Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30
newspapers UNITING.

MMNPAPEkN UNITING.
Two Old Cincinnati Papers Unite Their
FortuneSOne shall be Taken and the
other Left-Doubts as to Which is
Tother.
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 at
this writing that Mr.. Richard Smith will
have controlling position in the consoli-
dation similar to that which he now occu-
pies in the Gazette, while Mr.. Halstead Will
write more or less, editorialIy. A corps of
editors and reporters will be organized
from the present working forces of the
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
'sgood 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 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 amalgamated name, the re-
moval to the Gazette building goes far to-
ward establishing this theory that the Ga
zefte has swallo zed its nsighbor. The de
mands of euphony as we'll as due respect
Tor the meaning of words, would suggest
Commercials 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 were reversed
| and have remained SO ever since.
The Gazette has always been an ablc
| 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
| hard hitter in heated campaigns. It
| has been steady and reliable, and we'll
earned by the decency of its conductors,
and the clean cut, honest writing of it's
| 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 lneal descend
ant. The Centinal, the first paper pub
lIshed 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 1900 Or 5000 inhabitants, and
| the surrounding country was but thinly
settled. All the papers!lwere weekly, and
contented with 400 or 500 subscribers.
In 1925, 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 1874. In July 1856, 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 1S43 by Messre. Curtis & Hast
ings. It was then a nswsy paper, and was
from the first daily. NJ. D. Potter be-
came connected with the paper in 1S48.
| 1t is to n. ID. Potter's business sagacity
and energy that tho Commercial
| owes its former success and the
| fact that it existed SO long under dis
| eouraging circumstances. He organized
| in 1854, the firm Of n. D. Potter & Co.,
| composed Of II. D. Potter, Henry Reed,
Johu II. Strauss and Aurat Halstead.
Reed vas vigorous writer and helped to
give character TO the paper as its leading
! writer. Mr.. Strauss died and Mr.. Reed
| sold his interest to Mr.. Potter. Mr.. Pot
tsr's connection With the paper continued
until his death in 1867. and almost to the
last he took an active intrsst in its vel
| fare. Then the firm of n. Halstead
| d Co, was formed, consisting Of M.
Halstead, C. D. Miller and John
A. Gano, general partners, Mrs.
Potter and her daughter, Mrs. Pomeroy,
| special partners. On tho death of Mrs.
| Pomeroy, January, 1879, the firm dissolved,
and joint stock company, with capital
stock of 1895, 600, was incorporated.
Not long since. similar consolidation
took place among the evening papers,
the Times Tin which had been merged the
| Chronicle) uniting with the Star, and go
ing as the Tines-Star. The marriage of
| the Commercial and Gazette marks another
| interesting point in the history of Cincin-
natl journalism.