History of Trenton, New Jersey : the record of its early settlement and corporate progress., Part 37

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1895
Publisher: Trenton, N.J. : John L. Murphy
Number of Pages: 540


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Eight Inches of Rain


prinhog (provated for by other stis], the


lown. generally called "Sidney" who hat


careful preparallon


les nod pureuli was made Kecher w ss soun


overtoken


His cartridges were exhausted,


He was ordered off and on Teaching ibe


expense of The state government will not be


but be fougbi with & aoife and cut Jetues


The report of the Slanding Commlliec


been employed by the Mercer Rubber To


Josbun B Wrighi mado an exceedingly


Dickerson rerionly


apon Publication and Sabbath ecbool


cale The father fred al haru, and as be


willy class spercb, referring Jo ibe eccen-


Work was also presented. There are


Burned a second shol was fired, killing birg


CHAMBERLAIN, & D. June 25 -A heavy


bail-storta and cloud burst paused through


curialled, bul on The contrary will be io-


Third-I apprehend Ibal several of the


for some lime, Jumped on a freight Iralo al


denl. He is now in joll at Claylos, fo the


Instantly The Thronere Jury failed lo


created by lis passage


Bed Lake lowonbip Saturday algbl. destroy


Nem'ont vu aumisy morning lo rite


Iricities of The members of the cinss HL


Keener siales That he shot fours by accl-


sixty echoole in the Presbytery, 1,042


remarks oere opt and he succeeded in keep-


hrani of the mountains of Ilahun bounly.


officere, 7,433 scholars, 8,652 total them-


agree Three were for manslaughter and


Iwerehip, 5 009 average attendance, 2441


Ibree for justifiable bomicide.


ing all crops in lis pubwas. A dry Isto


appropriallons are inadequale, Ibus necessl


be 1 containing 3 50 acres, was Illled wub


talsag farther appropriations by the best


Bordentown, Before fairly wearing the


legislatore lo miel aclusl or prospective


bumping of .he care shook bim off and he


The jall Is well guarded


was injured so llent Il Is said bis arm will - end.


Irg ibe audience smuted from beginning to


echotare uniled with the church during


Riker Deolloes the Judgeship


unter to lhe deplo of elgh! Inches during


deficiencies


Fourth-Dy Ibe engrossed hall, preseoled


have to be smpulated


George K Reed made an appropriate


LAMBERT'S DEATH POSTPONEO.


year, SiSG wne given Board of Sahhalb-


"manile aperch " which was responded lo


school, 11,356 wan given other boarde of


Chandler W Riker, Cily Counsel of New.


CAMDEN, June 23 .- Sheriff Barrett. of Corp


ad Interina, by Governor Werts last week.


A Hot Bpoll In Kaneen


for my approval there is appropriated, 'for


nisiolenance of county palirote," 10 1bc


Woavors Got & 20 Per Cont. In-


on behalf of the third fottn by Edward C.


The church, $581 was given to olber


ark, who was appointed circuit Court Judge


Las decitaed I bal place lo a letter which he


TOFERA, Kan, June 20 .- Vousoal heel


Bale Hospital, al Trenton, forty Ibree ban


croano


Douglass The ceremony of presenting The


den county. was officially polifie 1 hy Prose-


benevoleni objects and $2.933 wron need


for the support of the schooln.


sent to the Goveruor yesterday. The letter


of deelsgal ton Thanks the Governor for The


precalled in Kansas seslerday, I be mercory


dred dotlars,


where3s.


In the


hal


Nonmi+torx, P's, June 25,-J, Morlon


mantle of the seniors to the next class &as


culor Jenkins to day not to hang Munlerer


The Presbytery adjourned to meet


lodi, allog & temperature of 90" to this diy.


Introduced and printed The amount


ENvonn. Manager of the Woodslork Woolen


ilsen porforward with due sulemntiy, Mr.


Dougin's representing the clay of "


The wlore La'nberl on Thursday next, The


September 17th, at a place to be celerled


honor pald him and said he wouk] bare lo


decline lor seveesi reasons which would


Reports from the Southwest are Ibal II baa


appropriate [ is Forly Ihrre thousand


dufiers


There Is no doubt Ibet


Mills, surprisel bis westers to-day by ad-


Nelson K Moody read the claw poem


notre was given on the strength of an oflutal


by the Stated Clerk.


occur lo the Governor, bul did pol men! too


bren holler lo that section


laitef


nouncinz that he purposeil to increate their


sheri * appest in the Last-il diates fit-


what they were


The omount Iptemaled


wages Ja per cent . to take elfrel at once.


