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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1911)
THE MORXIXO OIIEGOMAN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1911. MODERN NEWS SERVICE IS WELL SYSTEMATIZED Methods of Collecting and Printing World's Events Have Been Revolutionized Completely in 50 Years. EQUIPMENT IS MODERN IN EVERY DEPARTMENT The Oregonian Building, Portland's First High-Class Business Block. Contains Latest Mechanical Appliances. V ITU n th Inventions and dia- In loo that half-lone Illustrating was coverle of the last &0 )r Introduced. dnce (hat time there has taken into consideration. It I been constant Improvement In the probable that the change In no ilniU process of fninvlni. For otn time t n If-tones were primed direct, the half-ton? being soldered on the rase .ntlnuous evolution from the -mall Some MW,pIOT, , tollaw ,, process, but run for The Oregonian In have been greater than those In newspaper publication. There has been dailies of the early "40s to the ureal metropolitan pa (.em of the present, are stereotyped Just as la the printer Thin transformation has been brought matter. about by numerous mechanical chance a well as by the extension and Im provement of the news service. No paper In the I'nlted States has been quicker to adopt mechanical In- My the present process the cuts are printed at the rate of many thousands an hour. A course nrrwn la necessarily used and the pictures are seldom lm Ierfect. although details cannot be re produced to a minuteness that Is poa- novations that make for Improved MMe on heavy paper and where the service than baa The Orcronlan. Hosr sreat the advancement has been Is told by a glance at the icroup of front pases of The Oregonian. covering at printing Is slower. Hut In newspaper Illustration, speed la a pre-requtslte. So perfect Is the present process that It takes a remarkably short time to transform a photograph Into a news- t Ingnes to Inaugurate Improvements , , photo-engraving department and to extend Its news service, and The Oregonian has ail the latest equip- J most of all the foresight to anticipate men' and no newspaper In the I'nlted 4 te demand to be marie upon It. which Male publishes finer pictures. Its have kept The Or.gotilan at all times ' " Photographer and designers i . ., v, ... la made up of experienced and skilled t . foremost news medium on the Ta- mrn yvrry nrw of flrM m , rlflr roast. As a newspaper. In the porlnr, i, handled . plctorlally In a broader sense, of course. Us editorial war that attracts much favorable at- J attitude upon all lmiwrtant question lentton. ha been a bis factor In Its up-bulld- ' ' a.ereoiping department the . most lmiMrtant Improvements are of . . comparatively recent dale. The work The Oregonian s present equipment lf parlnt lnB matrlx , dn. on a . Is complete In every department. Its ne ectri.ally-heated drying table. J building Is one of the finest newspaper To this pressure Is applied with c.im- homes In the entire country and that pressed air. the pressure being 0.000 .,.11. i.e., .... mates ..r factor that Is pounds to the square Inch. This ap- f ve-er Intervals the half century, paper Illustration. 1'lcturea of night which Is r-ubll.hed In today s Annlver- meetings or banquets are often pub sary Edition. ,, has been ,h. will- Z, ""f hUU" nmrimry or iT-nusroun in th r- raraim n ih very In. text departure In . r a ri)t t.t n j n .4 v at I n I rml iii-rr1 Inlri durtloa of a strictly modern Journal. Th. ,.,, ,h,, ,0 ,,., hs ago. Vt lis art department has every appll- to that time the hand-lever system of anre for making and engraving char- applying pressure was used The new cut newspaper Illustrations; In It system saves time In heating, drying composing room nearly a score of lino- PPlrlng pressure. There are four . , .. tables, each of which holds one page type machines are constantly In use. f m.,,i 1. made, a wnue tile Basement i.oi.is iwo fc.ani i-rocess that takes from three to four combined capacity of minutes. t'l to a short time ago the stereo typing waa all done on the ninth floor. Now the matrix la made tht re. but the rrsi of the process Is carried out In the basement. An electric con veyor carries the matrix to the base ment where the casting-room la lo cated. The latest pumps carry the presses with S4.00 eight-page papers. TJ.OOw 1 page papers, or 4x.o :i-paga paper each hour. The present home of The Oregonian was completid In 12. When II wa erected It was by far the best news paper building In the entire West, and was a more costly and larger structure ""'i.e.. ... ..... c.ik ..e. ine torms are maqe. inese pumps nav It'C superseded a process of dipping the metal bv hand. than the sue of portUnd then Justi fied. In Its