Delaware's industries, an historical and industrial review . onducted the paper withmarked ability until January, 1882, when, Mr. Conraddeciding to resume tiis law practice, the property wassold. Conrad & Pennypacker obtained a charter forand organized the Neivs Publishing Company, towhich the paper was sold. The stockholders of thiscompany consisted of the late owners and a numberof the representative merchants, manufacturers andprofessional men of the city of Wilmington. The lateIsaac Henderson, of New York Citv, and for forty yearsjoint owner with the late William Cullen Bryant of theNew Yo
Delaware's industries, an historical and industrial review . onducted the paper withmarked ability until January, 1882, when, Mr. Conraddeciding to resume tiis law practice, the property wassold. Conrad & Pennypacker obtained a charter forand organized the Neivs Publishing Company, towhich the paper was sold. The stockholders of thiscompany consisted of the late owners and a numberof the representative merchants, manufacturers andprofessional men of the city of Wilmington. The lateIsaac Henderson, of New York Citv, and for forty yearsjoint owner with the late William Cullen Bryant of theNew York Evening:. Post, and Watson R. Sperry, agraduate of Yale University in the class of 71, whofor six years had been managing editor, and for threeyears the responsible editor, of the Evening Post, werethe priticipal stockholders. Mr. Sperry became editor-in-chief. The controlling stockholders at this time areWatson R. Sperry and Edgar M. Hoopes. Mr. Sperryis president and treasurer of the News PublishingCompany, and editor-in-chief of the Morning Delawares hidustries. ji Mr. Hoopes is secretary ot the company and businessmanager of the paper. He is a native of Ohio, andconies from the Western Reserve. He received athorough training in the newspaper business in thecounting-rooms of the Chicago Times and ClevelandLeader. He has entire charge of the business affairsof the Morning News. The new owners at once adopted an energetic andenterprising business policy. The paper was enlarged,the reportorial force increased, and within threemonths the plant was removed from the old MoryiingHerald office, on Shipley street, to the Mofning NewsBuilding, its present handsome and convenient quar-ters, at No. 511 Market street. The Morning News, under these conditions, be-came a potent force for good in the city and question of local and national importance wasably, fairly and fearlessly discussed in its editorial col-umns. It became the ally of every good influenceand the ad
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