Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30
THESE PAUL Daily e1RE sAUaDlY Mosf DECEMBER 80 1882
newspapers UNITING.

MMDlhlEnD UNlllNu.
Two Old Cincinnati Papers Unite Their
Fortunes-One khall be Taken and the
Other Left-Doubts as to Which is
T'Other.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.-It is definitely
known that the Cincinnati Gazette and the
Cincinnati Commercial will be consolidated
as one paper after January LIST, arrange
ments being fully made for the event.
1t is learned from the best sources of
information which can be approached al
this writing that Mr.. Richard Smith will
have a controlling position in the consoli-
dalton similar to that which he now occu-
pies in the Gazette, while Mr.. Halstead will
write more or less, editorially. A corps of
editors and reporters will be organized
from the present working forces of tie
two papers. The Messrs. Kidd, of the
Gazette, will be no longer connected with
the business management after the first
of January. The union will, of
course, also affect the business
department. of the Commercial, and there
will be changes in the editorial depart
ments. The Commercial will surrender
the building it now occupies on the cor
ner of Fourth and Race streets, to the Pot
ter estate, to which it belongs, and the
'good wilr' and possibly some of the ma
terial belongings will take up solemn
line of March to the present quarters of
the Gazette on the corner Of Sixth and
Vine streets, from which point the consol-
idated establishments will radiate in uni
son, with the legend, commercial Gazette,
possibly gently restrained in their en-
brace by hyphen.
It is also a part of our information that
the two cent paper issued by the Gazette
will be made a special feature
of the business of the new stock
company. 1t is expected to be profitable
from financial view.
While the Commercial will take prece-
dence in the amalgamatsd name, the re-
moval to the Gazette building goes far to-
ward establishing the theory that the Ga
eette has swallosed its nsighbor. The de-
mands of euPhony ~ we'll - due respect
for the meaning Of words, would suggest
Commercidl- Gazette, rather than Gazette
Commercial. Years ago two Pittsburg
papers of the Same names joined their for
tunes or misfortunes. as the case may be.
The first issue of the united journals was
called the Gazette Commercial, but on the
following day the names we're reversed
and have remained so ever since.
The Gazette has always been an able
newspaper editorially, but on account of
it's peculiar surroundings it has been re-
strlcted in circulation. The orthodox
church element has had great influence
over it, and it has been classed as one of
the straight-laced journals of the day, uni
formly supporting popular religious
movements. Notwithstanding this, it has
been unreserved in the usual political
methods of partisan papers, and has been
a hard hitter in heated campaigns. It
has been steady and reliable, and well
earned by the decency of its conduct ors,
and the clean cut, honest writing of its
editorials. The Gazette. claims its
origin in 1893, which would make it
ninety years old. The Centinal of
the Northwestern territory was first pub
lished in November Of that year, and the
Gazette assumes to be its lineal descend
ant. The Centinal, tie first paper pub
llshed north of the Ohio, was founded by
VIM. Maxwell, the second postmaster OF
Cincinnati. The first number of the Gin
| cinnati Gazette appeared on Saturday.
July Is, 1915, Thomas Palmer & Co. be-
ing the publishers. Cincinnati then con-
tanned but 1000 OF 5000 inhabitants, and
the surrounding country was but thinly
settled. All the papers!iwers weekly, and
contented with 400 or 500 subscribers.
In 1926, Charles Hammond became its
editor, and his boldness and candor
gave the Gazette a national reputa-
ton. The Daily Gazette was first
published June 25, 1927, by Messrs. Nor
gan, Hodge & Fisher, with subscription
list of 164. In July 1855, the Office of the
Gazette was removed from the building on
Main street. Some time after the re-
moval the Gazette came into the hands of
the present proprietors, or their immedi-
ate predecessors, and was made a joint
stock concern, with Mr.. Richard Smith as
chief editor. The Commercial was
founded in 1913 by Aessrs. Curtis & Hast
ings. It was then a nswsy paper, and was
from the first daily. n. D. Potter be-
camc connected WITH the paper in 1S4S.
tits to n. d. Pottsr's business sagacity
and energy that tho Commercial
owes its former success and the
feet that it existed 80 long under dis
eolragi1G circumstances. He organized
in 1854, the Arm Of II. D. Potter & Co.,
composed Of n. D. Potter, Henry Reed,
Johu 81. strauss and Aurat Halstsad.
Reed vas . vigorous writer and helped to
give character 70 the paper Is its leading
writer. Mr.. Strauss died and Mr.. Reed
sold his interest to Ar. Potter. Mr.. Pot
tors connection With the PAPER continued
until his death in 1867. and almost to the
last he took an active intrest in its vel
fare. Then tho hrn Of. n. Halstsad
l. Co, was formed, consisting Of n.
Halstead, C. D. Miller and John
A. Gano, general partners, Mrs.
Potter and her daughter. Mrs. Pomeroy,
special partners. On the death Of Mrs.
Pomeroy, January, 1879, the firm dissolved,
and joint stock company, with a capital
stock of e235, 600. was incorporated.
Not long since. similar consolidation
took place among the evening papers,
the Times lin which had been merged the
Chromicle) uniting with the Star, and 60
ing as the Times-Star. The marriage of
the Commercial and Gazette marks another
interesting point in the history of Cincin-
natl iOurnalism