The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-22
Reminiscent Of Twenty-Four
Years Ago.
HOW THEPEOPLE LIyEDIN 1864
The Business of Salt Lake City Then
The Prices Ourrent-COmpRre
Them With the Present.

issued. The third number, published
on the 9th, is now before US, and is 8
yeritable curiosity. 1t is Liliputian
sheet, the paper on which it was printed
being 15%x21 y inches and the type used
minion and nonpariel. The makeup
is neat, the advertising being light and
plain, and the presswork better than
the average dallies of to-day. Consid-
ering the facilities Obtainable in those
days, the little paper is very credit
able showing of the art topographic.
But its qualities are not what We
started out to notice. Its get up, the
scope of business it represented in its
advertising columns and the good, old
times of which it is reminiscent, are the
chief objects of this article.
The first page is made up, almost en-
tireIy, of business cards, and many of
the names are so familiar to old resi-
dents that we will give several of them {:
Among those in the medical list are W.
I, Anderson, N, D., J. L. Dunyon, N.
D., w. S. Godbe, i B. Pearce and
John V. Long. OF the bankers hen
doing business in this city, the follow
ing advertised; Holiday g. Halsey,
Powers, Newman s. Co.. Clark g. Co.
and William Jennings. The merchants
were represented by William Jennings,
Walked Brothers, Hooper Il Eldredge,
Kimbsll d Lawrence, ErGnyn & Clay
Ton. Rans0hn+ 4 Co, Gilbert 4 Sons,
Bodenburg & Kahn, Bourne & Need
ham, Lavenburg & Auerbaoh and Aaron
Newfeld. Under tire heading, "Musi-
CAL" were the names of David o.
Calder, G. ]. Thomas and Henry L.
RAYMOND. The hammer -and-t0ngs
fraternity had representatives in Burr
Frost, Philip he IL Mare, R. B. Mar
gets, Samuel Bringhurst, and 2. Mar
gets & J. A Sutton. Four artists had
their cards II good northumberland
Martin, w V. Morris father of the"
painter, w. CO., II. bruce and William
]. Silver. OF the watchmakers, there
were 0. Ursenbach, Henry Reiser and
o. L. Eliason. The boot and shoe
making houses were G. G. Riser and E.
Is. Trip. Tnners-Edward Stevenson.
T. HAWKINS, Alfred Bet aud J. NJ
Alien. Then followed miscellaneous
list. among whom are these: Claude
Give, tailor; Kno1lden & Grenig and
Dye & Kelson, bakers; Capener & Tay-
Ior and Z. NJ. Caste, cabinet makers {;
Mrs. Stenhouse, Mrs. CoIebrook and
Marian Pratt, milliners; F. Little. pro-
prietor Salt Lake House; F. Reich
National Hotel, and Josiah Tufts, Man
sion House: 7. D. Brown. Express and
Exchange Office; ii. Z. BowriDg. har-
ness and saddle maker; J. w. Van
Malta, manufacturer of cooper-ware !;
Elijah Pearce, basket and gig body
worker; w. Fl. Hooking, eating house !;
CroxalI Cartwright 81 Eardley ,crockery-
ware; F. ]. P. Pascoe, white lead, etc. !;
j. Saddler. comb maker; James d Bed
son Eardley, pottery; Hugh FIndlay,
matches and backing; Latimer q Tay-
lor, sashes, doors and blinds; H. Egan
and Sons, travellers aad emigrantS' de-
pot, and w. BslIan, matchmaker.
Those were days that tried mems
souls, in the matter of obtaining news
from abroad. The war was in progress,
and many time and oft the commune
cation was interrupted for weeks at
stretch, AS an instance in point, the
editorial in the copy before US reads:
For over three weeks, the uncertain con-
dition of the telegraph line to the east of
this has been seriously annoying TO mer
chants and business men dependent upon
its services in commerce, and for the great
public, interested in the news from the seat
of war, the "breaks" of the wires, the
downs" of the poles and the "heavy thun-
der-storns" along tue line have been ex-
ceedingly unpleasant. Every eXertion
however, has been made by superintendent
Ellsworth, at Laramie, and all the force ct
his command, 10 repair the damages, and to
place in a better condition that portion of
the line which was swept away by the over
flowing of the Platte. For few days back,
evidences Of stability have increased, ana,
yesterday. the operator in this city did a
splendid amount of work. We present to
our readers this moraing large variety OF
news. and with few days more of good
service of the line, we expect that we will
almost the hour of its departure from the
seat of war. Knowing the anxiety OF our
readers TO get the latest stirring news, we
give it preference in our columns.
Then follow four columns of solid
minion, into which are crowded a vast
number of news items from the various
battle-felds CT the east, prominent
among which are: The brief mention
of Hunters expendition to Lexington
an attack on Burnside, Army of the
Potomac; an engagement at White
River; General Pillows demand for the
surrender of Lafayette, Tenn; Sher-
hoochie; Schofeld and Hooker at Las
Mountain; skirmishing at Pine Bluffs
Shelley's raid near Brownsville; Gen
eral Grants firing on the bridge a.
Petersburg; the destruction of all rail
roads leading into Richmond; the battle
at KensaW Mountain, and the struggles
at Lynchburg and Petersburg. All th'
dispatches are boiled down." flashed
and give the news in condensed
shape in excellent form.
On the third page are few local item
and display advertisements of the firm
of Ransohoff q Co., merchandise
Clark & Co., bankers: Powers, Newman
g. Co., bankers; William Jennings
merchandise; Virginia City stage line
II. Egan & Sons, Deep Greek milling
and Cronyn & Clayton, dry goods. Th,
local matter tells of cricket mattel
played by members of the Desere
Union Club-eleven under thirty years
of age against eleven over thirty. thu
younger team getting away with thu
honors by score of 102 to SIS; the re-
turn to the city of Mr.. Charles II. Bas-
sett, of Bassett & Roberts; the arriva
of the Bannock express; the building