Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1873, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU E: SATURDAY, 15, 187 LEBRUA “THE TRIBUNE. 'Reo'ccupation of The _Tribune Rooms, 'Ifh‘e; First Tribune Building, ¢ and Mts Fate, The New Tribune Build- ing and Tts Occu- : pants. Something About the . First of All the : Tribunes. Ohioago Thirty-Three Years Ago—E. @. Ryan's- ' Tribune, Trwenty-Six Years of the History * of the Present Tribune, The Tribune Twenty- " One Years Ago. The Tribune and Tts New Me- chanieal Appliances and Surroundings. The Builders ¢f Tha Tribune--- The Tribune Tenants, There was one poriod of, time when Tax Tars- Tne Building stood in the fore-front of attention ot millions of readers of dospatches from Ohica- |* goinflames. A city had burnod about it, and it .Jooked ottt on the morning of Mondsy, Oct.- 9, west and south,.on a scene of desolation, and, .morthward, on a ses of fire. Again and again #ho' dospatches announced, ‘' Tne TRIDUNE 1Bnilding still stands;" * Tae Trmusz Building WM saved.” The fird had swopt all north. of ‘Van Buren street, from tho oast side of Doarborn .weat to the river. Thoe Qourt House had gone, [the great hotels were in nshes. North of Tax Pribunz the flames had ewept eastward, laying jo ruins the massive buildings of tho closest’ (business heart of the oity,—Fiold & Leiter's ‘storo, and all of the section south and esst ta the | wiver, ' Tue Trmone Building stood like' s ‘mailed’ warrior, |lightly scathod by the rolling wolumes of hoat and flamo that had awept about it, Allnight long the usual functions of & groat dguinal had gono forward, Tho whole office force Jwere reporters, and column after column was put in type long attorevory other printing establish ‘mment in the city had gono down in the: tornsdo ©of fire, Whon the gas gave out, can- ‘dles ~‘were prooured, and tho “work :went = on. Tho ' staunch bunilding “was {fire-préof, and so seemed Tax: Tarsunz workers, .who earge and wont among the stroets choked lwith the faarful moleo of that appalling night, ‘or from tho top of *he building sheltered them. selven from the furnace blagt of heat, and noted ‘the progress of the devastation, Here follows tho Jast “ tako " get in tho old TnIDUNE compos- ing room by the light of the burning oity, oy John Tippet, who clung to his composing stick, and pat these final words in type: ' and the wind raging, and the fire burning, and Lone don, and Paris, and Portland outdone, and no 3iton, and’-no Dante on eorth to put words togethori A group of men on tho fourth story of thia oce sl writoatonce on the spoctacle, und hand shoet aftor - ahget of ¥ copy * to tho faithful compositors, who have @0t forsaken thetr posts, Then James 0. Hulchins, foroman, with per- baps a sensation ps of plsmires orawling down his back; locked the forms, by the groat torch of Field & Leiter’s store, and down went the forms to tho, press. But by this time human conrsge gave way, or at least the stock on hand in Toe Trroune offico did not last to supply to the focd-boys, The first pages wero worked off, andasheetlies boforous, The outside Inst pages were put on the press the steam was up, but there the work ended. ' The fire cut » neiv swath across the clty at Taylor stroct, and swept like a prairie-famoup Stato stroot. Thestatoly Palmer House: came down like a castle of carda. MoVickor's Theatrs put on its last spectacular offett, and, thus attackod in the roer, aided by the treaphery of a xoar wall, Twe TnbuNE Bullding sucoumbed. - How immediately Tue Trinone found shiclter on Canal streot, and through, the brave but dismal yoar of the groat robuilding, It oceupled its narrow quarters and met its read- ers daily, our columns have again shown. In . another part of this isaue, we give Tire Trinune Bullding s It 8tood on the 9th-of Octobor, 1871, and we placo boslde it the prosentment of tho new. Teisune Building, as ocouplod by us on the succeeding 9th of . October, 1873, one yesr afler thefire. ' . . - Tho building was only partinily finiehed on its firat-oocupancy, and it is not until the prosent time that wo find oursolyes fully at home in our new quartors, complete in every part, from bage- ment to roof,—the finest and most complete newspsper premieos in the world.,. From the top of tho new TrinoNE Buildlng to-dey wo look out upon & new city. : All the surroundings are freeh and strange, Elsgant pilos in solid out stone and graceful forms of iron give us new strests, whoso business history has just beguu. The business hoart of tho city, equalled by that of noother city In the world in the upiform charnoter of its structures, i like s fresh ledger. pago, the trade entries yot to .bo made. - Tas ‘Tr1ouNE of this issue, setting