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Show 40 - 3 ,, DESERET NEWS TUESDAY MO .m.m.m..M Some el the Men' BIG STEP FROM OLD -- - - "The News" , ....'".- ' , ;Feature of Printing Paper hi Early Times Unique - ' , I:.. , - 1850 , ' 000 . y '.' ., ,t,, ,3 4...,' .i .... 0 . t- , 4. .,....,. ,........ '' ' , . 4' . , ,......... el D . Ogrit oar am. .' etookauc 'd JUCILAItDit so '' tV 00 - ,. , . - -' ; ,,te,r - ,.. , r A,4441,19- ::..t,... - , , - I ELIAS SMITH - t .. , A I ,,. I 5 , , -,- -- I 1,- , '' e , 02 , . ),-- e ' , e,.....7 all 116 ..... 7 - , ,,,,,,,, - 5 4 ,,, fi d - i i ,w MD , la I , , ,4 4 144 .Y., ' I , ;: ::; -- ,., t f ,' V, ., s ',. 1 ,,,,,...,:. - , ,... 1- ,c"' ow- - l. ,,;, i ...........1 .,,,ro e-- ... , li 1 '1' $11 );, .., 7-- e,,,,;, ,,,,,,- - . " :' -' : i; .1 de , ':;,,..41E''. 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CANNOIC., -- , - . -- -- - GEORGE Q. CAN NO:'. .-- , , . , - - : . DAVID ,,,,,:- ,t - , '443 - - ' t - s ,,.: ss p., ! 4,4',4 e, , . tk ., 4 , ,de ....'. , , .',.;,;-- 4 '' ; , ,i., , ...,, '0. ,,, -- , o 4', ix,..,..x,,k,42,:-.44.- 1, 7 , , , 4, HOILACE , ', , , , .t , , .:e..: . 4. - - , ,, ,, 1);0, ' , , t , , , - r .. .,., , , ' - . 4- . CAIrt0711. - ' pwrqr - X, .. 1.-- , i - 4 A, . .. .-- .,',1 ', It: -- ,. ,, -, ABILIMAM - . - !,? , "211 ,, . .,, , 1,,,, - , - ,,,,i,. , H. CANNON. - - , ...;,. ..1,,,,,, ,,4'.,..::,:..) 1.100101011,t; 4 ,',,:.. . . - 1, 1,-- ... . - !! ,,,,, - .- - 2'. ,,,.: ts, 40,4 , 4,.,, 5. , ,,, ,41J,', . '.:.-f.- 4,.,,.;! ',, 4 ,:. '' .:3".:, 4 C'Itt4 ( , ,..,'.,k,:,.. ' ,..,1 ' 4,,,,;.1 ,l,' ,.., . ..,.. 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Whitney set the type for that issue. His son, Orson P. Whitney, was city 'editor in the seventies. Another son. Horace. 0. Whitney, - was for 21, year.from .7.01r8s9,9t.h,aino April, 1920- -uatr Under . his business manager. the paper moved from its regime -old borne and The News took rapid strides forWard; Various other members of the Whitney family have ibeen, and still are. connected with Th, . Yap sA:.,4 t. THE , rf.,i:V., Irf ... :, Whitney family hat been with The Deeere't since the day 'of its : Horace K. , 'first publication. Whithey was one of the four men " s . 4. allici1:, .v,, , 'r -- -; i'lli.OL, 1' lia&941,1ate hrtat...11 ri . ,: :::"(411rdr1,- , - - , - ;, , ',. ' '1,r 1,1 ,,rd i ..1 ', ' ;1'1', t 4, - 2:'..f.,k, I -tts 26 cf the ttsvc..,, 11 DO: plor4i,,-- -- tbe. IF,,rctte' 91 . 4,2.: 44 ',it.',14WF4.)v,t---- , .:' ":1"';?1.CWa--- 1 - trliegf Vrietil 44.4 blirs. S 4to 4 )- I Ag - .1- ; fTi;:' : k frbi:t , Whitney Father and Sons Have Been Prominent , - ,itie r v. , c, '.... 's ,,!,Ii , T- s- - t4 ''. '',,,''' .,. ,- ,i,k..1.. ..'(-- ' - ,4'zi"igvdt16n - Ws,' ..is 4 , a ' , t ,msos...7-- , w,",,& , -- go , . . ,:,,,,:.$4,,,4. .. . si'flag -, ,-- .0g' , , - ,.., f, ) s , ,, , 'rice 1,e1 ' ,, ,"'s . ;;.C.6 ,t! 1,! - ':' s... 4,,, - ' gt , , I ' ' s,1,, ..:71,13:1:1:4",orid,,,,polto,ririods. I '; ...,,,' . ) :.,t, ,1,- -. .:.., , BtLL JOSEPH , ,A.. ::,,,- I', ly . .., -, ;:', 't 'SIMON.. : ,,- -: 1- la: 0 our.-11....- fill . - I The Cabeelt family for at least three generations has been closely and prominently time its editor, and Identified. with 'rho Deseret News. ' George Q. Cannon was tor, a M. Cannon spent publisher. David IV Cannon was the paper's first "devil." An business Manager. quite a large portion of his life with The News and was at one of the paper. A. a John Q. Cannon. present editor. has worked in various 4 - :: - - ' i 0 1 , dr ; ..- , . -.- tfa that duriog . , , -- p :010: - 14A.,, ..,,:, 4 - - 0. -,:, r-- d r ' , -- I et A , IJp, . A ' tst-s4- - ) office of half s tenter, News busing or so ago. It ems almost incredible ', .:. I , :.., a ....-- ,- . , . t. , t . - :.