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SUPPLEMENT 1873 THE HERALD 1895 Ear ly Struggles of a Daily Newspaper A OUfIRTER OF il CENTURY'S ffIJOrVTH The Trials and Vicissitudes of a Journal's Career ON A SURE BASIS AT LAST Modern Men, Modern Methods, and Modern Machinery The Dawn of a New Era in the Field of Los Angeles Journalism Standing Now in the Front Ranks of rietropolltan Journalism, Thoroughly Equipped in All Departments The history of a newspaper reflects the history of the community in which it is published. Its life is often replete with vicissitudes, Its trials and triumphs are many. It is tossed upon the waves of public opinion, sometimes proving itself suffi ciently strong to command confidence and respect, or, failing in this, it is wrecked and founders. Its intentions are often misconstrued, its objects are misinterpreted, and it fre quently requires many years of hard and InoMSant labor.and the expenditure of a la rge amount of money before the public is thoroughly aroused to the real value of the paper. The Herald has been no exception in thia regard. Called into existence when l.os Angeles was a small city of less than 6000 inhabitants, it has experienced in its career many obstacles and disappoint ment.-.. Its founder was obliged to trans fir the paper to other hands after six months of hard work, yet with a knowl edge that with the future of this city the I aper would be ultimately a power in the community and a financial success, if brains and capital should simultaneously control it. That his views were correct, and his faith in the city and paper were well founded, The Herald of today strongly em phas'zes. In less thau a quarter of a century it bas grown from an experimental enter prise to a metropolitan newspaper. For tweiiTy-two years it has manfully aid heroically battled with adversities until now it has reached a position in the journalistic! field that entitles it to a place in the front ranks of modern and progres sive newspapers. Its struggle for supremacy has not been wituout exciting episodes. Its ownership has frequently been transferred, on ac count of financial embarrassments, and there, have been times in the existence oj The Herald when it was threatened with utter destruction. In that respect it has shared the ups and downs that have befallen this city. In the i_days of the boom, when Los Angeles was crowded with investors and fortunes were made by the score, this paper shared its prosperity and assisted in no small degree to advertise the im mense resources and great advantages Southern California offered to the capital ist, investor, fruitgrower and merchant. Its subscription list increased and its ad vertising columns were well patronized. But when the boom burst and stagna tion followed a period of unparalleled prosperity. The Herald, like all other en ' wrprisus, was made to feel the effects of t in-sud.lcn and unexpected change of af fairs. The barometer of public progress and success had fallen and Tiie Herald ex perienced the natural consequences. Subsequently the speculative ele ment was eliminated and the cit iz •■> a, imbued with tbo knowl t X" •oii-erior advantages of j THK TtIORNX TITESETTIXO MACHINES—A MARVEL OF MODERN MRCHANJRW, THE LATEST IMPROVEMENT-EACH MACHINE WILL SET FIVE THOUSAND SQUARES, OR EMS OF TYPE, IN AN HOUR. this city, possessed of the energy and enterprise to overcome any temporary obstacles that might retard its growth anil firm in their belief that Los Angeles was destined to become a commercial and financial center, never faltered. Dark clouds may gather and obscure the sun of prosperity, yet the bright rays of success must penetrate and light and activity re place the obscurity and dullness. Los Angeles steadily recovered from the LOS ANGELES: SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1895.—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES effects of stagnation antl her fame reached further and further, until her popula tion increased, her wealth became quad rupled, her business enterprises prospered and her financial institutions retained the confidence that had shaken older and stronger batiks in other cities. The Herald gradually rose to a higher plane, its character became cosmopolitan, its news service became strengthened un til today it compares favorably wilh any newspaper published in the United States. It has shared the pleasures and sorrows, the prosperity and adversity of the community and it is now as firmly established and as successfully conducted us the city in which it takes pride to be published. Such has been the history of Los Ange les. Such has been the history of The Herald. Within the following columns is given a more detailed account of the progress of the paper: THE FOUNDER'S STATEMENT C. A. Storke, Now of Santa Barbara, Tells How He Started the Paper. The lirst issue of The Los Angeles Her ald was published on the 2d day of Octo ber, 1H73. It was a four-page paper of the size of the present pages of The Herald. The writer of this was the editor and the proprietor, and he was assisted by 1). W. Neslield as local editor aud Charles Kiui THE HERALD ball as reporter. The Herald owed Ita birth to a prophetic instinct of its proprie tor that Los Angeles was destined to be a oity of no mean importance, and that a paper maintained in the interests of the people would receive their earnest sup port and assistance. He was younger in those days than now, and has since learned that the public has little if any gratitude, and often snaps at the hand that has borne favors untold. The editor then had just come fresh from the univer sity, and had had little experience in the management of affairs. He was by trade a printer, and after graduation his mind naturally turned to journalism as a field for his labors. Los Angeles at this time was a small city of less than SOjO inhabitants, und these made up of recent importations from the Eastern States engrafted