The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-07

suit he launched, with his Job Office as
basis, on February 20, 1868, the st. Paul
Dispatch as an evening paper. There was
no evening paper in st. Paul, but the
second day after the Dispatch appeared
the Morning Press. saying that there
seemed to be q popular demand for an
evening paper, issued an evening ISSUE
The Dispatch could not secure the Asso-
ciated Press report, as the other papers
the birth of the Dispatch, Barnums mu-
scum in New York, located on the old
Herald site at Ann and Broadway burned
The Associated Press brought to the
Press lurid account OF the fire while
the Dispatch had no alluson to It, No
scoop" before or since ever seemed so
terrific to the parties in interest as that
did. Mr.. Hall had secured as a partner a
gentleman of means who had furn shed
money for the start, and up to a large
sum was to supply the working capital
as needed. He declared the paper could
not live without the Associated Press re-
ports, and did not want to make another
issue. Mr.. Hall assured his par ,ner there
was only one condition which won d
cause the death of the Dispatch and that
was his own, physical death. Unable 10
md another partner, Mr.. Hall bought out
and released his discouraged partner an /
paper, which is still very considerably
alive. BY a strategic move which has,
perhaps, never been duplicated in Asso-
ciated Press history the Dispatch force d
from Its unwilling contemporaries Their con-
sent to give 1t the exclusive day report
or the Associated Press privilege the
Dispatch still enjoys. This was in Nc
Vember, 1868, and the Evening Press
came out with the announcement that
after having faithfully tired the exp-1I-
ment for eight months they had demon
strated that there was no field for even
ing papers, and that the Evening Press
would therefore suspend publication
IN Bi2 the Dispatch joined in the re-
volt Of the Liberal Republicans against
President Grant. It's editor got up a
delegation to attend the Liberal ReDub-
lican convention at Cincinnati and going
himself joined in nominating Horace
Greeley. While not professs dly a Dem
ocratlc paper, this movement took the
dispatch outside of the Republican fold
AS the Democrats had been without
any daily paper since the consolidation
of the Pioneer and Press in 1872. Mr.
Hall sold the Dispatch in 1876 with the
view of establishing a morning Demo-
cratic paper. The result was that as
soon as the Associated Press could be
secured the st. Paul G o b was start
election of Cleveland brought an adj
vantageous opportunity to sell and this,
coupled with health considerations. led
Mr.. Hall to sell that paper in February.
1885.
While publishing the Dispatch in 1870
Mr.. Hall engaged in the ready print or
patent inside" business, being the third
man in the United States to engage in
that work, which has grown to such
great proportions that over 5000 papers
are now printed on that PLAN Having
sold that branch of his business while
conducting the G l o b e, he resumed it
for a few years after the sale of that
paper.
In the spring of 1889 he bought the
Evening News, a new paper which had
been started in st. Paul, but, as it
proved Improbable, soon disposed of it.
Various lines of newspaper work. in
Volving much travel among them beng
the literary department of the Canadian
Pacific railway, followed until three or
four years ago Mr. Hall purchased the
st. Paul Trade Journal, weekly pub
lication which he still continues He is
also secretary of the st. Paul Jobbers
Union, having been reelected on the
Sth of March, last, to the position.
Mr. Hall, few years ago, also launch
ed the Morning Call, a bright and breezy
daily newspaper, but, as the conditions
were not favorable ne suspended publ
cation after years trial.
The nearest approach Mr.. Hall ever
came to holding a political office came
to him in the early '70s entirely unsought
The lamented Garfield was a. representa-
tive in congress from hts native county
and through Ohio influences, Garfield
secured from Jacob D. Cox, of Toledo,