erection, as In everything else, the men behind this newspaper showed their absolute faith In the fu ture of the city, and lime haa shown mat confidence well placed. Tne Oregonian building was I'ort- It would be difficult to recognise the great presses that print The tiregonlan today as the descendants off the presses that were usd In the pioneer times. The Karr.age press that printed the first copy of The Weekly orrgonLan. land s first modern business and office Iws.mb,r 4 ,40- u now one f btH k. using tmlsy standard as the criterion. It was not only the tallest building In the illy at that time, and f,r several years afterward", but every detail of Ita construction was an ad-vxn-e on anything then existing. The .VUr tuara building, the Pekum building and the Portland Hotel were then the city's finest structures. while the Chamber of Commerce block was un der rrectlon. It was before the sky scraper era In Portland, but The Ore-K-ntan erected building that attll the most Interesting relics on the Pa cific Coast. It was brought to Port land from California the year The Oregonian was established and used until March. 101. It was set up In olympla. Wash.. September II. MuS. and the first newspaper north of the Colombia Kiver was there printed on It. Later It waa removed from I m pia lo Seattle and used In printing the first paper In the i'uget Sound city. It Is now In the museum at the I'nl verslty ft Washington. The second press used by Tiie oregonian was a Washington hand press, which was the ranks as a skyscraper and is one of the very latest device at the time It waa Installed. After being discarded by this paper It was taken to Idaho, and was used for the first paper printed In that state. Soon after The Isally cregonian ' launched It was printed on a lloe press, which was the first of a a .rlea of these machines which have been In use continuously to the present time. This ICR. 000 eisht-page sections or 84.000 original lloe. however, did not even 24-page papers printed In one hour. most attractive and striking blocks In the cl. The t'Tegonien building Is well known to every person who baa . been In Portland In the last IS years. It Is a structure that would be conspicuous In any city, not because of ornamenta tion, but because of massive, though well proportioned, walls and a tower distantly resemble the great printing- This will put The oregonlan's press- -a- ' r- " ' : ' t - ' pv h' . , I ft : v - S' r-: - - . v ' . -. . wit t . i z 1 1 i' - -s """" "r - L. rr. til 1 31 5 ;S5 1 .15 : 1 . , su. . IA E ij fl tl - . J . r V . .""72 V: it p Is SI el L: v :-i ? ill t - ,t; j . H s ?3 S if If '"; ' " ; ; I J tec p if IE lit -K sU -t. . t 4- V , -e . ' fT - K m T " e' X .. ' - - : t l ii LMOST every department of news- News from the various towns in the paper 'work has been revolution ized In the half century The Ore sonlan has been published as a daily. Many of the changes have been due to in ventions that have Improved the median- Oregon country was supplied by volun teer correspondents, who sent in occa sional letters covering In a general way the happenings of their community. There was no such thing as a system of paid correspondents, such as is main- leal equipment, but other factors have tained today. When the telegrapn also played a part In the process of de- service came, the telegraph company it- velopment. The railroad, the telegraph sen iurnisneu me news, i ne v.B.iiorin 1 ... Ulat. Tail a c-,-a r I r.u n V I. u a r. O-11 and the teleplfone have made it pos sible to get the news much more quick ly than In pioneer days, and along with these have come important changes in the manner of writing and displaying the news, once it is secured. It is a far cry from the small four page paper of 18S1 to The Oregonian today, not only in size and appearance, but in the text as well. Any predic tion then that an edition of 70 or 80 pages would eventually he published, such as the regular Sunday paper of State Telegraph Company had a regu lar news bureau, and The Oregonian, and others papers as well, paid rates sufficiently high to cover both the col lection and transmission of news. This company ultimately disposed of its in terests to the California Associated Press, which was succeeded by the Western Associated Press, and this. In turn, by the Associated Press, which to day is made up of leading newspapers' everywhere and furnishes the greatest news service in the world. When The Daily Oregonian was first printed, with a circulation of some 300 , . . , . , hotffl l m.t i'oh'. i.. euiiuiiiii iiir.