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and interesting. City news-gathering was revolutionized, and the modern method of giving bald statements of fact some measure of literary finish was adopted. The regular A. P. dispatches were supplemented by special wires from all quarters, and it was not long before the paper had succeeded in organizing the most efficient news service of the Canadian Pacific Coast.

This invincible, unvaried spirit of enterprise has been one of the most important factors in making The Province so successful. It has one of the most complete and up-to-date plants on the Coast, and no expense has been spared in equipping the establishment with modern machinery and whatever would conduce to the successful operation of the business.

Some years ago Mr. Bostock sold his remaining interest in the business to Mr. Nichol. Of late Mr. Nichol has done little actual writing for the paper himself, devoting his energies almost entirely to the general management of the business, which has grown to be the largest publishing business in the Canadian West, with the solitary exception of the Free Press, of Winnipeg. In bringing his newspaper up to its present standard, Mr. Nichol's methods have been those of a sound businessman. In a long experience as a newspaper owner and editor he had realized the fact that the success of a daily paper depends upon its excellence and reliability, and that in the long run these qualities must win. To make The Province, then, the most complete from the standpoint of its news service, the most reliable and the most readable, was the aim with which he set out, and which he has ever since kept steadily in view. He had been a constant reader and ardent admirer of the New York Sun during its palmy days, when Charles A. Dana was at its head, and when the most brilliant writers of the United States were on its staff. During his career as a newspaper editor Mr. Nichol has invariably followed the practice of

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