The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-26

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Of this metropolis has made great progress during
the last few years, and the probability is, it will
make yet greater during the next few years. We
may speak for one. During the last eighteen
months, the circulation Of the Herald has nearly dou
bed. AT this moment, we are under the necessity
OF refusing, both TO subscribers and agents, sup
ply of our paper, and also to reject great many
advertisements, for want of ROOM The machine
ry which we use throws off about 5000 copies per
hour, which is as fast as the machinery upon the
old principle can do in any part of the world. The
London Times uses the same kind of machinery
and presses; yet in spite of four of these presses in
operation in our office, are not able to supply
the demand for the Herald, neither that of the
agents IN the city, nor that Of our readers in the
different wards, at the proper time.
In consequence of this pressure and demand, we
have been under the necessity of procuring new
machinery, which will cost US over $3O, 900, and
which will be ready within fortnight or three
weeks The new steam engine is ready. 1t is
one OF the Messrs. Hoes, constructed upon new
principle, of ten-horse power, and is now fitting
up for action, in great vault in Nassau-street.
Two rotary engines are also preparing, which will
PRINT from ten to tiveive thousand sheets per hour,
either of our present size, or Of double the size.
We expect to be ready in a fortnight. In day
or two, Messrs. Hoes workmen intend to begin
setting up this machinery in the vaults of the
Herald establishment. When these arrangements
are all completed, there is no doubt that the cir
culation of the Herald will come up to 5000 or
sheets, either one or the other with the same ease
and equal rapidity.
When these arrangements are completed, we
shall then be enabled receive the advertisements
OF shipping and general mercantile business down
town, which, hitherto, in consequence of the want
OF room, has been partly excluded from our CO.
lumns. In few months, we shall publish dou-
bic sheet whenever necessary, with the same speed
as now we do single one, which will enable us
to satisfy conveniently all the demands of our ad-
vertising customers
Another important arrangement which we have
made, in conjunction with three or four of our
morning contemporaries, is the purchase of pow
erful steamer, to be employed in collecting ship
ping and general intelligence, by meeting the
steamers from Europe, and other vessels, when
necessary, beyond the Narrows, and outside the
Hook. This steamboat is called the Naushon, and
10 said to be capable Of speed of fifteen miles an
hour, and is probably worth about $4,000. 1t is
purchased by the joint action of the Herald and
three or four other morning papers, and will be
used in the place of the small boats hitherto en-
ployed by the morning papers.
This is very expensive, but will be, we doubt
not very useful enterprise, and it is rendered ne
cessary by the increase of steamers and steam
lines between the port of New York and the vari-
ports of Europe.
We also contemplate the establishing of tele-
graphic wire exclusively for the use Of the morn
ing journals, which will he connected in the enter
prise, to be extended between New York and
Washington City, and to be used solely for the
transmission of the reports of the proceedings of
Congress, and other doings there, for publication
in the newspapers here. This thing is already In
contemplation, and possibly may. soon be carried
into actien. 1t will enable the leading New York
journals to publish great length, all the proceed
ings of Congress, every morning, and will render
the newspapers at Washington altogether useless
and inefficient In fact, they may stop now, as
well as hereafter.
All these improvements will produce vast
changes in the action Of the newspaper press, and
give an influence to journalism in New York, al
most resembling that which Paris has in the rest Of
Europe. Without depreciating the efforts of 9TH
ers, We think we may say we were the first, and
the most efficient, IN newspaper enterprise among
the younger branch of the press of this city. Our
enterprise has not been confined to machinery
alone, or to mechanical operations but, also, our
Intellectual Efforts of every kind, have far exceeded
those OF any attempt that ever was made before
the establishment of the Herald. The world is
under the impulse OF various powers-steam, mag.
netsm, liberty, democracy. The newspaper press
must move al the head OF all these powers, and we
mean 10 never lag behind, but rather to be before,
any OF our contemporaries.