- 0 4p ga,oR,Ilt,!,,-141- piece ourselves back in the Noon& tsi t. ,,, , :, --- . tt ' countries. s., s tN 4 . In the days when the old hand press I. ,4"- , to tqLVoi, 11,1 ' was Mit abolished for the general CHARLES W. PENROSE : ' 1:...te . .. 'Y rl tettfe, ' - 1 crl-r,77 -i; .., P newspaper use, it still served its turn sniffler one& Three 4 i ,... ': '' linotyping main doing the job printing of the 1 chines also take the of the tYpeplace lishment for Salt Lake City and en-' s , virons. It turned out elaborate invita- setting by hand in the job department. Lino( y pea Introduced. Facsiznile of Front Page of the First Issue tion cards of the day, poster r and handbills for the old Salt Lake TheaIn the first old days the press room .., . Shows the Old tre. Its place is taken today by four Ramage, Hand Press on a number of (Continued en page four.) big cylinder presses and - ',1 ' - , Iii ,, .1. and foreign to V c .' semi-weekl- y. go I ' t - : .,At , n. a number of dallies; ......,,st . ,p,., ' Mondays-antThursday- - 0 .0 ; ,.,- - y. Several' hundred . . . , ', :1 'ex-tea- semi-weekli- iiiiii swwt, . 11 , semi-'week- i ft . , f, , - e, mmi-weekl- r 920, .,0, )0 Interesting it would be It we HOW the younger generattou out4 ,,' ' Of,1 e, I . ZeA, f. Iliad Press DM Work. The Quaint old hand pram of The Deseret ,News ' brought across the ' Plaine by the pioneers. began jogging rout the news of the day just 70 years I often only ago on a little eight-pagfour-pagweekly paper that was 'turned out with news a bit state be. cauee Of the weary miles which lay :between Salt Lake valley and the outer t :world. The pioneer press was succeeded by iothers lem primitive and run by steam ,generated through wood burning. To tlieengine the hardeet of wood cbtainable here wad Sought aad 'mountain mahogany. from the nearby canyons became the chief fuel. It is 'declared that to saw this wood in slabs ;small enough for the engine furnace was a man-els- e sob; the old "wood pile" was just met of the former News building on the corner .where the Hotel Utah now stands. This second press was brought from New 'York ,as far as Council Bluffs by rail and 'from Council Bluffs to Salt Lake by It establiehed a new record of 1.000 or 1.200 copies an hour. Later 'a new "perfecting' prom the forerunner of the modern press was Installed and the first cylinder press as used for the Finally. with the removal to the present home of use came of electric the ,The Nee's. Mower and the Installation, later of the big quadruple St page Hoe press. ,,which now turns out many thousands of copies an- hour, printing four edito the tions a day,- in addition s. on Teo new flecks to be added in the 'near future willmake it a sextuple affair. thereby increasing its output considerably. " '' ' Small Ittuitile at Pint. The entire output of papers turned - out in the old days, could be carried to the postoffice en one boys shoulder. Its foreign circulation at one time 'consisted et two single copies. which were sent to Liverpool. In the old 53 'days of the steam prone Mellon Tingey, now head of the job and book printing department, but once a "devil" on the paper after it became a daily. aa welt as Col. John Q. ('an-noIts present editor andaleos "devil of the daily, both retnember folding papers as fast as the sheets left the press. Sometimes the carriers were called into service. for this Job and scrambled for the only two counters in the old News building as convenient folding places. Today the modern machine does lts own folding am fast as the papers ere printed. The first circulation of the first daily edition for the northwestern pert of the city. eonsisted of just It copies, Today the daily circulation includes 20,000 copies of the , daily and about 15,000 copies of the 0 E ' c N 7 ,, 4 e 4.1r),...,.re'. , a , ;, -- ,:. ,,,, ,,,,,, .7, , , ' t . ........:i ''''e--- ..... t ,. ...::: - 1 - Beans or Potatoes 1 4'7 I - ., , ., - . ,, J ) 1 .... ,A .,,, . z IN LLLARD 0 ,o"A f . q9 , - -- ,:z47 ft i 0,, es t ' ? 