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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
NEW JERSEY FREIE ZEITUNG.
T HIS, the leading German newspaper in New Jersey, was established in the year 1858, by Benedict Prieth. The paper had existed for some years previous to this time, under the name New Jersey Zeitung, and was owned and edited by Major Annecke, who died in the early So's. When Benedict Prieth purchased the property of the New Jersey Zeitung. the entire plant consisted of a few fonts of type, and an old- fashioned hand press, capable of printing a few hundred sheets per hour. The circulation of the New Jersey Zeitung in those days was about 400, and there was not as much reading matter in its columns as there is on one of the eight pages of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung of to-day. Mr. Prieth at first had only one assistant in the literary department of the paper, and this gentleman was often compelled to take a hand at run- ning the press. The first large increase in circulation was experienced during the Civil War, when the loyal German citizens of Newark were anxious to hear the latest news from the scene of war. From that time on the paper has steadily grown, owing to the large emigration from Germany to this country. Mr. Prieth died in 1879, and the management of the paper has changed hands several times since then. At the present day, 1897, the New Jersey Freie Zeitung, with its own handsome building at 75 Market Street, and its splendidly equipped plant, produces a paper, which from a literary and typographical point of view cannot be excelled by any German paper in America. The Daily and Sunday Freie Zeitung cir- culates chiefly in Newark and Essex County, while the remain- der of the German population of New Jersey is reached by the weekly edition. That the Freie Zeitung has the confidence of the business world of Newark, is amply demonstrated by the fact that the advertisements of the most successful business men, regardless of nationality, are to be found in its columns.
In politics the paper has always been independent, with a leaning towards Republican ideas and principles, and its great influence among the Germans of Newark is demonstrated by the fact that the Republican candidates in the city, county or state, have invariably been defeated whenever the Freie Zeitung has found it necessary to oppose either the candidates them- selves, or the platform on which they stood. Its fairness and straightforwardness in dealing with all the leading questions of the day, have won it the esteem and confidence of the Germans
BENEDICT PKIETH, FOUNDER.
of Newark. On the first floor of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung's large build- ing. the busi- ness depart- ment and the managers' private offi- ces are locat- edl. The Ilor perfecting presses and the sterotyp- ing depart- ment are in the cellar. In the front of the second floor the edi-
torial staff, and in the rear the re- portorial staff have their quarters.
The com- posing room is on the top floor, and here are to be found five of the won- derful type- setting de- vices called Mergenthaler Linotype Machines.
The heads of the various departments are as fol- lows : Bene- dict Prieth, son of the late Benedict Prieth, Man- ager ; Fred- erick Kuhn, Editor ; Emil NEW JERSEY FREIE ZEITUNG BUILDING. Wenzel, As- sistant Editor ; William Katzler, City Editor ; Frederick Ficg, Telegraphic Editor ; Augustus Georger, Night Foreman of com- positors; Gustave Wolber, Day Foreman of compositors ; Richard Taylor, Foreman of press-room.
The New Jersey Freie Zeitung, in its various departments. employs a force of over fifty men. Its publications are as follows : New Jersey Freie Zeitung. (Daily edition), Der Ersachler, (Sunday edition), and Weekly Freie Zeitung.
Special edition for Hudson County, with office at So Wash- ington Street, Hoboken, N. J., William Denstorff, Manager. This latter paper, although only two years old, has been wonder- fully successful, and is now the leading German paper in Hudson Co. The large German population of such flourishing cities as Jersey City, Hoboken. Bayonne, etc., is proud of this newly established paper, knowing that it is devoted to the interests of the class of people which forms the bulk of its subscribers. The paper is ably managed by Mr. William Denstorff.
It is the proud boast of the proprietors of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung that the four papers which they publish, viz .: the New Jersey Freie Zeitung. (daily), Der Erzaehler, (Sun- clay), the weekly and special edition for Hudson County. abso- lutely cover the German population of New Jersey, and that this belief is shared by the advertising public, is demonstrated by the fact that many of the largest business houses in the State advertise in the New Jersey Freie Zeitung's publications alone, to the exclusion of all the other German papers in the State, knowing that thereby they reach the entire German speak- ing population of New Jersey.
The illustrations shown on this page, represents the Freie Zeitung building, which has been lately improved with a new brown stone front, making one of the neatest newspaper plants in the city of Newark, and a life-like photo of its Founder.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
NEW JERSEY'S GREAT SUNDAY PAPER.