Willlam K. Auchinclos, of Bryn Slan


woning by - turner vegetal Sin koon that


lo be approprigied. sud wlilco The Legista


Pennys Ivamn, who louk The first honora in


preme Care n Is as a star of execution


A SCOURGE OF YELLOW FEVER.


Death of Mulo J. Obane


Hob Flizelmmone' Trial


Coicaoo, June 25 .- 3Illo J. Cbase, Presi-


ture supposed was appropriated by the eu-


Nearly 200 Lapis are inaile bappy in contr


The class dirlivered Ibe saledileloty address


grossed bill.


Lawyer Soupple visual big client Flits


Ernietst. K. Y., June 25 .- A1 3 o'clock


depl of ibe Chase Brothers Pinto Company,


The average monibly expense for county


quedice


of the school, thanked Them for the kindly


Ing andtold bini


old bini all danger of fil- execution


Men Drepplay Dead ta The Sireels by


this afterocan Ibe Jury bor was filed lo


Pallente at The Trenton Hospital le aboul


The 210 employee of Ibe It Heckezber A


Str. Auchincloss In addressing the Faculty


on Thursday hul pamer


Son. Furpeces at Smedelnod, have been


følerest which they bad always showed


Long "said Lambert. T


Thank The


i. Then Is spirituel


Scores.


The charges of manslaugbler against


and also of the Cbickering Piano Company,


notified That commencing July Ist Ibrir


BALTIMORE, June 25,-The American


wages will be Increased Give per cent.


Inward Ibe class while in Lawrencevitle.


Bob" Filialtumons bul all were subject


died jestørday at bla temporary residence,


EI 60 The sum appropriated will there-


2438 foulaos avenue, after an Illoou of


fore sudice for Itsile more iban asiogle


He also made a few remarks to the class,


adviser cal'ed and be was soon on hisknees


lo peremptory challenge. Biz were chal-


in prayer,


barkentine Priscilla, Captain Kisges, or- | beugel, ibree by each alde.


Two weeks. Paralysla was the cause of bus


dralb


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reporter, became the editor of the paper, and filled the position until July, 1894. He was young, enterprising and enthusiastic, and put all of his energy into his work. These changes very soon began to tell upon the circulation and reputation of the STATE GAZETTE. The paper took bold ground on several matters of great publie importance, and exerted a marked influence upon the politics and government of the State. To its zealous and able championship the State is largely indebted for the present General Railroad law ; the act of 1877 reducing the rate of interest from seven to six per cent. ; the act authorizing the damming of the Delaware river ; the Congressional appropriations for improving the navigation of the same stream, and for several other measures of more or less importance. It has exerted a large influence upon legislation at every session of that body. In the city of Trenton its power during the past dozen years has been felt in the promotion of many valuable improvements. In politics, the STATE GAZETTE has for years been recognized as the "State organ " of the Republican party. It STATEGA occupies a sort of official position as the party's mouthpiece in New Jersey, and its utterances DAILYA WEEKLY STATE GAZETTE ESTAND 1792 are generally accepted by its members through- STATE GAZETTE out the State as orthodox Republicanism. It was from the first an carnest supporter of President Hayes' policy. It was strongly in favor of giving that policy a fair trial, taking the ground that nothing was to be lost if it JOHN L. MURPHY NEWSPAPER. BOOK JOB PRINTER| PRINTING HOUSE failed, as no surrender of Republican prin- ciples was proposed and everything was to be gained if it succeeded. It waged a very deter- JOHN L. MURPHY BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER. STATIONER OF MIT MALLARDS M PAPER -: ENVELOPES mined warfare in behalf of "its policy," and excited thereby considerable hostility among the stalwarts. When, however, in the spring of 1878, the STATE GAZETTE concluded that this policy was a failure, in that the South was "too stiff-necked and narrow-minded frankly to respond to the generous overtures of the administration, and was obviously trying to use the pretense of conciliation for securing concessions from the government without making any in return," it promptly and emphatically took different ground. On the twenty-first of May, 1878, it published a , double-leaded editorial advocating the nomina- tion of General Grant in 1880, as the Republi- SHOWING STILL FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AND ADDITIONS MADE TO THE BUILDING IN 1875. can Presidential standard-bearer. This article made considerable stir in the polities of the country, being quoted and commented upon favorably or otherwise. In 1875, the STATE GAZETTE passed into the hands of its present owner.


This move gave Mr. John L. Murphy absolute control of all departments of the STATE GAZETTE establishment, and he bent all his energies in the direction of increasing the business and enlarging the quarters in which the plant was located. Under the guidance of Mr. Murphy, who was indus- trious, practical and untiring, the circulation of the newspaper grew, the demand upon its adver- tising space increased, there was more work to be done in the job printing and book binding departments, more help was needed and more machinery made necessary.


