The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03
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The little first number Of The Her
aid was not OVerburdened with adver-
tisements, and the largest and best OF
them would look small and insignif1-
cant in a Sunday issue Of the paper Of
this time; and yet the business inter
ests of the old Salt Lake find very
good representation in the advertising
columns of this little paper that made
such a bold venture. The first page of
volume I. No 1, had two columns OF
clippings from other papers, three col
umns Of advertising and one column
of official directory. The second page
had two columns of editorial. two OF.
advertising and two of Geographic.
news. The third page had two columns
of local news, one of telegraph and
three of advertising. The fourth page
had one column Of "tnklings" and. five
columns of advertising.
Prominent among the advertisers in
the first issue is to be found the T. c.
NJ I. that has not failed to be prom
inent at any time from that date to
! this. The superintendent of that insti-
tuition then was the present Bishop II.
B. ClawsOn. The Z. G. NJ l. building on
Main street had been built two years
before and was still an object Of won
der and admiration to all Corners. Very
few of those who then waited upon
customers are to be found there now
and those who do still remain consider
themselves veterans in the cause.
Another firm that had prominent
| advertisement on the first page Of the
first Herald was Hooper, Eldredge &
/ Co. This place Of business was on Main
/ street where now stands the Deseret
/ National bank. The principals in this
firm were William H. Hooper and II.
5. EIdredge, both of whom have gone
to their rest. The company at that
time was L. s. Hills. who now stands
at the head Of the bank that succeeded
the old institution.
Dinwoodey's is one of the firms that
has withstood all the changes in the
/ city during the intervening thirty
years. The Dinwoodey store at that
time was on Main street just above
the present Mccormick building. Up
hOlstery, furniture and cofins'' were
! advertised by DinwOodey in the first
issue. Morris & Evans is a firm name
that represents another institution that
has come down from that day to this,
/ although Samuel L. Evans, the junior
member Of the firm. died years ago
and the firm name changed to Elias
Morris & Sons. In their first Herald
advertisement these men announced
/ that they were builders and grave and
/ monumental masons." There was an
advertisement for James Phillips "the
pioneer flag maker" there was one
for the Utah Job Printing Office run
/ by H. McEwan and S. NJ. StenhoUse:
there was one for the Salt Lake House,
with F. Little as proprietor This hos
! telry stood on Main street just north of
the present Herald Office. The Town
send House, which was also advertised
stood on West Temple and was con-
Quoted by James Townsend. The pres
ent Continental is a portion Of what
was the old Townsend.
There was an advertisement for
Calder Bros, booksellers; one for
James Dryers book store; one for
William J. Silver. dealer in machinery.
one for the Twentieth Ward Pleasure
Garden, run by Mark Lindsay This
was west Of the cemetery and is but a
memory now. The advertisement for
the Warm Springs Baths has a famil-
lar look. This place was then run by
II. Arnold. Dr.. W. H. Groves. surgeon
and mechanical dentist, had his card
in the first issue Of The Herald. as had
also Snow & Hoge, attorneys. This
firm was composed of Z. Snow and =.
d. Hoge. ThirkiH & Earl, merchant
taiIors, made known. their business: T.
& w. Taylor dry goods and groceries
advertised mOdestly; Marshall & Car
ter. lawyers, had out a small shingle
as did also w. F. Anderson. NJ. D.
/ c. Barrett announced that he was q
chemist and assayer.
One striking thing about the adver
tisements in this first number Of Tn
Herald. a fact that will throw the Sal
Lake of 1870 into strong contrast will
the Salt Lake of today. is that Their
was but one railroad running out from
the city and that only in one directioEA
This was the Utah Central running
north TO Ogden. 1t has long been q
part of the Short Line system. The
time card in the first Herald announced
two trains leaving Salt Lake daily. one
at ; in the morning and one at 2:45 in
the afternoon. On Sundays, Wednes-
DAYS and Saturdays an accommodation
was run, leaving this city at 4:40 in the
afternoon. D. o. Calder was ticket and
freight agent and Joseph A. Young was
superintendent. The arrivals at the
hotels were published in the first issue
of The Herald just as they are today.
but in the early days the number was
very small.
What the Directory Shows.
The official directory" published in
the first column of this first issue Of
The Herald. contains many names still
nrominent in the politics of the city.
county and state. The United States
officers were appointees of Y. S. Grant,
who was president at that time and
had been for some years before. Most
of these men are now dead and those
who still live are scattered and gone
from the community. The biography Of
each of these would be Of interest. es-
peciallys to the people who lived under
their rule. There were twelve Of these