{{short description|Massachusetts daily newspaper (1845–1967)}} {{italic title}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} thumb|Masthead of ''Boston Daily Traveller'' on June 26, 1891 The '''''Boston Evening Traveller''''' (1845–1967) was a newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts. It was a daily newspaper, with weekly and semi-weekly editions under a variety of ''Traveller'' titles. It was absorbed by the ''Boston Herald'' in 1912, and ceased publication in 1967.
==History== ===Founding=== The ''Boston Evening Traveller'' was launched on April 1, 1845, by Reverend George Punchard and Deacon Ferdinand Andrews. The pair served as co-editors and used the paper to advocate for the temperance movement.<ref name="bio1879">{{Citation |publisher = Metropolitan Publishing and Engraving Co. |location = New York |chapter =Roland Worthington |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/biographicalency02newy#page/96/mode/2up |title = Biographical encyclopedia of Massachusetts of the nineteenth century |date = 1879 |oclc = 4952161 }}</ref> In June 1845, Roland Worthington, a former member of the ''Boston Daily Advertiser'''s business department, joined the paper as publisher.<ref name="Granite Monthly" />
===Worthington years=== thumb|Traveller building in 1886 on State Street in Boston During Worthington's tenure as publisher, the ''Evening Traveller'' became the first Boston paper to employ newspaper hawkers to sell papers in the streets rather than rely solely on subscriptions; and was the first paper in Boston to use headline posters to advertise papers.<ref name="Granite Monthly">{{cite news |title=Roland Worthington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhcXAAAAYAAJ |access-date=13 February 2021 |work=The Granite Monthly |date=1885| last1=Metcalf | first1=Henry Harrison | last2=McClintock | first2=John Norris }}</ref> Compared to other papers in Boston in the 1840s, the ''Traveller'' was notable for its significantly lower retail price.<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Harper & Brothers |location = New York |title = Journalism in the United States, from 1690-1872 |url = https://archive.org/stream/journalisminunit00hudsiala#page/382/mode/2up/search/traveller |author = Frederic Hudson |date = 1873 |oclc = 824555 }}</ref> The ''Evening Traveller''{{'}}s first office was located at 47 Court Street. It later relocated to the Old State House before moving into its own building at 31 State Street.<ref name="Granite Monthly" /><ref>The Traveller occupied a building which had a number of previous lives. "The Rogers Buildings, erected about 1800, was one of the first brick blocks in Boston. It was sold in 1811 to James Harrison, who in turn sold it to Daniel Dennison Rogers, when the block was known as Rogers Buildings. In 1833 Henry B. Rogers, son of the former, sold it to Israel Thorndike, and it became known as Thorndike's Buildings. In 1838 Israel Thorndike sold it to the National Insurance Company, but it continued to be known as Thorndike's Buildings until the Evening Traveller took up its quarters here in 1851. It was known as the Old Traveller Building from December 1851 to 1894, when it was torn down to make way for the present Worthington Building which was built in 1895." Cf. {{Citation |publisher = Printed for the State Street Trust Company |location = Boston, Mass |title = Forty of Boston's historic houses |date = 1912 |oclc = 2847254 |ol = 6539796M }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Boston directory for the year 1852 |year= 1852 |publisher= George Adams |location= Boston |url= https://archive.org/details/bostondirectory00unkngoog }}</ref> Under Worthington's leadership, the paper supported the views of the Free Soil Party and the later Republican Party. The paper's shift to the Republican Party led to the departure of Ferdinand Andrews, who supported Daniel Webster and the Cotton Whigs. Andrews was replaced as managing editor by twenty-two year old Manton Marble. In 1857, Samuel Bowles joined the paper. Marble and Bowles were unable to work together and Marble left for New York City. Bowles took over as managing editor on April 13, 1857, and soon thereafter merged the ''Evening Traveller'' with the ''Boston Atlas'', the ''Boston Bee'', and the ''Independent Chronicle''.<ref name="Granite Monthly" /><ref name="kings">{{Citation |publisher = M. King |location = Cambridge, Mass |title = King's handbook of Boston |edition = King's handbook of Boston. |date = 1883 |ol = 7176558M }}</ref> The merger was a failure and placed the paper in debt. Bowles left the ''Evening Traveler'' without notice on August 10, 1857, and returned to Springfield, Massachusetts. Bowles was succeeded by Joseph B. Morss.<ref name="Granite Monthly" /> In 1859 Morss was succeeded by Reuben Crooke.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leavitt |first1=Charles Henry |title=Crook, an American Family, 1698-1955 |date=1956 |publisher=University of Wisconsin - Madison}}</ref> As of 1878, one guide described the ''Evening Traveller'' as "the largest four-page evening paper in New England: five editions daily; the semi-weekly and weekly of each week contains sermons of Henry Ward Beecher; 'Review of the Week;' market and shipping reports; latest news and choice reading, prepared expressly for the family fireside."<ref>{{Citation |publisher = Pettingill & Co. |location = NY |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AVQJAQAAMAAJ |title = Pettingill's newspaper directory |date = 1878 }}</ref> In 1879, reporter James W. Clarke became the paper's managing editor. He remained with the ''Evening Traveller'' until 1885, when he accepted the position of chief of editorial writers for ''The Boston Globe''.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Journalist's Camera |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMpOAQAAMAAJ |access-date=13 February 2021 |work=The Journalist |date=December 24, 1887}}</ref> From 1885 to 1891, W. F. Whitcher served as editor in chief.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herndon |first1=Richard |editor-last1=Bacon |editor-first1=Edwin M. |editor-link1=Edwin Munroe Bacon |title=Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |date=1896 |location=Boston |publisher=New England Magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HFPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA614 |access-date=13 February 2021}}</ref> Whitcher was succeeded by Albert Edward Winship. Roland Worthington sold the paper in June 1891. The new owners replaced Winship as editor, bringing back Reuben Crooke.<ref name="Granite Monthly" /><ref>{{cite news |title=The Traveller's New Management |work=Sunday News (Wilkes-Barre) |date=June 14, 1891}}</ref>
