The daily gazette., 1883-10-03
FIGHTING THE HERALD.
The New York Newsdealors send Ont q
Address 10 the Publlc.


The New York newsdealers have prepared
the following statement for the public:
"In order to oounteract the positive miR
statements made in the Herald regarding
the controversy between US and the pub
Usher OF that paper, we invite considera-
ton of the actual facts In the case. News
paper readers are lovers of fair play, and we
can safely abide by the decision OF such
judges. Before the NORTH of October, 1876,
we paid three cents for the Herald, and sold
1t for four. We had to order the papers the
night before publication and pay in advance,
so that we took all the risk Of losses. One
morning In October, after we had put In our
usual orders and paid for them at three
cents each, we came down for our papers,
and found big posters up announcing that
the retail price was three cents, and were
coolly told we must sell for that price, thus
putting in our time and labor and all our
expenses on that day for the benefit of the
elegant young man who owns the sheet.
After that we bought our Herdlds at two
cents and a-halt each. That this margin
was too narrow was easy to demonstrate
The Herald comes to us In blanket sheets
unfolded. We must fold and gather the
different sheets, filed with advertisements
and gush, as if we were making a book.
We have to get around at 4 O'Clock every
morning in the year, rain or snow or shine,
to do this. The other papers, which allow
larger margins, have superior machinery,
and come to us In more convenient shape,
and yet we are delayed regularly in deliver
ing those other papers because Of this work.
We must 90 around and deliver the papers
or hire it done. We must also pay our car
fare out Of the margin. Still at half cent
we manage to live, but when 1t came to re-
ducing the margin to one third we coult
M ~,
stand taking 256 morning. papers day, the
margin on the sale of them is Sl.25. On
another whose order is 294 papers, the mar
gin is $1.4S. We pay all the expenses out
OF this. 10 show what proportion of this
comes from the Hedrlds, we have only to
say that the margin on the sum invested
that is allowed by the San and the Tribane
is so per cent; the World, 231S; the Times,
241S; the Herald, IT, 1t must be remem-
bered that this percentage is good only
when all the papers are sold-something
that never happens.
The worst of it is that more Herald GUS
toners beat us out of our subscriptions than
all the rest of our customers combined.
Every newsdealer knows what kind of peo
pie read the Herald exclusively. In the face
of this the Herald announced in one column
yesterday that newsdealers wanted to make
225 per cent. on the Herdlds sold. In an
other column 1t said we wanted 86 per cent
The Herald says we are opposed to the re
| duction in the price to the public. This IL
not true. We know that really cheap news
papers make increased numbers of newspa
per readers. What we want is merely the
fair per cent. of profit which other papers
allow. Why should we do more work for
the Herald at less pay than we receive for
other papers The money made by the ma
Jorlty OF newsdealers does not exceed that
made by common unskilled labor.
The Herald of yesterday said that its cir.
culation was unabated. The newsdealerc
know this is untrue. They buy, in many
cases, less than half as many they did
We do not like to sell the paper even a
| three cents.
We ask the public to simply ascertain th,
| facts in this controversy. We can rest con
tent on the Judgment that must folloWO