History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time, Part 115

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 1340

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HISTORY OF THE PRESS.

tled Ethzelda, or Sunbeams and Shadows, that was afterward published by Rufus Blanchard, being proba- bly the first of that species of literary production written, printed and published in Chicago. It is likewise author- itatively stated that the first music printed from movable music type was set in the Literary Budget composing

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room by Joseph Cockroft, the words to the music being by Francis Clarke. S. P. Rounds for a long time printed the title page for this paper, which, in 1855, was merged in the Weekly Native Citizen, published also by Mr. Danenhower.

THE CHRISTIAN ERA, Rev. Epaphras Goodman, edi- tor, was given a place in the list of unsuccessful efforts for 1852.

THE WESTERN TABLET was published by Daniel

Dan? Oltara

O'Hara, February 7, 1852, as a Catholic literary period- ical, and lasted for three years.

THE CHICAGO DAILY EXPRESS AND COMMERCIAL REGISTER, an independent daily penny paper, was begun June 11, 1852, by J. Q. A. Wood and W. J. Pat- terson.

THE WEEKLY EXPRESS, J. F. Ballantyne & Co., lasted one year, from some time in 1852.

THE DAILY TIMES AND CITIZEN, a Free-Soil paper, by Zebina Eastman, ran from some date in 1852 to July, 1853.

FRIHED'S BANNERET, the first Norwegian paper in Chicago, was established in 1852, by Mouritzon & Kjoss, and printed from materials formerly used on the Nordlyset, published in 1847, at Norway, Racine Co., Wis. Despite the utmost economy and energy on the part of the publishers, the new paper lived but eleven months, and the office was sold to the Staats Zeitung. Several other Norwegian papers were attempted here prior to 1857, but their names, even, cannot be recalled at present.

THE DAILY DEMOCRATIC PRESS was first issued on September 16, 1852, by John L. Scripps and William Bross. The paper was started exclusively upon its own merits, and without the usual prerequisite to newspaper publication-a subscription list. .Is Governor Bross remarks: " It was established in the interest of the city, the State and the great Northwest, and without any view of making politics the standard of the paper, and the advancement of individual politicians the aim of its existence." As its title indicates, the Press acknowl- edged allegiance to the then dominant political party, but was fair and unprejudiced in its conduct toward all. One of the especial features of the paper was its commercial department, although in all its work ability was evinced. A few days after the first issue of the paper, the office was moved to No. 45 Clark Street, over R. K. Swift's Bank, and from this place the first num- ber of the weekly edition was issued. Here occurred that episode that is a matter of oral tradition among the older journalists. The religious views of Governor

Bross are well known, and the work requisite for the issuing of a daily paper that was of necessity performed upon Sunday, was a constant source of animadversion by that gentleman. Mr. Scripps was working hard one Sunday upon editorials, etc., and Mr. Bross, entering the sanctum, remonstrated with him for breaking the Sabbath. Mr. Scripps said, "Now, good Deacon, I have worked from five this morning. and shall probably continue until nine this evening, consequently I have made no break in the Sabbath-it is a whole day." On March 16, 1853, the paper was enlarged, and September 16, 1854, Barton W. Spears, then recently of the Ohio Statesman, and for many years one of the editors of the Monroe (Michigan) Commercial, who was a practical printer, became associated with the firm, the title be- coming Scripps, Bross & Spears. May 8, 1857, the heading was changed in form and arrangement ; the words Chicago and Press being upon either side of an oval around a vignette of a printing press, and upon the upper part of the oval was the word Daily, and upon the lower part, Democratic. June 13, 1857, the vignette was again altered, having a press in the center, a loco- motive and cars upon the right, and a steamboat upon the left of the press ; above the press upon a ribbon was Daily in large letters, and below the press, on an- other ribbon, the word Democratic in small type. This, presumptively, marked the decadence of democratic principles in the newspaper, and the acquirement of those Republican tenets it steadfastly expounded.

SLOAN'S GARDEN CITY was first issued in 1853, by Oscar B. Sloan, as a weekly newspaper, in the interest of his patent medicines principally, and as an oracle upon literary matter secondarily. The paper lasted two or three years and was ably edited, having in its columns many meritorious stories and miscellaneous contribu- tions. William H. Bushnell wrote a serial for this paper, entitled The Prairie Fire, that was extremely read and admired. Robert Fergus states that the size of this paper was twenty-two by thirty-two inches, eight pages, and was printed by him during its early exist- ence; but that afterward Charles Scott & Co., per- formed the requisite typographical work.

