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Ripe in years, withered, but impeccably preserved in the traditions of the late George Apley, the Boston Evening Transcript this week hovered near death's door. Last hope was that Bostonians could offer some "prompt, sound alternative" to death. Publisher Richard N. Johnson suggested a last-minute miracle-public subscription by 1,000 citizens of $500 each. Failing this, he announced, the issue of April 30 would be the last...
...years ago the Transcript was given a transfusion of new capital, reorganization, modern format, a price boost from 3? to 5?. But the Transcript, immutably loyal to a vanished Boston, fitted Novelist Marquand's description of Wickford Point: "The whole place was like a clock which was running down, an amazing sort of clock, now devoid of weights or springs or hands, yet ticking on through some ancient impetus on its own momentum...
Founded in 1830 to afford worthy reading for the "better homes," the Transcript for 109 years was controlled by the family of Henry Worthington Button. In its antediluvian quarters across from the Old South Meeting House, the editorial offices of the Transcript reminded visitors of the sedate reading rooms of the Athenaeum. Reporters, scrupulously chosen with regard to social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman...
Although not noted for their high salaries, Transcript employes enjoyed the security of Civil Service employes. Once every 50 years the Transcript treated employes to a banquet. One of the co-owners, Henry D. Eustis, drove to work for years in a limousine, donned overalls to bale waste paper in the pressroom...
Periodically reprinting the Constitution and leading sermons preached east of the Mississippi, the Transcript specialized in nostalgic essays. But editorially the Transcript was not always a gentleman. Foe of book and stage censorship, in a city holding the record for censorship, the Transcript fought Prohibition, reported the Thaw case in "blunt, ugly words which pseudo-fastidious contemporaries mincingly blue-penciled." Famed for his acid if polished gusto was the Transcript's music and drama critic, the late H. T. ("Hell-to-Pay") Parker. But it was rumored that he wrote his first drafts in Latin...