T HE Sunday Call was first published in May, 1872, and a little more than a year later it became the property of Wilham A Ure and James W. Schoch. Their capital was principally their indefatigable labor, their knowledge of the business and their faith in the future of the Sunday newspaper. Much opposition was en- countered, and there was prejudice to be over- come. The fact was soon apparent, however, that the Sunday Call was independent, but not neu- tral ; that it was clean and fair ; that it was de- voted to Newark and Essex County interests, and sought to secure the best government for the people, and the paper's circulation increased from a few hundred to thousands, and adver- tisers soon made it a favorite medium. It has grown with the growth of Newark, and is now one of the great Sunday newspapers of the country. Messrs. G. W. Thorne, William T. Hunt, Louis Hannoch and H. C. McDougall became members of the firm a few years ago. Mr. Hunt is editor, Mr. Thorne associate editor, and Mr. Hannoch business manager,
The Sunday Call, although published once a week, has all the equipment and facilities of a daily newspaper. Its offices at 194 Market
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Street are convenient, and its presses, composing room and news methods are modern and efficient. It publishes from twenty to twenty-four pages each Sunday, and to each issue scores of writers contribute. The weekly cost of production is equal to that of many daily newspapers. Among its occasional contributors are eminent clergymen, lawyers, physicians and business men of the city and vicinity, besides a number of bright women writers. Its advertising columns are filled by representative houses, and its " cent a word " page is a market of industrial activity in itself. The Sunday Call is read each Sunday by at least 100,000 persons, and it is as much a favorite with one member of the family as another.
While giving general news, but particularly the news of Newark and neighbor- ing towns, the paper has special departments devoted to lodges and social societies, sports, the public schools, building and loan associations, women's clubs, whist, chess and checkers, local politics, churches, and the building interests of the city. It seeks to promote every worthy cause in which the people of New Jersey, and especially those of Newark, are concerned.
The Sunday Call is printed from linotype machines upon a three-tiered press of largest capacity, and has adopted every approved measure for increasing the efficiency of its plant. Its influence has been recognized throughout this section as potent for good, and its appeal is successfully made to the thinking and prac- tical people of the State. It is identified with every interest of the community in which it is published.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
NEW JERSEY DEUTSCHE ZEITUNG.
T HE New Jersey Deutsche Zeitung was founded on April 12, 1880, by Dr. E. H. Makk, Editor-in-Chief, and Joseph Knorr, Manager of the New Jersey Freie Zeitung. The scheme of the new German daily was matured in the residence of the late J. J. Hockenjos, a sturdy and brave battler for opinion's sake, whose figure and actions are fresh memories with all who used to attend the Board of Trade meetings. With Mr. Hockenjos were associated as first promoters, Mrs. Kimmerle, a woman of superior brain power and character, who has long successfully conducted her own dual business, that of milliner and florist.
At this time a great many old German Republicans had become sour and sore on the Freie Zeitung. and the new German daily was warmly welcomed by them. It was Repub- lican on general politics, but straight-out Democratic in local affairs. In the early fall of 1880, Dr. Makk withdrew altogether and went to Rochester, where he still edits the Rochester Volksblatt. Mr. Knorr now took entire management of the paper. Charles Voelcker, an experienced German Democratic journalist, who had served on the old-time Volksmann with Major Franz Umbscheiden, took the editorial helm, with Mr. Louis Dannenberg as his associate and chief of the city de- partment. In the general election that year the paper supported General Hancock for President and George C. Ludlow for Governor. Mr. Knorr gave his life to his work of building up the paper. He was at it day and night. Sundays as well as week days. He was a first-class business man and secured for the paper a full and liberal line of advertising. His devotion to his work, and his decided business talents inspired confidence, not only among business men, but among men like Gottfried Krueger and others, who aided him financially in the start.
His labors told in the success that crowned them. He took a lease of the paper, from the stockholders, for fifteen years, and before long was able to wipe out all indebtedness and estab-
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lished the paper on a handsome paying basis.
First among those who are entitled to special credit for their services in helping Mr. Knorr to make the Deutsche Zeitung the great success it is, are Mr. Louis Dannen- berg, the ac- complished and experienced, yet withal modest and retiring. German journal- ist, and Mr. Emil Kraeutler, who got his business training first under the eye of his uncle, Mr. Ilockenjos, and next under that of Mr. Knorr.
Messrs. Dan- nenberg and Kraeutler are the man- agers of the paper. They have follow- ed in the lines laid down by Mr. Knorr, and are pushing the paper along more prosperously than ever.
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paper, one that is a great credit alike to its man- Telephondienhì agers and all $ 40 ... connected ----- with it, and to the Ger- --- -- man reading people of Newark; a good, clean, live, bright and welcome visitor to the house ; likewise a strong and sterling battler for true Democracy, the Democracy of Jefferson and the founders of the Republic.
