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Show Printers to Hold Dance Monday Night Early Newspapers of Utah Are Recalled ! Xjj E.INTERS who helped get out ; X the Dally Telegraph in 1869. '; Photo below includes the print- ; ! ing staff. Left to right, standing, ; I Scipio A. Keuner, William G. Grims- ,; ' dell, Lyman O. Littlefield, Robert I Aveson and John E. Evans. Sitting, , Coleman Brown, Serge M. Sten- I i house, Henry McEwan and William ! H. Scott. At top are some printers ; v who took part in parades July 4 and i !; 21, 1868 and their float. They are: , I A. C. Brower, Robert Aveson, John ! Priestlv, Theodore A. Smith, John !; E. Evans, S. A. Kenner, Jolm W. i Plant, William Fuller, James A. ; Thompson, Hyrum Parry, George , ! Taylor and Charles Denney. This j !' picture was taken on First South, j I one and one-half blocks west of , I Main on the north side of the street. J First Ball of Salt Lake Organization Or-ganization Held in 1871. APROPOS of the annual dance of the Salt Lake printers on Monday evening, reminiscences of the early history of the printing and newspaper business in Salt Lake in the sixties were given yesterday by Robert Averson, 72 years of age, who is still in the printing business with the Paragon Printing company. "The first edition of the Salt Lake Daily Telegraph was published in 1864. This was the first daily newspaper in Utah and it was started more than five years before the railroad was finished connecting Salt Lake with the eastern part of the continent." said Mr. Averson. "The only other paper in Salt Lake, which had then a population of about 18,000, was the Deseret News, which was a weekly paper. Then we had a monthly magazine called the Utah Magazine. Ayr J Later the Mormon TriDune was siaum, which later became the Salt Lake Tribune. Trib-une. The first owners of the Daily Telegraph Tel-egraph were F. B. H. Stenhouse, father of Serge M. Stenhouse, who is in the picture, and Colonel T. G. Webber, who came here as a colonel after the Civil war. Four-page Paper Issued. "In those days we used the old Hoe cylinder press "and set type by hand. The first daily was a six-column paper, but was not as deep as in- these days, and had four pages. The local news was run on the back page, which seems to be a custom still followed in Salt Lake newspapers. "We had pictures taken of a caravan on Julv 24, 186S, when we joined with the pioneers in a celebration. We had two celebrations that year at which we used the caravan. One was on July 24 and the other July 4. We had a great time, ana it was awiuuy not. i ber when I posed for that picture the sun dazzled my eyes. "There are very few of us left who were in that picture, and I believe I am the only one who has kept on working as a printer in all the years. W. G. Grims-dell Grims-dell has his own printing plant in Post-office Post-office place called the Imperial Printing company; Serge M. Stenhouse is working work-ing as a proofreader with the Telegram Publishing company. William Scott has retired and is living in Boston. John W. Plant was living in New York when last I heard from him, Hyrum Parry is still living here and Charles Denney owns a store at Union. The others are all dead. First Ball in 1871. The first printers' ball, given by Deseret Des-eret Typographical union 115, v.'as held In 1871, at Ballo's hall, on First South street, about a block and a half west of Main street. Beesley's Quadrille band furnished the music and James Curry was the prompter. "Jim Curry was a fine prompter, said Mr. Averson last night. "The prompting was something like this: 'Choose your partners!' 'Honor to your partners!' 'Balance 'Bal-ance all!' 'First fours forward!' 'Cross over!' 'Swing your partners" 'All promenade!' prome-nade!' We called our socials cotillions in those days and we danced until 3 o'clock In the morning. Brlgham Young put a stop to the late-hour dancing and made us quit at 12." Arrangements for the dance Monday night will be under direction of the ladies' auxiliary to the Typographical union. It will be held at the Ladles' Literary Lit-erary club, at 850 Kast South Temple street. The committee on arrangements consists con-sists of Mrs. J. E. Wlscomb, Mrs. K. J. Jenson, Mrs. J. Leroy Bartlett and Mrs. George Bosch. |