nside tho modesty thatis on ordinary ocoasions its mark of groat- ness, bas somsthing to say of iteelf,—~the more Just!fiable, perhaps, becsuso it haa 8o much to do with the city. £ ' THE FIRST OF ALL THE TRIDUNES, Wohave taken some:pains to give the circum- stance, often atated before, but not with thispros- ant completenass of presentation, that the name TBIBUNE was first applied toan American news- papor In Obloago, To establish this historloal fact, ®» reportor of Tne Tninuxe sat down beside E. G. Ryan, Esq., now and long an honored oitizen of Milwaukee, and got from Lim snd from the initial numbor of the first of all Tribunes » graphio - picturo, given elssyhere, of TeE Omi04a0 oF 1840, thirty-thres gears ago, onoe year before Horace Greeley gave the world the fizat copy of the Now York Tyrfb. K £ une, The Ohlcago of thiose day’was an obsturs prairie villago; had within. its imits not to ox- ceed 8,600 souls; Even thon rockloss’ spodula- tora were wont to infinté tho population, axd entimatod It ot nearly 5,000, or moto than & third in oxcess of the roality, A ploturs_of the town ad it looked about that timo would astonish our younger citizens,” All tho businces was dono within throe or. four squargs of tho’ Chicago River, and oxtended weatward not more than half a milo from its mouth. ) ¥ THE FILST TRIBUNE FAILS, - Notwithstanding a start in lifo 8o doliberat and careful, as our reference elsowhero shows, the first of all tho Tridbunes had on early donth. It was published under great disadvantagen in a far-off settlement, moro remoto for that day : = ! N [ frunnx1 3 l; A S| 0 . (] O =] > e 1|5 H -1 - ,‘ i ,- R ,~4'§' éo‘:- il I__] ‘~ - 4 g B i ‘ 2 B ST e 2 _‘,D . '_—‘ "2 ; ; 0 i | ol ([ [ (= 4 @gm“i’m?:_nfl_cfififi ‘ = NCo—o—d—t— oo oida : HEES o VAT ' B e F H 3 B 4 ala H e ) si3zio 5 Ip 15 20 25 (30 35 FEET, SCMETE o ':aisihrglo sy, Tho writor well romembors when ‘{hopublishor of s groat Boston newspaper look- - od with interest through the pross-room of TaE pancy of its now flrd-proof bullding, on the southoast cornor of Madison and Dearborn strests~n vonturesomo movo, as was doclared by many who deomed that it would be yoars before tho oxtension of business southward would give Tue TRInoNE the udequato surroundings of a clty nowspaper office, selection of tho now eite was speedily demon- strated, and ita boest realization has boon more than ten years ante-dated by tho fire. Tho loca- tion ia near tho intorsection of the lines of all \UNE, and therefrom borrowed the hint of the utility of the folding-machino, In Msy, 1869, Tz Trroune ontorod into ocon- But tho wisdom of the M ' 'LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF TRIBUNE BUILDING (LOOKING SOUTH). Expranarion,—A A A, Principal Slajrway from Dearborn strect, BB B, Privato Bairway to Composing Room on fi - Freas Toom, elght-cylindor Hoo Press (walls of bulldisg cuf away to ahow the with Foldiog Machines, ' K. Composing Room. L. Steréot 8 8 8, Ediforisl and Reportera' Rocma, Btercotypors’ Room to Press Room. office, J. Mailing Room, songer Elovator. Q. Malling Rooms, than any nowspaper can boin our age .in' any part'of tho domain of tho United Btates, and we have given at 8ome .longth the ploturo of its lite and times, the bettor to show the newapaper work of that perfod, ' = L - THE NEW TRIDUNE, 1t 1a ot onr purpose to presont Koro the full chain of proprietarship and vicissitudes out of which, from o small beginning in 1847, has grown T Omioaco TRimnusE of to-doy. Tho initial numbor boars date Thursdsy, Jam. 10, 1847; and, proud as wero its foundors, it proved = diminutive affair. InMay, 1849, itsofficoinJd, H. Gray's bullding, on tho corner of Olark and Randolph stroots, was totally destroyed by five, and ‘o fortunato insurance -of '$3,100"*covered the losa.” But tho slendor plant: Had taken root in good eoil, and though with varying fortunds. repented changes of ownors sgaln and’again toolk place, still the enterpriso gained strongth, rapldly: began to accomplish what is the. boat ‘migalon and the ‘highost business good fortune of 'apublio journal, to reflct in its own growth the growth of the community it serves.