The “Tribune” Office, Fort George

ITHOUT a bright, snappy newspaper, a young and

energetic modern community can hardly exist. It

stirs ambition and stimulates activity as does no other intel-

lectual agency, and, when edited with judgment and ability,

not only suggests wise policies, but inspires and evokes the

driving, dynamic moral forces that underlay material and
municipal accomplishment.

Fort George is fortunate in the paper which reflects the
town’s ambitions and activities. The Tribune was founded
by John Houston, than whom British Columbia journalism
has produced no more forceful or picturesque figure. Shortly
after his death, it was acquired by Albert Dollenmayer, a
well-known Minneapolis and Washington journalist, and,
after his retirement from active control because of other large
interests, the paper’s good traditions have been continued by
Messrs. Playfair & Gordon, the former being business
manager, and the latter shaping the paper’s editorial policy.

The Tribune boasts a mechanical equipment unusually
complete when its distance from railway facilities is con-
sidered. It has two typesetting machines, and two of the

most modern cylinder presses, in addition to a platen press.
Though established only a few years, and in a district
hitherto almost as inaccessible as the heart of Africa, the
Tribune is at the present time completing its arrangements
to be issued as a daily, and possibly this will be an accom-
plished fact before this Album is received by those to whom
it will be sent. All arrangements have been completed for a
complete news service, the Tribune having secured the fran-
chise of the Canadian Associated Press, in addition to having
made all arrangements to cover its own very large imme-
diate field.

With characteristic energy the Tribune has completely
identified itself with the city whose ambitions and activities
it reflects. The best means of keeping posted as to Fort
George, its progress and development, is to read its columns,
and because many people who are interested in Fort George
realize this, the paper’s circulation is both large and widely
distributed. If you are interested in Fort George as the
result of looking over this Album, and desire to keep in touch
with conditions there, your best plan is to add your name to
the growing list of the Tribune’s subscribers.

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