-e iiiciucittu inn tocay. wou.n ouuul.t-, -v. pditor and one reportcr Wllen neceg. by an incredulous smile. The changes slty demanded the compositors turned have come by gradual stages, but aro n and wrote news, as well as 6et up so complete as to leave little ground type. The equipment was meager and for comparison. The modern theory that news should be so presented that the busy reader may grasp mentally the events of the day. as easily and quickly as possible, was not followed SO years ago. Wheth er the news was placed in a prominent or Inconspicuous place in the paper, seems to have been considered not im portant in those days; all newspapers of that time appear to have been Issued all of the employes combined in doing whatever work was to be done. It Is hard to realize that The Ore gonian is the outgrowth of such primi tive conditions. Kvery detail of col lecting and handling the news is now carefully systematized. Although th full Associated Press report, which The Oregonian receives, covers all Im portant news events in every corner of the world, tliis newspaper has a special news service that supplies to it daily more copy than is carried by the Asso- on the assumption that tne putjno elated Press. The Oregonian has its would find an Item, no matter how oh- own news bureau at Washington, D. C, scure it was. The even-balanced method '" special correspondents in every of giving prominence to Important stories, followed by conservative papers today, was unheard of. large city In the country, as well as in practically all of the towns and villages in its own immediate field. To receive this special news from three to six tele- tsMd "fall X t V From the present-day viewpoint it graph operators work every day on loop may be considered remarkable that for lines of the Western Union and Postal several years after The Oregonian had companies io ine uregonian oince, ana jj, nttie or no considerable additional news for this news was published on the first page. As a rule that part of the paper was devoted to fiction and advertising, al though it was seldom that a poem did not occupy a conspicuous place on the outside page. In nearly every instance a short story, clipped from some East ern publication or reprinted from a book, held the position of honor. It was absolutely the reverse of the pres ent system, by which important news is "played up" and all other material is subordinated. The two inside pages contained the meat of the paper in the early days. paper Is received daily in the main of fice of this company. Aside from all tills, the Associated Press news to and from Portland is transmitted on leased wires that run into The Oregonian Building. The Oregonian is the' center of news service for a vast territory, the smaller dailies throughout the Pacific Northwest being supplied by a "pony" service of the Associated Press sent out from here. In addition to all of its correspond ents, it requires hundreds of employes to get out The Oregonian. The local staff is as large as Is maintained by metropolitan newspapers anywhere, ex cept in the very largest cities, while the composing room, art department, The second page was devoted chiefly circulation department, business office to editorials, and here alone: is the re- H'""mi mi employ large scans semblance close between the pioneer publication and the newspaper today. News for The Oregonian is handled in the most modern way the system that is followed bv the foremost turners to. While tne prooiems, oi cuuioe. .e ..- aay. All copy, both telegraph andjocal, tirely different, the methods of their Is edited and headed at one desk, where discussion and the general appearance six copyreaders are under the direction of the editorial page are, to a degree, the same. Opposite the editorial page most of the news was printed, and this page was usually held open to the last to of a superintendent of copy. Jn this way all Items, besides being seen by either the city editor or telegrapii editor, are read by the superintendent of copy. By this system errors and du plications, which in the necessary rush include news that might arrive by reg- creep into every newspaper, are kept at ular mail or hy an unexpected boat, or a minimum, the purely mechanical er- THK OKKliOMAVS PHKM-:vr HlILDIMi. mat rise lit reel above the pave- devices ment. The first story Is of stone, the tixlay. that are made by that firm room In a class far ahead of any other .his first press was of the newspaper In the Pacific Northwest. two above It are fared with Arizona drum-cylinder kind and was designed In order lo Install this third ma- red sandstone and the remainder of lo operated by steam, but The tire- ,-hlne It will be necessary to enlarge the structure la of light buff pressed under construction, and steam will he crated by electricity. Kven a basin piped from there to The Oregonian and Klectrlc buildings. This will give adequate space not & tiny electric motor in its Interior. only for the third press but for the enlargement of other rooms In the basement as well. The chief need Is local Items of interest. In printing the outside news there was little or no at tempt to segregate the various Items. "By Last Night's Stage" or "By Regu lar -Steamer" was the usual, heading, under which terse accounts of Impor tant happenings were grouped. As the issues that led to the. Civil War were i . i K..ri.,c- i i i , .. 