New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-09

ronersI,v succeed in doing 10. know that dur
ins the lAts war Of the Union against the No
belop the Cologne Gazette intended TO establish direct
teleerapbIc communication between Germany and the
limited states In order TO become independent OF the no
torously lying Reuter- teegrams II the scheme was not
carried out IL was not the sake OF saving money In
the present all the above-named papers ENJOY the
luxury having their correspondents nj the diuer
ant headquarters The old Augsburg Gdseffe which stu
has the reputation Of being the first German journal is
anything but a newspaper Its essays, criticisms ana
reatses are written for the use Of political Students
diplomstists and newspaper editors. II Ia kind of
National Inteiigencer such that paper in It's
paly days. and Ike the SvcrGray organ Of antqated
American craftsmanship or rather odfogyism, u Is
"a remote from the centcrs Of political action Us wash
ington, d. G. .... ..... -t
The Berlin press IL not Ut all metropolitan In charae
ter, aud even behind an American inland town lke mi
cago. Even the present did not break its shniber
Nv ROYAL authority there is only reporter at the
Kings beadauarers who writes for all the papers OF
this city his letters under the signature OF n (kayseD
are published by all Of them. only o very new nave
their own reporter: here and there an occasional con
trbutor sonds an account Of important event. but
do not remember having seen single clegrapmc ds-
patch OF more than ten lines beside the ohcih ones
We canno, hclp t." say the editors whom blamed for
the meagerness and salncness OF their "a" would
not pay to procure information at the enormous expense
which the American and English papers go to for salts
flying the Unsuitable appetite OF their readers But these
gentlemen have never tried whether it will pay or not
and prefer their method Of copying from foreign es
pecially English papers. Imagine that the cap
tire Of Napoleon not published any carrier at
Berlin than at NewYork and San Francisco
The first news OF this momentous event. addressed
TO the Queen arr yed here Friday night. September p
n, II o'clock and another account reached the Minister
OF the Interior 70 O'Clock The latter instead OF send
ing at 10 the press, kept It for hiinseh ana h'
friends Thus the morning papers OF Saturday 81 dd not
contain word about that glorious success ana IL was
only at $50 IN Of that morning that extras were pub
lished have not single paper which COMPLAINED
Of this utter want Of proprety of this gross suphy
on the part OF the Government The city items OF Ber-
lin are about all the same and the papers seem 10 have
hut reporter. The editors have no iuca OF
the great Importance OF this department. which forins
the basis Of the local circulation and slowly but surely
works ON tho OF the readers True there are many
eod articles In the Berlin Journals, but on tho whole
they ara too heavy essay like that they would be
more ut to printed in weekly monthly than In
n daily PAPER The VOlks HeituHJ cheap Democratic
sheet has about 5000 subscribers and the largest erc
| lation. tho VoSSiohe zeiing, OF tho same pohtca
tendency 1900 subscribers. and the EMsa'pf
radical organ. has the smallest circulation WIN
not than 500 to 1900 subscribers The average
circulation of all the Berlin papers. at high estimate
amounts to about 5000 subscribcrs The Rdder0ddsch
by the way the best satrca and comic paper OF Europe
sells 10000 copies Would 1t have succeeded II IL had
Boon dull and amei often show TIE TRIBUNE TO pub
Ionen and newspaper editors Of this city. never shall
frget the stupidity ncredulous air which one of them
exhlBit6d when explained to him that you paid more
than 300 your Photographic dispatches OF Sept B.
Not once dozen times had to show the copy OF THB
TRIBGHe Of Sept 4. 1t went from hand to hand, ana
was returned to In a rather diapidateu
rtate;...I did not calculate upon the cirios
ity which the paper necessarily caused nut
wished to see the effect which IL made on newspaper
.ediiors- "Wel that's grand, that's extraordinary
that quite American" heard them exclam. but here
such feat Is OF the question" But whyf inter
rnptcd too poor; we have not readers
enough.v All my circumstances were in vain, in vain
an MY protests that paper like TIE TRIBUNE had its
time when it, too. could not afford such heavy expenses
that by industry thrift and sagacty step by STEP 1t had
reached It's present prosperity but that to win man
must risk and avail himself Of his opportunities and that
the only secret Of a successful newspaper was to Guido
competitors enterprising spirit and in keen per-
ception Of the political needs and tastes of its public
1t is hoped that with the progress Of Berlin the
press will lose its provincial characer and assume
larger proportions newspaper established with lOo
thsers. the American system would be an excel
lent Investment and great political benefit to Germany