Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-02-07
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Albany Ddtty Khicterbocker, Albany EUening
TfGnscript, and Albany Morning Express, have
mutually agreed between each other, in
quence of the rapid advance in the price of paper
and labor, to increase the price Of their respective
papers from six cents per week to ten cents-sin-
gle copies two cents. We believe a similar
movement among all papers would be sensible
one.''
The above item, which we copy from one of
our exchanges, announces fact, which has been
forced upon the publishers spoken Of, as aeces-
sity, growing out Of the state Of the times, and
which must become necessity with others, as
well as with them. The lime when those,
which are called penny papers can be issued at
profit, ia the style in which the public require,
has gone by, and the Albany papers in advancing
their rates as to correspond with The great ad-
yances in the prices of labor, materials, and the
cost Of living, must or later be followed by
the publishers Of such papers in other cities. In
TACT the publishers Of other large cities already
moving in the matter, and all who expect to pros
per as they have done, must inevitably follow in
the wake of the Albany publishers and advance
their prices.
Among others, the Boston Transcript announ-
ces that after the first of July lis terms will be
fire dollars per annum, instead of four. The ed
itor trulhlully remarks that "there is no class o.
mechanics that realize so small profit at the
present day, as the publishers Of newspapers -
. The white paper upon which the Transcript is
printed costs 10 per year, for each subscriber;
add expense of collecting, 6 per cent, and the
hove hat cort bo hon la
boz, editing and publishing. Out of this small re-
mainder ISL ,66) they pay for the services of car
rers to deliver the paper at the residences of sub
scribers in every part Of The city, Roxbury,
Charlestown, and Cambridge, three hundred and
ten iimesa year"
The Transcript is about The same size as this
paper. We have made careful estimate, and
we find that the cost of paper, press-wOrk,
folding, distributing, and collecting, for the Spy,
amounts TO more than the price get for it,
leaving for the cost of composition, rent, wear Of
materials, clerk hire, editing, &C., only what we
may receive from advertising. In other words,
it costs us more, after we have got our forms set
and prepared to GO TO press, than all we get from
subscriptions, and sales Of the paper; so that the
larger our circulation may be, the worse it is for
US, and, instead of gaining by an increase of
subscriptions, our profits are increased by dimin-
ishing them.
We suppose that we have very few readers
who are so unreasonable as to expectus TO contin-
this state Of things, for any great length ofhme
If there are any, however,we must shortly disaP-
point them; for, without any reference TO what
others may do, or may have done, we have made
up our minds TO enhance the price Of our daily, so
that it shall pay US, as heretofore, living profit
We do not intend however to advance our price,
without afording to our readers more than cores
pondng advantages. Indeed, we have been
looking forward, for some, time in anticipation of
the time, when the growth of city and the
demands of the community would require a first
class daily paper-such an one as is not publish
ed in any place, and cannot be, for one cent each
That time, we believe has fully come, and we
believe that the community is prepared to support
paper, which can give larger amount Of read
ing matter, fuller digest ofthe news of the day,
both foreign, and domestic, ample reports of the
state of the markets, the price of stocks, &C.,
&c, than with our present limited space it would
be possible for Us to do.
We have therefore determined, on before the
frsu of March next, to issue the Daily Spy upon
sheet Of greatly enlarged dmensons and with near
Iy double the quantity of reading matter in each
number, that we furnish at present. To this end,
we have procured suit Of type throughout,
contracted fora permanent supply Of paper, Of sI.
perior quality, and made other arrangements, by
which we shabe able more fully TO meet the wishes
of the great majority Of readers and better sat-
isfy ourselves. There is no city IN Union, of the
size OF Worcester, that has not at least one large
first class daily newspaper, and there is no good
reasor, apparent to us, why city possessed of the
shoud'be behind others in this particular. So far
as concerned, we intend that it shall not be.
We have had some experience in journalism, we
think we know what the public needs, and we In
tend furnish paper that will be worth the money
we shall ask Tor it. Our subscription list, at the
present time larger by hundreds, than it has
ever been before; indeed, we believe, that out Of
Boston, il is the second IN New England, and is
steadily increasing; but, say it canddly, we
have no wish for any more subscribers al present
price. While we should be glad to retain all the
old ones, and receive great many new ones for ouI
enlarged sheet, we expect, of course, that there
WILDE some falling OF. Sill we do not apprebend
that this will be more THAI temporary. On the con-
trafy, we expect in the end, TO have largely IN
creased list Of paying subscribers, and extend our
circulation, still more widely than heretofore, through
nil the tOwns in the county.
A CRY MARKET.-On Thursday evening, I'll
inst, meeting was held in the school house at
Tatnuck, Benz Fiagg, Esq, IN the char, for the
purpose OF inducing city government to establish
public market. Resolutions passed, setting
forth the advantages that would accrue both to the
growers OF produce, an the citizens, by having
public market; and petition was adopted, 10 con.