The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1836-02-09
II HE HE r A L ID.
NETWORK. TUESDAY. FEB. 9, 1886.
% THE EXTRA HERALD, for Southern md
Western circulation, yesterday unaroidaby post
poaed. IL wiA be issued today, at t,co o'clock.
TO THE PUBLIC.

After days dciberation, have resolved to kick up
small bit of in politicsnot in trade
not in relgion-not in medicine, IL never take any)-
but revolution in the internal arrangement of the
HERALD have made to-day an entire change in the
disposition Of the reading and advertisements of
my saucy little paper. have changed the localities of
business news, wit, Deaths marriages. anecdotes stock
transactions and theatrical notices. including my friends
Hamblin, Chabert, Bachelor and M'Dowall. Every
thing down town is undergoing transmuatioa-why
should not the mpuden Herald
Heretofore the London daily press, and also the
American have been in the habit of disposing their
and important matter what is called the inside and
the old and uninportan the outside pages
At a glance this is evidently clumsy, inelegant and
nnphosophca arrangement. The most important
part of a paper-its eyes, face, and features-is its
editorial head-and why should not this head begin
under the general head the first pagel If indeed
newspapers published in-the ancient Hebrew,
any similar language which written from the right
10 left there might be to place the commence
of newspaper sheeton the fourth third second
page. Such is the in oars, in the other
modern European languages.
There is reason therefore in philology, well
philosophy for the arrangement which present
this day to fifty thousand readers trust they will
live Tuther thlnk ney Wll-We are
may we'll make bet of 500 that they will.
But we are not without precedent. The Paris
daily press is and always has been, arranged the
plan we have adopted Their news, reports, &C.,
have always been disposed the true principles of
philosophy, and not bunglingy thrown into confusion
as in the London papers. The Paris press is the
read-the most popular-has the widest circulation
in Europe. This arises from its nest conpesisate
small compact sze its Wits Spirits independence,
and its comparative cheapness. The New York penny
press is an organ of public sentiment efficient and
talented that of Paris, conducted a similar plan,
and managed by a similar system.
We did not intend TO adopt the plan which The
Paris press in conducted till month"; six weeks,
when shall be prepared to enlarge the Herald at
least onctrd beyond its present SIZE beyond the
dimensions of the Constitutional but great has been
the increase and influx of advertisements-all of
them too asking" give a conspicuous place.
"put me in the inside" give me a conspicuous place."
that we compelled anticipate original inten
ton by instant adoption and thus enlarge the conspcu
Gus and important advertising portion of the paper
remarkable but economical extent
Hoping by industry, good humor, and untiring effort
to render the Herald, few years, Of the first
papers in New York. or in the United States again
put down the ter and catch the broad cheering breeze
of public favor which, coming from all oins of the
compass carries our little bark over the deep with
velocity unequalled and be sneezed att the
pretty Miss Hughes used to say before she married
particular"