1 the news report, i or tmo lmoortance: in the mod- fllre P"use the voluminous paper this rors being guarded against by proof readers who check up on proof frour the type forms to see that it corresponds with the original copy. . The Oregonian handles a vast amount -of news each day that never appears -ir. tlio paper. It would be impossible tc publish Its entire telegraph and local report,. nor would tho busy reader de- gonlan used It for two years before the press-room. To do this, space In more spate for the mailing-room and this department will te moven to me present stereotyping room, the stereo- ronnectlng It with steam power. This the basement will be gained hy the re moval of the heating appacatus. This la made possible by the formation of typing apparatus being Khifted to oc eric and terra cotta. The original plan ,n Itrill eam press north of ran was to rre. t a modest seven-story Krancisco. It has a bed : hy M structure, but Ihese specifications were Inches, printing 1000 she.-ts an hour. w company to supply heat for Tho Ore- cupy ;a slaboraied and the nine-story building no "'y The Oregonian. ottlan building and two other large the heating hollers. that re.ul'e.1 I, now ih. home of The kul '! ,h ',,b w"rk '-"land waa structures In Its Immediate vicinity The t-regonlan gets i Its electric now ...i.i-i. i.i.. in .h. i-.h,.D' mnm em newspaper sura siorito .u.u jui- are bathed iiv chemicals Is rocked by til, the use of the most conspicuous . . .s . . ha.riilnD. -and wntiM he nrinted In ml- liny electric motor in us mienoi. .. ll'hal At hn. .hun... It. The Orerron- fl 1 1 1 P detail. lan's equipment the present year will Ever since The Weekly Oregonian bring about can only be surmised. The was established the news service from management of this newspaper has al- the East had been Improving. All this ways believed In adopting the very news came by way of California. At . . i . . ...... rirui i.a oAr-vli-o wau lrrffii!ar. anil the l.esi iliac W1H raiiiuutiuitu nm.c . . "Rcsre" hpRrllines fr v. e n new Invention first betterment came when a monthly "se scare nrannnes would necessitate. Only Items of gen eral Interest, or of special interest in The Oregonlan's territory, are included. Throughout its existence The Ore gonian lias built up u reputation for ac curacy and conservatism. Ita policy is to publish all the news that is wortli publishing. It has always avoided sen sationalism: not only does it decline to but it never ipparatus tietng nurteo 10 oc- oner. s soon as n new m.c.-.i.. .............. ............. knowinIv. , nr rt of the space now filled by makes It possible to improve the paper steamer schedule was established. Later nlI,y has not good oregonlan's elaborate plant. printed on this press and It was seldom These buildings are the Tlchner-Maegly er from the Portland Railway. Light Idle for many hours at a time. No single detail of newspaper lm- The Bucklev folding machine was In block at the southeast corner of sev enth and Alder streets, and the Klec- ln any way or to gain time in its two steamers a month were put on, but publication, that invention is added to as San Krancisco at that time receivea the equipment. It is this policy that the news via the Isthmus ot aanama. & Power Company, but every piece of has made it possible for The Oregonian It was often a month or more old when equipment In the building Is operated prints an item that it has not good reason to believe is founded in fact. This policy, as well as Its editorial standard and Its enterprise in getting neWs and of installing the best of provemer. t In the last ') tears ha vented in.ll and a year later one trie building at the northeast corner of by direct connection. That Is to say. h... A . - k . in . i w inimtieH in Ti.e firr-L'nn in office. mm me i n i ersec t inn The olant w 11 1 there Is a motor In each press, in of ttM.uttini When Ti. ornnun '.'his proved to he one of I he most ad- be liK-ated la the basement of the each linotype machine and in every text, but by the attractive style in ' " ' " . . . 1. . .. .. . . i . . . . . v. i . .. . . . I .. ., ......... - ., .. t .1 . Ha miVtlic .......... .. A maAt , 1 1 1 (i Tl It I. ,. -. , a n ,, K 1 1 a 1. a4 in Pnrtlnriil lU.IIIVTi ir veil- iicniaiiu iiioh ... ,i .,.itii.. ... .... . to put out a paper that has attracted When the dally was launched the equipment, accounts largely for its nation-wide attention, not only by its service was much improved. Besides c....... ..u.i. po.