- In 1861, tho present TRibuNE Company was incorporated by speoial aot of the Legislature of Illinos, with a capital of $200,000. Sinco that timo the grawth of tho enterpriee has kept pacowith tho dovelop- ment of Chicago. For fifteon yoars antecedent “$0 its occupancy of - the new TrinuNE Building in May, 1869, its newapaper premisea’ woro in' the low, long brick block on Olark streot, opposito the Bherman House, and, whatever may be its future, theso woro the most important years of the dovelopment ‘of Tum TmipuNe. In that poriod, the atraggling prairio town bocame acity. The Weast, from .a wilderness of country trails and croas-roads, accesaiblo only by tedlons team- ing, had rocelved ite network of railway lines, ‘This country in that perlod pagsed through the War:of the Robellion. Long beforo Tme Trin- oNE.entersd into .posscssion of premises of its awn; by virtue of ita rolation o ‘these great events, 1t had come to atand among the foremost journalainthe United Btatos, and had by ita own enterprise wrought an entire transformation in the mode and dempnds of Woatorn journalism, 1t was o plonicer in thouse of the tolograph as an' equalizer of dlstance, and the introduction of the best méohanioal appliances of newspaper ’ publication, ' The introduotion of its firat great Hos press was enforced by the large edltions of ‘war ¢ime; when some {mminent phase of news would sdd ‘from 15,000 1Q 20,000 to tho issue of T. Waer Tank, streot-car service of tho city, and contral to and in‘ tho vicinity of the hotols, depots, public buildings, banks, and other established featurcs of our now heart of businoss. iz THE FIRET TRIDUNE DUILDING had at onco & prominent place in tho structures of our Iater growth., Itwaa fire-proof, solid, and substantial in appearance, and construction, with handsome fronts of Athens stone. It cov- orod the same area as the present structure, but one story has boon added to the robuilt edifice. 1t was pronounced ono of the finest and most perfoct of oxamples of flre-proof construction. But then who had imagined & Chicago fira? It seemod a8 if thoro was nothing to burn, where flooxs, walls, roof, stairways were in stono, iron, conorete, and masonry. Our roference olse- whoro rocitos Its fate in the common tuin, and our -cut accompanying shows all that waa left of Tre TrmoNe Building on the fated Bth of Octo- bor, 1878, - . TUE NEW DUILDING, . Our engravor saves us columns of description. ‘The robuilt Trivune Building stands where stood its predecessor, idontical in mres, ome story higher, but tho righ red sandstono of Marquotte has replaced tho former fronts of. white lime- _stono, It hos anorth fronton Madison street of 121 foot, and & wost front of 72 on Doarborn. ‘The out -will bring the intorier foatures of tho new building to the eyo of evory reador, and win the credit dosorved by the architects, Messrs. Burljug & Adlor and their co-workera referred to mora In detail horoafter, ’ Lot us pass, thoroforo, at once to abrief roview of the intorlor oharaocteristics sud utilities of Tum TarpuNe building, And here also wo are helped by & acotional view to which our notes are the scarcely-required loy. : THE MTERIOR. ig wholly fire-proot, there being no combustible material excopt tho lighter fonturos of finish. ‘Cho floor beama are iron, the floor sbove boing Iaid In every story in tho handsome enoauatic tile importod from England for this purposo, Thess -aro laid In cemont, which is filled In upon the ‘corrugated iron that forms the collings beneath, Dy o tasteful seleotion of colors, n beautiful va- rloty is shown In the floors of tho rooms and halls, the calors lielng black, red, yollow, drab, and blue, Tho sectional outline of theso floora in tho large dlagram ia tho Lest explanation of thelr solidity, They must bo seon to apprecinte |2 Pritouyk Bulldig fsn most choorless Placo iy i 4Ty being wrouglit in rich pattorns, Evon tho lath +of tho partitiona aro corrugatod shoot iron. Tho soot is corrughted fron. It will bo mcen fhot ‘forrata, / 1 iy b *_ L. fTite umed oF Tiig nurTOING. Lo In the séouring.quartera, for businoss'nd tho firat -dosidoratum sccosaibllity to fpatrona must bo observed, and th *party building . for such purposo immodiately neccopts two othor coneid- erationat first, how hectn bost accommodato bis own Roods § socond, tho: sccommodations ko con glvo'to othora with a 16w to “rovonuo, ~ In' Tug Temone Building:-sll- theso paints-have boonAdmirably mot. . As tho main-idenl of the- construction, the nowspaper promises hiave boen 4nade tho best aud most spacious ‘Iu tha United Blatos, Nothing in spaco and oquipmont ‘has been pared to sacuro perfoction in the dopart- mopts of nowspapor work. and newspaper publication, Those onds® anaworod, tho nocond roquisition of thetbuilder is answered in stores and sultos of officos for tennuts, that oven in this advanced ora of fino grado bulldings in Chiengo are absolutoly unsurpassed. In light~ noss, airinoss, sccosslbility, style of finish, solid- ity of conatruction, with vaults, and all modern convenioncos, tho accomtmodations in Tar Tninoxe Bullding held for rent, or alroady ocou-~ crs? Toom (south wall of Co pled, are unoqualled in their olags in this city or in New York. Lot us first sposk of tho: news- paper premiges, and wo bogin at the point where the general public and the businoss visitor gain thoir firat idoa of Tae Trmue Building, THE COUNTING-BOOM. Tho counting-room, or the office proper of Tae Tninuxe establishment, is tho fincst in the country dovoted to similar purposes. Its proe portions aro Jargo, and its appointments hand- some and subntantial. Access from the straot is &alned by two entrances, tho largor at the trun- cated corner,and the smaller from Madison stroot. The outor doors-aro -of-black walnut, heavily panellod, richly mounted, snd crowned by a somi-oircular transom of plato glass, The .