The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-25
OUR XMAS GIFT.
The Christmas Herald
a Big Hit.
A BOYCOTT NIPPED.
Everyone Joins in EnthuSias-
tic. Praise.
A FIELD DAY FOB NEWS BOYS
The Biggest Literary Achievement
Ever Seen in the West and Row
1t Was Greeted.

This WAY FOR YOUR CHRIsTM As
HERALD! ONLY FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY"
The public had been worked up to a
pretty high state of expectation over
the advent of THE CHRISTMAS HERALD,
but when the above whoop of the news
boy filed the air yesterday morning
and the public absorbed CHRISTMAS
HERALD's as fast as they could be fur
nished-then it became patent that
much IS had been promised, only the
half had been told, and the to@n
straightway went into twelve hour
ecstasy of admiration.
1t was the genuine sensation of the
season.
The main thing that seemed to bother
people was that Salt Lake institution
should all of sudden, and without any
premonitory warnings, blossom out
with a work which they had always
somehow had notion couldn't be
thought OF outside of New York, Chicago
or st. LOUIS. People turned the elegant
and bulky volume over and over in
their hands with sort of troubled ex-
preston, as if there were something
uncanny about it. when they turned
over leaf after leaf of the forty-four
pages and saw confronting them finely
finished pictures of the familiar build
ings of their own town, names of their
prominent citizens attached to articles,
and with the mining, real estate, build
ing, industrial and artistic affairs OF
| their own Territory handsomely and
completely written down to the latest
hour Saturday night-then it gradually
broke upon them that they lived in
Wakeful aud progressive city, and that
| THE HERALD occupied one of its highest
and most prominent watch towers. 1t
was
AN AMBITIOUS SCHEME
that of planning to have the repre-
sentative men of our several classes
unite in placing their views side by
side in the columns of a newspaper.
The HERALD, however, had confidence
that the awakening of the year 1888
had been widespread one, felt sure
that its motive would be appreciated,
and believe that the brains as well as
the substantially of the community
were one in the determination to have
harmony reign in Utah and to frown
down the efforts of those whose agita-
tons, falsehoods and scurrilous re-
ports had so long held our Territory
back in the march OF progress. The
plan was explained and a hearty re-
Spouse followed; not to make the
number partake too much of the ma
ture of dry array OF facts and
statistics, care was taken to secure
contributions of more purely literary
and artistic character with wen of
the light and amusing running through
the whole, was edited to make il
terse and succinct as well as compre-
hensiYe; cuts of all our prominent
buildings were secured, some at con-
siderable expense, and the result is that
unlike most holiday editions of news
papers, the CHRISTMAS HERALD COM
bInes the excellence of newspaper.
magazine and review, qualities which
will cause it to be long preserved as an
instance of home taste, home skill and
home enterprise.
The contents and the general plan
only needed to be shown to our great
business men to make them see Its
value as an advertising medium, and it
is safe to say that no such wholesale
and whole-souled response ever went
forth from our traders, gre at and small
as that which greeted the protector OF
the CHRISTMAS HERALD The work was
com melced about December 1st and
was pushed with vigOr. Only those
who know something of the labor of
printir G the huge ediuons of the DAILY,
SEMI WEEKLY and WEEKLY HERALD,
can realize what it meant
to have the same force OF
Drintsrs and editors and the same
iype, engine and presses fill in their
4" pare time" by preparing and running
off an issue like THE CHRISTIANS HER
AID. The task was a LeViathan one, but
all plans were carefully made, and wi h
a we'll nigh perfect system in the var
ious departments of the paper, when |
once started, moved like clock work,
and from the time the first article was
penued until the huge presses depos- /
tied the last page of the forty-four on the |
receiving table, there was not hitch |
nor a break it the arrangements. 1t had |
been originally designed TO make the
number only double the size Of THE
SUNDAY HERALD, thirty-two pages, but
the rate at which advertisements flowed |
in compelled an enlargement first to
thirty-six, then to forty and finally TO
forty.four pages, and Sunday morning,
when the work was finally done, fully a
page of crowded out" matter, much of
it valuable, lay unused on the editors
desk.
BREAKERS AHEAD.
We have said not one hitch occurred;
there was one, or one that nearly came
to something momentous, and as it in
volved deadly conspiracy on the part |
OF ORGANIZED labor to boycott the fruits |
OF SO many day and nights of labor, we
shall not hesitate to name it: / was
nothing more or less than a strike |
among the neWsboys-a veritable boy
colt against The CHRISTMAS HERALD, an |
organized movement on the part of |
labor against its ancient arch-foe-cap-
ital. 1t happened thus:
Saturday night at dark, when the |
Campbell press was merrily fiinging off |
to the tune of 600 an hour the last |
four pages of the big issue, the foreman |