HORNER'S CHICAGO AND WESTERN GUIDE, a monthly published in 1853 by W. B. Horner, purported to contain all information for traveling by railroad, steamboat and stage, from Chicago to every town in the Northwest and to any important city in the United States.

THE CHICAGO EVANGELIST* was published in the earlier part of April, 1853, by an association of clergy- men of the Presbyterian denomination. the resident editors being Revs. H. Curtis and R. W. Patterson, and the associate editors, G. W. Gale, S. G. Speers, W. H. Spencer, A. Eddy and S. D. Pitkin. The tenets of this weekly organ were those of the New Schonl of the Pres- byterians. April 19, 1854, Rev. Joseph Gaston Wilson took editorial charge of the paper, it being stated in a notice of this change. that Messrs. Curtis and Patterson had only occupied the editorial chair until other arrangements could be perfected. The Northwestern Christian Advo- cate thus commends upon its discontinuance: " This able contemporary the organ of the Presbyterian Church in the Northwest, we see by its last issue June 27. 1855 . is to be merged into the New York Evangelist. which hereafter will have a Northwestern editor in this city. The Chicago Evangelist had reached the twelfth number of its third volume, was an able and spirited journal. and is discontinued for want of means to make

* It is probable that the first announcements of this project spoke of it as The Christian Witness, but no issue was made with this title.

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it in size, editorial strength, etc., what a Church paper should be, and its management deem absorption by a magnificent sheet more honorable than struggling along, making no well-defined mark." Rev. Charles P. Bush was Western editor for the New York Evangelist, ap- pointed in the spring of 1856. The directory for 1853- 54 designates John T. Wentworth as publisher of the Chicago Evangelist.

THE YOUTH'S WESTERN BANNER, a juvenile month- ly, devoted to temperance, morality and religion, pub- lished by Isaac C. Smith and Oliver C. Fordham, was issued in August, 1853, with Smith & Co. as editors. It was continued for only a short time.

THE CHRISTIAN BANKER, a folio of twelve by nine and a half inches to the page, was issued January 5, 1853, by Seth Paine and John M. Holmes. But eight numbers of this novelty in literature were printed, and these appeared irregularly. Seth Paine issued this paper from the back room of his bank on Clark Street, and the paper was intended as an elaboration of the Bank of Utopia he was going to conduct, and as an advertisement of the actual bank he managed. Asso- ciated with Mr. Paine in the Bank were John M. Holmes and Ira B. Eddy. These gentlemen also had some interest in the paper. The bank, Mr. Paine asserted, was named the Bank of Chicago, but as its in- fluence became felt and its power became augmented, it would be called the Bank of the People, and as it still far- ther advanced in cosmopolitan finance and depositary ac- cretion it would be called the Bank of GOD. Mr. Eddy states that July 9, 1853, it broke as the Bank of Chicago, and the paper shortly afterward subsided. Mr. Paine was some time thereafter sent to a lunatic asylum; how far he was qualified for a residence in that institution during his editorship of this paper is unknown. He subsequently went to Lake Zurich, established the "Stables of Humanity" there and issued the Lake Zurich Banker from that place. There are many who contend that Mr. Paine was not qualified naturally for his inhabitancy of the asylum for the short time that he was there; that he was merely hyper-reformatory and perhaps illogical in the nature of his schemes for the amelioration of the human race. Others again, notably those who lost money by his bank, refused to accredit him with the possession of any virtues and stagmatize him by all descriptions of uncomplimentary, and prob- ably unjust epithets. Mr. Paine was associated with Theron Norson, in 1839, in the dry-goods business in this city. Ira B. Eddy was also one of Chicago's early settlers, he having been engaged in the hardware business during the primitive epoch of the Garden City.

THE CHRISTIAN SHOEMAKER was issued by F. V. Pitney in 1853 as a travesty upon. The Christian Banker, and was published for a short time only.

THE NORTHWESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE Was first issued on Jannary 5, 1853, from the office No. 63 Randolph Street, as a weekly newspaper, with James V. Watson, editor, and William M. Doughty, agent. It was published by Swormstedt & Poe, for the North- western Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and printed by Charles Philbrick. Prior to the regular publication of the paper, a prospectus had been issued in September, 1852, containing substantially the same mat- ter as that which appeared in the first number. The editor, Rev. J. V. Watson, who resided in Adrain, Mich., before he assumed charge of the paper, was one of the ablest and wittiest of editors, and was a martyr to asthma; constantly apprehending that this disease would cause his demise. The paper which he edited was a six-col- umn folio, eighteen by twenty-five inches to the page;

