The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-23
Successful Journalism. j.

1OTk uAllleb, lWlCe week now IL
obliged to issue q mammoth double shee
to accommodate the demands of its ad
vertising patronage.
Another remarkable instance of jour
nalistic success is the Chicago Tribune
which, though 1t lost everything in the
fire but It's editors, its subscription lists
and its reputation, has been fully re. e.estab
lished and is apparently doing greater
business than ever before. Its columns
are SO crowded by advertisers that It Is
obliged to issue supplemental sheets al.
most daily.
Indeed, there seems to be remRrka'
bio and Uniform prosperity just now at.
tending all the leading metropolitan jour.
nails Of the country, The great New
York dailies, Tribune, Times, World and
Herald, tho Cincinnati Gazette and Com
merciaI, 81. Louis Democrat and the Cleve-
land Herald and Ledder come to us every
day or two with supplemental sheets.
There has never been an era that this
generation knows anything about, when
tho daily press was so magnificent in its
excellence. Each copy Of papers like the
New York Tribune, Times or Herald is q
marvel of intellect and enterprise. Equal
in contents to whole volume; rejecting
the notable events throughout the whole
world tho day before and up to an hour
or two before 1t Is laid on the early break.
last table of the artisan; discussing with
marvellous skill every current topic of in.
quiryi reporting all that Is done In gov
ernment, In finance, commerce, literature
in a word, epltomizlng the whole civil
lied world, In all it, multiludinous inter-
ests and eVents-it Is afforded at u price
that puts 1t In tho hands of the poorest
man in town or country. Wehavc before
us as we write copies of a paper issued 70
years ago, little larger than foolscap
sheet, brown with age, quaint in their
typography and no less quaint in con.
tents, This was long before the era OF
railroads and of telegraphs. What little
news these venerable literary rellcts Of
two generations ago afford, Is weeks and
months old at tho date OF It's appearance
European news from three to four
months, and home news, brought by
courier, as many weeks Put these little
old musty chronicles of nm age that has
passed almost out Of tho memory Of the
living, beside the great blankets sheets
of yesterday, with all the world
of the day before mlrrored in
their columns, and how striking, how
suggestive the contrast Could one of the
old fellows who put in week absorbing
tho contents Of one Of these now venerable
little sheets, which they then no doubt
thought miracles of ofcnterprlse, have fallen
asleep, like Rp VAN WINKLE, and have
walked to-day to make tho comparison we
arc making, how long think you, gentle
reader, II would take him to comprehend
the change and recover from his astonish.
ment2
The journalism Of these times Is, rs we
deem it, the grandest achievement Of the
age. Such journalism only became possible
upon the discoveries Of steam and tele-
graph. five could put ourselves in the
places Of those who lived before these dis.
coverics were made, and could realize how
then was tho conception that all
tho details of a great battle fought on the
Continent Of Europe could DO known on
this Continent before the dead were
buried or the wounded cared for, VIC
might be able, Us VIC certainly now are
not, to Orealize our own relation to-day to
the journalism Of the future. Has the
newspaper reached itslimit OF excellence ?
or will fresh discoveries in future endow
II with new capacities that We now have
no more conception Of than our great.
grandiathers had Of telegraphYH