St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-19

1 iOI Jht pdSb lOTIf-StA ycdlS. A1 OhO ehSO VI
! seventeen he became foreman of the office
/ of the Pittsburg Daily Gazette; then pub
lished an agricultural paper i'll that city in
| 1857 also paper in MOnongahela City;
emigrated to Minnesota in 1855 and COM
menced the numbering business at LIE Sueur;
also worked in the office of the old Demo-
crat of this city, the same year; returned
| East and came to st. Paul to live again IN
| 1896; started saw or rotary mill on what
was known as Ames' island, down in the
| then old swamp, now covered by a net
/ work OF railroad tracks; then worked as a
compositor on the Pioneer, finally became
| foreman, city editor and then business man
| ager of the paper, and continued thus up
to 1862, when he started the first Job office.
independent of the newspapers, in the
| city; took in GieSep as a part
ner; then, in 1865, II. P. Hall,
and they ran paper called the CONNER
| cial Review: became business manager of
the Minneapolis Tribune in 1867, where he
| remained six months; in 1868 the pres
ent st. Paul Dispatch was started by Hall
Il Ramaley, who ran it together for three OF
four years, or to about 1871, when the part
nerS dissolved, Hall taking the Dispatch
and Rama!ey the job office; in 1878 Ramaley
secured the state printing by contract,
which he held until 1878; entered into
partnership with j. G. Cunningham; pub
lished the Daily News; continued the job
printing business up to 1881, when he be-
came connected with the type foundry;
went out of that in 1884, and is now fore
man in the GLOBE job printing office.
AN INCIDENT.
In early days it was customary for the
pTOpretOrS of newspapers to pay their COM
pOSitOrS as much as possible each week and
then owe them the balance. 1t so hap
pened that when Ramaley was business
manager of the Pioneer the printers gave
notice that they must have cents more per
thousand or they would stop work. Ram
alley made them proposition to takes cents
less per thousand in lieu of raising their
wages 3 cents and get their money every
Saturday night instead of semi-OccasiOn-
ally. After due consideration the printers
accepted Ramaley's terms, and from that
time to this cOmpOsitOrS on our daily papers
have been paid their wages in full every
week.
Mr.. Ramaley was a member of the school
board in 1928; has published small book
for printers as guide in their job depart
ment, but in other respects he has not been
before the public. He was born in Pitts
burg, Penn, in 1928, and is an old land
mark among the printers of the city. He
Is a short, thick-Set man, with iron-gray
a whirlwind. while he keeps up a rapid
conversation by his Eyes, yes, yes; think
so, yes, yes; just so, just so-yes, yes. yes"
Any one who knows David Ramaley will
recognize the picture, but he is a coed man
and a worthy citizen.
JEREMIAH MCCARTHY,
or, better known as Jerry Mccarthy, is
a character, sort of original genius in his
way of viewing the world He is a short.
weil-develOped man, with ford COM
| pleXiOn, quick as lightning in thought and
in action: bold. pushing, daring; a sort of
come on, boys: III leadr' full of wheels;
social to a marked degree; running over
with dry humOr, and impressed with the be-
| lief that ''the end justiies the
means; an earnest, active (has
| BEEN Democrat; q IlnOck-down and drag
out politician, believing in the Jacksonian
doctrine; a fOrty-horse steam engine, plow-
| ing, pushing, pulling, driving, always OH
the 60 but forgetting that the human sys-
| tenn like everything else in the material
world can be injured by too much use, and
| yet with all his peculiaritieS, Mr. McCar-
! thy is a wam-hearted IrShman and has
been an active, stirring citizen.
HIS EARLY LIFE.
Mr.. Mccarthy was born in ireland in
1888, within two miles of the Lakes of
Killarney; received but little education;
when a boy he herded cows in his native
land his parents dying when he was
! years old; emigrated to America in 1852;
! soon after coming here he carried water for
living in the cars in Indiana for several
! years; came to st. Paul in 1854; made
claim on the Fort Smelling reservation; sub
! sequentiy worked in Dawson's stone
quarry in West st. Paul; was dep
utY sheriff of Dakota county;
married Miss Mary Finerty in 1860;
ran q grocery store in West st. Paul in
! 1860; also in 1869 to 1872; moved to
Pennington in 1875 and prosecuted farm
! ing; returned to West St. Paul and contin-
ued his store up to 1882, when he sold out
! to his son; he was a member of the legiSla-
| ture from Dakota county three terms; was
| one of the first aldermen from the Sixth
ward, and continued such eight years. He
| opened farm near Morris, in this state, in
| 1877 and put under cultivation LOO acres,
| while at the same Sstime he took contracts
| for ST. Paul street and sewer work;
laid Third street to Sibey; built
the Saltwater railroad; also the Chicago q
! st. Paul, from Hastings to Red Wing; Mil
| waukee road, from West st. Paul to Men,
dOta, around Fort Smelling; i'll 1882 con-
structed the Little Falls road from Morris
to Skandaviile, Stevens county; has tive
| children-a boy and girl. The junior
| Mccarthy is fine, pleaSant-loOking man,
| with great future before him if he en-
braces opportunities. Jerry" Mccarthy,
his father, was one of seven brothers and
! three sisters, and is a self-made mz..-,=rl
| has been man of much force s. csaS@cte
and unbending energy.