The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-04
THE HERALD.
\ Brief Glance at Its Career and IA Com
densed Description of Its Elegant, New
Quarters

\ Brief Glance at Its Career and "a Com
densed Description of Its Elegant, New
Quarters.
From our September edition We extract
the following account of the HERALD and
IFS new quarters, emitting its former his
tory further than to say that after the war
1t continued by Col. Swindells as weekly
until February H. 1873, when he iom.led
THE DAILY HERALD,
issuing il on that date AS six column
iour-page hantling, 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 Il Pacific road was but u short dis
tance eastward and coming on this way to
intersect and cross the Houston 4 Texas
Central within the corporate limits The
own was about TO become railroad cen
ter, and il had boom upon it, People
We're docking here from all directions and
business was ON Il rush From that time
on Dallas has continued to grow, having
increased from u mere county site ola thou
sand inhabitants in 1873 To a city of 5000
population in this good year Of 1851. Mr.
u. MCCaleb was the first editor of the Dial.
las Daily HERALD, and the paper has CON
tluucd itS morning yisitatiOnS to itSpatruuS
from the day Of its foundation until now.
Il encountered varying fortunes and passed
through several hands, from its commence
meut rs u daily until in the spring uC ISIS,
Col, L, :, ptOuts, the senior partner of the
present firm, purchased it, II was to his
energy, his hopeiulncss, 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 +. T. Elliott, of the present firm,
purchased a half interest in the HERALD,
and the firm of PlOuts n Elliott conducted
II until the first day of June of that year
when the HERALD aud Commercial, Il rival
daily. were consolidated, and Mr.. W. l..
Hall the live and energetic worker, the
genial and dcscrvedly popular tinancier
aud junior partner of the present iirm, who
was proprietor of the Commercial AT the
time Of consolidation, came into the firm,
and the paper was run some months under
the hvphcnatcd name of llKRALp-CouNER-
HAL. Finally the old name of HERALD was
resumed and II has SO continued. Under
the management of Mcssrs. Piouts Il Elliott
the HERALD had thrivcd, and was making
its way gradually up the hill of journalism,
but from the very day of the consolidation
of the two papers, rs above stated, the LIT OF
June, 1879 anew era of prosperity dawned
upon the paper, and il has gone ON achiey-
ing success at every ta"n. 1t has been en-
largcd three '!u.,S IN the past two years,
first ioL, &" ,tycn-COlumn TO an eight-Col-
umn paper, thra from an eight 10 nine,
and from nine-column iour-paEe toR six
column octave. Since June |, 1879 the cir
,u,,lut t.t ,f A. Al IA la
bly, more than doubled
THE CIRCULATION
OF the Herald aud COMMERCIAL, then con
solidatcd, combined, and every day new
subscribers are added to its lists until to-
day It finds its way into the business houses
and the homes of the people in every rail-
read city, town and village in north Texas,
MS we'll as in innumcrablc places away from
the RAILROADS, throughout the entire state
and the Union Ii has gotten to hc rs u
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 tclc-
grams, It's general and miscellaneous news
carefully Cullcd from its exchanges, It's local
news aud editorial discussions an ever wei.
come visitor The HERALD under its pres.
cat management has been independent in
i;s tone, cone vatiyc, studying To ho lust,
fair and impartial to all men, and In It's
consideration " all subjects. Ii isa paper
o. the people making the cause Of the people
ts cause, and that IL may best serve their
interest, hest s,rvc all the material inter
r.t, # the state ahd further It's progress and
prosperity, In every way possible, II rises
ahuye the trammcls at politics, the re.
E;raiuts orrrty lines, In their politics, the
pro; rc,ors ARE all democrats, hu; the paper
hasa higher and "a greater mission than that
oea mere polite Il urgam The people want
news: they WaW correct, reliable iniurma'
ton on al subjects uf Importance, aud they
want fair and irthi,l discussions, ami II Us
the mission of this Journal ~ meet these
wants. The people have come to shoN
this, they hive come to Know what W.
HERALD annuu ices "a hy a truth, v las tht
evidence to HJstain, and that Wien u
champions U,lS.' ora mcasurc "a whicA
thc.s welfare aud tn pua'lc prsNri'y az
.vu,ytd. " does ~ lWCius" us best lult
taou, cndn',,. Ad hs"4u"' Il ua> reasons
4 ,lo Mi,h ;t.t - 80 Il, and ihU IL zoe
nothing az thr l',utni VI iht larty %
that party. ,hia '',ric Wau ~ Mat fGhit
ia4a. Nor Mr BOO. "' r.l,,'. He,te lihviu.
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90, usp r,ut
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now. In circulation, IL far cxroe Is what
had hoped W have attained 10y his time
while Ito exneusCs TO meet tn