, 1872-11-18

stances too pressing to be ignored, took up its
line OF march, With CALLING fire in the rear, for
8 humble and exceedingly dingy tenement On
Canal street. In front Was the odorous river,
running like very dirty ribbon between the
new Office and the smoking heap of ruins; in
the 1ear, all sorts Of small manufactures with
the talest OF smoke stacks and shrillest Of steam
whistles, tumbled together promiscuously, and
each overlapping the other, presenting tempting
Inducements for q bonfire on the one side, a
tenement swarming with apple pedlers,
peripatetic hucksters, Italian restaurateurs, AZ
rican vagrants and canail!e Of all sorts; On the
other, buildings of squatty order, suddenly
filled from top to bottom with
South Side merchants, who, following 11r.
Greeley's advice, had taken few dollars
and gone West very precipitately. Although the
Canal street tenement was very small one in
comparison with the Madison street fre-proof
quarters. it was amply large, for TIE TRIBUNE
went over in light marching order without bag
gage or impedimenta Of any description, except
safe, a linen coat, and box of matches. The
first couldn't burn, the other two wouldn't. and
in this small stock in trade The TRIBUNE re-
sumed business. The prospect in that tene-
ment, on that morning, was not calculated to in
duce cheerfulness upon the part Of it's occupants,
or any great degree of hi1arity. The ground
floor had been used for general storage, and WAS
filed with lumber of all sorts, old barrels, frag-
mat Hf aY1
about in dire and dirty confusion.
The second floor WAS filed With egg boxes. No
one can ever tell what Was on the third. It was
the accumulated refuse Of years, which had
been allowed to moulder undisturbed BY any,
thing saye spinning spiders and squeaking rats.
Into this queer stable plunged editors, report
ers, and printers, and few hours of sturdy
labor turned the inside of the building into the
street. No one connected with TEE TRIBUNE
was very proud that day, and 80 the editors
we're not ashamed to prepare copy on the top of
barrels at one end Of the room, while the clerks
took in advertisements over barrels at the other
During the day, BY the exercise Of faith and the
Investment OF what little cash WAS found in the
pockets OF the proprietors, material enough to
commence housekeeping in a amal1 way was got
together, and that night, by thu light Of tallow
candles, the printers, huddled together, elbow to
elbow, Het up the narrative OF the f1e The result
Of the days work appeared tho ne1t morning.
It vas not a triumph Of typographical skill or
artistic makeup. The secondhand clohes in
which it was dressed fitted very badly; indeed,
it resembled nothing 80 much as a small child
out on lark in it's mothers gown, OF green
country lad whose legs have run far beyond the
Limit Of his trousers. It was not such sheet
as it Was intended to print day or two before,
on the great eight-cylinder, just then warped,
struggle with the fire. Nevertheless, it waB
newspaper, and it's appearance testified to the
fact that one Of the wheels in the burnt Chicago
had begun to revolve again. Day by day and
week by week the tangle WAS unsnarled; and,
before the snow began to fly, order and system
had been resolved out of chaos. Each one
gradually fitted into his place, and the only Dis
position to encroach was on the part of the |
which, in its efforts to keep |
up with the constantly-increasing busi-
ness, spread itself about the building
This WAS necessity, how
ever, which WAS endured in very kindly man
ner by all concerned, for it WAS stifening up the
ainews and sending the currents Of life once
more through the whole body of TIE TR1nuSE
as they used to run. 1t was not long before TIE
TRIBUNE began to resemble it's old sell, and even
grew stouter andlarger during its convalescence.
Meanwhile. q new andmore elegant structure than
The one which had been burned began to rise on
the old site. Stone by stone the walls grew, high
er and stronger than before. The eight-cylinders
vent OF to New York for surgical operation,
md came back again perfectly healed and az good
Is new The engine and boilers went through
he fiery furnace and came out unscathed. One
7ear from the date Of removal, the employees Of
CHE TRIBUNE, with the exception Of the counting
DOM, bade joyful goodbye to Canal street,
md retook possession OF their old quarters, and
N the night Of the 9Th Of October,
872, the same old press which had 80 suddenly
topped working on the night Of the 9Th Of
october, 1871, once more resumed operations
nd its familiar clatter had q CHEEKY sound, all
he more pleasant after the long silence and
oisier than ever, as there was no other sound to
[eaden it, in the empty streets around. The
ounting-room remained On Can1 street, as the
ew quarters we're not in readiness for it. This
aorning, however, it will take possession of the
Id corner in more elegant shape than before.
he I'd safe which vent through the fire un-
armed will 60 back to it's former place in the
Id vault, there to remain undisturbed, as it is I
>ndly hoped, for several generations to come.
[aving all its forces under one roof !
gain, TIE TRIBUNE proposes to stay
nd will be sat home" to all ]
'mers, as usual. Housed once more in it's Own
nilding, comfortably situated. in all respects, ]
aying clear conscience, and being under no
oligationB Of any sort, except to furnish its {
,aders with first-clasB ueWspaper tied down | e