, 1879-02-23

Addrcss?" After reading it carefully be said,
Boys, E. G. Ryan is au orator, good lawyer,
ana an admirable lawyer, and this SHOWS he is real
worked on the Tr;6une over d year and then
got "a sit on the American, which mad been
published for some time before. The office was
on the southwest corner o. coutn " 2ter ulld
Clark streets. EARLY in 1911 It's editor, William
Ballestter, the original editor, again took charge.
OF 3fr. Stewart have but slight personal rec
ol1cctious, but those arc thu5 he was kind
aud popular employer and writer ct no meau
ability. Ballisttcr was popular with his (the
Whfg) party and ! flvorite with the otice''--
although he did make us 'stoe the marks The
old american was afterwards purchased BY X. S.
Wilson (Dick) who changed its name to the
Journal. Dick Wilson was better para5raphist
than Dr.. Ray, and that is SAYING q great deal:
with him. OF whom you speak in your address,
and the memory Of bothwill always be cherished
BY their friends.
Afterwards the Journa! office was located
where the lahr-0ttat nov Is, and !, being
told man-killcr OF press" many and many Of
its editions, It makes my bones ache to think
Of that clumsy olI press.
The late James j. Langdon, LONG =, the proprle-
tue Wg Of this city Was sssa then 1 foreman
was located at No. 107 Lake street. Long John
wills then a member Of Congress. worked
there, and the Hon. James h. Harrington was
then serving n regular apprentlceship, and did
''perfectly wllin' :" to have me work off the
paper, then only 3 weekly, On ano1her of those
II man-killers y; but when John Wentworth set
up an "Adams power press" Jim then
claimed and rightly too 1hat tb ne st'ast WIS head s,
brought buck two Norwegfans with their saws
and bucks on their backs. They thought it was
wood to be sawed. They cor!a not speak q
word OF English. but they we're the motive
Jim got bis s'power" to understand what was
wanted, and thus it was that machinery was
first introduced iuto the printing business in
Chicago.
You just ask Hcrrington If being leader on
the Demoeretic side Of lhe house seems to be
anything like as big d thing as mounting tue
box alongside Of that press, and signaling his
motive power to =" go ahead"
In '43 there was published on State, just
south OF Lake street, Tyler paper bF printer
we called q Doc,' whose name cannot now re-
cali.
The Citizen was long published by 2. East
ran, and was IN anti-slayery sheet. The his
tory OF the Citizen is well known, and Mr. East
man Was living and writing for the press quite
rcccntiv.
Tie Rev. William Rounsyllle in those days ed
tied aad published the O't:sfrsa'is, Chicago's
first religious paper,-,a weekly:
4 a1r. Griswold, who at one time vas landlord
at the Lake House, and who had formerly pub
lished paper in Baltimore, started paper, the
liged.
In 1S49 the Gem Of the PRAIRIE vas started as q
literary sheet, Jones Il Beach publishers and
proprictors. OF Jones nothing need be said,
except s'that's me-" DR.. James s. Beach, now
a wellknown homeopathic physician aud an ex-
Coroner Of Cook County, still lives III Chicago:
lie was Que Of the fastest co1npositors ever
knew; so Jim set the type. worked of the
paper on another one Of those imam killers"
carried the paper, and we jointly edited the
paper, with William II. Bushnell Tor "Poet
Laureate" Tie Gem Of the Prairie was tie
founlation-stone of the present TRIBUNE, and
for some time after Tom Stewart published
Tue DAILY TRIBUNE, it was made up as the
Weekly Gem.
In l5tl, aud while was roller-boy in the orig
inal TRIBUNE, John s. Wright commenced the
publication OF the Prairie Farmer, and Holcomb
s. Co. printed for him q monthly edition Of
$500.
There may have been other publications. Of
those days which do not now call to mind, but
they were not Of any prominence. have writ
ten this as sort of personal "Reminiscences, be
cause, under the circumstances. it seems to me
to be the most readable way to tell what kuow
ABOUT journalism in Chicago IL the early days
OF that city. Respectfully, your friend,
X X. Jones.