The Portland daily press., 1865-06-13
The Pregs-A Word Personal.

The fourth year OF the publication OF inc
Portland Press. daily and weekly will soon
commence. The starting Of the paper was by
many regarded as a very doubtful experiment,
though the projectors never had their CONN
] dence shaken in lis completesuccess. lthas now
ACQUIRED circulation and an advertising pat
ronage greater than ever acquired by any
other daily paper in the State, and it s.hoped
its influence for good has, been in degree
commensurate with its prosperity. The daily
and weekly editions of the Press have now
reached over 1000 copies each, and while the
former "holds its own" even under the falling
of in exciting news, the latter is rapidly in
creasing. 1850 ssMaB -
The three years. experience through which
the Press has passed, have been hard years in
: deed to achieve business success. The first Of
the three required the untiriDg efforts Of the
publishers to bring the paper up to what ordi-
a narily would be considered q paying basis, &C.
e cupied as the field was at that time by the Id
vertiser, then ostensibly devoted to the Re
publican Union cause. and generous sup
port Of the war and the administration. With
the detection Of the Adoertises. ia these re-
spects, came the arrangement Of the curren-
cy and the imitation in the prices Of materials
and labor required in the office, as well as the
8 exorbitant increase Of personal and family ex-
penses. qe,
From December, 1852, until within the past
few months. the tendency in price of all that
enters into newspaper, has been upward,
and even now, while gold has fallen long
way from its highest figure, there are very few
articles OF consumption in our business that
have declined In price at all, while those that
have declined are still from twenty-fi to
eighty per cent. more than in 1892 While
other papers, no larger, no more expensive,
and containing no more work upon them than
the Press, raised their prices to $40 and in
some instances to $12 per annum, the price Of
the Press, though for a while published at q
loss, has been kept at IS, in hope Of favora-
BILE change, and that such change would ena-
BILE the publishers to make up for the loss they
had sustained while all the auetuations in pr.
ces were operating against them.
At present, and with the present amount o.
labor expended upon the the paper, the price
Is as low as it can possibly be afforded, and
leave fair remuneration for the cost, risk and
trouble Of publication And yet the present
publishers are contemplating marked improve.
ments, designed to make the Pres more wor.
thy Of the liberal patronage which has beer
d extended to it BY the people Of the city and
State. A new dress, Of copper-faced tyre
has been ordered and is now being got ready
by those tasty type-founders, Messre. Phelp
& Dalton, of Boston, which win be introduc
ed as soon as ready probably the first Of Ju
l5s ly. With this Improvement which at thes,
times viii involve q heavy bill Of EXPENSE
perhaps fifty per cent more than in ordinary
i times,--the Press viii make very neat ant
attractive appearance, and be as pleasing t,
the eye as we hope to make it to the intelli
gent minds of its many readers.
n Wepropose, too, adding to the strength O
the paper, BY the employment of additiona
talent on the editorial stat; SO that weekly w,
IN can present the readers, In addition to III
presentordinary bill offare, a Literary raelanq.
forergn adu doinesuc correspond and
resume of the Canadian and Provincial news
Besides these features we hope to secure til,
labors OF some pen well qualified to exhibi
the needs and natural resources and adyanta
gesof our own city, for business operations
/, also regular articles on finance and bust
ness ;--so that the Portland Daily Press may
be NE paper for the merchants, mechanics and
business men Of Maine, who wish to be well
posted in matters pertaining to the interests,
( Development and prosperity of their own
State. a. -
The publishers, having the benefit of three
years. experience, feel confident of making
the Press worthy of even more widely ex-
tended circulation than 1t has yet attained to,
and they look with undated confidence 10
the people Of Maine to sustain them ia their
2 efforts to make paper that shall DO cordial
co'worker with all other agencies and instru-
mentalities for unfolding the homer and pro-
noting the prosperity Of the Pine Tree State.