The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
OTHERS IN MONTANAS NEWS FIELD

Mr.. Stenberg. The man who AT that
time was reporter, city editor, busi-
ness manager and circulator for the
Standard in Butte, rushed to the scene
of the fire and entered the door 0 the
paint shop. Through the clouds of
smoke and in the path of the adv anc-
ing flames, he saw the sign with the
freshly painted words, "Office of the
Daily Standard" He rescued the S lgn,
carried it to the Standards office, and
the next day it was swinging in FRI ont
of the office door. 1t was not until 10 ng
afterward that Mr.. Stenberg was n
formed that the sign which he h; Id
painted had not been destroyed in tt he
fire.
Its Policy of Expansion.
In the winter of 1890 the office of tn e
standard was removed to a large room q
over the banking house of w. A. Clark
and now occupied by Mr.. Clark as
private office. 1t was while there that
the Standard established its private
wire service, connecting by direct and
private wire the Butte office with the
office in Anaconda. Each office had it's
own operator and the news and bust
ness were transmitted to the main Of
flee without passing through any regu-
lar telegraph office, and without the
payment of telegraph tolls. While To-
Gated in this place the Standards
growth was truly phenomenal. Its staff
in all departments of the papers work
had to be very largely increased. Very
soon the need of even larger quarters
was apparent, and before the Standard
was 10 months old it made another move
and its last probably until such time as
it shall move into a home in Butte owned
by itself. The location for nearly nine
years has been at No. q East Broad
way. At first the Standard occupied
this number with half a dozen other
tenants, but as it's business increased
and additional space became imperative
one after another was crowded out I'M
til now the Standard occupies the entire
office with the basement underneath as
WELL The Standards policy was a pol
icy of expansion, although it does not
favor the kind of foreign expansion
that is just now the go with the coterie
in the white house.
A retrospect of the decade since
Standards were first sold on the streets
of Butte shows how the Standard has
in every way kept pace with Butte's
marvellous growth. Instead of one man
handling its Butte business, ten men
in addition there is required large
corps of paper carriers to deliver the
Standards from door to door each
morning. Instead of being brought to
Butte by regular passenger train along
towards noon. the papers start for
Butte by the Standards special train
as soon as printed, and are left at the
doors of Butte subscribers at about 6
o'clock in the morning. The Butte
news and the Butte advertising have
grown until, instead of occupying a
portion of one page, there are now
four and five pages required for Butte
each morning.
The Standards future is with Butte.
1t is welcomed here each morning, and
in the years that are to come it's hope
and ambition will be that the welcome
will grow warmer and steadier with
he age that comes alike to papers and
t, readers. The Standard is confident
OF Butte's great future, and while it
continues to record day by day and
" EAR by year the events and incidents
i,reat and small which make up the
S u moi life and the life of the newspa-
p er, it will look forward with the ut
MOST confidence to as great a growth
fc,r Butte and for the Standard in the
10 years that are to come as in the de-
ca lie which closes with to-day.