The New York herald., 1876-10-28
NEW YORK HERALD SATURDAY

on Fifteenth street and Madison ard Lexington ave-
nues But tho World has Increased ITS circulation
since coming down 10 ihres Cents. Tho HERALD has
gone up third The Tribune keeps us place, but tho
Times has declined ui late
REsoRrLR--Thc. people around here are peculiar In
their newspaper tastes are they not.
Mr.. BagNrANo-les, they are quite peculiar. Soma
raDia Arser.esrs among them won't take the HERALD
because they think Is leans much 20 The Irsh apd
certain religious people avoid It because they think u
Is Too Tree and easy aud hecrodox, he blue bloods
won't handle tho san because IL supposed TO go oniy
into tenement houses aud that's the way 1t is every
man TO his taste, as The ola woman said when she
kissed her
Aner further conversation the reporter iet
curious learn sonc particulars IN the career and
fortunes OF ihe srcai pewsdcaer and the following
sketch IS the result
Mr. Angus, Brea,ano born in small village called
Hohohrhcns, IN the Austrian Iyrol, Within lew miles
OF The Rhine. His iaincr died before he born lie
had oniy an ordinary coma'on school education. Up
10 sixteen years old he was constantly H. ani Tho
effects OF thar illness s visbic his person II
was inordinatcy fond of hooks. and early collected
library OF German works Tor ans use. When ne
Was twenty hrce years old, having Already read extern
sively conccrnng America, he eit ior this country,
lhocgh having neither tfade nor profession, aud
undecided as TO how he snould make living IN the
Western worlc Hcsrrved IN November. 1893, and
went TO rcsidc With an American family in brooklyn
lie there attended. pubic school with
the ouOcct OF acquiring tho Englisn language
The teachers were kind to HIM and aided his earnest
caorls 70 learn lhe foreign tongue SO that alter SIX
monhs no was toleratly proficient IN us use. He had
landed with $780, aud this was now all exhausted
ihcu he conceived The idea OF selling newspapers, and
took papers from there to Offices down town, where he
secured number OF customers. From Wilmer Il
Rogers, NO a Nassau street. nj that ime importers OF
English periodicals., hs bought few ,opics OF tho
illustrated london Neios and !fch, from another
dealer n Nassau street he purchased few copies Of
Uarpcr's Magazine. These he pedded around among
the Insurance companies, bankers ana steam.
skip offices at Bowling Green and lower Broadway.
After while, through the active interest oil Mr.
Fowler, dccensed, and then Postmaster ut New
York city, he permitted 10 have Il stand at
the New York Hotel. on Broadway. Mr.. Fowler took
1 ~ u nero
email hut whose condnct was exemplary and ambition
! pure and honest There he secured good many
toners ana began 10 have list ot regular subscr
In lso5 The Lalarge House opened and he estab-
lsued stand outside the hotel ana there he made his
| first strike The Burdcll Cunningham gong
OIL and he sod thousands OF papers daiy the HERALD
as usuai, ranking hlghes, on his list.
| Subsequently, lie moved TO tho Revere House. corner
OF Houston street and Broadway, then called the SIN III
sonian. Here he improved upon his previous good
iofinne and issued tor Tho first tnc On the part or
any ncwslca,cr bulletins containing the latest news
OF Tho day. which attracted .hc notice OF tho
has ing UP and down great horou People
went blocks out OF their way 10 read Brentanos bull
lctins which were written by himself ia largo fow
1 lug hand, c.ear as type
10 next moved to No. $50 Broadway near Blocker
strcck at the beginning o the rcbeliion. Extras
out at eleven O'Clock the night uf tho day that Sumter
was nrcd on, and many Of the most noted people Of
Now York waited NJ Brcntanos store or tho extras
Al this tlmo Mr Brcnauo Kept stock OF all the lead
ing periodicals OF Great britain and France,
besides besides al 1hS leading neNMspapers sN, Q, tho
ard Sayers he made a great ht At that time there
was not tclegraphic communication between America
ana England, and the arrival OF the steamer
impaiicntiy awaited Brcntano had provided ior Iha
emergency and tho day ci the steamers arrival he had
hs soro Ses I ppass WIKI p, Of e %imG,
(which printed on beard the steamer coming over
nnd tho New York Clipper temporarily satisfied tho
| Immediate and craving demand OF the public. Over
1000 papers were SOLD that day. some OF thcm going as
| high as 81 apiece.
in 1870 no moved up on Union square, finding Il
necessary, owing to tie TACT that his customers werc
| gong up town. Here he opened a place at No 33 on
the west SIDE wherc he remained hye years, and then
shifted thrcc doors higher up 10 No. 39, wherc tho
| rent was less exorbiiant Hc is now dong the most
| nourishIng business OF any man his line In New
/ YORK. There Is hardly fashionable family IN tho
city 10 whom he does not supply books ana periodicals.
He supplies all the loading clubs the Union, the knick-
| tho Gotham Clsb and Xavier Union. He supplies all
| the papers that Demonco Keeps on nf. Tho
leading capitalists clergymcn, lawyers, Judges,
| A. Oakley Hall, Augustin Daily, Lester waliack Miss
Ada Dyas, Miss Koogg, Dion Bouccault, Bret Aarsc.
| Mrs John Sherwood, James Parton, Ehurlow Weed
Professor Botta, Professor Youmans, Royal Phelps,
General do Pcyster, General Mcdowell ex Governor
DIX, James N Hart, Marshall o. Roberts, T. w slough
ton, Airs. Commodore Vanderbilt, Judge Hilton, Rev.
| Dr. Chapn, DR.. Morgan, Or. John Hall and host
OF other prominent people among his subscr
ln ola times, when he was poor and struggling no was
accustomed, winter and summer, 10 go down town nj
haii-past three O'Clock in the morning 10 the news
paper offices or his bundle o papers to as,r butte
! around among his customers Now he employs four.
teen clerks among whom arc three OF his nephews
sons OF a brother who died In Cincinnati ia 1873 o.
| cholera He treats his employees well, and three o
4 them havc been with him ior periods OF nitcen and
seventeen years
i All the ioreign Ministers when In town, and espc
cally thos- OF spain and Costa Rica visit his cslab
llshmen and all the Foreigners who stop at the Bre
TO HIM for their supplies books
/ aud papers. Horace Greeley was an old patron and
friend, and Bayard Taylor continues 10 be the same.
| Mr.. Brentano Is forty years OF age, wears
bushy sido whiskcrs and mnstache, has large eyes,
like Henry Ward Beccher, Is low sized and Stout and
! has very amiaole and prcpossessing manner he ID
unmarried aud IS probably worth 5000, 000 He keeps
the fullest and freshest supply o books and periodicals.
/ in the country.