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1..- 12-t-ootsmetstse.mdneav.auwstair, an ‘ Themysteriousrsaga pf the Waterloo press The Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Reformers' Gazette, however, was purchased in January, 1860 by Christian Kumpf and John J Bowman who mercifully shortened the name and moved the paper to Waterloo. The question or where and when the Chronicle's history started is probably far from settled. However, the popular opinion seems to be that Wm. Jaffray travelled from Gait to Berlin to establish the Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Re- formers' Gazette. A copy of the Volume l, issue No. l of that paper is dated Jan. 9, 1856. A later account of how it all began tells the story this way. “From a small plant with a hand<rperated press in 1854 v.. The Chronicle, oldest English newspaper in North Waterloo, (was) founded in 1854 by William Jaffray and Casper Hett. The Chronicle began in a small lamp-lit office on Queen St. South. Hand-ranked presses made publishing difficult. but the Chronicle Fathers persevered, and brought their newspaper to its present high-ranking status in Waterloo County journalism," The Berlin Telegraph weekly first appeared on Jan. 7, 1353 The paper later became a daily. then disappeared only to reappear around me. It was purchased three years later by David Bean who was then the owner, publisher and editor of the Waterloo Chronicle In 1888419 a school teacher named David Bean came down from Elmira and bought the Chronicle Mr Bean. up until then the principal of the Elmira Public and Continuation School. brought his partner. M, G, Dippel, to Waterloo and started a printing and publishing business that controlled the newspaper for the next three generations Thomas Hilliard bought the Waterloo Chronicle in 1869 and continued to publish "with a large measure of success" until he sold it to Munro Brothers in 1887. and moved on seeking financing to found the Dominion Life Assurance Company in Waterloo For a while. under publisher Peter Moyer during the se- cond half of the decade, the paper was known as the Wa- terloo Chronicle and Family Newspaper The trend during that period was to Jam the front page of the broadsheet- sized paper with advertisements, and needless to say the business prospered News in was was almost entirely rerun copy from major metropolitan centres in Canada and the eastern United States Local events were covered very briefly. if at all ,Vâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€".â€"_ . ".-r--.. -pm.-...m.... up runny-Lu nmmumuc'mgm On one oaaVon wthe newspaper typesetters remained hard at work to “meet the deadline while the float below them was almost completely gutted by fire. fitrtm, (tChtiritidt Having established in Part I of the story last week that the Waterloo Chronicle can trace its origin to 1 854. Part " will now relate the historic facts as we know them and as they have been reported over the past 125 years. On another occasion. when the newspaper expanded to the point where a move to new premises seemed in order. the owners had to knock out the well of an insurance company building to get the printing machinery out of the basement. One editor is reported to have had close to " heart attacks while running the Waterloo Chronicle. That same man during the Depression iears went around to customers each week asking for "something on account" in order to meet the paper's weekly payroll. More than one former put-ttist- was related to Judge Roy Been tmious "hanging judge" of wild west fame. - One former editot. suffering a death in the family sent out founal death notices to friends, relatives and business acquaintances and waited for the eloquent teplies to come back. He neglected to mention in the notice that the deceased. Jimmy. was a dog. History a dull subjoct? “Not in tho Waterloo Chtoniclo family of editors. publishon and staff it isn't: . _ By Geoff Hoilo Choniclo as“ writer Partiwo" The Chronicle editor. an diciplinarian, shrugged off early-rising. hard-working as "years of indigestion" By July the following year arrangements were being made to sell the subscription list. the name. good will and some of the equipment of the Daily Telegraph to the News Record Limited in Kitchener, and the Chronicle-Telegraph once more became the Waterloo Chronicle. On one occasion, when his mongrel terrier “Jimmy" died, Roy Bean sent out several very formal death notices to acquaintances and business associates According to his son. Dr David Bean. the condolences came back from many people "who should have known better" eulogizing the "sweet, curly headed child" The Waterloo Chronicle now came under the firm leader- ship of Roy s, Bean. known as a "sober sided" individual who, along with his close friend, Ford Kumpi, took great delight in playing practical jokes In addition to running the paper he served as mayor of Waterloo for two years from 1901, and became the first elected chairman of the newly-formed waterworks board. When he died November 29, 1921, the papers passed into the hands of his sons Clive, David Alexander and Roy S. Bean. By 1899 the paper was expanding and David Bean bought the Berlin'Telegraph daily and its weekly namesake? David Bean & Sons Ltd., the publishers of the Chronicle, absorbed the new weekly, and the Waterloo Chronicle became The Chronicle-Telegraph. David Bean continued to publish the daily Berlin Telegraph in that city until 1923 when it was merged with the Kitchener Daily Record. According to an early report, David Bean encountered and lost a law suit shortly after he took over the Chronicle. However, "although defeated, the Chronicle struggled man- fully to its feet as it strived to wipe the shadow from its masthead". "nous Service to This sprint through the paper's history by no means tells the whole story. We wanted to leave something for the 150th anniversary issue. In the last l25 years the Chronicle has changed editors, owners. publishers. business locations and names too often to bother recording now. The size, the cost, the circulation. and the style have all changed so dramatically over the years it is hand to believe we‘re talking about the one paper. George Mot: (left) accepted an engraved plaque commemorating "a century of distinguished and devoted service to the cause at Canadian journa- lism" on behalf of the Waterloo Chronicle. The award, presented in 1967 by the then Waterloo North MPP Edward Good, was part of the Provin- ce's participation in Canada‘s centennial celebrhr tion. The Chronicle remained in the Bean family for three gen- erations. Roy M. Bm's younger brother Bill "wanted to run something in competition to the Record," according to one Bean Publishing employee, but he was killed during the second world war. In 1955 Roy Bean sold the Chronicle to J. Herb Smith, the paper's editor since the early 19405. Mr. Smith died in 1963, and after three years of ownership by Baulk Press the paper was purchased by the K-W Record, through its subsidiary Fairway Press. E25?l,lrz3riirtte)C...ei.ilJ] The Bean family, whose ancestors were among the early settlers in Wilmot in the early 1800s, are widely spread throughout the Waterloo area. One in particular went farther afield and gained considerable international no- toriety. According to Dr. David Bean, Judge Roy Bean, the infamous "hanging judge" who meted out his" own brand of harsh justice in the Texas territories during the last cen- tury, was related to the Waterloo Beans. Knother son, Roy M. Bean --who later became editor b' and publisher of the Chroni- . . , ele-telisofthetimewtten , ", the paper was printed in the 'a' T T _ Equitable Life Insurance 'u7 building on Erb St. and fire _ . broke out in a lower floor. The liretighters were Roy S. Bean called, only to find the Chronicle typesetters at their machines racing to meet the paper's deadline. The flames caused considerable damage to stock_in the base- merit, and when the conscientious typesetters were alerted, of the danger below "everyone ran like hell”. Thirty years later, when the printing operation had o grown the premises, the Bean Publishing Company dis- covered the only way theywere going to get the heavy print- ing presses and typesetting equipment out of the Equitable Life building was to knock out a wall. Having done that, they moved to their new building at 372 King St. North. what after his death in 1939 was discovered to be close to 50 minor heart attacks. At the end oreaeh working day he would take Mutual Life policy proofs httme,where the entire family would proof-read them in both English andFrench. _ . 1 b1 A Fire - a...” list