Post, a new daily they established there. Elmer White was editor and part owner of the Bee at this period with Frank P. Chapin the principal owner and business manager. It was under this regime that a new building was put up at 328 north St. Clair Street and the paper moved from their old quarters on St. Clair between Jefferson and Monroe Streets. After this management came Thomas W. Starr, and Archibald Stuart, when in 1897, Negley D. Cochran purchased the paper from Wm. Beatty, receiver, an ill advised political move being one of the causes of the paper unpopularity. Then June 1, 1903, the Bee, Sunday Bee, The News, (a daily started by J. M. Bloomer, J. P. Coats and others) and the Morning Times were bought by the ScrippsMcRae organization and the papers became NewsBee, Sunday Times-Bee and Morning Daily Times, the latter two being a little later purchased by George Dun of Columbus. The News-Bee occupied their present new building October 12, 1912. Mr. Cochran has been editor of the paper all during the Scripp's control and Harry J. Howard was the first managing editor of the News-Bee and held that position until his death in 1917, and was succeeded by Frank M. Heller the present managing editor.

THE TOLEDO TIMES COMPANY.-Was organized in April, 1908, by Geo. W. Dun, who was its first president. The company took over the machinery and equipment of the Toledo Press and the Associated Press franchise held in the morning field by the Scripps McRae league. In May, 1911, the Toledo Times Publishing Company was organized,

purchasing the machinery, equipment, franchise and good will of the Toledo Times Company. The first officers were Geo. W. Dun, President, Clarence Brown, Vice-President; Charles N. O'Brien, Secretary and R. C. Patterson, Treasurer. In December, 1914, Geo. W. Dun, president of the company died and Clarence Brown was elected president. Upon the occasion of his death in the summer of 1918, R. C. Patterson was elected president. The Toledo Times Publishing Company prints the Toledo Times, the only morning and Sunday paper in Toledo and Northwestern Ohio. Its office is at 234 Superior Street. The present officers are: R. C. Patterson, President & Treasurer; Clara C. Dun, Vice-President; John D. Dun, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer.

THE TOLEDO COMMERCE CLUB.-The present officers are: Charles Hartmann, President; Royal R. Scott, first Vice-President; John D. Cowell, second Vice-President; Warren E. Griffith, third Vice-President; Earl A. Hulce, Treasurer; Frank G. Saxton, Secretary. The merger of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Club into the Toledo Commerce Club was affected on May 9, 1911. The first officers were President, J. Gazzam MacKenzie; first Vice-President E. H. Cady, second VicePresident, Geo. L. Shanks; third Vice-President, F. V. Culbertson; Treasurer, C. R. Clapp; Secretary, Louis H. Paine; Assistant Secretary, F. I. Lackens. The trustees of the Chamber of Commerce at the time of merger were: E. H. Cady, W. W. Knight, I. B. Hiett, C. R. Clapp, D. C. Donovan, E. L. Camp and G. S. Mills. Trustees of the Business Men's Club:

Lyman Spitzer, W. F. Donovan, F. V. Culbertson, R. W. Kirkley, Geo. E. Hardee, Geo. L. Shanks and R. A. Beard. The presidents of The Toledo Commerce Club after Mr. McKenzie were: Isaac Kinsey, Frank L. Mulholland, William L. Diemer, William A. Gosline Jr., Carl B. Spitzer, Irving E. Macomber and Gustavus Ohlinger. John D. Biggers, Geo. E. Hardy and Frank Saxton, followed Mr. Paine as Secretaries. The club's location is the sixteenth floor of the Nicholas building. The purpose of this organization is the advancement of the commercial, industrial and civic interests of Toledo and as contributing to that end, the establishment and promotion of friendly relations and co-operation among the citizens in this community.

THE CALL OF EARLY TOLEDO.-In the spring of 1851, a young man filled with the vigor and spirit imbibed from the atmosphere of progress of these early days, then 27 years old, and just admitted to the practice of law at Portsmouth, Ohio, felt the call of the west. The map indicated the head of navigation in the wilderness of the wonderful Mississippi Valley as the future economic objective of a vast territory of great prospective wealth and he decided upon Minneapolis as his permanent home where his ambition and enthusiasm could have full sway. He undertook to provide funds for the journey by taking some notes for collection on the line of his route and which led him up the Muskingum canal to Cleveland, from where he was to go to Adrian, Michigan. This took him by boat to Toledo and as he sailed up through Maumee bay into the river his astonished gaze measured the broad expanse of the

wonderful harbor and his imagination saw therein. the combined tonnage of London, Liverpool, New York, Boston and Baltimore. In the midst of his dream of the future a hand was laid on his shoulder and a stranger said, "Young man where are you going?" When the latter's answer was given revealing his purpose and proposed destination the stranger swept the great expanse of bay and the miles upon miles of harbor line with a gesture and replied, “Can Minneapolis offer anything in prospect equal to this?" The young man was James M. Ashley and as there is a destiny which shapes our ends, the course of his life was changed and six years later (1858) he was elected to congress as an Abolitionist -or Black Republican. He served in the national house for the ten consecutive years following (the period of national reconstruction) a period of bitter agitation and domestic conflict. He framed the 13th amendment to the constitution (abolition of slavery) introduced and guided its course to its final passage. His activity in the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson is well known and later he successfully undertook the construction of the Ann Arbor railroad, a line more than 300 miles long and involving an investment of more than $8,000,000 in money with no other resources than intelligence, character and courage. This transportation system has proved its public usefulness and has added many millions of dollars value to the territory it serves. This is the story which made James M. Ashley a resident of Toledo instead of Minneapols.