The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-07


Have you any protection, In the nature of copy
right, TO yeur news Not the least; the moment IT
is out anybody can take IT, and they do take IL and
There is no precaution at al taken against pira-
cy Mo- We only take this precaution; We have,
for instance, very important piece of Information,
which has cost US 900 dollars. We win suppose
that two journals take charge Of the foreign news
and two journals take charge Of another part of the
news; and the journals having charge OF it, when
they send the news round to the others, say, This
journal of the combination will let copy 60 out of
the office till the hour named it is in the hands OF
the carriers; but it is not allowed to 60 cut till the
hour named, and thus nobody can get it.
there would be continued demand for your paper
if you were the only one Who could communicate it;
and, for given period, that demand would con-
tinue, and you would keep striking of your copies
ing incurred the first expense Of obtaining that
news, to issue it for any period Mot for mo-
ment-anybody may print it-but the public are
apt to take the paper which has the first news.
They give the preference to the parties who have
obtained the news first, and in practice piracy does
not infict injury upon you 81 would choose that
they should print 1t rather than not; they cannot
sell as We could. The ta,t that certain journals
have the earliest news becomes notorious, and
almost every wants his ne wspaper with his break
fast, delivered between the hours OF five and half
past seven. They take the morning papers to read
with their breakfast, those who take the news
after issue it have it in time to deliver it
to q very large number in suitable morning sea-
SOD, and We regard 1t as of no consequence.
Mr. EwART-Does the interest OF the intel ugence
evapora.e so soon Not that; bat subscriber
must have the paper at gives him his news IL the
morning before he goes 70 his work
You retard the publication o! ne VS. sometimes =
Yes, when we have important intelligence
Is not that an inconvenience TO the public we
get them out in regular way, bat We do not let
a copy 20 out of the hands of our confidential
agents TIL the hour, gay of five O'Clock in the
morning.
CHAIRMAN-At wnas rate can you print the Neo
York Tribune Our press will work but 10000 an
hour there is one faser gnt cylinder, which
will work q, 900, they say; call it $4,000.
Mr. CoBpEN--Do you believe that there is press
at work in New York which will print Is goo copie;
an hour Yes; have seen It at work, and it will
throw off as fast men can feed sheets upon it.
Have you seen the press that is used for the
Times ?-Yes. -
Do you consider that the press a. New York
prints with rapiGty tnan the one at the Times
Office Yes the press az the Times is fed on what
wo ud call drum vertical cylinder; We feed
horizontal cy finders directly on and around our
greater or type cylinder One man stands over the
top, and another below, and so on, feeding, and tae
four cylinders are ei each side of The large cy
Under, ON which the form revolves, anu they feed
the four paper cylinders, one above the other, on
each side of the large cylinder; the sheets are laid
and over on the face as fast as the great
der be turned, and every time 1t makes one re-
volution it has printed eight journals.
Is that machinery used by the proprietor OF
penny paper les nanpehny ne"spapsl' 'ae
Must not that require the of considerable
capital !-Yes; the SUI, concern Is wortA quarter
of million os dollars, 10000 were given tor it.
DO you speak or copyright and plant There
was very little property besides. 1t was sold for
quarter Of a million OF dollars, and 1t was very
cheap.
Fifty thousand pounds for halfpenny paper!-
Yes
What is the crcGlationl-Fifty thousand; but
the circulation is very light matter; there Is no
proft upon that; but the advertising would be,
suppose, eco day, or 600 day.
Could you furnish the committee with some sta
tistieal Information To the ne wspaper press OF
America!-les, when our census returns are pub
lished. | should say that the whole number OF
journals printd in the United States is about 3oOO
now Ifyou count for instance, one daily, with its
weekly and semi weekly, all as one paper, the num-
Der is 2 500 journals published
Are there 500 with distinct and separate titles!
Yes, distinct establishments of which about Z,OOO
ere devoted to general intelligence and politics,
and the others are devoted to science, religion, and
education.
And they are published at all intervals, from
once day TO once q mon.h!-Yes, some twice or
thrice day.
Mr.. EwAkr--Your principal profit is derived
from advertset nts 1t not!--fe on daily papers
CHAIRMAN-With reference to the Sun paper,
you stated, in your last examination tina. the cir
culaton large, bur that the prol. derived there
from was from the adveftsingl-The profit Is
nothing on the circulation will state how, IN our
the prices very much less for Advertising Inc
prices range from p cents up To any amount, that
Is to say, % cents is .he lowest; for instance, the
advertisement o: religious meeting, or any public
gathering, will be some Is cents, or Is Of the
money Of this country the consequence is, that the
amount Of their advertisements is enormous.
Every religious meeting, or meeting to take
place Of any religious society, benevolent or
philantbropic advertised in all the journals, and
forms a very large proportion Of ous receipts,
though the receipts, in each case, are very small
We regard those as portion oil the news OF the day
ard advertising which assesses pubic interest,
is done at less pace than advertisements intended
for the pecuniary prcft Of the advertiser
Now an advertisement duty would destroy new
papers. Its operation is this your duty is the
same on an advertise men. IN journal where
il is worth ten times as much, for instance in
journal Of $4,000 circulation, as la journal with
1000 although the value Of the article is twenty
timCs as much in the one as in the other; the
duty operates precisely though you were to lay
tax Of Is. q day on every days labor that a man
were to do on q mans labor which Is worth, say
IS II would be destructive; while by that man who
earns Dos, IL would be very lightly felt. IL would
entirely destroy new papers An Advertisement Is
worth but certain amount, and the public soon
get an idea what il is worth you put duty on
advertising, and you prevent any advertisements
coming to a new establishment. To those people
who advertise in the Sun and our well established
Journals they could afford in charge price to in
clude the duty. and do very well but in q new
cor Germ the advertisements would not De worth the
amount Of the duty, and the consequences would be
il would be utterly witnheld. Nov the advertise
ments are one main source Of the value Of daily
papers, and thousands OF business take them 10
mainly for those advertise mentJ For instance, at
one time, in New York, suctioneers were APP
poiniei by law and OF course party politicians.
and one journal, which was high in the confidence
of the party in power, obtained not law bat an I'M
Outstanding that all the aucioDeers arpointed should
advertise in that Journal Now, though that journal
has ceased to be Of that party, and the auctoneers
ere no longer appointed by the state, yet that
journal has almost q monopoly Of the aucti)neers
business, because at certain time all the aucton-
pers were obliged to advertise n that paper; con-
sequently, all the men who buy and sell at auction
we're obliged TO taxi the paper and now, although
the necessity has gone away, yet sill every adver-
tiser by auction mu advertise IN that purnsi, oe
cause be knows that purchasers are looking thore,
and every purchaser BY auction must take that
journal in, because he kaows that tho advertise
uents by auction viii be there, without regard 70
the goodness Of the paper, but simply because Of