St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-03
HAIL AND FAREWELL,
n. P. Hall Handsomely Sped
on His Mission to the
East.
The Veteran Journalist Ban
quoted by the Faber Fra
ternity.
A Life interviewer With the
Newspaper History Of the
City.
Feeling Testimonial on the
Eve Of His Final De-
parture.

Harlan P. Hall, pioneer in the jour
nalistic labors, is about to sever his con-
nection with his old associations
in st. Paul and his conferes
conformity rendered him testi-
monial banquet at the Ryan last even
ing. The event was one OF the pleas
ATTEST occasions that come to relieve the
dreary, work-a-day life of the newspa-
per laborers, and the gathering consti-
tuted among the co-laborers In journal
ism a score or SO who have drawn
salaries as the employees of Mr..
Hail. He has, during the past
twenty-five years of active life been
identified with all the several daily pa
pets i'll this city, and his honorable
course with his staff OF newsgather-
ers and editorial workers has especially
endeared HIM to little army OF the
most energetic and spirited newspaper
men of the city. But the banquet had
a wider scope. 1t was under the au-
spices not only of the st. Panl Press
club and the St. Paul Typothe-
taa, but of the Minnesota Editor
ial association, and the amenities
always characterize social meeting of
the men who are laboring in the inter
ests of the publishers of great news
papers. Mr.. Hall has been elected the
general manager of the Press News
association, one of the three organiZa-
lions that supply the daily papers of
the country by Geographic service with
the current events of the world. he
has purchased an interest in the asso-
citation, succeeding James B. Town
send, who has been the genera
manager. and he will at once remov
to New York, the present general head
quarters of the association. The prop
osition is to speedily reincorporate Ill
Illinois, when the main business office
will be established in Chicago. This will
not remove the principal news depot
from the present fountain head, New
York, however, but it will take Mr.. Hall
to Chicago the major portion of the time.
This arrangement, it is contem
plated, will be consummated in
June, then he will sojourn in
New York only as occasion requires.
Mr.. Hall has been selected for this re-
6ponsible duty because of his peculiar
fitness for the work, and Minnesota is
proud that the long-honored talent OF
its leading writers and hustlers will be
recognized by the selection of one of
the premier laborers in the ranks OF the
newspaper men of the state. Mr.. Hall
established the DAILY GLOBE and
conducted it nearly a dozen
years, when he sold his inter
est to the present proprietor
Prior to this he mad established the
Evening Dispatch, and since ne severed
his connection with the GLOBE, he has
conducted the News as part pro-
prietor. This in brief is a part OF his
life history in the harness in st. Paul.
No man has worked harder and none
more deserve the encomiums shoWered
upon him by the speakers at the festive
gathering last evening.
His Career Epitomized.
"He has, says recent biographical
sketch in the Northwestern Journalist, the
reputation among Minnesota journalists OF
working more hours and sleeping fewer
hours of the twenty-four than any other man
in the profession. He is q great hustler
and there is no part of the work of news
paper that he cannot do, and very little that
he does not do at one time or another when
help is needed to push the work along.
SO much energy is seldom com
pressed in as slight and frasile-looking
form as he possesses. With all his ac-
tivitv, he always has time TO chat genlaily
with q u tr1enQ or 10 take up RrdJulIOuS III
bors for the Press club, the State Editorial
association or for some public spirited
movement in the city of ST. Paul. Mr. Hall
was born in Ravenna, o., In 1885. and grad
uated from the Wesleyan university at Del
aware o.. in 1861 He then studied law and
was admitted to the bar. In 1862
he migrated to Minnesota and began
life rs printer. He was soon
promoted to be reporter on the st.
Paul Union. Later the Union was con-
consolidated with the st. Paul daily Press.
On this sheet Mr.. Hall continued TO exercise
his talents as reporter, telegraph editor, ex-
change editor. editorial writer, &C., until
November, 1865, when, Ill company with
other parties, he purchased the morning Pho
neer, and he took the position of edltor-ln-
chief In 1866 stock company was organ
led to whom Mr.. Hail and his partners re-
cold the concern. III the fall Of 1866 Mr..
Hall bought q half interest i'll the job
alley, and in February, 1868, this firm estab
ished the st. Paul Evening Dispatch, the
Junior partner becoming the editor-in chief
of the paper. In 1870 the firm was, by mu-
tual consent, dissolved. Mr.. Hall taking the
newspaper. In the fall OF 1876 he disposed
of the Dispatch, and on Jan. Is, 1878, he is
Hued the first number OF the st. Paul
DAILY GLOBE. He continued the publ
cation of the GLOBE until 1885, when the
paper was sold to its present owners. In 1889
he became connected with the st. Paul even
ing News as editor and publisher, and con-
Quoted that sprighty and independent sheet
until the middle of last month, when he sold
his entire interest.
The Banquet.
After the viands had been eloquently
discussed by the epicureS of last nights
party, G. S. Pease, Of Anoka, called the