The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-04-04
Printing Frauds -Conclude

notices. do not know of anything
unfair in the mode of inserting those
advertisements, or of charges for the
same, 80 far as the books and
the files are concerned. /
made out the bills, and I feel satis-
fed they corresponded with the
books and fles. J. Il. SonuLrE.
aa CHARLESTON, Feb. Is, 1873.
Jo1NT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES,
Charleston, S. o., Feb -19, 1873.
A. F. Melchers, being duly sworn,
seaye: My name is AdoIphus F. Mel
chers. reside at % Shepherd street,
ip the city of Charleston, and l am
the associate editor of the Zeitung.
have, in company with Mr.. j. Ii.
Schultz, Of the Journal of Commerce,
gone over the advertisements in the
News, at random, for the years 1871,
1872 and 1873, charged against the
State for advertising, and I concur
in the. testimony of Mr.. Schultz in
relation thereto, having read over
said testimonoy, 80 far as the mode
OF measurment, the accuracy Of mea
surment and the~ correctness of the
charges in the books of the News
and in tho bills produced are con-
esrned; and l know of no unfairuess
hl these or any other newspaper &C,
counts for public advertising.
a. f. MELouERs.
JOINT 1NvEsTIa ATINa COMMITTEE,
Charleston, Feb. 18, 1878.
State of, South Carolina, Charleston
e.. County.
VI Personally appeared before ous
Thomas @. Neville, who, being duly
sworn. deposeth and says: That he
was foreman Of the Charleston News
during the years 1S71-72 and 1873,
and that all acts and joint resolutions
of the General Assembly Published
in those years as advertisements in
the Charleston Daily News were
also published in the Charleston Tri-
Weekly News and in the Charleston
Weekly News. T. @. NEVILLE.
Sworn to before us this 18th Fob.
1878. S. DIBBLE,
.a,,. j. G.. BLUE.
-H JOINT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE,
-. Charleston, Feb. 1873.
The State OF Sou'h Carolina.
Personally appeared before lis
Roswell I. Logan, who, being duly
sworn, says: That he is and has beeh
for ten years engaged in the adver-
tising agency business; that news
papers, except where there is COIL
tract to the contrary, charge for the
advertising by the space occupied;
that where o contract is for 80 much
per line, tho charge is for 80 many
lines. ofthe standard type astho space
Occupied by the advertisement will
hold; that some papers use agate as
1lleir standard of measurement, in
which. case every inch occupied
would be charged as fourteen lines;
that is the usual standard in New
York and other large cities. The
standard Of the Charleston News and
Courier and other Charleston papers
andfof papers in many cities, is non
pareil, so that each inch occupied by
an advertisement is charged at 12
lines. This is the usual standard OF
Southern city papers, and has been
for years. When an advertiser makes
&bargain that an advertisement shall
be. inserted--for 90 much per line,
without any other limitation,it means
that the advertisements shall be- set in
the nsua style adopted by the paper
in,'whieh it is publised for that class
ofadvertisements, and charged for
according to space occupied.
Y+uoY9t g.. RoswELr. r.. LOGAN.
X3Sworn to before us this 18th Feb.
1873. ....... J. G. BLUE,
sag. s. nybnY