Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-22
THE OMAHA DAILY REE: MONDAY. APRIL 22 1887

Twenty-Five years the type have been
furnishing messages to countless read
ers. Here have been laid many schemes
in business, politics, and even in relig-
ion. Here have been seen all sides OF
the natures Iofi men VINO have made
their names ul'Omaha and Nebraska.
Some future issue of this paper may turn
TO biography but the present will touch
only upon history. No single printing
office has been 30 prolific in newspapers
as this. Some of them served their day
and died; others we're wrecked by the
financial br6akers, while others have
survived all difficulties, and are pub
lished to-day.yj
Aside from .the papers that were
printed here this Office used TO be a sort
OF refuge for the other papers in the
city, when defective machinery pre-
vented publication in their own office.
Break-downs were common in those
days, and on such occasions the Herald
or Republican would cart their forms
to the "old reliable," and take possess
sion of everything to complete the
mornings issue. Every courtesy ex-
isted among the printers OF those days,
and friendships were formed that will
only be interrupted at the grave. But
our history must begin:n
Mr.. Redtield then tells about the es-
tablishment of the Agriculturist by
Jeremiah Benin, January ], 1869; the
Daily Argus, October, 1870, by Charles
T.. Redfeld, and then refers to THE
BEE as follows:
zone of the proudest offshoots of the
Redield printing house is THE OMAHA
BEE, the first charge for which appears
under date of June 10, 1871. Mr.. Ed
ward Rosewater ives at that time super
intendent of the only telegraph COM
pany In this city. He was possessed of
several pieces of property, including
that in which THE BEE Is now printed,
and one of the lots ON which is con-
structed the new BEE building. where
Mr.. Rosewater resided IN small cot
tage. The first issue of the paper was
u quarter sheet 24xS6, only one
uted free. Mr.. Frank Kaspar,
present councilman of the Second
ward, was one of the carriers. Mr..
Rosewater had an idea of establishing
a permanent paper, but still the first
issues we're published as experiments.
The following entries from the order
book of that time show what THE BEE
circulated, as well as the cost of me-
chanical work:
June lgc1s7l, 500 copies. .s165O
81 80 80 .:.....:..... .........:...... si5 s1
4" %, Z" 1000 e" ................ 955
E" %, 1900 q" ................ IL 20
"Tee figures run about as above until
the 18th of July, the same year, when
Mr.. Rosewater rented "a room in the
same building and did his own type-set-
ting, the Redfield Brothers continuing
to do the presswork.
The type was afterwards set in
building near the corner of Twelfth
and Dodge streets, that had formerly
been used as a boarding house. A man
by the name OF Anderson applied the
torch to this STRUCTURE, which burned
to the ground, destroying the entire
material Of THE EBEE Office, and max
ing an epoch in the life of THE BEE,
that in the hands of less determined
man than its proprietor would have
membered that, Anderson served a term
in the penitentiary for the crime, and
afterwards died sin q barn near Des
Moines, la. About a month after the
ire, THE BEE was moved to the present
location" ad
The article then continues with ref
erence to the establishment of the
Omaha Dispatch, in 1872, the Daily
Union in 1874, the journal of Commerce
and finally the Weekly Independent
and the Waterloo. Sentinel.
Inc Olu structure Will De replaced DE
brick one three-stories high, which,
however. will have little to do with the
printing busin ess.
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