The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-26
EVENING NEWSPAPERS.


VARIOUS circumstances have combined, of
late years, to largely increase the circulation,
influence, and attractiveness of evening news
papers. In Madrid the favorite daily news
paper makes its first and only appearance at
about nine o'clock in the evening, full of the
news of the very day it is printed, up to the
latest possible moment, and it is hailed with
delight in all social circles, the custom being
to read it in the hours of leisure which imme-
diately precede retirement This system has
not yet been established in the United States,
but there is constant tendency to gradually
approach it. In this busy age few men
have much time to read in the morning.
Whether they are laborers, mechanics, mer-
chants, manufacturers, or bankers, they must
hurry to their respective places of business,
and devour the contents of morning journals
at hurried intervals, casting hasty glance
over the various departments, but lacking
time and opportunity to thoroughly examine
any page or any complete set of articles.
Late in the afternoon, after the work of the
day is finished, as well as in the evening,
after the last meal is consumed, there is
always time for rest and reading, and for
intellectual entertainment that may be pro-
vided. A gentleman very actively engaged in
business in this city said to us recently that he
could rarely afford to devote more than few
minutes of any morning hour to the perusal
of morning journals, while in the evening he
rarely failed to spend several hours in reading
evening newspapers; and a fair parallel to his
experience is furnished in hundreds of in
stances.
moving cause of the increasing amount
of favor and patronage bestowed upon even
ing newspapers is to be found in the large
extent to which they anticipate news pub
lished in morning journals. 1t might, per-
haps, have been said some years ago that
evening newspapers were prone to be reprints
of morning journals; but this state of affairs
is now practically reversed. The edition of
The EVENING TELEGRAPH delivered by car
riers does not 60 to press until nearly four
o'clock P. M, and it embraces all the news of
each day up to that period. This includes
important proceedings before the courts, the
prices of stocks, a record of local events, news
received by mail from every quarter, together
with full supply of late telegraphic intelli-
gence from every portion Of the globe.
When Congress is in session, nearly all its
important proceedings are published on the
day on which they transpire, and at all times
we are enabled to give comprehensive re.
cord of the exciting labors and incidents that
have occurred during the working hours OF
each day to our readers before they retire tc
rest. This is not only true of all local
State, and National news, but especially
true of foreign news. The difference il
time between the Old and New Worlds tells
in favor of the evening newspapers. W.
need not enlarge upon this point further thar
to state that we can receive by one o'clocl
p. M. an account of anything known in Lon
don up to six o'clock P. nj. of a given day
and before we go to press every importan
event that has transpired in any part of Eu
rupe up to from six to eight o'clock p. M. o
that day is communicated to our readers.
The full force of the statements mad
above can only be understood by thos
patrons of the editions of The EVENING TELE
GRAPH delivered by carriers who are also il
the habit of reading one or more mornin
journals. They can estimate for themselve
how large proportion of tn
current news of every description
first brought to their motto
by the contents of our columns. But if tn
whole reading public of Philadelphi
thoroughly appreciated the extent to whic
the morning news is thus.anticipated by th
evening journals, tens of thousands of ne
patrons would be added to our already larg
list-not merely because the evening is th
best time to read under the present soci'
system, but because the latest and freshes
news of the time is now supplied by evenin
newspapers