The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-06

p.ick pudding. the FL Dorado, on the cor.
ner OF second and j streets, and we got
undati0n was not so bad as in other narts of
tue city. Down on Second street the water
was three or four feet deep. Our business
Kept on increasing, and toward spring 1t was
toierably brisk. At this time our notes be-
gan 10 De payable. and we had to raise
money at frlghtful sacrifices. A great fire oc-
Cured in San Francisco in 1851, and it
swept away the Alta California building
and all the printing material. Aldridge now
stepped out of the paper under curious
circumstances. BE had gone into a contract
with Charles Homer to plank X street
Lumber was very high-perhaps over 500
per thousand feet-for this purpose
The flood came on and they failed in their
contract, and the transactions broke both of
them. People could not pay and they could
not proceed with their work, and lumber
went down in price and both were bank
rupt. That put the whole paper on myself
and Lawrence. But Lawrence d I'D not OBJ
tain sufficient money from New York as be
expected he would. aud it became pretty
hard struggle TO meet our
PAYMENTS OF 10 PER CENT PER MONTH
| And required very good management to pull
| through. A paper called the Transcript
| was being published at Sacramento by G.
| h. Fitch and others. He had been spend
| ing the winter at San Jose. where the
| Legislature met, and had entered into a
| contract for the printing and publishing of
| the laws IN the newspapers. 4 strike &C.
| CURED in this Office about this time. and he
and others proposed that the Times nd
| Transcript should be amalgamated. For this
purpose he bough. out partners and
then the two papers combined. We got
| some other partners into the enterprise and
| commenced the publication of the laws,
| and by good management we just lived
| through that period of crisis. The printers
who had struck work In Fiteh's office
| joined hands and started another paper
| called the Sacramento Union. Heretofore
| our paper had been Independent, but we
now made 1t Democratic. In 1882, l
think, division occurred in the Democratic
party. 1t was struggle as to who should
get control of the offices, and they started
| another paper and there was regular tug
of-war 10 see who should have the patron
| age. At length the State printing was TO be
| let, and II was arranged between the parties
that If we would go to San Francisco the
| Others would remain in Sacramento and
| divide the printing with us. The partners
OF the opposition Democratic paper, the State
journal, We're Geiger and b. T. Washing
| ton. Well, we moved down to San Fran
| cisco in the spring OF 1852 and published the
| Times ana Transcript here. We bought a
| little building down on Clay street,
| just below Montgomery, for print
ing and publishing premises. A
| brick building now stands on the
site. TIE first year down here the
paper must nave yielded SlOO0UO clear
| profit. Then there began TO be a quarrel in
the Democratic party between Gwin,
| Broderick and others. Gwin was Sena-
| tor then and Broderck was afterward Ssna-
| tor. The trouble which arose out of this
| dispute eliminated afterward in the death
! OF Broderick at the hands Of Terry in a duel.
Neither Fitch nor myself cared to be in
yolyed in the quarrel and We sold out our
paper TO Geigrr and Was lington. who came
down from Sacramento to San Francisco.
The pr6prietors Of the San Joaquin Repub-
iican. Bell & Kerr, had also a share in the
purchase from US. This paper supported
the Southern division of the party-Doctor
Gwin. Major Hammond and others.
Afterward | purchased the Alta California
and Fitch went in with me as a partner
Very soon Washington and his friends got
run down with their paper and they sold US
the remnant of the Times Transcript and
we merged II with the Alta. In the spring
OF 1856 We sold the paper to McCrellish and
the printers and romposit0rs.