After stripping the Journal to its heels it had very little to go on or to show for what had once been a prosperous business.

But circulation flowed in.

From eighteen hundred daily it quickly mounted to ten thousand; from fifteen hundred weekly to fifty thousand.

The middle of October it looked as if we had a straight road before us.
But I knew better.

I had discovered that the field, no matter how worked, was not big enough to support two rival dailies.