The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-06-25
Newspapers im the United States.

Newspapers in the United States are row so
numerous that it is we'll nigh impossible ,or any
one to remember fraction of the list End II Is
therefore with pleasure that we note tat Geo'
P. Rowell & Co., publishers of New York, have
issued a new and completely revised edition OF
their Newspaper Directory trade3o immense
as that of newspapers has had but little attention
called to it, and we have as "a peope but very
little knowledge of the immense degree oicapitai
required to carry it on. Journalists, 1t Is true
have dilated much upon the dignity aud tue
value of the press, but have studDusly aostalheu
from touching on material considerations. IL IS
the poetry, and not the prose, O. newspaper ille
which attracts the attention IT our fraternity
generally. Yet even at this W. hear much un-
trustworthy gossip relating to newspapers, and
the public evidently believe What is said to it.
We propose to supply our reiders with some OF
the plums we have extracted from this work,
perhaps supplemented by s,me things out OF our
own knowledge
The largest paper in the United States Is the
New York Independent, and it has also the largest
advertising patronage of any weekly paper IN
the country. Its editoris the best paid of any
editor of a periodical other than daily. The
largest daily is either tie New York Tribune or
the New York Journalcf Commerce which, 1t is
difficult to decide Pbe smallest daily IS the
Ithaca Leader, at Ithca n. Y. The New York
Veekly and Bonners Ledger have each more than
three hundred thousand circulation, ana exceed
any others in the United States in this respect.
Among the newspapers which are Printeu WIN
news the New York Tribune and Pomeroy's
Democrat have the greatest issue-about two
hundred thousand each-but, on the contrary
some newspapers in the South do not claim over
one hundred snd twenty. The average crcula-
ton of q weelly country paper in the Western
States is abolt six hundred and fifty, and in the
East about rine hundred. There is weekly
country pa,er in Rhode Island, however, which
has n circulation of over seven thousand. There
is one daily in New York which annually receives
over eight hundred thousand dollars year from
advertisements, and there are two others which
receive over four hundred thousand. The total
number of newspapers is 5,3l9, out of which
about i've hundred and fifty are daily. Two
hundred and ffty-eight German newspapers are
printed in the United States and British Provinces,
of which about one-quarter come from Pennsyl-
vania forty-eight are issued in French, fifteen
in the Scandinavian languages, ten in Spanish,
FIVE in Dutch, four in Italian, three IN welsh,
two in Bohemian, one in Russian and English,
and one in Chinese and English. San Francisco
has the greatest proportion of periodicals publish
ed in foreign languages, although the aggregate
number is in this proportion reversed. New
York has six German dailies two French, ana
one Scandinavian, besides twenty-three in
English The highest salary paid to an editor in
America is ten thousand year; we would not
dare to say how small the lowest is.
For information on these and other topics we
desire to recommend this book. 1t has, in ad-
dition Newspaper Rate-Book, giving the rates
of advertising in all the prominent newspapers
OF America, from which we learn that 1t costs
thirty dollars to insert an advertisement one inch
long in a certain New York paper one time; and
a number of sketches ofNen who Advertise. Men
who advertise and make money by it must of
necessity know something and the story oftheir
lives shows how they gained such knowledge
and such experience as to make their powers
available. Altogether this volume is useful both
for entertainment and for business.