upon the Spanish-Mexican population that founded the City of the Angels. The main business portion of the city was then centered around tho intersection of Main and Commercial streets; but busi ness had just begun to take a turn down Spring street, so that there wcr* a few business houses opposite the Temple Block on Spring street, The Pico House, kept by Knowlton, a man who had gone through the Confederacy during the war, and had an honorable career as a Confed erate soldier. The Bella Union, kept hy Staples <fc Ustick, were the two leading hotels, with the United States, then a low two-story building as a second-rate hotel. The only railroad running into the city was the Los Angeles and San Pedro Rail road, now the Wilmington branch of tbe Southern PacUic; but work had just com menced upon the extension north and east of the Southern Pacific, but there was still a gap on the north from Delano to Los Angeles, and the grading had not yet reached beyond the city limits to the east. Colonel Hewitt was a courteous aud generous superintendent of so mnch of the railroad as existed. The lirst home of The Herald was in a building that has since been remodeled, and was located on Spring street, nearly opposite the old Court House and the Temple Block. The building belonged to F. P. F. Temple, and was a one-story building of very modest pretensions, Temple ut that time was a financial power in the city, and divided money supremacy with i. W. Hellman, who was tho cashier of the Farmers nnd Merchants Bank. Between these two there wns great rivalry; but the unsophisticated and generous Temple was no match in ;t financial contest with the shrewd, care- | Jul, business-like Hellman. The proprietor of The Herald had bought for the paper a | cylinder press, Taylor make, and a Baxter I three-horsepower engine, ami The Her- j aid waß the first paper printed by steam in Southern California. To be sure, the | press now would be considered a very common affair, and Urn motor was a j pigmy compared with what is now found in the country j but then it was a nine- j day wonder, and people from all parts of the city came to see a paper printed in the city of Los Angeles by steam. Crude as the plant was, it wan far and away ahead of anything that had before been seen in the city. The competitors of The Herald in the journalistic field at that time were the Star, then owned and edited by the doughty Major Ben Truman, who frankly stated to the writer that his journalistic success was due entirely to his ability to balance himself on top of the political fence on all dangerous occasions, and the Express, an evening paper owned by Tiffany A Painter, two printers, and edited by J. J. Ayers, who was then a man of marked ability, but chafing un der the bonds of his narrow field. The paper in politics, like its editor, was liberal and independent Democratic. Looking buck upon its pages, one might say that it was more liberal than Demo cratic. It cared little for the traditions of politics or of party, but dealt with pres ent issues rather than past memories. It was anti-monopoly and anti-ring always, and invariably stood by the mnn who pro duced by the sweat of his brow rather than by him who enjoyed the produce of the sweat of other men's brows. Los Angeles at this time was strongly Democratic in politics, so much so that it was useless for the Republican party to make nominations for either city or county nominations, which they rarely did. The Spanish-speaking population controlled elections, and when Ignacio Sepulveda ran against Andrew Glassell for County Judge, as lie did in October, 1873, Sepulveda received 1333 votes in the city to his opponent's 289, although his opponent was far and away the best law yer. The following director}- of local officers of the city and county appear in the first issue of The Herald: District Judge, R. M. Widney; County Judge, Ignacio Sepulveda; Court Com missioner, J. G. Howard; State Senator, B. D. Wilson; Assemblymen, Thomas D. Mott, Asa Ellis; Sheriff, William R. Row land; Under Sheriff, Al D. Johnson; Deputy Sheriff, J. M. Baldwin; County Clerk, A. W. Potts; Deputy Clerk, C. W. Could ; Deputy Clerk, 8. H. Mott; Dis trict Attorney, C. K. Thorn; Assistant, E. M. Ross; County Treasurer, T. E. Rowan; Superintendent of Public, Schools, William McFadden; Public Administrator, George Carson; County Surveyor, F. Lccouvreur; County Assessor, I>. Hotiller; Coroner, Joseph Kurtz; Supervisors, H. Foreman, 1 A. L. Bush, F. Palomares, S. B. Cussell; j Mayor, .1. 11. Tobermanj Marshal, J. it. Woife: Treasurer, George R. Butler; City Attorney, A. W. Hutton; Clerk, M. Kre- | mcr; Surveyor, William Moore; Health Officer, Dr. Wise; Trustees, H. D. Bar rows (president), George Smith, William H. Workman, William Pridham, M. Krc- j mcr. Among the advertisers in the first issue | of The Herald are found: Aaron Smith, carpets and upholstering. I L. Lichtenberger, wagons, buggies and carriages; then doing business on Lower Main street, in a locality that is now the heart of the business portion of the city. John Osborn, the leading expressman. F. Signoret, billiards, wines and liquors. Among the lawyers were General J. R. McConnell, a man of great ability, long gone to practice before a higher court, A. J. King, genial Jack, whose welcome face is still seen on the streets of Los Angeles, A. Branson, Henry T. Hazard, who was just about to take to himself a wife, A. Glassell, A. R. Chapman, G. H. Smith, H. M. Smith, James G. Howard, whose bright intellect has gone out in sorrow, Charley Lindley, of the Code Commission, J. 8. Thompson, W. L. Marshall, Will D. Gould, Volney E. Howard and Sons, A. A. Wilson and others. The advertising cards of the medical fraternity show: Doctors H. S. Ornie, Joseph Kurtz, A. S. Shorb, N. P. Rich ardson and J. W. Oliver. The lumber firms were Perry, Wood worth & Company, Griffith, Lynch & Company and J, G. Jackson. Broderick & Company were running a THE HOE PERFECTING PRESS.