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HEADLINE HIGHLIGHTS OF tHE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS- OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S HISTORY

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UNCOLN AND THE TRIBUNE: A GREAT AMERICANL~ N Il ••W~ .•:~~ ~::;~••Il x THE TRIBUNE IS BORN: HUMBLE START PROVIDESAND A GREAT PAPER JOIN TO MOLD U. S. HISTORY Lin:o~:a~:I:~N::B~::T~~:e 1 pOPula~:~C~:'~.CENTUR~ace 8 A SPRINGBOARD TO ITS WORLD PRE-EMINENCE

Early beginnings to 1855. Page 1 Chicago churches. Pace 8Joseph Medill, 1855-1899. Page I Cultural institutions. Pace I

Chicago schools. Pace 8

S F· d h· Respectable journalism. Page I Life here in 1847. Page'· •• ftrong nen S IpS Modern TRIBUNE,1899-1947. Page a Chicago landmarks. Page' FIrst Edi ti on 0 4Tribune buildings. Page a First houfe. Pace 7

Undisturbed by Tribune illustrations. Page I The labor movement. Pace 8 Pages AssembledWashington bureau. Page a The Chicago fire, 1871. Pace •

'. • • Republican party. PaCe , Chicago t~eatie.. Pace •Sharp Criticism Roots a~d early editors. Page Ii Fir.t photografer. Pare 10 in Loft RoomThe Clvll war. Pace 9 Early theaters. Pace 11 Thi. i. the recipe Joseph Medill

BY FRANK HUGHES Tribune paper making. Pace10 A century of weather. PareD One hundred ears a 0 today an gave for the successful publicationT STRIP 10 Chi i y g " of a newspaper in an address to edi·This Is the Lincoln story. the ae- tor,' the young man, or rather mr- HE UNDAY BUNE. are cago tract on. Pace II ••original Chicago enterprise was tor. and publishers at Indianapolis Kelly with the Idea of starting a

count of an lntlmate 10 year aliso- self. answered. The A.sociated Press. Pare 10 The I &: M canal. Pace II b T C TRI It daily paper so that the materialTribune mastheadL P•• e 10 Mu.lc in Chicago. Pa.e 17 orn - HE HICAGO BUNE. May 24, 1869:I tl b t t m d a •••W 11 I '11 d j t --. from the daily could be used in thee a on e ween a grea an an e, guess you 0 us as Historic headlines. Pac.11 A eenturv of fashion.. Pace 17 was a four page dally newspaper, ••Be very partiCUlar with the me.

-, weekly Gem of the Prairie. SinceKreat newspaper. well.' Tribune scoops. Pac. 11 ~ WORLD'S CENTURY put together and locked Into the chanlcal execution, charge fair Ilv-LA.... the early files of both the ••Gem •Politically speaking. Abraham In. "I asked with some asperity: Great Tribune campaigns. Pace 11 Govemments, P•• e I form. in a sparsely furnished loft ing price. for your work and stand

T C TR t -- and THETRIBUNEwere destroyed laeoln and HE HICAGO IBUNEme : •Please tell me whom I have the Arthur Sears Henning. Pare 17 1847 almanac. Pare 8 room on the third fioor of a frame by them; do a cash business, asI 1 th T th th ' WIT •••••~-- P l' the Chicago fire of 1871, there 111near y you • oge er, ey grew pleasure of addressing?' omen n HE U"DU"II'.. ace Achievements of science. Pace It buildin'" at Lake and La Salle st.. nearly as practicable, refuse lon,gt th t t t t I th na P i ti th ly TRI P U •• not much Information available ex.o e grea es sa ure n e • "'Well'-this drawlln expletive rn ng e ear BUNE. ace COMMERCE AND FINANCE As its first century ends this credits, •short settlements maket1on-Llncoln to rank with George • g Tribune inventions. Pace 18 1 f i d' d i di eept what was written after that

for the third tlme- Well down on i P •• State street's history. Page II morning, THE TRIB•••••• stand. the ong r en s; evote your ma n e • holocaust from Interviews with theWashington as the most revered • Advertls ng history. age... u ••~ i f hthe Sangamon river they used to Chicago'. railroad.. Pace 10 , torial efforts to discuss on 0 ome 1 h h i 184President of the United States: Tap; Battles and conquests. Pages zs.Z8 Century-old firm.. Pace 10 World. Greatest Newspaper -first topics and furtherance of home in. peop e w 0 were ere n 7.TRIBUNEas The World's Greatest call me Abraham Lincoln. Now they Radio and THE 1'RJBuNE. Pace 17 'Chicago banking. Pare 10 In advertising linage of any news- terests, One story says Kelly boughtNewspaper. I ::~~:t~:v~:: Ol~eel~l~., Abe, tho . FEATURES Industrial Chicago today. Pace 11 paper in the world, With the largest "Let each issue be a photograf of out Stewart'. interest in the GemHistorically speaking. it is accu- This Currier and Ives print of I ... Old Abe' was already a name First extant TRIBUNE.Center Section The packing indu.try. Pace 11 and most modern newspaper pro- the doings of your county of the of the Prairie before THE TRIBtJNJ:'a

