The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-09-13

newspapers of Abbeville, in Alabama,
would be found on the first shelf, and
and those of Laramie City, in Wyo'
ming, on the last; but anybody in diff;
ficulties has only to apply to one of the
eight superintendent, who, call pine
apples of politeness," are ready to exc.
cute his orders as ifthey bodily belong.
ed to him. If he would like to take
notes or write, he has, in two galleries
which run round the upper part of the
building, his choice of some thirty
desks with pen, ink, and paper, all pro
vided, of course, gratis; or if he has Ia
dies with him, or friends with whom
he wants to have a perfectly private
chat, there are at his disposal two or
three private rooms comfortably fitted
up. The visitor is, in fact, so spoiled,
that before he has been in the build
ing five minutes, he begins to feel him.
self injured because he cannot order at
the usual prices of the establishment
an iced cocktail" and a bath.
1t will not, l hope, detract from the
merits Of this pleasant home and ref.
uge for the warm and weary readers
of newspapers to mention that it is an
advertisement, since no attempt is
made to disguise the fact. II is fact
which, however harmless in itself, is
in America too often mixed up with
lofty professions and motives, thejuxta-
position with which makes it ludicrous,
to say nothing worse.
But the proprietors of the Centenni-
al Newspaper Building are avowedly
advertising agents-the largest, be-
lieve, in all America-Messrs. G. P.
Rowell & Co., of New York. Their
enterprise will cost altogether about
$40, 900, or $4,000, including the
building and the expenses of running
il for six months. How much comes
out of their pockets l cannot say, as
they have been largely subsidized by
some of the leading American papers
But they have the management of the
enterprise, and will naturally get the
lions share of the glory. 1t will GER
tainly make their names known all
over America, in corners which it may
never have reached before. For the
Americans are newspaper readers to
man-almost 10 a child; nor indeed
does one need to be an American to ap-
preciate the opportunity Of resting in
comfortable room, in order to read
the latest news from ones home.
have seen quite young children in the
building coming their papers as stead
lily and attentively as any of the adult
voters around them. 1t is possible,
admit, that they were reading one Of
the newspapers for children, of which
q large number are published in Amer
lea. One of them, according to tn,
catalogue issued by Messrs. Rowell
has a circulation of $4,000. Tn,
5000 and odd American newspaper
are declared by the same authority Il
exceed "the combined issues of all tn
other nations of EARTH" One is some
what surprised to find that of this mum
Der no less than 6, 235, or more thar
three-fOurths, are weekly. Some O
them belong to classes to which in Eng
land the word newspaper" woul'
scarcely be applied, and to which evel
Webster's definition of a newspape
as a "sheet of paper printed and dis
tributed at short intervals for convey
ing intelligence of past events" woul
not permit it to be applied. Such ar
the semi-monthly publications (1O5)
the. monthly GAO, and even the guar
terly (6O. The State of New Yor
naturally supplies the largest number
1878; in the city alone there are cor
siderably over 400. Next comes Penn
sylvania with 73S, Philadelphia cor
tributing over 100. Then come Ohio
Iowa, Missouri, and Indiana, all on
stripping, one is surprised to find, tbs
model State and center of enlightel
ment, Massachusetts,, though she issue
nearly $50. 1t is worthy of remar
, that the West, young and raw as it i
r seems more go ahead and enterprisin
3 in journalism than the refined and vel
cradle East. California already ranl
l fourth in the number of its dailie
5 For five years six new journals, on a
8 average, have been started in Amer
a ca every day; but as old ones die ou
r the actual increase during that tin
a has not been much over 2,OOt
( Some of the names of American new
!. papers might to an Englishman seel