| counting-room i 58x20%¢, with an alcove at tho rear 8128, tho lintel- being supported by a single Corinthisn column. “.. The - floor i3+ a tesselated - pavemont” of English tilo, in simple pattern. ~ That ‘which principally attracts the stranger's oya’is the countor which onocloses the desks of tho offico, omployes .and accountants, and terminatos in tho Tonr at tho privato apartmont of tho busi- ness mansgor. It.is of tho most maa- sive description and skilful workmanship. Tho material used is black walnut, relieved with vari- ously-shaped panels‘'of amboine, & hard and high- 1y-ornamontal African wood. Xt is surmounted by rich panels of plato glass clogantly engraved, o muok-pdmired feature of the office, with open~ inga for busineds convenience, crowned eithor with broken pediments containing -urms, or niches supported by sorollwork sustaining orna~ mental earved work. ‘The advertising clorks havoe tho four openings' mearest the door. Then . come, successivoly, the - subscription olerks, - the cashier - and bookkespors, the colleotor, - and the ing., In tho window of tho businoss managar can still bo roon tho old Krupp shell, that -has beogmo historle, Tho gaa-fixturos: parisko :of thie’gonoral ‘linraoter “of aubatintinl. ologance tHiaf porados’ tho countlrig-rbom. Among the canvenioricon of the offico Is & box for tho United . Btates mall, mado of black walnut,® with glngs pancls, to corrospond with the provalling style of Interior finish, Tho files of tho paper aro kept in black wnlnut codes at tho roar of tho counting-room. o . E _Tho rolation-of n motropolltan newspaper to communily a8 o medium for tho ‘Intorchangs of wants and domandd Is shown in the featuro of Tnr TRIBUNE colinting-room knoivn gg" the Lottor Box, the business of which in numbor of mail onologuros oxcoeds that of ‘many. post offics. ‘Tho ' *“small. advertisomonts” in Tz ‘TRIDUNE have grown into & businoss of groat importanco. Tho * wants” Involye o largo, cor- Yespondence, ‘which requirels caroful olassifica- tion'to provont confusion. It ot unfroquently happons that two or threoe lihes in Tniz BuxpAY TRIpoNE, atating the simplo fact that n clork or porter I8 wanted, brings G500 lotters from ns many onger, ' and perliaps hungry, ‘aprMeants. Not a yeok pasaes in which there is not some briof advertisomont that ovokes at lonst 800 opiatles, showing an inflnlte varioty of chirog~ raphy and character, . Hors aro 100 boxes, besides thoso for tho odi- torial forco, and for miscollancous advortisera, Tor onch lotter of the alphabet thero are 100 printed tickota—for lustanco,A 1, A 2, B1, 2,8, ote, * Ench adyertisor, who docs not prefer to bo addrossed othorwise, rocelves a stamped-dated tloket liko tho following, whon his advertise- mont i8 taken at the counting-room Chicago Tribune, Bearer 1g ontltled forFIVE DAYS to letters adaremod UG8, ! ' 'Tribuno Company. His lettors are addrossod accordingly, and all sorresponding numbers of whataver lettor aro put in the samo box. The systom s found' to po tho most convenient and admirable, both as regards the olorka in the counting-room and the sdvertising patrons, i R From tho counting-room, the visitor, dosiring ,to undorstand tho interior economy of & motro- politan ‘newspaper office, moy pasa down a pri- vato stairway to : e & 'THE DASEMENT, /the Iargor élisre of tho'numeroua apartments of ,which aro dovoted’ to tho difforent branches of - printing ond mailing, While. .in theso days tho processes aro familiar to most of our roadors, from observation 'in ‘smallor printing ’establishments, the . demands of .Tne TRIDUNE editions has mado necossary, and the new building affords, an amplituds of space and porfection of arrangement that will o, most admired by thoso most familiar with the printer's art, These numerous rooms, opening city cirou- | ono upon the other, aro, attor all, tho sdjunaty Il oo WaNCErN -G, ¥. Eng gine. . Boflera (in Souls their boauty. The stairs are iron, tho balustrades Iator. A handsomo ‘clock ornamonts the pediment fronting the main entrance. Themon- ogram of Tre Tainuye Company, richly wrought, appoars upon the podiment adorning the cashier’s department, and