01 ''' - I ..... ... ......... . ,..,,, , 1 ,.... , i k.,.. 11 , History if ouch a oomparativel short time such marvelobe chattge "" . . 4 have taken pities. Not only have the f.; i,,, , ,.,, methods of doh( things boos tinnily . . , 4-:. .... .. revolutionised but even ,tho thinge . . , . as done aro different. that i, . , -, s, Can you imagine a business office P ..,. , ..,,,', .... i with no stenographers. no adding ma. N R .. co ... , chines and no telephones? Then. any .."!,... I .., ,,z ono who suggested that a dictaphons . A if, ... :.--. u would tnight aomatime be in vogue for ' 4 ' hie : : ' have been examined perhaps i: 11 E ..., and yet now it would 'Item L sanity; ''IZ''' N. S ll PrecticallY impossible to get along L 1 :' s t E I1 ' :. k without them. It Is also told that -' , to there were only two or Wes short. C .... hand reporters In all of Utah; they U1 1 1 s',......,:, wore utilised in taking down the Sunw 1 a''' ' v''''' , 7.', 0 7": 7: 1,, ' day sermons In the tabernacle and did ,,,,',, ,,, , ,,,z7, some occasional court reporting. '''' ' ' Nk Nime 1,k z ,010 A Picture of the Old Do)ii. ' ' ,, - .1. , .... , 1Zi: , ii The business methods were probably Al c;M677"(XNV as efficient for those times as those OV N . of today are for lb. present. but the , CAREMGTON -AtuiritT 11,....1""r--1."......;1',9 . DI difference la management of the va::17: , 4'.7,;:licA-- 6,t 1 i, 1'1 I rious departments is so great that to O. the present generation such things sound as if the soon of year ran into . -the hundreds rather than only tens., Think of paying for your subscription 1 ' with a sack of potatoes or dried sp. It' ,.,,,, that Is- 04- - way ''77:-.---:t, ., plealiowerver.did.- - la z, the, , old building fatheis ..... , where the WilltiOUll Hotel Utah now , ( , 0 .0 ,..,..' stands all departments of The Ness ff ( , ,Walter. J. Lewis, wore once 4i, On .1 el t. to In a. .40:11t14, veteran employee, tells some Inter- s...,I a e ''.. establishold the 1, estIng thingetabout .. ,..., I ment in the 10's and 10s. The base,.. ment, as now In the now home, was . ' used as the press room. It contained one Gordon job press and three hand 111mmi presses. The motives power was a , calorie or "hot air" engine. Mr. Lewis calls it a freak because besides other ,.:4 ,' complications It would not operate except when fed with mountain mahogany. which had to be hauled from a up City Creek canyon great distance was and one man kept busy sawing up the wood into proper lengths. The other half of the basement was really - L part of the circulation department : as it was here that the rags were acfor subscriptions cepted in payment and then sent to the old paper factory DAM) O. CAT,I)Ell also whets and in Cottonwood canyon, 5 .... the commissary was located and where , the produce. also a medium of pay. , , ment for subscriptions. was stored c 4 ' , 1 - and Attalt out In payment ot the va, , , , ': ,:,",,, 4" rious expenses and thirempioyeeir-'' , ; .,. s, salaries. ', :: ; , ;::, r e ,.,;, ,4 Can you see our present dignified i ,:...,,,, ,'.,.., A ir editors and managers calmly (tarrying .1, , .:..,,,,r ., .,..,. , .41 r home the just deserts for their week's ,i!.4 V ,' ,', i4, ' 4.,,,' 4 .7'3 'ye.... ., I labor in a bushel basket or a gunny ,', ;',..'.;-- ; ' 1 , eel': '''' satict Scrip was also used in pay'm4 4 , mont of salaries and subscriptions but v, , , .t'ler,.7.':!11,' 4 money was very scarce and rarely V :i4 it; 44'.' seen. It was the delight of the chil:4,,,. :.:;:,: 14...fi 1 '......ke ,, ., tl7 ,4 'C.f.::: dren of those days to collect and Pell ;,,,' ,È ; ;:,.,,,,,, .....,:.:;.....e., fo,..,rags as they could often purchase .4, ' ; P d: with .,' tickets to the Salt Lake Theatre careful management It is probably t i,,,h.'