Others besides Messrs. Dannenberg and Kraeutler, who have done good work on the paper. helping to make it all it is, are the late Oscar von Joeden, a fine writer and a good orator, in the threads of whose life are woven a romance of the heart, which may not be spoken of here, and who, like the immortal Swift, rotted out at the top ; the late Charles Voelcker, already spoken of, as kind a soul as ever lived. The present editor is Mr. Carl Meyer.
As an advertising medium, the Deutsche Zeitung is of great value. It reaches the homes of the German population of Newark and Essex County. On January 1, 1897, the lease with the late Mr. Joseph Knorr expired, and from that date the paper was put under the control of the Board of Directors. Among them are, Mr. G. Krueger, Mr. Elias Berla, Mr. Ed. Schickhaus, Mr. F. L. Feind, Mr. Chas. L. Watter, Mr. Louis Dannenberg and Mr. Emil Kraeutler. The paper will in the future, as in the past, strictly adhere to true Democratic principles in national and state affairs, while in the county and local affairs, it will support the best candidates, irrespective of party.
Karl G. Meyer, editor of the Deutsche Zeitung, is well known and highly esteemed by the people of this city. He ranks among the brightest of the German-American journalists of Essex County, and as a graceful writer and critic, has few superiors. By hard work and perseverance he has succeeded in placing the paper on a solid basis, as its improved literary char- acter, and the fine press as well as all the other necessary adjuncts that go to make an efficient newspaper plant show.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
THE NEWARK PIONIER.
THIS paper, . German Weekly, was founded in 1885, by the Pionier Publishing Company, and from its start Mr. Francis E. Adler, the present editor and publisher, became Editor and Business Manager. In 1887, the Pionier Publishing Company dissolved, and the paper became the property of F. E. Alder & Co., who have successfully published the same for eleven years. The Pionier is strictly a family paper, and cir- culates especially among the old German residents of the City of Newark, and State of New Jersey, and enjoys in a marked degree, the patronage of business people.
The senior publisher and editor, Mr. F. E. Adler, is the okl- est practical German printer in the State of New Jersey. He held a position on the first German newspaper ever pubhshed in the State, the New Jersey Staats Courier, established in Newark, 1851. He afterward became foreman of the Newark Zeitung and New Jersey Freie Zeitung, remaining in this position until 1859. He then went to Albany, New York, and established the daily Albany Beobachter, a paper which fought enthusiastically for the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Mr Adler enlisted in 1861. in the 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant. on several occasions commanding his company with great credit. Near the close of the war he was employed by the Commissary Depart- ment of the Army of the Potomac at Alexandria, Va., and at the close of the war returned to Newark, and resumed his profession. In 1872, Mr. Adler became editor of the Washing- ton, D. C. Journal, remaining in his position until 1878. Once more he returned to Newark, and became connected with the Beobachter am Passaic. When the Pionier was established it was but natural that Mr. Adler, as the oldest German journalist and practical printer in the State, should become its editor, and he has since then devoted his entire time to this journal and the job office connected therewith. Mr. Adler is prominently connected with the Newark Pionier Society and the Gottfried Krueger Piomer Greisenheim, (Old People's Home), which institution justly merits the distinction of being the best of its kind in the United States ; a noble charity, indeed.
Mr. Adler is a jovial, kind-hearted man, justly popular with all classes of the truly cosmopolitan population of Newark, but has never been induced to accept public office of any kind.
Hle was born in the Grand Duchy of Baden, and emigrated to this country in July, 1850, after he had taken part in the revolu- tionary war of 1849, when quite a boy. He took refuge in France with a large number of comrades after the revolution- ary movement had been suppressed by the P'russian army under the command of the Crown Prince of Prussia, the late Emperor William I, of Germany.
Frank C. Adler, the son of the pub- lisher of the Newark Pionier, has been connected with the establishmentt for a number of years, and has charge of the press-room, and attends besides to the | out-door business of the concern, collect- 1 ing bills, soliciting advertisements, etc. He was formerly a member of the State Militia, and held the position of Color- bearer in the Fifth Regiment.
The illustrations presented on this paige are life-like engravings of Messrs. Adler and son, who are well and favor- ably known to the people of Newark, and their paper is a welcomed guest.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
THE ORANGE VOLKSBOTE
THE first number of this paper was printed on a Washington hand- press, and issued on October 5, 1872. Its publisher, August Erdmann, a printer by trade, soon recognized the fact that he had to take an able writer as editor of his paper, as he alone could not attend to all the work, and therefore associated himself with Mr. Louis Darnstaedt. Week by week, not only the number of readers and subscribers increased, but one column after the other had to be filled with advertisements. Politically, the Orange Volksbote advo- cated democratic principles, and its influence upon the German popu_ lation has been felt more than once. During the official term of Mr. Henry Egner, as Mayor of Orange, the Volksbote was designated as one of the corporation papers which published the city's advertisements ordinances, etc.