also npon the plate glass in the door of the privato offica of the bus- iness manager, Light ia sdmitted into the counting-room through aix immense plate-glass windows, with semi-circular tops, one of which looks out upon Doarborn strect, and through the doors, which are largely of = glass, Each window is filled with a single plate of Fronch glass ton feot in helght by six in width, Tho counter is from'the establishment of D. M. Swiney & Co., by whom the fitting up of the old counting-room was done. The design is artistic, and the dotails have boon, wronght out by the most akilful workmon in theWest. The casinge of'the doora and windows, and all subordinate portions of the oarpentry, aro scarcely losa hand- somo, and equally creditable to the workmen. Within the counter there is a liboral supply of offlce . furniture for the use of the employes— depks, drawers, and sll essential paraphernslia, Everything corrosponds, in.style. and finieh, with what Lias beon doscribed, . The broad deska are of black walnut with bronze trimmings, or mountings of the same material, e The aloove'of tho counting-room s uised for mailing purposes, the galleys being kept in look- ed cazos of black walnut paneclled with ash,' A dummy in the rear wall takes manusoript of all kinds to the composing-room n the fifth story. Bponking-tubos communicate with the cliy’ do-" partment, the composing and cditorial raoms, The vault Is identical with the ono in the old TnisuNe Bullding, and is in tho samo place, di. reotly behind the desk of the cashier, - It passod through tho terrible ordoal of the fira with honor, Tho superficial area of the vault is 638, and ita height 10 foot, The old fire and burglar-proof, Eafo, of Hall make, within it, looks a8 bright and now as if just from the manufactory "in Cincinnatl. It is arranged with apartmonts for the different stookholdors, and ubdivisions for all necessary uses, A stairway in thorear communicates with tho folding and press-rooms in the basement. Tho roar wall of the office ja ornamented with & ‘great photographio. view of Ohicago in 1800, taken from the Court House dome. The contrast between the city of the anto-robell- lon era snd that of to-day, ia marked and etrik- Room cut sway to show samo). AL, Large GURLING ADLER & CO. ARGH'TS. tory. O, Passengor Elevator from Dearborn strect veatibulo, D. Dummy Elovator from ‘vault under alley). ounting Room and Business Aanager's 0. Paper Room, P, Engine for Pas~ . O Biylight, only of the press-room, which is constructed in the arca and covored with s raof ab the socond story. , Horo aro the groat Hoo pressos whose smoothly-oxecutod work comes dafly to Tme TomuNe resders. Tne TRIUNE pross-room is pronounced tho finest and most convenient in the United States, and the -eight- eylinder press, now runuing, end its mato, now being put in remdiness, securo Tme TRIDUNE facilities for rapid issue never before reached in tho West. Tho engine-room, with its worker that never tires nor complains of late hours; tho long and noisy phalanx of folding machines, that prepare tho shoets for the carriera and mails; tho mailing-room; tho paper-room, with its hugo ' and rapidly-disappoaring piles of ‘paper; the waiting-room of the nowsboys, aro all of ~thom adjacent, and the common &cone of a wonderful din and bustle at hours of going to press, And hero wo may a8 wall answer tho question o, ofton asked by our friends, ‘‘Whera-can we see all the machinery at work?" - Well, botweon 8 and 4 o'clock {8 the bost time, but it is open to the litild objection of late or oarly hours, sc- dording to tho habits of the reader. It willbo underatood that the hour is fixed as the latest allowed for the receipt of news with s view to the enrly trains and morning carrler ser- vico. The art of publishing -8 morning newepaper by daylight Las not been discovered. The forms come down an olevator holst-way from the fitthstory, and wo may as well tako tho ronder with us to the upper region where the forms aro mado up, firet pausing to note that tho form {8 a heavy sheet of type motal, cast with ita mates, four in all, to fit tho petiphery of tho great ‘cylindér of the pross. On their outor faces each has o cast of the type of onopagd of Tge Tnisong, In othor words, Tne TRInuNE is printed from stereotyped plates, & process now fomiliarin largo newpapor establishments. As Weo pass to the’ stair leading to tho counting- room, wo look in upon the boautiful little upright engine tliat rins the prssongor elovator, which wo flnd waitiug for us in the vestibule of the Dearborn streot entranco. Ouco in the olevator, up we go to 5 i THE FIFTH BTORY, As wo move gmoothly aloft, wo look out upon floor after floor of tho building pronouuced the ~perfection of tho buildor's art in all that pertajpa to stability, durubility, sud besuty, the halls all lighted and airy, and, like tho offices oponing thereupon, handeomo In tholr tossollated floors, /. and tho rich contrasts of tholr hardewood joinor worlt. . Wo reaoh the fifth floor, _and tho oditorin! rooms are about us, ar- ranged with a view to ordor, economy of-time, and convonience of the numerous staff in tho .varions' dopartments.” It 18 onough to'say that our brothiren of the proma, our most approcintive visit- ors, declare them por- foot, and that thoy havo . gained from us now views of what tho sanctum may bomado, Tho rooms are on » sealo and in thostylo __. of tho bost professionnl = LSRN offices in Chicago, and occupy tho Dearborn stroot ond of tho build- ing and a portion of tho -. Madison = stroot- fromt; - > The rest of tho floor and tholargersharoisgivento THE BUINS OF TIE OOMPOSING ROO! ‘This grand apartmont, unbroken by columus, snd lightod by full windows on north, south; a oast, and s vast domo skylight in the roof, is 68 feet long, 50 feot wide, and 16 faot high, will ac- commodate 50 cases for a8 many compositors, with ample space and vergo left for all adjuncts and appliances. From this room thetypein forms is sorit to tho stercotypers ndjoining, and in twonty minutes can bo raturned to the compoa- ing-room and tho’ plate -sent down to the prens Dolow. o - y ‘Wo aronot descrlbing processes. Theso aroTon- #onably familiar to many readers of modorn nowa- papora. 1t{s only our aim toshow theresults of ox- perienco and carofal study havo bronght potfec- " tion to all departments of Tue TrInUNE in which these procosaes are realized, Tuz TRIBUNE will havo the opportunity threo hundred and sixty- flve times each yonr to lay beforo its readers tho proofs of the complotoness 6f these . propara~ tions, and hore we _leave the discussion. A LOOK ABOUT US. Now stop ont npon tho fron roof of Tnt Trb- < unE Bullding; sud look about you., Five blocks |’ soutli wo-note the toll bulldings now busy with trade. East, west, and southwoat lofty blocks in stono, iron, and brick, thc Ginamental lines of roofs telling of the charactor of tho facades bo- low. -~We look up and'down Madison and Dear- born, busy with lifo, showy nnd beautifal with now shop fronts, Hore, thore, and yonder, the tall Mangards of the grent hotels, the ‘vast roof of the grand Chamber of Commerce. Far away . wo'look over the buildings of .tho. rapidly-rising’ North Side, Then turn to the. out we give of the rained Tomusz Building, snd remombor that one yoar :ago’ it looked out. actually on square miles of the desolato waate there our clity had boen, Hore- abont us is our new Obi- ,cago, nearly as now-and strange to us as to tho freshly-arrived stranger. It i in.such s aty and with such freshly-turned pages of its local history -that Tre TRmUNE, in its new rooms, continues with fresh onergics, with for the marvellous post, and coura assured futuro, tho relationa it has for twenty- aix yonrs custained to its Ohicago patrons and its rondors at large. N ¥ THE -TRIBUNE TENANTS.: Thirty-four years ago thore was & newspaper born in Ohicago, Thero have boon many since, not & fow whose namos are well-nigh forgat, which brings out more prominently the purpose of this reforence, for, though the infant journal died young, THE NAME BTILL LIVES, and itis id- teresting to remombor that hore in’ Chicago & newspapor :was frab called Toe Tomune. To placo this fact in its proper sotling wé g0 back 01840, and Lring the Chlengo’ of “that *day bo-" ford our readers, so far as it can bo shown in the mirror of the small shoot boforo us, *. . . ‘The carriors of TuE TRIBUNE of those days, 1t will be observed, had very limited routes. Tho old Fort Dearborn’ Resorvation included all of the South Bido east of Stato sizeot, and the only buildings on it were tho fort, and thie house called by courtesy tho Beaubien mansion, ! 6 was nmot a houso south of Randolph t and wost of State., Al goods. coming by lake woro wunloaded on the. North' Bide, the only -oxception being--mentioned : below. Hotels wore a8 plentiful in proportion-to ‘the vopulation 88 they “aro lkely to be-next| summor, but they were all small, and the gueats, liko the celebrated Mrs. Bkewton, had to sleop with their hoads in tho closet, and theirfeet in the fireplace. Tho churches were fowand dis- proportioned to the numberof saloons, ‘Thore was the old 8t. James, on the North Side, which was atandiog until the groat firo, and the ocalesi~ astical barn, in which tho Presbyterians wor- shipped, on Lake stroot, betwoon Clark aiid LaSalle. The Baptista'snd Methodists also had disndvantogeous places of worship, The Pros- byterian Ohurch ‘was -occasionally