===Later years=== In the 1900s, the paper was headquartered at 76 Summer Street (c. 1902–1912). In 1912 the ''Herald'' bought the ''Traveler'' and merged the papers into the ''Boston Traveler and Evening Herald,'' now published from the'' Herald'''s facility at 171 Tremont Street.<ref name="nyt-1912">{{cite news |title=Boston Traveler sold; will be combined with evening edition of the Herald |newspaper=New York Times |date=27 June 1912 }}</ref> From 1914 to 1918, future Territory of Alaska Governor and U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening served as the paper's managing editor.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gruening With La Follette |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZxCAQAAIAAJ |access-date=13 February 2021 |work=Editor and Publisher |date=September 13, 1924}}</ref> In 1928, the new owners moved the paper away from Republican politics by dropping the editorial page and replacing it with a "People's Forum".<ref>{{cite news |title=As To Dropping Editorials |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=November 4, 1928}}</ref> The morning ''Herald'' and the evening ''Traveler'' were published until 1967, when, due to declining circulation, they were combined into a morning newspaper known as the ''Herald-Traveler''.<ref>''The Boston Globe'', Dec 27, 1987</ref>
==Variant titles== ;Dailies * ''Daily Evening Traveller'', 1845–1885<ref>''Daily Evening Traveller'', Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1, 1845). {{cite web |author=Library of Congress |work=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022235/ |title=About Daily Evening Traveller. (Boston, Mass.) 1845-1885 |access-date=18 April 2012}}</ref> * ''Boston Evening Traveller'', 1885–1889<ref name="LC">{{cite web |author=Library of Congress |title=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov |access-date=18 April 2012}}</ref> * ''Boston Daily Traveller'', c. 1856–1885, 1889–1894<ref name="LC" /> * ''Boston Traveler'', 1894–1912, 1914–1967<ref name="LC" /> * ''Boston Traveler and Evening Herald'', 1912–1914<ref name="LC" />
;Non-dailies * ''American Traveller'' (semiweekly and weekly editions), c. 1845–1885<ref name="LC" /> * ''American Semi-Weekly Traveller'', 1851–1854<ref name="LC" /> * ''Boston Traveller'' (semiweekly edition), c. 1855–1885<ref name="LC" /> * ''American Weekly Traveller'', c. 1851–1855<ref name="LC" />
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==Images== <gallery class="center"> Image:1856 TravelerBuildings BostonAlmanac.png|Traveller building, State Street, 1850s Image:1886 Traveller building StateSt Boston.png|Traveller building, near Old State House, ca.1880s Image:Roland Worthington USA 1817 1898.png|Portrait of Roland Worthington, publisher Image:1902 Boston Traveler building SummerStreet.png|Traveler building, Summer Street, 1902 Image:1904 SummerSt Boston by DetroitPublishingCo detail 24.jpg|Summer Street, 1904 Image:1918 BostonTraveler 11Nov.png|Boston Traveler, 1918 </gallery>
==External links== {{commons category|Boston Traveler}} * Bostonian Society. Photos: ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304201645/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003873.jpg State Street] at the corner of Congress Street, ca. 1870 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305024548/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/002524.jpg Congress Street], 1872 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203922/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003707.jpg Traveller building], State Street, ca. 1874-1875 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306231021/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003580.jpg Traveller building], ca. 1880-1894 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160308132314/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003549.jpg State and Congress Streets], ca. 1888-1894 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200302/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/003582.jpg State Street], ca. 1890-1894 ** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304204059/http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/004321.jpg Demolition of Traveller's Building], 1894 * Boston Public Library. Photos: ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/5737323588/ Image of Old Traveller Building], after the alterations of the Rogers Building ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6870102263/ Photo of ''Herald Traveler'' building], 1930 ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6870103243/ Photo of ''Herald Traveler'' building and vicinity], 1930 ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6810380814/ Portrait of Austin Waldron], former ''Herald-Traveler'' cameraman, 1932 ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6956490427/ Portrait of Tony Cabral], "famous ''Herald-Traveler'' cameraman," 1932 ** [https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6956490289/ Portrait of Abe Reed], ''Boston Herald-Traveler'' photographer, 1937 * MIT Libraries. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mit-libraries/3403797309/ Photo of ''Boston Herald'' Delivery Car] on Newbury Street, Between Berkeley and Arlington Streets, 1950s
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