Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1885-08-27
AN OLD.TIME JOURNALIST.
Il. G.. Galloway, Who Was a Publisher
for FOrty-seVen Years-His Con.
tract with Joseph Smith to
Publish the Old Mormon
Bible.
Denver Tribune.

TuuifSH tue Ulu MORMON
Bible.
Denver Tribune.
A Tribune Republican reporter,
yesterday, had the pleasure of meet
ing Mr.. G. G. Galloway, on his arri-
val in the city. He is the father of
State Senator Galloway, and although
7S years old, is remarkably we'll
preserved man. His profession
through life has been that of news
paper man. Learning the printers
trade in 1927, in the same office
where the late James Lane, of Kan
sas, was also an apprentice.
He began his career as publisher
of newspaper by publishing the
Akron Journal in Akron, Ohio, in
1881, on an old Rammage (wooden)
press, with buckskin balls for rollers.
From there he went to st. Louis in
1884. He expressed desire to see
the celebrated Bullock press of The
Tribune Republican, which prints
$4,000 copies per hour. The reporter
escorted him down to the press
rooms, and it was very gratifying to
hear the old newspaper veteran ex-
press his qualification at the wonder
full invention. "How remarkable the
change" he said. "When I was a
young man and worked the 'ram-
mage Ben Franklin invention, our
pressman did his own rolling or ink
ing and then worked the press by
hand; a very slow and tedious pro-
cess. While now, in this mighty in
vention which I see before me, you
place your electrotyped forms on
yoT cylinders, and your ink in your
fount, and your miles and miles OF
continuous paper in one large roll
on its pivots and turn on your steam
and presto! your papers drop in
your box printed, pasted in sheets,
cut and folded, all ready for the
!newsboy. Your style Of electrotyp-
ing is also so different now.
THE OLD STYLE.
"Why, we used to have to 60 owe,
our plates to pick out the dots which
would be in every letter like an %,
and we only used the stereotyping
process when we had book to pub
ish. 1 reeollect when was profes'
sionally called by the Mormon proph'
ct, Joe Smith, to Nauvoo, Illinois, te
publish the Mormon Bible for the
church, as I was the only man west
of the Ohio River who did stereotyp
ing at that time. One morning
Smith came into the Office and said
Good morning, Brother Gideon.
Good morning, Brother Smith, says
1. Brother Gideon, had a revela
tion last night, and 1 wish to know
whether you will join our church o.
not? If you Will you will be preach
ing in four days. Brother Smith
am poor printer, and I would b.
a still poorer preacher We'll
Brother Gideon, my revelation tolt
me that you were not the man to d.
the Lords printing So on wen
my coat, and the next mornings SUI
found me a goodly way on the roat
to Nauvoo, Illinois, where was pub
fishing the Signal at the time, ant
Smith was killed a short time after
ward.
81 am surprised at the magnificenc'
of your city
A CONSTANT READER.
Through the kindness of my Sol
1 have been well supplied with all o
your Colorado papers, and I hav
been a constant reader of your Den
yer City papers for some years, ant
while / admired them exceedipgl
for their beautifully neat typograph
Iical appearance and newsyness, sti
did gain but an imperfect idea of tn
beauty of your young city. I hav