-,.i.on. was established and f.r many year , w nMw,.Knv mt ffHiaf llm. I. ,1 . afterward the oil band process was In tryiDK , crwd The Oregonian out of use. In f.ct. It was Ihe only way of xhe. field, but this folding machine setting type for more than 3 year made It possible for The Oregonian to after The I'atly oregonian waa first St It paper on the streets ahead of vai.tageous steps the paper had taken. Tirlmer-Maegly building, which Is now other vplere of apparatus that Is op- which It Is presented to the public published. Purine all that time about I e only change In that department was the purotiase of more type and the Increase In Ihe force of lpe setters. tn M the first Mergenthaler lino type machine wa Installed In the of fice of The Oregonian. this paper be- EARLY POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS STORMY M By l. W. twig. Y ACyrAINTANCK with The Ore- Its competitors. Moreover, there were etrlv malls to catch, and while The oregonian never missed ll-.rse malls. Ihe rival publications did frequently. Hy l;i the drum-cylinder press could no longer met The oregonian' requirements. It wa not discard-.!, but one of Hoe's largest single small Olmder presses was added to Ifce e-.uki ment This nrtnled s heets -40y ' Ing one of the early ones to make us . had a capacity of 1500 sh.e an K. , ,n,t.t reader of The Ore- f this device. The linotype marked hour. Kadi sheet had to be run Un mt Pnama. as an exchange of a revolution In the business of print- through twice before both side were " ... that cltv of vhlrh fn all over the world. It Is recog- printed, but on the second revolution tha Dally I Star, of tha t rlt . o ' rued as one of the most wond-rful complete paper, were turn.-I out. rrr wa. foreman and ahso ass.. invention of the century, rnaktmr type- The capacity of both of these n.a.-h.n.. ant editor. Through reading Its col- setting meenanual. Hy use of the iwn ', "' ln i) " " umns. I wa led td strike out for Ore- 1 noty, e ore operator can set as much dot ble-c) Under mammoth press w as gon wh,n i left Ihe Isthmus or. type aa four men could set br band, purchased. This was the largest i,r" rather. Olympla was my objective point, and do It more accurately. Kurther- evee n.a.l to be fed by band and turned early as IMS. Simeon Francis. wnnrm n llm lm I..-. -(... I r. -- '.Ul .MC ISPfll a II IT"lir. ..lie.. . - - ' type, for after every line la moblrd la Pioneer Who Was Attracted to Portland in 1853 by Reading The Oregonian Tells of Warfare Carried on by Newspapers of Opposing Parties. the mail by steamer from San Krancis co. news was received by stage from Sacramento, where it was brought by nonv exDress from l'ort Kearney, the To those who are familiar with pres ent methods of collecting and publish ing news, it would seem that the limit of efficiency lias been reached. But in end of the telegraph line. An interest- the light of the progress that has been ing description of the manner In which the news was received Is contained in unbroken up to tills time, it Is hard to tell what the future may bring forth. slons on the north. "Politics" was the change immediately under the ener rullng passion, and was carried on with getlc and business-like management of gonlsn office began on tho morn- a virulence and vituperation for many Mr. Plttock. He retained Simeon Fran- Ing of November SI. ISJJ. I had the following editorial, published in the One thing is certain: whatever advance. Issue of May 10, 1S61. about three montha after the daily was firHt print ed: "In the last 10 years the transit of news from ocean to ocean has occupied from 25 to 50 days. One year ago, on April IS last, the pony shortened the distance 10 days. But we did not get ment may come in the realm of news paper work. The Oregonian will b found in the front rank in adopting methods and equipment that will make possible a greater publication. year that cannot be understood now. ci as editor, who had practically filled the full benefit of the pony express The mild sort of "criticism" that was that position since the spring of I860, until the mall line from here to Sacra- indulged in hy some papers here dor- Mr. Pryer being actively engaged In Ing the late political campaign, which canvassing the state as candidate for prodficed threats of shotguns and other presidential elector on the Republican lire "Ictas." would have been laughed ticket. at as loo ridiculous to notice. Mr. Plttock looked into the future There were only four papers in tho with a prescient eye, and'noted that territory then, south of the Columbia Portland was destined to be the com. River two at Portland, one at Oregon merclal metropolis of the Northwest. City, and one at Salom all of them and that The Oregonian stood in the published weekly. The Oregonian. un- van of Journalism here, and could be lead the linotype sort the tv ue-molds. dropping each Into Its proper com- still used. Mrtmitt. Without the linotype It In '' bcuht. Ihe old drum-cylinder press eonor oi ine ........ ....... (j,r manaffement Df Mr. Pryer. made to keep Its position as such with was taken to lllllsboro. where It la vised me to go to Pugct Sound, or some maintained the cause of the Whigs, proper management. That he labored came the first other part of Oregon, and grow up Hoe web Wuh the country." I wa then young. muM Ke rest in lrr.rw.iKi. i.. rotary, which printed from type placed . .nni.j kv ku on the Journal out the regular edition of t.-day whil. on "turtles ' making a egmnt of Kr,nr, predicted a sreat future ine seinna or. ine mammoin riunuay 7........ .... . Issues would be a stupendous task. It if-'-tt of San Kmnctscu prln'lnr froi.t would require such a large force of rclls of paper. Type waa unsn j-i i- type-setters as M be a mo.t unwieldy until I"1 h llr"" ""''." method, while the present speed and accuracy would be out of the ques tion. foundry In the Northwest wa Intro duced In The oregonian shop. At that tlmo the "turtles were adjusted to sn. y iimo int. lui.ien - - - language The linotype doe more than set the take stereotyped plates. Instead of type . . eo.iy oi lest oi tne paper. it ran be ..nus. ... ....v..... folding attaenmeni so inn tne oi.. wa d.scarrieo priniw w.v I'-.-". ,.,,.. n. wound wlth th. . equipped with different sixes of type f r printing headlines and advertise ments. The largest type in the head line the only part of the new that Is now set up by hand, although a ronsidrrabl force of men I necessary t sec uo dtspLsr advertisements. The growth of The Oregontan'e llno- whlle the Statesman, first at Oregon with an eye single to that purpose, the City and afterward at Salem, was the history of The Daily and Weekly Ore champion of the Democratic party. The gonlan for the past 50 years abundant latter party had been lately the "outs." ly shows. He has ever beet abreast he v..lr.nnl & A r. l r i t m f i on hnvlnr of the times, and keeriinir tin with every for the Oregon country, and wrote hrrn whig, until tho accession of Pres. Improvement that would enlarge the much In Its favor a a desirable re- t,ent Pierce In 8SM, when party usefulness of his paper, beginning with glon for hotne-eeker. I rememlrcr one condition were reversed. The two pa- the establishment of The Dally Ore occasion when he wrote an editorial per named above were the Hector and gonlan February 4. 18S1. On the re .ettlng forth In eloquent and glowing the Achilles of the political field the tlrement of Mr. Francis from the edi- the future of the Pacific " .... .u- ... .v.. .-.!., ,, fter a railroad across the con tinent should he built (then but a dream), and growing rapturously en- mento went Into operation. "This is the way the news comes now: From New York and nearly everywhere else in the United States It is carried on a streak of lightning to Fort Kearney. But the pony starts from St. Louis, and now he conies clat tering along until he reaches rort Kearney. Then he takes the news and away he clatters. He comes up Platte Valley, passing Pike's P.eak, crossing the forks of the Platte, climbing the Rocky Mountains; touching at Mormon, dorr; coming down May's River and delivering the despatches In part to the telegraphic operator at Churchill. Then the pony's untiring feet gallop through Carson Valley. Here he comes, panting, foaming, laden with news at $2 the half ounce, the Wide Field Covered by The . Weekly Oregonian Journal That llns Been Published Continuously Since December, ls0, Itns Large C'lrrulnClon In Oregon Country'- S Tile Morning Oregonian is to the Pacific Northwest generally, so is the Weekly Oregonian to the people who have not access to 3 daily paper. Since the day in the mid- Fort dle '50s w,,en H- L. Plttock took it over from its founder, it has been tha great weekly newspaper for tho family throughout the Oregon country. Among its subscribers are thousands of men them are going and coming. Day by hour The double-cylinder press was taken to Seattle and used In print ing the Post-Intelligencer until !. The next press used by The Oregon spiring quotation: Visions of glory, spars my aching sight worthy of notice, either bv the main ter the Cnited States Army a pay- .. .. - nM v. .. k. ...... I . - ......1 1 ma.l.r ..nrl after several others had . ' ..u. f, t.' ........ ,t.m .eeri . Hi.nr Me rittnnlr w fortn- day, week by week, month by month Spectator, of Oregon Cityt. Mr. Dryer, nate in securing the services of the late and year after year, they are on the in addition to being a writer of force Harvey W. Scott as edltor-tn-chlef. who road. and sprlghtllness. also made a good finally became partner In the business. "When we view the many changes appearance on the atump. before a mis- and. until his death in August last, was tnat nave ias.en piace in cue pic, we precursor or tne rai roan anoc.er una. a)d women who grew wlth it whosa De-tween us ana ine oiu jviico c nwnir. But there Is not one pony; eight of first machines were Installed In lint an hour. Thl met all requirement u . ..i. in tri..wl nn the r.u.nar.... nrtlence slwnv. nplclnc universally- recognized as one of the feel Justified ln saying that another - jn,,k....,hi.m.r,i rs.rfr.rt. i . ,.r...iM i thonht of Mr. in e nt I va t Intr style, and sometime greatest editor of the United States. period of 20 years will see the Atlantic Ing llo. Installed In ll. It had a vrancls and his prophetic editorial, and with vigor. He often antagonised the The position of The Oregonian for and Pacific connected. From viewing .' fi-.... the .rowth o ihe capacity of 7 4.000 four to lI-paKe pa- proceeded lo look around and take my noted Delaaon Smith, and. while, he the last 50 years has been unique, in transcontinental intercourse as an lm- I,,w..h.' From the time that the Prs. or 1J.00 U to It-page- paper bearings. was no match for that brilliant genius this respect, that in spite of the many possibility, we have communication in newspaper. g rum I l! " .me mat ine . . . . . .... . . . . , ... . .. . .. .. 1 ,amnt. r V. . , i 1 ,1 - i I I r .. 1 Ha-a Jnr. u a railrnnrl Ik The first place to wnicn i wenneu in e.tner logirj or uiuioiy, ne oautttij. ni-jur. ... . . . "-' - - - my. way was the printing office of The got away with him In a telling story. Journals in Portland and in other cities not a visionary affair." ,v...,i. new-snaner. which I found In that brought down the house, to the of the Northwest Pacific Coast, thero Telegraphic news was first received t'hm niic of Th. Oregonian through- . inn. lining on eome back street, discomfiture of Delaxon. who was not has never been one that seriously con- in Portland in 1863 when J. K. Strong, out It entire existence ha been to i tne midst of mud and stumps of ready with a witty repartee. Mr. Dry- tested its supremacy ln public estlma- cf Salem, completed a line from this trees. Portland then contained SOO or er was thus enabled to meet nis op- lion, enner as a general ne wopapci , u. clty to a point near e.ugene. inis line. Beartv-human machines. Four have ment obtainable, and this policy waa 400 Inhabitants, and waa regarded as ponents in a double capacity, namely, m the strength and reiiaDiaty oi its however, had no Connection south, al-n'any-nciman macninea. r vur urn w . . . . . . . ... i . , i . . i i r-. i . , in erll.nrlal oninions .Toiirnic a mlfirht . i. . ln.nArta.ii irg.tr.rri followed in isvi. w nen me ei r ra" trie metropolis " i orrKi.it. - -. . .- ... . - -. . . . r. . - , . . ,, . -r. " ! - ------ became necessary. The press Installed a It appeared to It warmest friends his personality on the stump before an come, and Journals might go, but Tne news events were taken from a pony then wa a quadruple Hoe. built to on the great highway of nations. In audience. The Oregonian then, as ever Oregonian remained. It stood, and express service, operated from Sacra- . ,,,, i Aon f.,.ir ! or . .. - ..... r . ThAn... T Dnrr. the since, was read bv all classes and con- stands now, absolutely alone. What- niento anr) forwarded to Portland bv reased the present eight-page papers. Jl.000 l.-page pa- editor and proprietor, and two or three tlltlon of men. It eemed to fill the ever other paper might say. opinions wlre Through telegraphic communi rers. or 11.000 10 to 21-page papers, hands- at work, one of whom I after- literal sense of a line In a fragment of were not made up until the editorial tlltlon waa established on March 5, 1864. when the California state teie- h.r. have been freiuent additions of up to 101. when one of the presses this kind of eoulomrrtL By l0i. ten u installed. linotype machines were In use. Now 'IKa . ....nl .r . ri.mnA.lnff.nwirn la filled wltn a veritable battery of these secure th very latest printing equl-- heen added during the past year and there are now 14. all of the latest model. In operation day and night. It Is probable that this equipment will be still further ln yesr Alm.t as Important as the change tn type-setting has been the progress la newspaper Illustration. It was about 10 when Th oregonian In. stalls.! an art department, but It wa several years before that department became was early small advertising ruts from copper en graving. preent a dreary appearance. Mut all that has changed and the 11 lus'ratlons are now an Important tea-ture. Th first newspaper ruts were line pers. or - e-.