The Rising Ambition of Seattle’s P-I

At the annual meeting of the Post-Intelligencer Publishing Company, held Thursday afternoon, the following directors were elected to serve for the ensuing year: J. J. Hunt, Alfred Holman, P. J. Grant, Stewart B. Smith, Harold Preston and John A. Whalley. Mr. Hunt declined reelection to the presidency and Mr. Holman was chosen in his stead. The official organization of the paper is now as follows: Alfred Holman, president of the corporation and editor; P. J. Grant, vice president and associate editor; Stewart B. Smith, business manager; John A. Whalley, treasurer; Gilbert B. Smith, assistant treasurer; and Harold Preston, secretary. It may be added that Mr. Hunt now holds the entire issue of stock of the corporation, and is its sole proprietor. It is proper to say to the public that the Post-Intelligencer is now enjoying a high state of prosperity. Within the past twelve months the circulation of both its daily and weekly editions has nearly doubled. The paper goes into every township of the territory, has wide circulation in British Columbia, and reaches every mining camp and hamlet in North Idaho. The policy of the proprietor has been to spend the whole earnings of the paper in its improvement and to the extension of its relations to its field of circulation. This policy, or a policy even more liberal if circumstances shall make it desirable, will be continued with the idea of making a newspaper which shall at least have no superior on the Pacific Coast.