The Evening critic., 1882-01-24
The Kind of Man s. p. Rounds

The Kind of Man y. y. Rounds rs.
Shortly after the great Chicago fire one
of the papers of that city published the
following
" Now that the smoke and heat of the
great con1agration have passed away--the
first stupor, followed by the wild excite
mont, the hurryings to and fro and the
dire confusion of our citizens in great
measure subsidcd-our business men begin
to think, and, while maturing plans for the
future, remember, as they should, with
gratitude those who aided them in time of
need.
In this connection we take pleasure in
attesting to the almost incalculable service
rendered to the entire daily press of our
stricken city by one of our oldest and best
citizens Sterling p. Rounds, president of
the Chicago Taylor Printing Press Company,
whose extensive mandatory, 13, 10 and
II North Jefferson street, was spared from
the general ruin.
ave shall never forget that Monday
morning. while the fire was still raging
and all the printing. offices and presses on
the south side in ashes, how we, after along
detour and terrible drive through the
flames and burning cinders finally reached
his Office, more dead than alive with
fatigue and heat, in quest of the means to
resume our publication. Notwithstanding
Mr.. Rounds extensive printers furnishing
establishment, No. 46 State street, was in
ruins, involving loss of over Sl25, 900, we
found him at his post, cool and collected.
and ready to extend helping hand to his
suffering brothers of the craft. He had o
large number of cylinder presses completed
and boxed, ready for shipment, and Others
nearly finished, and at once had them un-
boxed and distributed among our city
printers and issued orders to put ON double
set of men, and run night and day as long
as necessary to meet the urgent wants of
our printers.
"He reserved four drum-cylinders, run
ming them also night and day, and on
which have to this writing been printed
the Journal, Times, Tribune and other less
important publications. And we do not
hesitate to affirm that but for his energy,
promptitude liberality and characteristic
sympathy with his brother printers, our
citizens would have been almost entirely
deprived of their daily news, and the most
commendable feature of it all is that so far
as dollars and cents go he would have
trebled his profits by selling the machines
TO other parties, who offered almost fabu-
lous prices for them, and devoting the room
and men required in printing the daily
issues to the manufacture of new presses,
for which there is an unprecedented de-
mand.
"At o'clock on that Monday morning he
nau SenI ~ uOzen Uelegrapnlc OruerS lOr
goods to the nearest telegraph station, seven
miles distant, and at noon some forty or fifty
letter orders by mail. He is striving hard
and bending every energy to resume all
branches of his old business, and in
few days at most will be prepared, as he
has been for a quarter of century past, to
fit out printing offices entire, from bodkin
to power press
SIN conclusion, and to show what stuff
our business men, as rule are made of, we
will only add that Mr.. Rounds first came
to this city in 1S50-then having about
$4,000 inhabitants-with borrowed capi-
tai of$5, and embarked with our old citi-
zen, J. J. Langdon (for many years an at
tache of the Jou,RaD in the book and job
printing business.
Z, They met with the success they deserved,
and Mr.. l.. left the firm and went to Quincy,
where he now resides. Mr.. r. survived the
money crisis of 1S57-S-9, afterward heavy
loser by the failure of one of our city banks,
and now his fve.story and well-illed and
well-appointed store, at 46 State street, is
in ruins, involving very heavy loss. But
he has his press mandatory left, a stout
heart-good credit-the warm sympathy of
the entire craft throughout the entire North
west, and believes in Chicago"