After the death of its founder, August Erdmann, the Orange Volks- bote changed hands. On November 1, 1891, it was bought by its present owner, Ernest Temme. The paper had been neglected by its late proprietor on account of sickness, and when it was sold. the once prosperous paper was in a most pitiable condition, to say nothing about press, type and the other material necessary to make up a paper. The new owner at once replaced the hand-press with a Camp- bell country press, bought new body type, and then started on hard up-hill work. By the aid of his son, Fred. G. Temme who has since become manager of the Volks bote, the paper has not only regained its old stand-point but is now one of the most-read weekly papers in Essex County. Its circulation is steadily increasing, and the best business houses in Newark have their advertisements in its columns. The Orange Volksbote is to-day a seven-column twelve-pige paper and a well-liked friend in the homes of German families in the Oranges and miles around.
As the Volksbote does not go to press before Saturday morning, its columns contain all the news of the week up to that time. This enables the Volksbote, unlike the other Orange paper, to bring happen- ings of late Friday night and early Saturday morning, and make it really a Saturday noon paper, which is appreciated by all its readers for some of whom the Volksbote is its only Sunday associate. On October 5, 1897, the Volksbote will issue an anniversary number, it being twenty- five years that the Volksbote has been issued, with more or less diffi- culty. This anniversary number will contain a complete history of the paper, together with illustrations of interest in and about Orange, and consist of at least twenty-four pages.
In the job printing department the latest faces of types have been added, which enables the Volksbote to turn out most any job, especially society work, which forms its main feature. Its place of publication is located at No. 26 Day Street, near Main.
ERNEST TEMME, EDITOR.
The illustrations presented on this page are life-like photos of Mr. E. Temme and son, Editor ard Manager of the Orange Volksbote. The former is a well-known citizen of Orange, and has been identi- fied with the press of Essex County for more than a quarter of a century. Mr. Temme is happily situated in having so able a son to assist him in sharing the burden of his enterprising profession in the closing years of his active business carter.
Mr. Fred. G. Temme, who is now the business manager, is a practical printer by trade, with a thorough knowledge of the profession, and devotes his time to furthering the interests of the paper and perfecting the job printing department.
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ESSEX COUNTY, N. J., ILLUSTRATED.
ORANGE SONNTAGSBLATT.
T "HIS, the leading German newspaper of Orange, was estab- hshed in 1883, as a independent Democratic newspaper, by August Koehler. In 1887, the paper was enlarged from four to eight pages. The popularity of the paper increased from year to year, and its circulation extends from the Oranges to all over Essex County. Business people were not slow in recognizing the value of the Orange Sonntagsblatt, and adver- tisers from the Oranges, from Newark and New York engaged space for their advertisements, which compelled Mr. Koehler, the enterprising editor and publisher, to still further enlarge the paper and make it a ten page paper in 1890.
In the year 1891, the Orange Sonntagsblatt was designated by Governor Leon Abett, State Treasurer George R. Gray and Comptroller William C. Heppenheimer as one of the official papers of the State of New Jersey, thereby becoming also the official organ of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Essex. Mr. Koeler, the proprietor and publisher of the Sonntagsblatt, was born in Cologne on the Rhine, Germany, July 18, 1852. He settled in Orange in 1869, and by hard work, grit and perseverance, has made a success in life. Ile enjoys a great popularity and is well known all over the State, taking great interest in political and society matters. Although having refused so far all political honors, he is a well known personage in Trenton during the sessions of the Legislature, always ready to help his friends with whatsoever power and influence he can obtain.
Before establishing his own paper, he was connected as correspondent of the New York Journal, a German daily newspaper, that had hundreds of subscribers in the Oranges as long as Mr. Koehler interested himself in it. In May, 1896, Mr. Koehler established a paper in the interest and for the elevation of the liquor trade. It is a bright monthly sheet, and is anxi- ously read by all men in the trade. Mr. Koehler turned the business management of the Official Journal of the State Liquor Dealors League of New Jersey, over to Mr. A. Schlesinger, in Jersey City, but assumed full editorial control. In 1896, during the Presidential campaign, the Orange Sonntagsblatt, fearless of all political affiliations, came out for the Presidential Republi- can candidates, Mckinley and Hobart ; honest money and protection to the American industries.
In an editorial on July 12, Mr. Koehler explained the stand his paper was to take in the the poli- ticalcontest, stating that although a Democrat to the back-bone, it was impossible for him to support the Chi- cago platform and nominees, but as far as the State tickets were concerned, the Orange Sonntags- blatt was to remain true to its princi- ples and doctrines, strictly Democratic.
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