability to enlighten his readers on a vast number of subjects. Other men might surpass him on one thing or another; but on the whole curricula of human knowledge, opinion and philosophy he never had his equal in Oregon, or among his contemporaries in the United States.

Many persons have thought him to have been unsympathetic. But there never was a greater mistake. Under the bluff exterior the tender heart was there; and all that was needed to arouse its instant action was the honest purpose; the meritorious object.