The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-12-13
CATHOLIC MESSENGER SUNDAY DECEMBER 49, 1874
New York Newspapers and Periodicals.

No intelligent person is rash enough now
to call in question the unquestionable
superiority of the great daily newspapers of
New York over all other newspapers printed
in America, whether comparison be made
upon their merits as vehicles of news or
their influence upon public opinion
throughout the country. Everybody who
has facts or opinions which he wishes to
get widely disseminated sends them to a
New York newspaper, and every body who
aims to keep we'll abreast with the current
intelligence of the world reads regularly
one or more New York newspapers. New
York is nothing if not mcrocosm of the
United States, and the great daily news
paper of New York is daily renewed
most prominent feature in the foreground.
Upon the enterprise of New York's great
newspapers, aud the infinite variety of
reading to be found in the columns of each
of them, endless chapters might be written
without exhausting the subjects. AS our
only reason for abiding to them here is
to clinch, az it were. the logical nail which
has already securely and prominently
fastened up the supremacy of it in New
York as the centre of the publication bust
ness, we refrain from writing such chap
ters. Boston and Philadelphia papers,
though excellent in their way, neverthe-
less compare with New York papers very
compares with calcium light upon hill.
The New York papers are seen from a
vastly further distances and cast their
lights over an infinitely wider area. The
dimness of Philadelphia papers may be
partly explained and excused by the fact
rivals. It is q Fundamental principle of
optics that the intenaity of light varies in
versely as the square Of the distance, and
the closer adventurous newspaper publish
ers come to New York the smaller is the
chance that the light which they set up
will be observed of men: 1t is the peculiar
| misfortune of Philadelphia editors that, in
the newspaper business at least, that city
is merely a suburb of New York, for the
worthy citizens of Philadelphia get the
New York papers served regularly every
morning with their matutinal eggs and
toast. Boston and Philadelphia papers of
course find it necessary to keep New
| York correspondent as regular member
of their staff, but regular daily crrespond-
ence from other cities, except from Wash
| ington, during. the greater portion of the
year, is not an essential feature of New York
| Journalism. With these general facts in view
it is not surprising that the number of widely
circulated New York Papers far exceeds
the mum Der of similar papers in other cities.
The statistics have it that there are thirty
eight newspapers published in New York
which claim circulation of more than 20 DOC
copies to thirteen papers making similar
claim in Boston and ten in Philadelphia
Judged by its newspapers, New York has
a larger lump of religious leaven in it thar
either of it's somewhat Pharisaical neighbors
There are tifty-four religious newspaper
published in New York to twenty one pub
lshed in Boston and twenty-five pu blisheG
in Philadelphia. There are 100 minor
newspapers published in New York to forty
of like kind printed in Boston, and forty
| in philoAalnhio Tho toy
character of New York publications is vel
illustrated by the fact that it prints twenty
two papers in foreign languages, Will,
Boston prints but two and Philadelphia
but nine in other than the ancestral Eng
lish tongue. The fact is that every bust
society and sect, has its special organ il
New York. The engineers, artists, build
ers. architects, insurance men, sanitariane
Spiritualists, and foundry men, phrenolo
gists and bankers, turfmen and what not
all have one or more papers in New Yorl
they are especially interested. Hence thu
multiplicity aad hence, indirectly, th'
wide knowledge and excellence of New
York periodicals of every sort. There are
1913 monthlies, eighteen semi monthlies anG
IL by monthlies and quarterlies published
in New York. There are but So monthlies
semi monthlies, and BIZ monthlies ant
quarterlies published in Boston. Philade
phia has 60 monthly and semi montbly
and quarterly publications. Thes,
figures give total of l56 periodicals (othe
than weeklies and dalies) published il
New York, to 60 in Boston, and 70 in Phil
adelphia, giving New York % more period
icaIs than are published in Boston ant
Philadelphia together.
EDITING A NEwsrAPER.-The following