Although additions had been made to the STATE GAZETTE establishment in 1875, eight years afterward further improvements were needed and made. The building was renovated and the appearance of its exterior improved. New machinery was placed in the bindery. There were cutting, stamping and folding machines purchased at an expense of many hundred dollars, and more room being required, a large apartment, seventy feet long, in the Baker Building, adjoining the STATE GAZETTE establishment, was rented and fitted up as a bindery.


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The establishment had kept pace with the growth of the eity, and in the thirty-six years from the time when the DAILY STATE GAZETTE was issued by Sherman & Harron, that growth was remarkable. The second number of the new daily, date of January 13th, 1847, contains the announcement that the publishers "have great satisfaction in publishing this morning a report of the proceedings of Congress of yesterday, transmitted by the Magnetie Telegraph."


In 1847, the year that the DAILY STATE GAZETTE was launched, Trenton was a very different place from the Trenton of to-day. East of the eanal, "The Cottages " contained the greater portion of the population. At the other end of State street, above the State House, William L. Dayton and a few others had handsome residenees erected not many years before. The Higbees, General Rossell and other wealthy people occupied elegant homes here, while on the opposite side of the street above the State House there were very few houses, and those generally small. The feeder of the Delaware and Raritan eanal formed the northern boundary, and a few straggling houses connected the city proper with the Sixth ward, or Lam- berton. There were a very few cheap hotels, and the whole place had a rustie appearance as compared with that of to-day. The whole STATE GAZETTE population of Trenton and Nottingham (the present eity) and all adjoining districts was DAILY WEEELY STATE OMZEL not one-fifth of the present number. The JOHN L. MURPHY. NEWSPAPER BOOK JOBPRINTING rolling mill of the Trenton Iron Company had STATE GAZETTE. been established, and wire and wire rods were made. There were two or three foundries and machine shops and an axe factory ; but Trenton was not the manufacturing or business PRINTING HOUSE. eenter then that it has since become, nor at that date did all the iron mills in Trenton together employ half as many hands as are BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER AND FURNISHING STATIONER now at work in the Trenton Iron Company's JOHNL MURPHY. buildings. There were no potteries here ; no manufactories of agricultural implements ; no saw factory ; no malleable iron works, and the manufacture of cotton and woolen fabries was conducted on what would now be considered a very small scale. There was not a wholesale dealer in anything in Trenton. At that time there were three or four trains a day to Philadelphia and two or three from New York, with very seant accommodations for sending or receiving freight.


With this great growth the STATE GAZETTE was prominently identified. It had the inter- ests of Trenton always at heart, and for that reason made for itself a firm standing in the community.


ANOTHER STAGE IN THE IMPROVEMENT AND RENOVATION OF THE BUILDING IN 1883.


It was only two years after the improvements in the STATE GAZETTE building, referred to above, were made that the business required a further enlargement of the establishment, and another story was added, making the building five stories high and as it stands to-day.


More room for presses was required, and the cellar of the Dobbins building was rented, to be used as a storeroom for paper, so that the room then used for that purpose might be given up to presses. The top floor of the Dobbins building was also rented and a stereotyping depart- ment added to the establishment.


The most recent improvement has been the addition of an eleetrie lighting plant, which consists of a dynamo, with a capacity for supplying one hundred and twenty-five incandescent lamps of great lighting power, and facilitating the work and adding to the comfort of the large force that is employed during the niglit.


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The STATE GAZETTE was established in 1792. In the library connected with the editorial department are preserved complete files of the paper, under its many changes of name, since January, 1797, at which time a new volume was started, and the proprietors then, appar- ently, not caring to preserve the volumes of its predecessor. The original copy is a small sheet, 18 x 22 inches, and having but four STATE GAZETTE DAILYAND WEEKLYSTATE GAZTTE ISTAND 1792. columns to the page. In 1812, the columns were lengthened and another added to each page. The long "s" was used in those days, and up to 1820, when it was discontinued. Besides the complete files of the GAZETTE, the PRINTING HOUSE. JOHN LMURPHY NEWSPAPER. BOOK. 103 library contains bound volumes of " Dunlap & Claypoole's American Daily Register," printed in Philadelphia as early as 1779; the "New JOHN L. MURPHY. BLANK BOOK MANUFACTUPER AND FURNISHING STATIONEN Jersey Journal and Political Register," printed at Elizabeth-Town, N. J., in 1792-93; the "New York State Gazette," 1789 ; Bache's STEREOTYPING "Aurora," and "Aurora and General Adver- tiser," Philadelphia and Frankford, 1799- 1803; the "Trenton True American," 1801- 28; the "National Intelligencer and Wash- ington Advertiser," 1801-10, and other journals of more recent dates which have been absorbed by the STATE GAZETTE in THE ABOVE REPRESENTS THE ESTABLISHMENT AS IT NOW IS, WITH THE ADDITION OF ANOTHER STORY, AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS COMPLETED IN 1885. its more than a century of existence. These old volumes and the GAZETTE's complete files are frequently consulted by lawyers and others in search of information concerning matters of which no record has been kept except that given by these ancient tomes.


