The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-10-08
THE HERALD.
A Brief Glance at Its Career and Con-
densed Description of Its Elegant, New


densed Description of Its Elegant, New
Quarters.
From our September edition we extrac,
the following account of the HERALD an(
it's new quarters, Emitting it's former his
tory further than to say that after the wal
it continued by Col. Swindells as weekly
until February II, 1873, when he founded
THE DAILY HERALD,
issuing it on that date as a six column
four-page bantling, the first daily ever pub.
lished in North Texas. Dallas had then be.
gun to look upward. The Houston & Texas
Central railroad had arrived here, and the
Texas q Pacific road was but short dis
lance eastward and coming on this way to
intersect and cross the Houston & Texas
Central within the corporate limits. The
own was about to become railroad cen
ter, and it had boom upon 1t. People
were focking here from all directions, and
business was on rush. From that time
on Dallas has continued to grow, having
increased from mere county site ola thou
sand inhabitants in 1878 to city of 5000
population in this good year of 1881. Mr..
d. McCaleb was the first editor of the Dali
las Daily HERALD, and the paper has con-
tinped its morning visitations to its patrons
from the day of its foundation until now.
1t encountered varying fortunes and passed
through several hands, from its commence
ment as daily until in the spring of 1873,
Col. p. s, Pfouts, the senior partner of the
present firm, purchased it. 1t was to his
energy, his hopefulness, his constant labor
daytime and nighttime that the pa
per was lifted from bankruptcy to paying
basis. In the fall of that year the
HERALD bought out the Evening Call and
consolidated the two offices. In February.
1879, Major ]. F. Elliott, of the present firm,
purchased a half interest in the HERALD,
and the firm of Pfouts d Elliott conducted
it until the first day of June of that year,
when the HERALD and Commercial, a rival
daily, were consolidated, and Mr.. w. L.
Hall, the live and energetic worker, the
genial and deservedly popular financier,
and junior partner of the present firm, who
was proprietor of the Commercial at the
time of consolidation, came into the firm
and the paper was run some months under
the hyphenated name of HERALD-CoMMER-
cdAL. Finally the old name Of HERALD was
resumed and it has so continued. Under
the management of Messrs. Pfouts e. Elliott
the HERALD had thriyed, and was making
its way gradually up the hill of journalism,
but from the very day of the consolidation
of the two papers, as above stated, the LIST of
June, 1879, anew era of prosperity dawned
upon the paper, and 1t has gone on achiev-
ing success at every turn. II has been en-
larged three times in the past two years,
first from seven-column to an eight-col-
umn paper, then + an eight TO a nine,
and from q ninc-Column four-page 10 six
column octave Since June 1, 1879, the cir
culation Of the daily HERALD has considera-
bly, more than doubled.
THE CIRCULATION
of the HERALD and COMMERCIAL, then con-
solidated, combined, and every day new
subscribers are added 10 its lists, until to-
day It finds its way into the business houses
and the homes Of the people in every rail-
road city, town and village in north Texas,
as well as in innumerable places away from
the RAILROADS, throughout the entire state
and the Union. II has gotten TO be as a !
household word, and. IL goes with its news
gathered from all quarters of the globe by |
associated press dispatches and from all |
over the state Of Texas, and from many |
points outside of the state by special tele- |
grams. its general and miscellaneous news
carefully culled from its exchanges, its local |
news and editorial discussions an ever vel |
conS visitor. The HERALD under its pres |
emf management has been independent in |
its tone. conservative, studying TO be just, |
fair and impartial 10 all men, and ~ its
Of all subjects Ha paper
of the PEOPLE, making the cause Of the people |
its cause. and that il may best serve their |
inferred best serve all the material inter |
ests az the state and further It's progress and |
nrosperity. in every way possible, II rises |
above the trammels Of politics, the re
sfrafrts ofparty lines. In their politics the |
nroTrietors are all democrats, but the paper
has a higher and a greater mission than that
of A mere political organ. The people want
news. thev want correct, reliable iniormh-
fion on Al subjects Of importance, and they
want fair and truthful discussions and II =
the mission of this journal TO meet Ties
wants. The people have come .? NOV
this. they have come % know what me
HEAD announces 70 be a truth II nns tne |
evidence 70 sustain. and that Nnen. y
champions a cause o. q measure IN WHICH
their welfare and the public prosperity are
involved. il does 90 hecause - ptsl jung
fnsnf endorses u and iiernuse i has re1sofls
for tie faith tllnt e en- Il. and thar y does
nothing e. the DIGESTION q this party or
that rarty, this public man o. that public
man mr. for mere TlrIlicT's sake- Hnring
mae riiis tie line q its conduct. = hns
rIr-eue.1 fiie even tenor u ifs way. y has
i.rYr an r-deT.e-in- srl winning srccess
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