-. ranos- ai wo. ... ..r y. - ... .... . " .. , ,7... -j ....... i , ti,.' nl.n This was followed In a few years oy ward recognlxed as Henry u rittocK. oio r-nnius i ny aruuiiu. uuni m ' "3 a lloe sextuple, with an hourly capacity who had arrlved but a few weeks be- the mouth of men" ( vollto vlvus per had been consulted. This was due in of 4.oo.. eig.it. 10. 12 or 1,-page papers. toTe , th. territory. The paper at that ora vlrum. great part to the foresight and Judg 14 000 1. 0 or 14-pag papers. This tirae wa, three vear old. and the or- Mr. Dryer a a born politician, and. ment of the business manager. Mr. Pit latter press prints from three rolls of , of the Whig par'V in the territory, as usual with such men. he was lacking tock. and his able coadjutor ; Mr ' Scott, paper at the same time, pastes, folds Every man of that party became a ub- In the capacity for business. A Tortu- who presided over the editorial depart- naie acreaa. vi mcr. ce-ino iu u.iu, . i - .......v. - - . .-- Pittock. trained stall oi assistant writers. time Portland is still ln Its infancy, ana graph Company completed connection earliest recollections arc of its arrival In the pioneer home with its news of Oregon and the world. Its character has ever been clean. Its discussion of men and events pains taking, clear and enlightening. In Its pioneer days it contained all the news that was fit to print. Now well alons in mtddle age- as lives go, for Tin: Weekly Oregonian began its 61st vol ume last December it is the-saine news paper, only broadened and enlarged t fit times and conditions. A few years ago The Weekly Ore gonian was enlarged by the addition of a section devoted to the farm and its manifold phases of Industrial life. Thi part of the paper prints every week thrj best work of experienced men and wo men in agriculture, horticulture, dairy ing, poultry, husbandry and the intens ive work of the garden, fully illus trated. This matter covers conditions as they exist in the- Pacific Northwest, and is valued by th pioneer and new comer alike. Taking The Weekly Oregonian Is a telegraphic dispatch to The Oregonian appeared in an extra edition on Satur day. March 5. So far as known no copy of this extra edition is in exist ence, but the files of The Oregonian urusin iu iiiium.iuii vi v. vigorous Bm."..... - - - .- - . , , . . : . i l .... . v-r to come coniaill auuiciouai irjics air." soman now taxes Its pressroom equip- .piratlon to the Wh'p, then In a hope, the latter became foreman and practi- w th the teeming ' m llion yet to come, . f civl, War news , tUe lssue ment to fullest capacity. A a result a less minority here. cally business manager or tne oince. win i n" "V'"u". V" of Monday. March 7. third pre w, ...on be Installed. Thi. The seized portion of Oregon at that P-itlon which , he he.d for .vera advanced position against alal. In ofWhen new. was received exclusively will be the latest type Mgh-.peed .ex- time wa. altogether on me w..r. iT"'."." t, "T. V... rloedon Rennett orieinated and by stage and steamer. The Oregonian ral year before that department paper at the same time, paste, fold Every man of that party became a uo- in tne capacity lor Business, a . me Important. While no thought and counts the papers. It also ba. aa .crlber to The Oregonian. aa I dlacov- nate .treak of luck came to him. I given to It then the paper of Ihe arrangement for printing In color. tfred In going over the valley, and It ever, when he engaged young Pit Sd"ns. .'tnrmustr-tron: ex'cep, Growth In circulation of The Ore- v,g0ru. dor,,l. were like an In- not yet o ,u, . of M. teens and In with the Strong line. The first through habit that descends to the younger gen eration as its members grow ana iea. the. old home for near or distant lands. They find within its columns the items that serve as ties to bind them to keep in touch with the days df their youth. The men and women of the older gener ation learn from it of the passing f IUMO IT.r... r.... ... ...r ------- - - l. .,,K1l.r,. . , r. With this new equipment stereotyped comprised about 40,oo people irom mo j.roi.i .c..., u. . - J ' in drawlc. crudely rcyroduccJ. Jl wa plate can be cast In trlulicate and California line to the British posse.- ment. The paper began show a writer of this, the New York Herald. the recollection of the depended on getting its report from Eastern and California newspapers. the pioneers who helped . them maUo Oregon. City people do not see much of The Weekly Oregonian. yet there U a great deal of its regular contents that is of advantage to them.