—IT CAN DO MORE WORK IN ONE MINUTE THAU TH* MACHINES IN OL'R GRANDFATHERS' TIME DID IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. stationery and music store in the Temple Block. E. H. Workman and W. H. Workman wen; in the harness business at No. 76 Main Street: Harper <fc Doulton were the leading hardware merchants; Dolter & Lord were in furniture at 81) Main Street, the genial Bid. Laccy, as manager, be neath the sign of the big rocker; S. Nord linger was the jeweler par excellence of the city at No. 8 Commercial street. In those days Madam Anna Bishop was amusing the citizens of the city, and ns The Herald recites, was greeted hy the largest and most fashionable audience that ever gathered together in Los An geles. Petroleum was just beginning to create excitement near Lyons station, now Newhall, and un announcement oi an as PAGES 13 TO 24 sessment on the stock of the Petroleum Refining Company is accompanied by the notice of the appointment of a commit tee to initiate operations as speedily as possible. It is also considered worthy of remark in these times and The Herald publishes that four cars of freight, consisting of bullion, wool and ore were dispatched to Wilmington yesterday. William R. Rowland, then Sheriff of the county, advertises that he has in his possession at Stephens' corral certain horses, describing'them, taken from the Ttburcio Nasquoz band of robbers, and requesting owners to come and prove property, pay charges and take the Btock away. Bids are also asked by advertisement for carrying the mails, by stage, from De lano to Los Angeles, from Salinas to Loa Angeles, from Los Angelos to San Diego, with many a route of lesser importance. K. M. Wldney at this time was District Judge, but spent his odd moments then as now in booming the city of Los Ange les. On October 2*l he writes an article for The Herald entitled. The night Place to Settle. The article is interesting read ing now, and has almost the odor of prophecy about it. By I hi' way, one of the things of which the writer is most proud while publishing The Herald ia tho production of a map, by the aid and assistance of Judge Widney, which was for muny weeks published in The Herald, and gave the railroad map of the future Southern California. When the line from Los Angeles to Salt Lake is complete as it will be in the near future, tho map would be perfect for the purpose for which it was made. If among the old relics of The Herald office, this map could be dug up, it. would be interesting to see it re-published, with the light of twenty-two years thrown upon it. The result has more than realized the prophecy which occasioned its publica tion. The writer published The Herald for six months, and then compelled by financial necessity, arising largely, it is probable, from his lack of experience in business affairs, sold out to a corporation in which J. S. Thompson. F. P. F. Temple, Little Potts, Orchardist Gary and others were the leading spirits. Then J. M. Bassett became its editor, and it entered upon a new life. May it long prosper, is the wish of its founder, C. A. Storke. JUDQE WIDNEY'S PAdE. The Editor Was (loins: te Quit and Carry Oft All the Copy With Him. To the Editor of The Hearald: You requested me to state the history of The Herald during the time I was con nected with it. At the close of Mr. Starke's administra tion The Herald oame into the control of the company referred to below. We incorporated under the laws of tho state of California as the Los Angeles City and County Publishing Company with a capital stock $16,000, divided into 1000 shares of $100 each. The articles of incor poration were duly tiled with the County Clerk on tho 16th day of February, 1874. Tho directors were F. P. F. Temple, J. Bixby, P. Beandry, T. A. Garey, .1. W. Lord, J. S. Thompson, J. W. Potts, R. M. Wldney. We decided to run a local paper and to write up and publish to the world the re sources and future possibilities of Los Augeles county and Southern California, and so instructed our editor. This he re fused to do and insisted on filling the pa per with clippings about the outside world. As Los Angeles people road these articles in the original papers they were not inter ested in the clippings, neither was the outside world, to whom such items were already old. We insisted that the editer should pub lish to the world the facts showing why they should come here and invost and de velop the resources and industries of this region. The editor said if we interfered with hia management he would quit some evening stuff his copy in his pockets and tie us up. I called a meeting of the board and laid the matter before them, and said it would never pay us to put money in a newspaper to have it write up all the out side world and say nothing about our own inducements. The question being discussed as to what we should do, the fear was expressed that the editor would quit and tie us up. I said that if he did so I would edit the paper until we secured such a person as ate wished. The board at once ordered that the paper be edited us we had re quested. The editor was notified of tho policy that must be carried out. That evening about 5 o'clock the foreman came into my office and said tho editor had just gathered up all of his copy and re fused to give us any for the paper unless the board of directors would give up and let him run the paper as he wanted to. and that the men were all waiting for copy. As this was not unexpected, [ went over to the office, which was then nhout where the City of Paris store now is, and entered the vacant editorial sanctum. I had not yet been to dinner, and there stood the typos waiting for copy. So I went to work. Being well posted on Los Angeles county and its resources, I immediately went to work on that line, and by 11! ni. of that day the columns were well tilled with preliminary work about this city and county. 1 ordered a large number of ex