Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-07-13
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q gradhed to state that the DAILY EnpIan be
: attained circulation in the city and vieini
: ~ equal, IL not greater, than its moro pre-
t'ntious morning ootemporaries. Their
mast be reason for this success. Most q
, our patrons know it and to those who d
not consider the matter in its proper ligh
we will merely say that It is mainly becaus
we strive 10 give oil the news--local now
particulaFly--worth reporting. This take
labor, and the work is 10 hands that are no
idle, and that seldom weary.
In the conduct Of local sheet, ability
of high order is not ne much of reoui
site as an intditive faculty for imparting a.
interest to the columns OF the paper. Peo
pie OF an inland city do not expect the con.
dnctors of thoir local papers to produce New
York Heralds; nor do they expect them h
write long essays upon all the conceivabl,
topics embraced in the arts, sciences, theol-
ogy, snd--"the use of the globes" Wheth
or fortunate or unfortunate, the dailies O
the larger cities are thrust in upon us, ant
the news, in detail from the four corners o
the world is furnished in their ample pages
The lack Of elaboration, if any be felt, Il
supplied by these; and whether che prao
tlce Of taking the "cIty dailies" is commend.
able or not, such Is the fact, and we can no
help it We have no remedy but to create
an attraction for our journal by furnishing
an epitome Of the worlds doings, and give
the people every item ofintereat we can pre-
cure at home and its surroundings. Not
finding matters in the newspaper way as we
believe they ought to be, and as we would
be pleased to have them, we are willing to
work for the next best object--and pork
hard;--to deserve the consideration, conf.
deuce and patronage Of our ielluw oitizens,
by furnishing them respectable, interest.
ing and reliable record OF events tran spring
ut home, and in scope of country in which
we all feel mutual, neighborly interest
But we will briefly consider the prejudice
which has, from some cause which we can
not exactly understand, obtained against
evening papers. The mat ter for a morning
paper is principally prepared during the al.
ternoon or evening, The fresh news which
it comprises ID obtained after an evening pa,
per has gone to presS, comprising the in
terv.l from O'clock P. NJ. until about 10
o'clock 2. M., period Of six or seven hours.
ln this time the night reports by telegraph
are obtained. IL is delivered in the morn.
ing early, and gives its readers about seven
hours later news than tho evening paper
published OF 3 o'clock the afternoon previous.
Thai is all. The additional news may be
important, and 1t may not be. The only ad-
vantage derived is in knowing it few hours
sooner than IL received by an evening pa.
per. Practically, it makes little difference
as to what time in the day it is read.
The conductors oil an afternoon paper hay-
ing had "a good nights rest are on hand
every morning BY o'clock A. Nj, and from
that time'until the paper goes to press at 8
T. NJ, every item OF news received by mail
and otherwise, since the paper went to press
the previous afternoon and up to that hour,
is carefully prepared and inserted, The con-
ductors Of an evening paper have, then,
vide margin, and more working time con,
sequeLtly, they can furnish to citizens of an
laland place paper more peculiarly adapt
ed to their newspaper wants.
People of leisure can read paper any
time Persons who labor, and whose busi-
ness calls them away from home at an en- =
y hour in the morning, have little or no
me to read their morning paper. At night
they can have leisure to read in an evening
paper not only what they could get in a
morning paper, but an epitome of the morn
ng mail, and many interesting items which
rAnspired since 10 o'clock the night pre-.
Vious.
1t is knowledge of what we have Just
stated, together with our efforts to meet the
public expectation, which has given the Em.
pire reputation and q circulation. We
intend rebuilding our efforts, and if posi-.
ole make our paper more welcome visitor
han heretofore.