The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-22
Thirty
The A. L.
The tale was told.

ne tdle was tod.
II was up in the composing room
that the mots dramatic scene was
that the most dramatic scene was
was tragedy. This truly was the me-
mortal chamber Many OF these old
printers were an integral part of the
establishment. Some had seen thirty
years Of continuous service, and had
felt sense of permanenuy that
amounted almost to proprietorship.
Here was the adytum OF dear associa-
TONS, where rare recollections cluster
ed like ripened grapes i'm the sun.
little German band, known To the
craft as the Hungry Six" which had
been engaged for the end, played the
dirge of departure Men were brave
enough to weep-fOr now weeping was
not weakness. AS Nearer, My God,
to Thee" floated softly forth. there
was n suggestion Of that transcendant
tragedy when the Titanic sank. Only
instead Of n load Of human lives there
now went down cargo of human
hopes. When the Instruments sobhed
out the strains of Aud Lang Syne"
to these veterans Of many vanished
years, gray heads were bowed as above
a bier and tears again found their
channels in age-furrowed cheeks.
AT midnight the chapel cahed its last
session. At least one part of the rec
ords of that memorable meeting Is
worthy of preservation-a formal fare
well to the foreman. The touching
tribute follows:
Midnight, May 10, 1914.
Mr. William T.. Brown:
Dear Sir-The Inter Ocean chapel in
final meeting assembled
a chapel known to generations of
printers and liked by ties of friendship
and long association, is about to go out
II existence.
AS its last official act this body
wishes To place on record an apprecia- |
ion of you as "A man and as fore
nan.
In this farewell, we sorrow and
words are inadequate.
Goodby, Bill.
The Inter Ocean Chapel
Cheers mingled with tears when
herman II. Kohlsaat. the publisher.
rave his parting address to the chapel. |
response was made with resolutions
II respect and appreciation drafted at
he chapel meeting.
And then the final silence. Mol
onger the battery of Mergenthalers
nurmured the news of nations with
ne many tongues of type. No more
he floors vibrated to the throb OF the
resses like the heart OF world in
II was the hush OF history |
$ its portals closed upon the past.
Then the last survey by all OF an
scene. It. was looking
pom giants expiring gasps-a CO.
Dssus in the anguished throes OF dis
olution. II was as a sentiment being
cath smitten.
And writhing like n smitten thing |
It's friends may find degree Of con-
olation In the fact that the Inter
'cean died natural death. No insti-
ition can long survive its function
nd for some years the Inter Ocean {
al. I'm public sense. been functionless. | :
had degenerated to the personal
rgans Of those who controlled 1t. Few
the principles 1t advocated were adj q
lirable. II was out OF tune with the a
mes. II refused to relate itself cor {
'ctly to the contemporaneous spirit a
reactionary i'm the focus Of 1
'dical forces. II proclaimed its chal- I
nge to the changing order. {
IL took issue with the inevitable.
During all adaptability, resisting. ev- b
y reform. static in its policies. i'm G
utable in its Ideas, clinging tenac- g
usly to the forms OF an obsolete, So 4
al order, II was trampled TO extinc-
'n beneath ithe~mighkx march 4 asXos
ctionary processes.