New-York tribune., 1900-04-10
THE TR1BUNE's BIRTHDAY.
coxGRATULATIoNs FROM AN OLD FRIEND

CONGRATULATIONS FROM AN OLD FRIEND
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Once I permitted TO greet Ths
New-York Tribune the hfty-ninth anniversary
of its publication. Its first number issued
April TO- 1S41. at the corner Of Nassau and Spruce
SITS. IN a comparatively small building and not a
very large edition published Neither was the
paper a large one; there only four pages about
the size of sheet OF the Sunday Supplement-
and Horace Greeley. whose name became famous
and historical, was Its founder and editor.
When / look back and compare the building In
which IL Is printed to-day, the same spot, and
It's daily issue OF fourteen pages and each page
more than twice the size of the first number
printed. together with the Sunday edition of thirty
pages and Illustrated Supplement OF sixteen
pages, II wonderful achieves
ment in newspaper history.
When The Tribune first came into existence
there was no telegraphic communication with any
part of the world but lire of railroad was
running between Washington and the city of New
York. and that was owned by three different
panies-the Camden and Amboy the Philadelphia
and Wilmington and the Baltimore and Ohio-and
at Philadelphia you were obliged 10 cross the city
in stages. also at Baltimore, and 10 took nearly
fifteen hours to accomplish the journey of 80 miles
which is now done in about six hours. There was
no railroad connecting New-York City with Albany
relays Of horses to she State Capfs fo rs
the ocean at that time was to go in packet. which
done on the most urgent business and with
dread tndt one was saying farewell forever. When
news from the old country received IL was
twenty days old and extras were issued announc-
ing the arrival of ship with the latest news from
Europe Neither gas nor CrOton in ths
city. and communication from OF the
city to another was by stage omnibus. Where
the Fifth Avenue Hotel stands to-day was
out of the city. IL during the first ten wears
of The Tribune that Horace Greeley coined that
expression. which has become proverbial Go West.
young man, go West"
Slavery. when The Tribune commenced its career,
was the great curse OF the country. and against
Its extension Horace Greeley devoted his utmost
energies. and then for its annihilation lived
to Abraham Lincoln sign the Emancipation
freemea.
II has been my pride that 1 was acquainted with
Horace Greeley; that / have walked and talked
with him; that in great many things / have fol-
right Observation-Disclosures. morality liberty
ALL a tariff protecting American industries a
rency founded on a gold basis. churches. school
houses, and Old Glory to be the emblem all
taken and read The Tribune daily. Its
has been onward and upward 1t can De taken into
any family. and no one need fear that anything ur
clean immoral will be found in its pages. Its
home has IL brought the sunshine OF Joy and made
the heart or sorrow one of gladness And what a
power or good has its Fresh Air Fund caused each
summer TO thousands OF households and how many
through Its influence, With how much satisfaction
do read each day its editorials It's comments, rs
criticisms and Its news from all OF the world
FROM lsal 10 1900 IL has been expanding: its IN
ing, and hope its ideas OF expansion will be tmi
tated In the home. in business, in city in State. IN
the United States. With expansion the Bible. the
Church, the schOoihouse and Old Glory. Such are
day. GEORGE 7. COOKE
New-York April g. 1860