New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
a CORRECTION,

TIE TRIBUNE has for many years utterly
refused to have any wrangles with rivals
about circulation 1t has long advocated law
compelling the publication of sworn statements
of circulation monthly or quarterly, and VIII
hail the day when such law can be secureu
and vigorously enforced. Till then, 1t refuses
any competition with tho imaginative hgures
to which it is the peculiar pleasure OIL weaker
papers Of tho second or third class
TO resort. The character of circuiauon
a. all advertisers thoroughly understand ID
matter of even greater Importance than ltS
quantity and we presume that no sagacious
business man entertains doubt that no othcr
daily and weekly newspaper in the country
counts among its readers 80 great numDer
of the most intelligent, active. and enter
prising men in their various walks OF lie as
those who buy the different editions OF The
TRIBUNE.
Ignoring, az we therefore do, the whole
range of irresponsible disputes ana DoastS
in some other papers about circulation, re-
cent bunder nevertheless seemed too extra
ordinary to be entirely overlooked. through
some preposterous mistake Newspaper d.
rectory, assumed to be in some sense auth0rl-
tatiye, in formal statement lately placed the
circulation of THE TRIBUNE at point
which it passed tioenty-one gears ago, and mas
not been anywhere in sight of since. Inc
attention of its publishers having been called
to their error, and to the real facts. duly
authenticated, they have voluntarily addressed
to us the following correction:
| 70 tie Editor OF The Tribune
SIR: The following will appear as an editorial
paragraph in The american Newspaper Reporter issue
of June 49, and in monthly, Tho Adrertisers Ga
zette, for July. The Reporter goes weekly to all
American newspapers, and The Gazette for July will
be placed in the hands of our list of moro than 1900
advertisers We remain, your obedient servants
GEO. Z. HOWELL & Co.
| Ne,o- York, June 8, 1874.
"THy TRIBUNE Association have satisfied us that
the circulation of THE DAILY TRIBUNE has not been
nearly SO low as stated in the Directory for this
wear since 1853 and that its circulation is more than
5000 copies higher than it was one year ago. when
| it was estimated by us at 10000 copies"
The actual figures would have warranted
an even stronger comparison. 1t is fact
well known to news agents that The TRIB-
UNE has steadily advanced in circulation dur
ing and since the panic-a circumstance
which has probably been very rare
during the same period in the expe-
riencc Of newspapers anywhere IN this
country; and the real increase is considerably
understated in making comparison as above
between the circulation now, Tin the beginning
of Summer and after an excessively dull and
pinching SEASON. and that in mld-winter year
ago. But we prefer to keep below rather than
above the actual average; and. with the pub
| lication of the above voluntary correction,
dismiss a subject to which we are not
likely to recur, with two remarks We
assure our friends that their favorite
journal never received more gratifying
encouragement and support. We assure en-
vious rivals that meddling with other peoples
business only to falsify it, instead of attend
ing to their own, is not the way either to
| fortune or public esteem.