rate to say that neither Lincoln nor iAbraham Lincoln was the cam- t j r ith i Illi i d 11How to Keep Well. Pace 11 Chicago real estate. Pace 11 ductlon plant on earth, the largest previous week and a foreshadowing founding, but was forced to .eUTHE TRIBUNEwould have succeE'ded'.. . . 0 con u e w n no s, an a Line o'Type or Two. Page 11 The Board of Trade. Pace IIIcirculation of any standard sized of the week to come. Preserve your everything back to Stewart .hortl7.to his ultimate position. at the time' ralgnh PI~ure. dused I~ t~:6~leCtlOn' the more :0 in thej office of a news- Voice of the People. Pare 11 , EDITORIALS newspaper in America, and so many independence of all demagogs and afterward because of failinS eye.he did, without the other. altho they. or t e resr ency n • , paper wh ch had ust been stoutly Test Your Facts. Pare 11IA Word to Campaign Subscribers; other achievement. behind It the place hunter. and never submit to sight.did 1 i f t i I (Chicago Hl,torical SOCiety J engaged in Mr. Lincoln's gallant, if SPORTS a 8eco d a •

not a ways move n per ec un - -- . IThe Real Issue; The Duty of New.· second century I. a challenge to their dictation; write boldly, and tell ••• n •••ecounIOn. The one never controled the I unsuccessful struggle against Doug. Tribune sports department. Pare 191 papers; The Leading American behold. the truth fearlessly; criticize what. Another account, substantiated bpother. was one of brotherhood, high las for the senatorship. Whatever Early Chicago hunting. Page 10 Journal. Pace 11. Fln~ ~_D--b Centennial ever is wron"', and denounce what. one of the men who was there, saya

esteem. and enormous mutual trust. clouds may have overhung the be- _ ... ...._._=========================== •••• ...,.., ••Medlll 14 Years Younger They had the sam e Inherent ginning of the interview were forth. i THE CHICAGOTRIBUNEIs the only ever is rotten In the administration that Kelly and Stewart, h a v 1D.

Sometimes. in early years, THE,honesty. and they recognized it in with dispelled. F' t 1fT 'b K newspaper ever printed in Chicago of local and state affairs. decided to start a daily newspaper,TRIBUNEpushed Lincoln beyond each other. They stood' for the same Subscribes for Pa ••••r Irs ssue 0, rl une nown I "See that your journal is devoted took two other men Into the part.-

d..... ,to reach the age of 100 years, and to the advocacy and promotion of nershlp-Col. Jos'lph K. C. Forre.t.what he thought his atnllties and broad, general principles. They ha ". I'm In a hurry,' said Lincoln, ' one of a very few in the nation. Its their [the people's] temporal inter.stature merited. Joseph Medill. ed- the same ability to do great labor. but I ran up to subscribe for your t B • E · tence Reprinted very name is an ••original Chicago est and moral welfare and they will early day proprietor of a Chicagoltor and publisher or THE T~IBUNE,and give unstintingly in a great paper. 1 can't get it regularly down 0 e In XIS enterprise" for the first newspaper repay your favor. with their esteem, private school, unordained Sweden-was 14 years younger than Lincoln, cause. Both were tlreles~, no-quar- our way. so I borrow It from a to be called" TRIBUNE"was printed friendship and patronage, rendering borgian minister, and at the time lUIbut he once had to lecture him like ter fighters. . . neighbor. But sometimes he lends It The very first Issue of THE Cm- be found. for the dates not 'covered here. Its history, however, goes you infiuential and respected in the assistant editor of the Chicago Jour-a child to convince him that the Joseph Medlll begins the Lincoln before 1 get around. Now 1 want CAGOTRIBUNEknown to be in ex- in Tribune files during the years back several year. beyond the community, and prosperous In your nal; and John E.Wheeler. also of thePrestdency- -and not a lesser office story in his own words: to pay for six months,' and he pulled Istence is reproduced In full tol1ay of 1847thru 1852. memorable June 10, 1847. when the pecuniary affairs." Swedenborgian faith. described by-:Was his true goal. ••It was a spring day In 1855 from the cavernous pockets of in the center of this section While wotking at this task. he the first DAILYTRIBUNEwas pulled Forre.t as ••a ripe scholar, an eaST.Sometimes. in later years-par- when Mr. Lincoln -and myself first his jeans a pocketbook. untied the as a present to readers of this news- came across a bound file of the old off a slow moving hand printing and women, thru it. literary qual. fluent, and felicitous writer. and a

