Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-02-18

EsrAp1IsHEp.-T following story of the
origin Of the New Orleans Picayune, for
the last Is years and still the leading new''
paper of the Southwest, is told by writer
in the Albany Statesman :
Twenty-tbree years ugo we Stuck type
in the same alley, in the printing othce OF
the New Yorker, edited and published by
Horace Greeley Geo. wilkins Kendall,
1.-THE protector of the New Orleans Picay-
Hne. J Morgan Bates, 1--WE think since a
mariner in the publication of the Detroit
Advertiser o. A. Bowe, (who was a fel.
low apprentioe with Greeley, and afterward |
nnblished a paper at Little Falls stood at
tbc case in the same Office. Bowe and |
PAIGE are now dead. Kendall is still liv-
;pg hut has abandoned the chair editorial |
nr sheen raising on the plains Of Texas
He left The Yorker Office to commence the |
Picayune, having acquired the capital for
! that enterprise in way that would hardly
he considered orthodox in a moral commu-
nity. Before leaving New York, Kendall
had 'tramped' the South as jour printer
! travelled Ser information, as he said, thro'
every principal village and city in the south
ern states, sometimes on steamboats, some
times in stage-coachcs (there was but one
railroad in the South then, from Charleston
to Augusta, J and not unfrequently on foot,
with his baggage on his back, pendant IN
handkerchief from his walking stick. Some
times he was flush and well dressed-some-
times strapped and seedy,-but always
witty, genial, and gentlemany. In his adj
ventures. he had frequently been boon com
pauon with many of the most eminent men
of the country. The AStor House then
was but lust opened, and extensively visited
Inv southerners. 1t was fashion with Ken
dali to patronize that establishment after
working hours. Strolling over there one
evening after having washed up he was
agrceably surprised to meet several gentle
men whom be had known as merchants aud
t LAWYERS and doctors, at Nachez, Mississippi
After iuleps all round, and a sherry cobbler
r. .apiece, some one proposed to close the
night with a little game of poker. Ken
dali had but about five dollars in his watct
# fob There was no watch there but he as
sented, among the rest to the proposition
Excusing himself for a moment, he made t
rush down Ann street to the Office, where
he hoped to find some Of his fellow-printer'
with money to lend Bates, as foreman o
! the Office, had been detained making up tn
ID forms. He had eight dollars, and we (w
is were helping Bates) had two hundred ant
~ seven cents. Kendall took the dollar
- (leaving us the cents, and thus made
purse of SIS. With this fund he sat do"
to play. The play went on until daylight
;, At I o'clock Kendall came into the Office
paid up the $40 he had borrowed, tol
Greeley he would give up his situation
T. asked all hands to partake of 'Piou
n gorge that afternoon All hands wer
Nv Nv but too happy to do that same, and sti
as more happy when their fellow-craftsma
at announced that he was the fortunate po
to SCISSOR of about 500, won at the 'litt
game of poker aforesaid, and that with II
i" 800 he proposed to start paper in Ne
all Orleans, In due time the Picayune al
ks, peared-was success-wi winning reputatio
ne for Kendall as polished writer aud bri
ms liant wit, aud what was better, giving hI
a princely income He has had many
cS hair breadth escape since that; was anon
ma the Santa Fe prisoners, and given up
ing dead, but afterwards released ; he we
through the Mexican war; has passed yea
S@ S' in foreign travel, until satia,ed with enjo
,he ment, and tired of the excitement OF CT
,an life, he retired to Texas, and is now mast
of thousands of acres of land, and recko
Dur more than hundred thousand sheep, catt
's0 and mules, as his individual property"
,rt- The above brings to mind some of G
va own experiences. Under an engageme
10 print the Nel0 Orleans Obserrer, re
est gous paper just starting under the patro
los, age of the synod embracing that city,
''. went to n Orleans in the fall of 1885, wi
,an letter to Mr.. KENDALL who was the
ior' engaged upon a daily paper. The idea
starting the Picayune was conceived af
rays our arrival, and an acquaintance had spru
up between us. Mr. Kendall made Us
the proposition to enter into business with h
That being declined, from an objection Il
re % in Southern residence, Mr.. Lumsden, v
rem "subed" it for US while on a summer '
,'nc, north, afterwards accepted the propo
and the Picayune was started under
firm of Lumsden & Kendall, which
continued for many years, uutil both |
Won ties had achieved fortune from it.
r 81, Ed. TELEGRAPH
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