[From "Grip's" Historical Souvenir of Cortland published in 1899--ed.]
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| William H. Clark |
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| Edward D. Blodgett |
The Cortland County STANDARD was established
in June, 1867, by Frank G. Kinney. It was a 4-page, 8-column paper, set in long
primer, brevier and nonpareil type. The office was at first where the Garrison
block now stands, but after a short time was moved to the third story of the
Moore block where the Orris Hose rooms are now. The machinery of the office
consisted of a Taylor press, turned by hand, for newspaper work, and one small
Gordon job press.
In May, 1872, Wesley Hooker purchased the
paper, and also purchased and combined with it the Cortland Journal, under the
name of the Cortland STANDARD and JOURNAL, put in steam power, and a new half
medium Gordon job press and a considerable amount of new type and material, and
enlarged the paper to 9 columns to the page.
April 1, 1876, the paper was purchased by
William H. Clark, Mr. Hooker retiring on account of ill health. The name of the
paper was soon after changed to the CORTLAND STANDARD, the word “Journal” being
dropped.
January 1, 1879, the office was moved to the
Mahan building on Court Street, where the first cylinder job press was put in.
March 1, 1883, the office was again moved to its present quarters in the
Standard building.
Sept. 10, 1885, the form of the paper was
changed to eight pages, seven columns to the page, its present size. May 10,
1892, the WEEKLY STANDARD changed into the semi-weekly, the two papers each
week of the same size with the former weekly being furnished at the same price
of $2.00 a year.
March 8, 1892, the first number of the Daily
EVENING STANDARD was issued by the firm of Clark & Blodgett, which
continued to the organization of the Cortland Standard printing Co., Aug. 14,
1893, which is composed of Mr. Clark, president; Mr. Blodgett, secretary and
treasurer; and Mr. H. G. Joy, who has been for eighteen years the capable,
efficient and popular foreman of the job department.
The EVENING STANDARD was issued first as a
4-page, 7-column paper, and was changed May 25, 1892, to its present form of 8
pages, 6 columns to the page. July 12, 1892, the Cortland Daily Journal was
purchased and merged into the EVENING STANDARD. In January, 1895, the Cortland
County Sentinel, published at McGrawville by F. J. Berggren, was purchased, the
office, material, machinery, etc., moved to the STANDARD office and the
publication of the paper continued as practically a weekly edition of The
STANDARD. It was afterwards enlarged to 8 pages, 56 columns, in which form it
continues to be published under the old name.
The STANDARD office, both as a newspaper and
jobbing establishment, is now one of the largest and best equipped to be found
in any place of the size of Cortland in the United States. It occupies 6,500
square feet of floor space on the basement, first and third floors of the
Standard building and gives employment to twenty-seven persons. The daily,
semi-weekly and weekly editions of the paper are printed on a Cox Duplex
Perfecting press, feeding from a roll and capable of turning out 5,000 complete
papers, printed, folded, pasted and trimmed per hour.
In the STANDARD’s job department are three
cylinder job presses, one of them a large 37 x 52 inch bed, four roller, two
revolution, double-inking Huber machine, capable of doing the very finest of
book and cut work at a high rate of speed. It is on this press, that this Souvenir was printed. There are, besides
these presses, four Gordon jobbers and a very full equipment of type, material,
etc. A 10 horse power Otto gas engine furnishes the power for the establishment,
and both gas and electricity are provided for lighting.
The daily, semi-weekly and weekly editions
of The STANDARD speak for themselves as to their character as newspapers. This Souvenir of Cortland, printed entirely in the STANDARD
job rooms, shows the kind of work which they are constantly turning out.
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| Standard building at 110 Main Street |
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