was rigidly anti-slavery; tenaciously anti-spiritualism, and an unflinching and fearless advocate of Method- ism in the Northwest ; true to its name. The paper maintained its equable and successful career without change until October 17, 1856, when the Rev. J. V. Watson died of pulmonary consumption. The Press were unanimous in their tributes to his editorial ability. the nobility of his manhood and the exalted nature of his Christian manhood. November 5, 1856, a new ed- itor was announced, the Rev. Thomas M. Eddy, of the Southeastern Indiana Conference, he having been called from the Indianapolis District where he was traveling, as Presiding Elder, when elected to this important po- sition by the Conference. November 4, 1857, when Mr. Eddy had just celebrated one year's occupancy of the editorial tripod, the office of the newspaper was moved to 66 Washington Street.

In addition to the exposition of creeds and the elab- oration of dogmas, the religious press, as well as the secular, find it necessary to obtain subscribers in suffi- cient numbers, who demand the mental food furnished by the paper, to pay for the expenses of its publication; although the system pursued by the Methodist Episco- pai Church of promulgating the interests of the several advocates of their ecclesiastical polity, removes from those papers a number of the obstacles that impede the financial progress of a secular paper. It is, however, a matter of record that the Northwestern Christian Ad- vocate has been unusually successful in its career as a newspaper and as a champion of the Church whose tenets it propounds, elaborates and defends, and Bishop Ames, in alluding to the vast numbers of Methodists in the Northwestern States, ascribed their zeal and numer- ical strength to the influence exerted by this paper.

The reason for the establishment and maintenance of the organs of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ascribed by Dr. Arthur Edwards,* is so pertinent and trite that it is given as advanced by that gentleman:

" Methodism prints. There is no doubt of that fact. Why she prints is explained very naturally. John Wes- ley was a seer. When he was not praying or preaching. he was staring into the face of a printed page. Amid his prodigious labors for the Church, he did an immense amount of reading. Few men in literature have been such judges of books as was our founder. He knew the good by instinct, and repelled the bad book as an alert conscience rebukes advancing sin. The invented printing-press with its rude appliances came-but not by chance-in the very nick of time to make Luther's work possible. When God sent that greatest ecclesi- astical event since the advent of Christ-Methodism into the world, the improved printing-press and cheaper book made John Wesley's work practicable. There- fore, just as great railway magnates outfit their own ' special cars,' so Wesley fitted up his own private car- riage that he might read comfortably while he flew over the Kingdom. Presently, dissatisfied with books as they were, he began to write and re-write and edit books for his people. Next in order, he began to own presses, which he employed to carry help, suggestion. warning and zeal to his rapidly multiplying societies. Some active minds then, as also in modern times, won- dered why Methodism did not content itself with what other people printed. When our Book Concern was in full operation nearly fifty years ago, it was proposed to abolish our Church presses and confine our reading to that which others would contract to print for us. Even now it is occasionally said that our Church might as well operate railroads and conduct banks as to own

* METHODISM AND LITERATURE ; by F. A. Archibald, 1882.

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and superintend printing offices. The suggestion would be valid if the financial results of railroading and banking and printing were the central thought and motive. We do print, on the same philosophy that occasionally moves a Church or Sunday school to charter a train for a specific excursion and for definite results. When a Methodist party makes its plans for a day, and wishes to control the hours of starting and return, and particularly desires to determine who shall be passen- gers and favored guests, it goes into the railway busi- ness, induced by the same motives that sanction the permanent existence of distinctive Methodist printing. We get a suggestive hint in the fact that two literary institutions in this country possess a catalogue of over seven hundred separate volumes of books written in opposition to Methodism. We happen to know that this large list does not contain all extant anti-Wesleyan literature. These volumes were written under the stimulus of men who did not love our Church, and the physical fact of the printing proves that the kingdom of printing-ink must needs be taken by Methodist vio- lence. Methodism was young, and the Methodists were too poor to buy dear books written in their defense. A hundred considerations led Wesley to supply books from his English presses for our people, and equally led our early workers to organize printing facilities for American Methodists long before they began to build and dedicate houses of worship. We cannot forget that the Frenchy flavor that tainted English society and literature after the restoration of Charles compelled Wesley to provide cleaner things for his people. The entire tide was against evangelical Christianity. If society and the press have pure features in this country, the credit must be shared with the influence of the Wesleyan printing presses which came to evangelize the New World."

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History of Chicago. From the earliest period to the present time, Part 115

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore Publication date: 1884 Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas Number of Pages: 1340

Author: Andreas, Alfred Theodore
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: Chicago, A. T. Andreas
Number of Pages: 1340