honored by the' ministritions of mombers of the Boocher family. Histrionics wero not entirely naglooted. On Deoarborn strest, botween Lake streot and the river,. was & hall with a diminu- tivo stage “und flabby scenory, occasionally used by the Crummlcses'of the day with thejr migratory companies, Thore was_arothor hi at tho corner of Lake and Clark’ streets, called Saloon Hall, whore locturers such as tho time farnished droppod their worda of deop wisdot,’ and whero thera woro sporadio shows. "In this building the first TRIDUNE *8nw the light. discontinued; the ofico boing sold out to other partics, Mr.'E. G. Ryan was editor, and in part | publishor. His business associato was & Mr.. Holcombe, a practical ' printer, and the- stylo of the firm was Holcombe & Co. =~ Tho circum- stancos undor which the paper originated wero 88 follows: In tho wintor of 1889-'40 thero woro two journals published in Chicago: the Demo- crat, » emall weekly, thirty years after morgod in the present TaIBUNE, and the American, lnter tho Evening Journal. The . American had been & weekly of tho &amo .size a8 tho Democrat, and was sftorward published daily, having four pages, and four colums to the page. During that wintor, somo entorprising gontlomen thought that anothor puper was immediatoly noeded, and st their sug- gostlon Mr, Ryan undertook tho business., There +was not at that time o pound of new type for eale in Ohicago, . Thore was only onie printing officp, that of Mr. E. H. Rudd. Thiswas pur- cheged, and Mr. Holcombe wont to Lowsvillo, Ky., and bought the nowspaper type and apptir- tonauces from 3fesers, D. Hobbs & Co. Aftor loug delays, the typo roached Ottawn by wator and was brought thenco in o wagon. At Louls- villo it was packed in aloathertrunk, and carried on to the boat by four strong nogroos. Tho follow-passengers of the gentlomnan who accom- panied did not understand tho meaning of so mnch compact woight, and thought him & mill- ionaire transporting nn immonse amount of gold coin-and bulllon, In conscquenco, ho was tho reciplont of much polite, and not a little ill-bred, attontion, and one Southern' sprig of chivalry offored to exchange the coin for post-obits in Migslssippl County bonds, Only ono house in Ohicago had print-paperfor sale; Tho arraygemonts with this house for a sup: ply failed, and Toz Trisoxe fouud it necossary before epring. to print its paperon two small sepnrate sheots, which were pasted togothor at the fold. That Tniune was Domocratio, na its | editor, Ar. Ryan, then wau, aud it is'not within the knowledge of any individual that ho has sinco lapsed from tho faith. Itia his prosont pride to boliovo that while his nbwapapor was printed it nevor mado a statoment to the proju- dice of any human boing, - Qur reporter recontly viaited the editor of the THE FIRST TRIBUNEBHEDING 2 ¢ original Tamune, for tho .| 080 of Inspect tho. first ‘number.. Ho -{o‘ly::;p Mr, nymu.“xfli pleasant home at Milwaukoo, s philosophor ia an- admirably-golected lbrary, hale: and ‘hearty; ale though past threo-score, and :equally, gratified, and oqually intolligont; whother, talking of th Inst ‘novel, Tennyson or William " Morrif or o’ the- 0. ~ffam wlich ‘out prosent, clty gidw. " The first volumo of Time Tnrm wos at_onco: produced” for thi viaitor's inspeo- tlon. His oxamination. was, Thowever, confined to tho first number.. Tho shoot, se_at first " publishod,” hiad four pages .of seven columna * each, , Tho' firet pago,” beats. tha titlobove fiva slicrtcolumns, the outsidecolumns bolng of all lengths. The lotter of tho name is precigely tho samo-as that. fsed,at Ppresgent for: tho.namo of Tme Ontcaco Tomonz, Tho top ot tho page, s arranged as follows : B Golumn, THE TRIBUNE. * Yol. I._""Thon Sualt Not Hear alae Witno.n.” No.T, 1y Hnioombo & Co,, Printors and Publishe - ONICAGO, BATURDAY, APRIL 41810, - - The firat column hias & poom from Goethe ;- en= titled * Tho Gadliko,” tranalated by Goorgs Bat. croft, then o-gent loman approsching-midale sga and much given to miscellancous litorature, Un- dor the gonoral head “ Light Roading'’;t a sltotch of humble lifo in Paris by DeBalzao dar the hond *Moral Reading,” an''abstriot por upon tho ““Moral Law of Liborty.” “To give atill groator varioty to the selocted miscellany, of. tlio firat pge, which was intendod f0r qulet ffo side consumption, thero is an ariicle’ E ble, commenélug, . ““ Biblo, & bools; Grook biblos, which signifios the bark tree, . on which” the' anclents wrote,” - Oroitds™ A, " Brownson flourieted a3 & political writer about 1840, and o him our ~fath dloarat fathers, surely—deli Ium freely for | #uccessivo paragraphs common sy ‘y Tu:%s:::::.‘(‘;‘ g::g §: i.