Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-10

he was the first in point of time and ability
of modern journalists. He had had ample
experience in Albany, New York and
Washington; had closely studied manners,
politics and society, and from his various
unlucky ventures had learned wisdom. He
had been reporter, correspondent, assistant
editor, editor-in.chief and proprietor and
now he was to be all these in one little
ugly sheet, destined to
LEAD THE WORLD
In regard to news. When the Herald was
started there were seven large morning
papers called sixpenny- sheets, the Gazette
and General advertiser, Mercantile Aduer-
tiser and New York Adrocate, Daily Id
vertiser, Morning Courier and Enquirer,
Journal Of Commerce, the Times mot the
present Times, but another sheet of the
the same name published by Holland,
Langford s. Davis and the Business Re
porter and Merchants and Mechanics Id
certiser There were also sfour sixpenny
evening papers and four small daily penny
papers. OF the whole fifteen only four are
now alive, and the four combined have not
the revenue Of the Herald. How fast
time moves what great changes it works !!
The small, dingy sheet OF forty five years
ago has become an enormous property,
Welding to the son of the original propri-
etor from $4,000 to $500, 600 year,
and performing some of the erandest jour
nalistic feats ever known. The elder Ben
nett consecrated his life to the Herald, and
the conservation produced golden fruit.
The Herald revolutionized the journalistic
world, making its first great hit by giving
full account of the great New York
fire December Is, 1885. Such thing had
never been attempted or dreamed of be-
fore here or anywhere 1t took the town
and country by surprise /; it laid the
foundations of the Herald it made the
superb superstructure possible.
VARIETIES.
During this tropical heat many promi-
nent club men are giving formal elaborate
dinners at the hotels of Long Branch and
Coney Island, instead of at the club houses,
as heretofore. 1t is a great improvement
in regard to comfort Nobody can enjoy
the most detachable feast in town with
the mercury at 95 and 1907. A certain
degree of GOODNESS is preferable to the
choicest viaBds.
The elevated railways will unquestion-
ably soon adopt five cents as the regular
fare at all hours on their roads, Lotwith-
standing that they have just declined to
do so. They will find it to their interest.
When they have reduced the rate the
Third avenue and Sixth avenue car lines
will be virtually out of business,
Noah Brooks, an ex- Californian, has just
had a handsome offer from London pub
Usher to issue in book form in England his
very clever story for boys, the 6 Fairport
Nine, now running in the st. Nicholas.
He has accepted the offer, and is adding
some new chapters. Brooks is still one of
the editorial writers on the Times.
Moses Colt Tyler, of Ann Arbor Uni
versity, is now in town, ransacking the
Libraries tor material for the third volume
of his excellent work on American Liter
allure, pretty certain to become standard.
Fifth avenue has become so very noisy
from incessant rolling of carriages and
other vehicles that many of its denizens
are removing to upper Madison avenue,
destined to be the favorite residence street
of the city. The noise of New York is
its bane it grows every year more intol-
cradle.
Bronson Howard, the American dra-
matist, has just returned to England,
where he is engaged upon several new
plays. The success of his Hurricanes
and Bankers Daughter" over there have
been extraordinary, and given him much
reputation. CHAUBERT.