The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-04-30

Sachems in making up his mind as to who
should hold the important stations OF the
government
The High Tide-The Business OF tho
Herald.
Our last Sundays HERALD marked the
highest tide of business ever reached by this
newspaper. This is an event that belongs
as much to the history of the city as to our
selves. As such we record it. Those who
have watched the varying tides in the adj
vertising columns Of paper like the
HERALD, which represents the wishes OF q
community like New York, have noted that
the largest newspaper business is attained
about Easter. We SO notice it in our bust
ness. So unvarying is this coincidence
that upon comparing the files OF the
HERALD for some. years past we find
that the largest days business comes in the
same month and about the same day. Those
who take any interest in the theory of coin
cidences will find this worthy Of study as m
instructive manifestation of the progress of
New York. We have noticed also that while
the business Of the HERALD is, as an invaria-
BILE thing, larger in this season than others,
each year shows an increase over the preced-
ing. Sometimes we have observed the effect
of business depression, especially in the
years of panic or general distress. But this
year, as an evidence of the general business
prosperity we note the important fact that
we reached on the 23d Of April the highest
point ever known in the business of the
HERALD.
Such papers as last Sundays HERALD and
the issue of to-day are study, especially
to all who study the growth Of great me-
tropolis We printed on Sunday last $3.50
separate advertisements, an increase of about
three hundred over the issue of the previous
Sunday, and of about five hundred and fifty
over the corresponding Sunday in 1875.
These advertisements were classified under
seventy-three headings, each representing
some special department in business The
real estate covered Brooklyn and West
chester and New Jersey, including three
hundred and sixty advertisements. The
auction sales embraced seventy-nine, pre-
senting all manner of articles, from the pic
lures in Blodgetts collection to the furniture
in Delmonicos famous Chambers street house.
Religion found expression in thirty notices,
while the amusements rose to seventy-six,
showing that Moody and Sankey did not
convert oil of us, SO far as the theatres were
concerned. The dry goods dealers, who are
becoming our real merchant princes in this
republican metropolis, came into our col
umns with forty-two advertisements telling
all the world what it should buy and wear.
The wants numbered four hundred and
fifty, and covered every department of
business and employment. While ''fnan-
cial and business opportunities were one
hundred and twenty-seven-one hundred
and twenty-seven ways to make money,
from the lady who wanted to Dor
row sixty dollars ''for three months"
to the capitalist who was anxious to
lend q million. In this enumeration were
chances for partnerships and opportunities
to buy into almost every kind Of business,
from opening q grocery to printing news
paper. The boarding columns showed
four hundred and forty-fve persons who
either wanted homes or had homes
to offer. There were ffty-eight ''rooms
wanted" and thirty-one steamship lines
to Europe and along the coast. The
horse and carriage trade required one hun
dred and ffty-ive advertisements, while
there were forty-fve special notices, from
the compound which removed hairs" from
the faces of the ladies to that which
strengthened the boards" on the faces Of
gentlemen. Finally, there were ten marriages
and sixty-nine deaths The youngest soul
called home was ag6d one month the Oldest
eighty-seven years.
There could be no more suggestive picture
Of the busy hour in which we live than
journal like the HEnAID of to-day and of last
Sunday. Here all the world comes hurry
ing, as it were, each voice with its own
story-some in want, some in expectation,
some in joy and others in distress The poet
might, if he gave way to his imagination,
speculate upon the voices that arise from
these broad and widely-reaching pages
from the voice Of sorrow which mourns first
born, to the shrili trumpet call which sum-
mons us to the field of Agincourt, there to
fight again with the bold King Harry
and his valiant band. 1t is great city call
ing out to the world. In that sense paper
like the HERALD of to-day and like the Lon
don Times on similar occasions has dig
nifty and power far above that which comes
from the aggregation of news and the ex-
preston of editorial and critical opinions.
1t is the voice of the living hour, and we see
in its volume the strength and wholesome
quality of that business prosperity which
comes with the spring, and which we trust
to see continued during this centennial year.
Religions Press Topics.
Our religious exchanges have not tired yet
extolling the labors of Moody and Sankey at