The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-08-02
NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.
The Latest chat About the Journals of
Gotham.

Steam heat has been introduced into
the World building, the building occu-
pied by the Commercial AdUertiSer, into
the Sunday Mercury building, on Park
Row and next week it will be put in use
by the Mail and Express. The Herald
is also negotiating with the company,
and no doubt the rest of the newspaper
proprietors and managers will soon dis
cover that they can confer great boon
on perspiring pressman by drawing out
the fire from their boilers and using
outside power. 1t is claimed that, on
the ground of safety from fire or explo-
sion, it will pay to use purchased steam
heat even at considerable advance,
and, as most of the leading newspapers
now own their own buildings, this is
something of q consideration. OF the
number which own their buildings are
the Herald, the Tribune, the san, the
Times, and perhaps the World. But it
is doubtful whether the latter owns any
thing, as it appears that Joe Pulitzer
only came from the West to make an
experimental essay as editor, while the
Gould interest in the paper remains un-
changed The evening newspapers are
mostly in hired quarters. The Com
merciaI advertiser, the EUening Post,
and the Mail and Express are in this
category. The Sunday Mercury, which
has Just put in two new perfecting
presses, which throw off $4,000 copies
an hour, will next week own the large
and handsome building on Park Row
which it has occupied for the past three
years. The purchase price is a little
under 100000, and the first payment
will be made by ex-senator Cauldwell,
who is sole proprietor of the paper, on
Monday. The success of the Sunday
Mercury has been phenomenal. When
the dailies established their Sunday
editions they wiped out at one dash
nearly dozen old Sunday papers that
had been struggling along for years.
But the Mercury had the advantage of
having the Associated Press dispatches
and single hand at the helm, and
where others have failed it has achieved
complete success. Its Sunday edition
is $4,000. The Times sends out on Sun
day about 10000 copies, the Tribune
$4,000, the World Is, 900, while the San
and Herald each claim to distribute over
100000 copies. The Sans claim is, no
doubt correct, but the HerGlds edition
does does not probably exceed that of
the Mercury. If each paper were COM
PEELED to print with each edition an au-
thoritative statement of its circulation,
advertisers as well as the public would
be surprised. 1t is little singular that
of all the newspapers | have mentioned
only three are owned by a single pro-
prietor-the Herald, the Mercltry, and
the Mal and ErpresS; and the owner
of the last-named paper, Cyrus w.
Field, is now as anxious to sell as he
once was to buy but can find no pur-
chaser. 1t is partly owing to the fact
that the newspapers have concentrated
there, but not wholly, that property
fronting on the new Postoffice has risen
rapidly in value in the past five years.
One chief reason for it is that the Post
Office makes it center of business, as
in London, where similar property can
be had only at fabulous prices. There
are no buildings for sale and no offices
to let near our Postof1ice, and those who
have made real estate investments in
its neighborhood have made no mis-
take.