| Show TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO with a full sense seme of gratitude to all won frieada do and aad patrons near rod and far and with profound thanks to the giver of all good for mercies and loving kind new beyond power to describe the today begins its ito twenty sixth year per for a the busiest and quarter of a century most moet important period in all the worlds history this thi paper has endeavored deavo red to perform with faithfulness faithful neu al blotted to the and I 1 integrity the part public chronicler of curre current nt events year in and year out in times time of prosperity and of distress in sunshine and storm 1 it has bag paid its regular visits to the b home omes of its subscribers contributing to each as the occasion might warrant its portion of of encouragement of amusement hope of Instruct instruction loE i and of reproof vindictive in pursuing an never timid in defending the never enen enemy y faltering at the call of never right to duty always striving 1 standard of respectability aiming at the highest ability in itself and of goodness ready to take in the world and always the part of the oppressed against the and haughty A record su ah as strong this and who shall ball say th the e NEWS has not made W it 4 is surely something to be pi proud oud of in these days of venal sensational clap claptrap journalism Journ alim in his big salutatory aphea appearing ring in no 1 vol 1 I dated november 21 1867 editor george Q cannon sald said the publication of a in entering upon we do so ao with a consciousness daily paper of the responsibilities of the position to edit a daily paper and conduct satisfactory manner Is 1 a task of it in a no small mall magnitude peoples ideas about ohp style in which a paper should be edited and conducted are as varied as their mind each reader has his own taste 11 II this be gratified then he is sat and the paper is pronounced a 9 there Is 9 less of th this is diversity good one in this community of taste however bo other with which we are than in any acquainted this is a result of the mud and gives us a degree of poo peoples p unity confidence that under other ci circumstances instances ns we would not entertain if we do our duty we know we may safely trust the verdict of our readers in issuing this paper we do not have promises to make they are re not many is in expected required we know what not promises promise but a good reliable paper the fearless exponent of the truth a paper that old and your young kg alike can satisfaction in read with pleasure and it will be paper fact a representative our endeavor to make the DESERET EVENING NEWS such a paper we bring this department an anxious to our work in desire to benefit our readers and the people at large honesty of purpose truthful truthfulness nees and dili diligence gAnce we are convinced will do more towards accomplishing this than any amount of talent unaccompanied by those these other qualities in publishing the DESERET EVENING news we apropo propose so to use the power of the press presa for good we know that through its agency mightier results result for good can be brought than e ver ever were for evil that which forms the daily reading of the community must leave its im impressions ions upon them their thoughts WIT will insensibly to themselves perhaps ba 9 in some instances instance sp take shape aus and color from that which they road read to have healthy sound and high toned should have reading of that character this makes the position po of a journalist a most moat responsible ele one we view it in this light and while we fill the position we sincerely hope that no word may mair ever drop from our pen that can truthfully be viewed as an unworthy of this responsibility after a lapse of civo year swe find no fitter bittor words than the foregoing to express the present hopes and alms of the EVENING NEWS and if at the expiration of the next quarter of a century cea tury our successors shall ball be able speaking truthfully to may lay as an much in craibe drain of our efforts and of the paper me aa we can loy bay in praise of our predecessors aal an J their work our hearts hearth desires will have been satisfied and our measure of success complete shall we be pardoned for casting a single glance back to that cool november afternoon twenty five ys ago today the writer of these theme liels lines had been dignified with honorary employment as paper carrier his beat being all that portion of the city 31 Y lying west of east temple street root proud in the possession of a riding pony and a warm blue nock neck comforter for november 1867 was chilly he put in an appearance at the NEWS office soon after lunch and made one of the expectant group that waited upon the porch while the editors with tv io the compositors cupeta e and the th pressmen in the basement labored over the birth of the first daily paper in the mountains at last the mailing clerk Pt standing anding near the spot where the city editors editor s desk to ie now located announced that the carrier force could be supplied no in 1 was called up there were but two others and receiving instructions as to bis big district which included what we now know as an the ath ath ath ab 14 and wards he was handed sixteen papers the total subscription list that day in IB the locality described being the first carrier to got get away no 1 11 was also the first to begin the d silvery delivery and BB to mr joseph M hammer then employed emp loye in the and residing on en the block just south of the present union pacific depot gro grounds he bandeu the first pa paper per mr hammer was waiting at the gate and bedis he displayed no low agilitY JD retreating when he thought the carriers pony peny which had bad jumped the deep ditch was also going to jump the tense fenee than he showed joy at the sight eight of the paper it was a cold swampy oh cheerless earless district to travel and not without its terrors to the timid youth of those days no railroad tracks then crossed the street nome were thought of the utah central was not yet projected though it was wag hoped that the central and union pacific roads which were already under construction construct iong would decide upon suit salt lake city as their point of junction the depot block was little more than a pasture bordered by a morass its one bouve hous being the square adobe still standing in the northeast corner within the square were several mounds which to the youthful mind were peopled with the restless spirits or of those whose remains were burled buried beneath the prevailing notion that it had been the site of so an indian battle end and burial ground was confirmed COB firmed wison when later the mounds were leveled and large a umbers numbers el 91 skulls and bones were uncovered 0 looking through the columns of the first issue we find and congratulation southern settlements over the completion of the deseret telegraph line correspondence from north and sent east a goodly supply of telegraphic alog dispatch crisp locals that read strangely str ly yet familiarly today advertisements ti of many whose names are ar 1 t familiar such a as walker brothers sit ma ahn brothers Brot hersi taylor brothers woodmansee brothers brothen william jen aings eldredge clawson Cla waon ron boss barratt and many others not forgetting the ik evitable astray notice there are few who have hare preserved copies of the first volume which i it almost worth its weight in gold twenty five years hence when many of those who read to nights tonight la NEWS shall have crossed the river their children will be as much interested in a review of this issue as present readers would be la in the copy from which we quote the world moves and moves rapidly and we all must perforce mova with it |