.5? .11610.' :,: .f::: t a good thing that there were then no ''..;- ....'' '' ',7.,,i,"',!"' ,,, 's t, '....',7.:. , ',,, 4;1...:,'. "Passing Shows" and "Follies," eta. :.:t,....Ar ,i.,: The advertising was somewhat simi4 to that of the present day though lar I ' ':' : ', , not nearly amextensive and the adverii'l 4 N,.. 4,h tisers paid their bills with drafts or due bills on their accounNspoe The means of circulation wore then primitive but interesting. There were ,:i then no automobiles and no lines of delivery boys equipped with capacious maLkir4 Amur wheels to carry satks and rapid riding 1 EDWARD II.- AL0201 the paperebut the- - bubscriberseither . e came to tbe office to get their papers $ . if by chance they met one of the s The News Once in Fillmore. or tt :''''..;',''' . five carriers they received their copy I from him. J. T. Dunbar, a veteran 4t. ,I , It will surprisemany readers of The employee in the business office, tells ' ' 0 '.. - .1 a.,,, News to .learn that the paper was some interesting stories of some of . experiences of these carriers, who ' t' ever published' anywhere but in Salt the often had to - act as collectors as well -- t' 1'1 s, ' v ''',t'' move 'Ake. However, during :'the L a deliverers- and would bring back $ "...t ' ',ir' , .,,' . ' ' rt !,,' f . ' south" in 1858 The News Was pub- the payment for subscriptions which :' j! ;;,,.4.1:. 'v . ."1'. F, . He ,i tr. $ .2, A ,N.,:. ..,11 . lished in Fillmore. ,ytith headquarters were overdue in their pockets. were S... , says that sometimes the pockets . ,,, . ,g.,111,, , , ,,,,twesIA4shi ,,',Sps :t ',v.v.,' 4... ' there. Part In ,.,..,1.,",,,,, old the building capitol not for the "legal : sufficiently roomy .f :. i'. r: " .,''.... i '.. ' r ,.. .,.,.., , r ',4 ot, of the plant was at Parowan also. !':'. ' ." ' 4. ' 'II, ,tender" of those days. c ., -.- .. , ,.,- ,,., . r ", 51' et. v .., , . '. t . r , ,. ,, i. ,I . , I ',,, A , ,.,,,, 4, ',I.,. s; , f 4 , .., .6. . ..,ff, ...,o, ., .,,,, " .14,,, st, , -, 4 ,), ,., ,..,4 i 4,,,,,ti --) -- -- NI . ..,. Z.'. ,,.. ,, O. ,..:ttivilij.i.' ,c,.,,,,,,,' . g 1 .: y r . . 1tc, 114 ..". 4 . , To Pay Viithltags lit IT 0 ta. LitkNoll ,,,, .4 Wheat ' , ' . FASIOCS actress stopping on in Balt Lake the other day', and speaking ot her "sob-sit- e ter" days on a big London daily said: "After aire said and done, there is no other profession in the world which retaine such.a comrade-- I ship as the newspaper fraternity. I,,p every city, in every country of the' world. the newspaper man is always a comrade to a fellow ink scribe. This : fraternity Is not found, it seems to me, in any other walk of life." Oldtime honored legends declare I that this comradeship begins with the "smell ot tho Ink." which holds many a grubbing editor. reporter and preen-ma- n to his lob even when better opportunities offer. It may begin with the premises, the big machines which daily grind out the worlds news, usu. alY In a good natured gossipy tone. in a tragic vain. but alI sometimes t ways with the aim of giving' mankind : in general something to talk about at ; breakfast and dinner. Impartially it trio' to tell each fellow's story and. moot of olL It helps egotistical humane It)' to talk of the imbject nearest its heart----Itsel- ' '. ' 4 , I ; it, And Picturesque Viewed From Today. ' 4, . ' ' ' 1.,.' t ,,, ), ., N. I , , 1 ,d , -- PRESENT DAY I ,, , , , Figures In Subscilbers Used riPrten holier Journal a Beacon Light Amid Clinging Scene's. Vika Have Made 1itti :0 PRESS TO JUNK 13 1920 no . ) 1 F. '4' ,C ,J - -- ' . - .713717:: , HORACE G. .4 Wurnuce - - - - i ' . - , .-,-. . , |
