St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-26

El H6 Olu DeIlltT Cdnlt
,ESd into the GLOBE Office at
&SS Minneapolis yesterday with
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NV the remark that he had been
CagNA absent from the city for a
4&srA month on visit to his
/AgEgSA sister-in- law, who lives at
sQZA Perham, Otter Tail county.
" IA w "She went up thar think
I MM ~, in" said he, ''that there
"IM EI was better chance farmin'
VA ~ it, and to wait until Mime
M Ash apOlS grew to be a city.
T-TfS1 ESI She used to own quarter
m B4 E%J section here, where the
NV I4 ~ most fashionable boardin'
"a, "a houses in the hull town are
~ ASAs~ located. That husband of
hers had weak lungs, and
came to Minnesota to help his health.
He thought he could teach school until
he proved up on his claim and got his
strength back. Well, he wbined around
until he got his wife, my sister, to sell the
land she inherited from the old man, and
go up there and locate. The result is that
they have got pretty decent sort of farm
after having a hard time of it, but they
might have been millionaireS if they had
stayed here an held on to one-half they
Still, this has nothin to do with what was
goin' to speak on. which is papers
MINNEAPOLIS PAPERS.
1 mean. I got to talking with a lot
of Old-time Flour City printers, the
other day. and they talked off a
lot of stuff that L thought might
be interestin' to you as givin' you chance
to write up an article upon Early News
paper Times Seems to Inc you might put
one of those heads that look like bills of
fare over it. an make somethin' out of it.
One of the printers was Mike Nolan, you
know him; works up in the Tribune
buildin'. not OH the paper. but in the job
rooms, as they call 'em. By the way, Dave
BlakeIy is goin' to sell the establishment
out and move to Chicago. Did you know
that? 'spose he thinks that his man
agerial capabilities, as you would call 'em,
will have more room there, as it is bigger
place. To come back to where l started,
Mike Nolan used to be printers
devil Onct. | don't suppose there was any
thing particularly strange in that, only he
was a bright sort of boy an can remem-
Der when he used to live at Bill Kings
house. He went to work for King long in
$50 when William was publishing the State
Atlas. You've seen the picture Of Atlas
carrying the world around on his shoulders?
Well, reckon that Bill King must have
got that up to advertise his paper. You
know he always
WAS A GREAT ADVERTISER
and big hustler. The paper used to be
printed in a frame buildin' on Second ave-
nue. south where the Window block is now.
only Second avenue in those days
was called Helen street. Afterwards they
moved the Office over to Bridge square,
about where Grey's drug store is now. 1t
was a Republican paper and was about the
size of good sized hand-bill. 1t used to
give the saloOnkeeperS fits. and | can re-
member when the printers slept in the
Office and armed themselves, fearing the
would come up there and
wipe the outfit off the earth, as they threat
ened to do. Bill used to be considerable of
a hustler in those days. He'd write edito-
rails, an didn't mind goin' around for local
news an take an advertisement for
a stray cow or sheep now an then.
1t was a pretty good weekly paper even
as papers go mad, and s'pose they now,
have had thousand subscribers or so.
This buildin' was owned by Ed Darcy. and
the Minneapolis Journal was published
there by John G. Williams. Williams
paper busted, and King bought it up
About this time the war broke out. The
telegraph had just come to town, and the
office was in the Nicollet house. remem-
Der Henry O'Brien. brother to Burke
O'Brien, was operator. King was enter
prisen', so he started daily. Nolan used
to carry the route, OF rather deliver papers,
Some people gave him % cents a week,
and some so cents. The court house ma
hobs, Harlow Gale, who was auditor. John
S. Walker, the treasurer, and George S.
Cowan, the register of deeds, and w. D.
Washburn. an other leandin' citizens
used to give him dollar week, just
TO HELP THE PAPER ALONG.
That winter Bill King went to Washing
ton as postmaster in the house of repre-
sentatives. Danna E. King and Orange S.
King, who afterwards had a weekly up at
Fergus Falls, ran the paper In 81 the
war was agoin' in earnest an the
First regiment was raised. Orange
King, "Hod' Martin, Charlie Smith, who
were the printers, joined Company D an
went South to fight the rebels. S. NJ. Will
Jams, the book dealer. was the only printer
in town an he would set up what Sam
Gale wrote an Nolan used to help. They
kept the paper up until the
legal advertisin' run out, when
they dropped it. Bill King came
back from Washington that fall and ressur-
rected the paper. Tom Clark, who had
been runnin' the st. Anthony Falls Evening
Journal, moved across the river an King
bought him out cheap as he was goin' to
bust anyhow, and then moved into the Har-
rison block. The next thing King put up
the buildin' on Washington avenue south, at
the corner of Lookup alley, an put in a
good job Office. Say, they used to get up
some great bills for county fairs in that old
office. About this time Fred Smith, Col.
Stevens and Col. Plummer, him that the G.
A. r. post is named after, started the
Chronicle. They were burned out the fol-
lowin' spring, an consolidated with the
Atlas. Tom King, he's running the electric
lights now, was business manager of the
Atlas an made the deal.
THE NEW PAPER
was called the Mornin' Tribune, and that's
where the paper that bears that name to-
day got its start. Well, it started off in
big shape. Dave Ramaley came over from
St. Paul to manage it an Col. Plummer
an Doc Ames used to do the writin'. A
man named Gilman, who's an auctiOneer
now, was editor. Ramaley didn't stay long
an George K. Shaw succeeded Gilman. The
paper represented the two factions in the
Republican party which were headed by
Dorilus, Morrison and w. d. Washburn.
Capt. Sly represented Washburn. He sold
out to Hugh Green. who came along about
that time an made a big bluff about startin'
another paper. Jacob Stone, the insurance
agent, was business manager about that
time. The Tribune took big boom then
They fixed over the bildin' now occupied
by hardware store, at 119 Washington
avenue south, on purpose for a
printin' Office, an must have had about
$40, 600 worth of material an good will.
Well, there was another fuss. Green
went out an the stockholders took the
paper back again. Then Col. Powell be-
came managing editor, an next, Mai.
Cliff Thomson was editor. He soon
became business manager an Col.
Howell was editor. Thomson's brother,
Mort Thomson, came on from the East,