‘,‘."a‘i‘éfi-‘. ;:?n%fi;‘v " Bho Democratic, party-is (ho garty” of Chenbant: e revolation of God's mercyie “from the Mr. Brownson's . scrocd I8 of ongth, and runs over! on'.o:tho ‘second * pag which Is tho cditorial page propor. At rtho-iiea of tho editorial atand the. following :motto: and namos, which take-us into -quite & difforent ut: mosphero of politics from tho.prescnt . Martin Van Buren..waa thon secking a- Te« élection at thoe hands of ‘hia parky, but ) T dafentod oven mora ovorwholmingly than Hore aco ' Gredley, scarcoly- carrying' £wo™"or™ three Statos, and. thoso by. unpppracinbls .majoritiea. Itis quite rotrosling to-hehr M, Ryan, in' tho rolo of a consistont old Domoorat, speak'.of the suciont standard-boarer of his party as a traitor Riohard M. Johnaon continned this dato to'draw from this. %:; once of piblic audienc oliot-handl id d ary with“gelf-ooneoious th tho battle inps wayimrwhiclchoh od T s © The editorial ‘that folloys’ 1a aefatoment of the political croed of;tha papér, and'scoms to ba constructed .on the théory. of { Alexander . H. . Stophons;~-ag- Il‘ncnn%ns"two coluniis,” The writer bolieves in political-economy in mild form, -but:doprocates -partisanehip. 7An-artiola * upon The First of ‘April'is of.a goneral kind,:well known to .all. journalists: : A paper, ion. 4 8t. Valontine's:Day,” ending ' @il istio .vereet a8 ovidently-- proparc cxpectation * of -an - earlier. {ournal. We give- & '(Ialx;:lnn soms charhofers' pith they ppoarance of “the it; in"order to g in Chickga g Somo tinte 'about, the* midale ot inonth (Fobruary) fs T.iwag coming home lato ona nl}hth‘mmficndlnu -professional: éall-in’ Kingi Addition, T obscrved o dandy-drossed sort of fellow, ovidontly in o geeat stato of mental confusion, hang! with great industry to o {rjendly fonca forsupport, Ad the night was very cold, ’74'“ 1t myduty fo aco him ta | o moro friendly resting:piaco, and, in_crder'to obtatn » Dis dircction, thirust my hand into'his coat pocket, an drove forth thip senclored -Dapard; <Th: rhovement secemed to recover for no sooncr had Lieaged his _pockot~ ~conte shrill yell, nni y from safely defled purault.” Mot knowii tho pipers I had thus obiained, ocket for furthor, oxaminatjon, hut. ng in thom fro; except that {le; It | partx lived for about eighteon months, . and was then i the. propeso that B . and e Ers, - ownora of thom are over found, sult. bo hrougl that, for my gervices in tho cast, ono-balf tho d Tecoyared bio diyid Your.obedient. sorvanf 1 om to 1ho0 as errant kafght- Would to hls lady love, .With a petition that would moye Tlio beatt of Toyal Jove. I am not ano to simpor fotth Tn love.slck phraso, that you And yau aro one t} woul& b “As Jupltor wooud Jnno, -~ Sueh my petition 2Eis thiit you Your lovoly natls should pare, at your Lips should not oftencr mof Yo scandal than in'prayes, . © ', You'll hnye no curtalus to yoir bod "Reath which toliold o Idcture, *That you wil for the mostpnrt dosm Yaue busband your proteclor - . You'll flet but Iiftle, and with tasto— “Shun pints, and sky-ble hodo,- ‘And nover inferfore betwoen , “Young lndies and thefr heatix, In fine, you'll be that zarcst thing, A del of o' wi Aund miko your huaband's happlodss - One objoot off your lifo,- &~/ LS “Wilt grant tho prayer 7, thien grang 'This othicr prayév of mino, . . . . ng love, "1l know, rayer of "That I may be your doti) ‘Your loving Valentine. ; ‘On tho socond pago is nlgn half &, columa;' o facotiw, evon then o part of- tho. literary nutri- ment deemcd necossary, for the readars of every newspapor, Jic e oitind kil -Quoen Victorls, u 1840, had nat been long ‘m Queen, and now wo look upon her roign as al- most ended, and herself as having. ouo foot {n’ tho grave. A trivisl paragraphrofors ploasantly. to hor mezriago 543 Well, after o Woudprful. fuss, this littlo lady. 18 mora. . ricd off nt Jast, Wonder if sho had a sorengdo, on the. 054t 0 Bt alory thsd mt ‘Albest s, oot ut Himo o ry thad an ; hina, ralsed by & Ylnlasry to tho Brjtish throno, i w Tho first Tninune entedated tho tolographi by * 50mO yoory, -IL Was mAny Joars attor etk thig chnning tranamitter of intelligonce bogan to. divido with tho solssors the honor of :the news.:, oolumn. Theroforo, we are not surprised to find an apology for a deavth of news—that . js, what was called siews in thoso days—on acoount 6f the imporfeotion of tho oxchange list.” Upon tha third pago also appears thidlottor, ‘and r sponse, . mioAao, April1, e o To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune s " b B As you seem (o setl yourwoif | Jnlflr something. mar fhan common tn tho vruy of wiadom by 2 uewapapor, porhups you can salve . question” whicl Lind puzzied my poor brains, I am ouf of busine S 0t Of Taotey, o5t of Bact ; fh Abbt {n troubin. SRQ TG 1