t1cuiarly in the war years-Lincoln met," he said, in an Interview strap, and counted out four dollars. paper on Its centennial birthday. It Chicago Journal, first dally news, press, j'ity. most conscientious gentleman."moved too cautiously to suit I'm: shortly before his death' in 1899, ••I took the money-there was no Is the issue of April 23, 1849.only 22 paper in' the city, for the year 1849. Kiler K. Jones and James S. Nonetheless, at the end of a year, This would give THETR1BuNJ:fOUfTRIBUNE.When there was no battle I••The editorial establishment of THE pride in those days to separate the months after THE TRIBUNF!Stound- It was owned by the Chicago His· Beach put out the first edition of neither Kiler Jones nor James founders-Jame. Kelly and Thomasaction. THE TRIBUNEchided Union CHICAGOTRIBUNEconsisted then of editor from the counting room-and hig. The original was printed on torical society. In this volume he kl lit G f h Beach was any longer connected A. Stewart of the Gem of the Praiafound an issu - of THE TRIBUNEfor a wee y erary paper. em 0 t e with it. By that time, the ••Gem"generals. and Lincoln for picking a single room, wrote a receipt on a sheet of copy the newspaper's firs.t press in its April 23, 1849, bound apparently by Prairie, on May 20, 1844. It was a was owned by Thomas A. Stewart rie, -and Col. Joseph K. C. Forrestthem. It demanded emanciPat~on of H A Remarkably Thin Man" paper. This document Mr. Lincoln first establishment on the corner of mistake in that year or the next two popular and reasonably prosperous and James Kelly. and John E. Wheeler, who tookthe slaves long before Lincoln ••I hi . t II thrust Into his pocket, remarking Lake and La Salle sts. or three years follOWing, and un- little paper, attracting a number ot One account of the found,ing of partnership in the new venture.

i TR nto t IS room came, very a ,granted it. Read ng some IBUNE k bl till' H' . i 'is he did so: A dramatic s tor y Is centered noted previously. young Chicago writers, both men THECHICAGOTRIBUNEcredits James Col. Forrest was Interviewed bylli 11 flli" P Id n ~Mnmara y nmaa ~ e~wen I~========="~_~_~'===~============================~Iel ort\~io k A: :r 0 i..t e1 g absurdly long and slender, and he •••I like your paper; 1 didn't like around discovery of this early copy II THETRIBUNEas late as 1891, and Inamos th n I nt tlo: nco n was had enormous hands and feet. He It before you boys took hold of it; which came to light only this year his account he claimed full credita sou ern p an a Ion owner, 80 , d . h d t b it was too much of a Knew-Nothing All files of THE TRIBUNEas well as for selecting the name "TRIBt7NIl.-caustl as th I t n carne 10 one an a carpe ag

c w e roe. three or four feet long and so deep sheet.' files of all other Chicago news WeeldJ' Published in 1840AssoclatloD Always Close that, tall as he.was. it barely cleared He Asks Que8tions papers and city and county records The very fir.t TRIBUNI:was a

Sometimes, Abra ham Lincoln the floor, He glanced along the edi- ••From this he drifted into con- were destroyed in the fin of Oct. 9, weekly published In 1840, a yearJumped on THE CHICAGOTltlBl'NI'-1~orial table t? the editor's chair and versatlon. I noted that he' had a 1871. before Horace Greeley took thatwith that cold. holy wrath that only III) a drawllr g, high- keyed voice sharper faculty for asking questions In 1940,it was decided to preserve name for hi. New York newspaper.

asked a young man who occupied h f i h Hi Ta great heart. secure in the know: th t th . t an or answer ng t em. s re- all files of THE RIBUNEon photo- According to Col. Forrest, theedge of its righteousness. can aftonl, I ~'C rone. t 11 h 1 serve as to himself' was Im- grafic film, and a search was made other proprietor. of the new dai17an you e me w en canThat happened, once, when THE see Dr. Ray?' pregnable. He asked me many ques- thruout libraries and unlverstttes wanted to call it the "Daily GemTRIBUNEopposed Lincoln's fourth ••D R th dit i hi t tions as to the politicians of Ohio, all over the United States for the of the Prairie" but he held out forr. ay was eel or n c e. b t d d 1draft of Illinois troops after the b t t i . whom he seemed to know with a es preserve an most eomp ete ••TRIBUNE" because, in his OWQu was no no i I d f pies.tate had been bled white of vol· •••W 11' tln d ·th . I it surpr s ng egree 0 accuracy. co . words, "It was an original Chicago.• •• • e , .con uea e v s or. ••How were Giddings, and Chase, A member of THE TRIBUNE'sedi.unteers, THE TRIBUNE ate crow may I ask If you are the new editor h J h S torial reference department engaged enterprise."at the great man's table. from Cleveland-McDill, or Medill. and t e young 0 n herman? in this work also decided to film He told how the prospectus forThe association between Lincoln or something? • What of the beginnings of the new tati I f th Chi the new journal was sent to him fo.. - represen ve cop e. 0 0 er •

and THE TRlBura. however. always ••, I am Mr. Medill, the new edt- [Continued on page &] cago newspapers, where they could IStatement from JOlepIJ Mcdill'. will, in hi' own handwrit~\.ql,cont.iniol hi. ideal. for The Tribune.' (ContiliuOei 00 pa•• IJ

Medill's Meetingwith 'Old Abe'in 1855Told

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