Mr. John L. Murphy, its present owner, was born in Trenton, New Jersey, June 19th, 1828. At the age of ten years, he entered the weekly STATE GAZETTE newspaper and printing office as errand boy and news-carrier. In that capacity, he carried the first tri-weekly and the first daily newspaper published in Trenton. At the age of sixteen years, he was regularly apprenticed to James T. Sherman to learn the printing business. He served his time and worked with the firm, then Sherman & Harron, as journeyman until 1856, in which year he took the position of foreman in the " Free Press " office. At the expiration of six months, the paper suspended, and Mr. Murphy bought the material and started a job office. He was one of the pioneers in this business in Trenton. Three months after setting up in business for himself, he took in Mr. Charles Bechtel as equal partner, and they removed to the building on the corner of State and Greene streets, the present site of the large printing establishment of John L. Murphy. In 1869, the firm purchased the STATE GAZETTE, and soon increased the circulation of the weekly to seven thousand. In July, 1875,


JOHN L. MURPHY.


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Mr. Murphy bought out the interest of Mr. Bechtel, and has since conducted the business himself. During his career, Mr. Murphy has held several important positions of public trust. He was twice elected Tax Collector in the city of Trenton, was United States Internal Revenue Assessor of the Second District of New Jersey, from 1868 until the office was abolished by aet of Congress and its


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EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.


duties merged into those of Collector ; was then Collector until January, 1876, when he resigned in order to devote himself more exclusively to his extensive and increasing business. He is entirely a self-made man, and his success in life is due to great natural shrewdness and far-seeing business sagacity, boundless energy, an enterprising spirit that is dismayed or turned aside by no obstacles.


PROOF-READING DEPARTMENT.


The editorial forec consists of Mr. Thomas Holmes, editor-in-chief ; Mr. Henry C. Buchanan, assistant editor, and Mr. Ernest H. Tomlinson, eity editor. Of late years, the paper has steadily increased in excellence, circulation and influence, and occupies to-day a commanding position in New Jersey journalism. The daily has a large and substantial circulation in Trenton and vicinity.


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The weekly edition is circulated through every post-office in the State. Since Mr. Murphy took absolute control of the newspaper, the daily has been enlarged to eight and the weekly to twelve pages, and he has promptly acted upon every suggestion that occurred to him for the improvement of the publication in all its departments.


The STATE GAZETTE daily and weekly newspaper is only a part of the great printing establish- ment from which it is issued. The resources of The John L. Murphy Publishing Company are superior to those of any other establishment in New Jersey in excellence, variety and cheapness. This establishment challenges comparison with any in the large cities. It does not allow itself to be outdone in either quality or price. It has the best modern machinery and equipments of all sorts, the best craftsmen and as capable and accomplished foremen as the country can produce. In short, everything in the printing line that is done anywhere, is done here in the best possible manner, and at bottom prices.


STATIONERY DEPARTMENT.


This, one of the largest and most important branches of the business, is located on the second floor of the building, fronting on both State and Broad streets. As the views show, the department is very commodious, as indeed it must needs be to contain the immense stock which it is necessary


COUNTING-ROOM AND STATIONERY DEPARTMENT. (South view.)


