St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

concealed by sparse growth of gray beard.
The head is covered by black Derby hat,
pretty we'll pushed back from the forehead,
disclosing once black suite OF hair that is
more than tinged with white. His figure is
not erect, but stoops about the shoulders.
bis walk is quick and nervous, creating the
impression that time is limited and speed
essential. Such in word portrait is
HARLAN P. HALL,
proprietor of 1.-The ready print works and
veteran in the newspaper world of Min
nesota's capital city. In his quarter of
century residence hereabouts he has estab-
llshed two daily newspapers that bid fair to
live for ages, and has assisted in the merg
ing into one of the two daily papers that
he found in existence when first reaching
st. Paul. He is an expert all-round news
paper man. being equally at home IN the
composing or editorial room, and has served
faithfully in all capacities. His wife was
sufferer from weak lungs, and to benefit
her he came to the then small Minnesota
village. Once here he began active news
paper work, for which he had taste, and
to which he had served long apprentice
ship on his fathers newspaper in Ohio.
Although admitted to the bar and a practi-
TONER of a few months standing in his OIL
Ohio home, he made no effort to engage in
the legal arena on reaching st. Paul, but
took to newspaper work. On the
st. Paul Union he began his labors
as local reporter and general
city man. The spring following the Union
and Press were merged into one paper
under the latter name and MI. Hall merged
into the news editor of the consolidated
concern.
IN NOVEMBER. 1865,
he, in connection with John X. Davidson,
bought the Pioneer, then a Democratic
paper, and converted it into a Republican
affair. After holding it for about year he
resold to the Democrats, who desired an
organ at the capital.
On retiring from the management of the
Press, he formed a partnership with
Ramaley and opened a job printing office.
AS an adjunct to this, showing his in
ability to keep out of active newspaper
work, he started the Dispatch, an afternoon
paper. in February, 1868, and continued
with it through the trying years of its ex-
lstence or until 1876, when he sold out. In
addition to the job printing and afternoon
paper, which were jointly under his care
and supervision, he established in 1871 "a
ready print" department. otherwise known
as patent insides' for the country press.
At the time he began the publication of
1.-The ready prints" there were but two such
in the United States, al
though now they are without number His
forerunners were Kellogg of Chicago and
Cramer, Aiken & Cramer of Milwaukee.
He retained possession of this publication
until 1882 when he disposed of it to the
Western Newslaper Union of Des Moines
In January, 1878, he issued the first num-
Der of
THE MORNING GLOBE,
Which for seven years he nurtured and
watched and worked, and finally sold in 1885
to the present management. After disposng
OF his last venture in journalistic way, he
began second time on the ''ready-print"
business, and is now actively engaged in
building up for himself large patronage.
Revenna, Portage county, Ohio. was his
childhoods home and birthplace, as in that
beautiful little town he first saw the light
OF day, on August 81, 1888. His father
was editor and proprietor of the Western
Reserve Cabinet and Visitor. which SUISSE
quently was changed into the Ohio Star,
and, on the consolidation of the Free Soil
ers and Wings, the paper became known as
the Portage County Democrat. In and
about the printing office young Hall passed
his boyhood, and before he was hardly tall
enough to reach up to the case he was a
pretty good composition, an old box being
placed under him to raise him to proper
standard. He attended school and gradu-
ated, after full collegiate course, from
the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware,
Ohio. Subsequently he studied law. and
was admitted to practice. Marrying at this
time he returned to Revenna, and, forming
a partnership with an old lawyer, practiced
for about year. AT the end of this period
he moved to st. Paul, and never resumed
the practice. He presented his diploma and
thus has escaped jury duty, his busy dispo-
sition uniting him for such inactivity.
HIS EARLY DAYS
in st. Paul were days of great pedestrian
ism. He was the only local reporter and
was expected to cover all events. In order
to do this he was required to cover great
deal OF territory, the small city being scat
tered as it's outgrowth as at the present time,
and thus contracted the habit of walking at
a 40 pace, habit which still clings to
him.
Not blessed with any large amount of
money when he started his two newspapers,
he was obliged to economic OH help and to
undertake a great deal himself. In conse-
quence of this fact and the farther fact
that his nervous disposition would not per-
nit him to remain a passive observer, he
had personal supervision of every depart
ment of the paper. He not only wrote the
editorials, but assisted in the composing
room, took hand at the press and, if
short of carriers, carried route after the
paper had left the press, performed reporto-
rial duty later in the morning and was
ready the same afternoon to figure out the
next days issue.