to constantly carry. The goods embrace a large and complete variety of stationery, blank-books, legal blanks and general office fixtures. On the shelves are note, letter, legal cap and foolscap papers of various grades and styles ; envelopes in endless variety, from the finest imported to the cheap manilla ; pens, ink and mucilage of all the best manufactures ; gold pens and holders ; pocket cutlery ; Faber's, Eagle and Dixon's lead pencils ; automatic and pocket pencils ; crayons and slate pencils ; Faber's and Davidson's velvet rubber erasers ; steel erasers ; Faber's rubber bands ; rubber, celluloid, wood and cork pen holders ; paper files and clips ; letter files ; iron and glass paper weights ; letter copying presses ; letter copying-books ; moistening brushes and water wells and racks ; red tape ; pins ; scaling wax ; notarial wafers and seals, in all sizes and colors ; gummed labels ; McGill's fasteners ; staple presses and staples ; eyelets ; letter scales, all sizes, in brass, nickel and bronze ; post-office and package boxes ; manilla wrapping papers ; bill head, envelope, letter and postal card boxes, in japanned tin ; toilet papers ; sheet or small cards, all colors, weights and qualities ; visiting, wedding and mourning cards ; ball cards and programmes ; show cards ; tourists' and shipping cards and tags, and one of the largest and finest stocks of office and library supplies in the city, comprising brass, nickel, walnut and ebony-base ink stands and sponge cups ; cut-glass ink stands, mucilage cups, sponge cups and paper weights, white and colored ; porcelain


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and brush pen wipers, plain and decorated ; celluloid, ivory and pearl paper folders and cutters ; cedar, rubber and ebony rulers ; office or waste baskets, imported and domestic ; fountain pens, of all the latest improved patents ; safety pocket annexes for pens and pencils ; stamps, seals and presses for societies.


CO- ATE


COUNTING-ROOM AND STATIONERY DEPARTMENT. (North view.)


The stock of legal blanks consists of bonds, mortgages, deeds ; chancery, police justice and justice of the peace blanks ; landlords' blanks ; notes, drafts and checks, loose or in book form. The blank-books consist of day-books, ledgers, cash-books, journals, invoice-books, bill-books,


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PAPER STOCK AND PACKING DEPARTMENT.


order-books, time-books, milk-books, minute-books, butchers' and grocers' books, receipt-books and copy-books, in all sizes and styles of binding, pass-books in manilla, press-board and leather covers. Any kind of book which cannot be found on the shelves will be furnished in the shortest possible time from the bindery connected with the establishment.


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The business office is located in this department, where all orders are received and immediately dispatched to the various departments by means of elevators, speaking-tubes or messengers. Particular care is taken in packing all goods to prevent injury in transportation ; when deemed necessary they are boxed and delivered in any part of the city, or to express or railroad companies, free of cost.


NEWSPAPER COMPOSING DEPARTMENT.


JOB COMPOSING DEPARTMENT.


The job composing department is especially designed with a view to turn out, in a rapid and economical manner, all classes of commercial, bank, insurance, society and legal work, and to this


JOB COMPOSING DEPARTMENT.


end is brought the aid of those labor-saving appliances so essential in these days. The type is new, and includes not only those clear-cut and delicate faees which the law of good taste requires for the lighter kinds of work, but the bold, well-defined and odd shapes which appeal to the fancy of that


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class of customers who want striking effects. The fonts of type are arranged in series, neatly labeled, classified, and enclosed in black walnut dust-proof cabincts. Borders, card ornaments, cuts, stercotype and electrotype plates, metal and wood furniture are centrally located and con- venient. Speaking-tubes connect with the office and press-room, an elevator lowers and raises type-forms to and from the press-room, and a smaller clevator is in use for packages, proofs and copy.


BOOK COMPOSING DEPARTMENT, NO. 1.


BOOK COMPOSING DEPARTMENT.


The book composing department comprises the entire upper floor, and has a capacity of two hundred octavo pages a day. The labor in setting, proving, reading, correcting, making-up and


BOOK COMPOSING DEPARTMENT, NO. 2.


revising this amount of type is simply enormous. When we consider that in the composition of two hundred octavo pages very nearly three-quarters of a million of separate characters are handled by the compositors, and over three-quarters of a ton of metal put into position, we get some idea of


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the work performed ; but when we think that each type can be placed eight different ways, seven of which are wrong and only one right, we marvel at the skill, accuracy and patience necessary in a system which enables any one office to finish, day after day, such a vast amount of work with scarcely an error. This standard, however, is quite necessary, when authors and publishers afe so critical that the non-alignment of a single letter, even if but a hundredth part of an inch, is con- sidered a serious fault and unsparingly condemned.


In this department is a complete assortment of the plain faces, both old style and Roman, together with the series of head-letters for title pages, headings of chapters, &e., for letter-press, stereotype and electrotype work ; also, fonts of Greek, and algebraical, mathematical and medical signs for scientific work. The type has been selected with care, and meets the wants of the various classes of work requiring large quantities of special letters or characters.


The GAZETTE book establishment has deservedly a high reputation for superior work, a reputa- tion built up by close application, careful management, a searching attention to detail, and thorough knowledge. Good work can only be performed with perfect materials and regular methods, and in this respect the excellence of the GAZETTE office is well known.




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