Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-06
CHAT WITH A NEWSMAN.
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business IL rather quiet now" slid
NoWs Agent Young to an INrELIIGFNCER
reporter last evening as hat in hand, hc
famed himself behind his nows stand IA
tho postoiice in the vain cl,ort to keep
cool '0O GU know wo are now IA tho
middle Of our very dullest season"
How IN that?' quoried tho reporter.
We'll, every ncwsmau will tell YOU that
his business shows q steady deer case rs the
summer comes on, aud when midsummer
Is reached his sales do not amount to more
than uuc-halt OF those made during his
ocst period, midwiuteC. For various causes
people do not seem to read as much in
summer rs IN winter. Tho warm weather
drives tho workingman on the strccts in
summer whilo he ia forced indoors in
winter, aud must have some literary
pabulum with which to whilo away tho
long evenings. Then, too, many people
are out Of town and the dullncss of general
trade helps to make the surplus cash OF
reading patrons scarcor."
Don't you often find yuursolf over
hardened with unsuitable stock ?" the re-
porter asked.
mo; whatever newspapers caunot
sell are promptly disposed of TO Junk
dealers ut tho rate Of . ccuts pound, and
III tho long run get rid OF most OF my
novels. There is what consider my most
salabe stock, pointing tOn big pile of five
cent novels, bearing tho blood ourdliug
titles o. "Ncok-Tio Ned, the Lariat
Throwor" Creeping Cat, tho Caddo,"
and Red Skin Tom, or the Demons 5
Trail' They arc always good stock,
winter and summer, and many a gray.
beard aud mill visaged female buys them.
They have mos; attractions, however, to
'he small boy"
Which of your wCGklics seems to be
most popular ~ was the next question
tired at the atfab'o nowsman.
Tho FIrSSide Companion aud FImiy
story Paper arc both in high favor, aud
thcig sales are about even. Iu good
week 1t is not unusual to sell 90 or 20
copies OF each Of these. They have long
distauced the Ntn York Ledger, the sat
HrdIy Night and the Ntp York Weekly.
OF tho latter paper that was once 50 popu-
lar, now purchase but four copies"
How about the Philadelphia papers p
They arc u very large portion Of my
business, WAS the reply. "lu addition
TO the Sunday editions of the dailies, | get
thcl Transcript, Mercury, World and Sporting
LIFE, oil OF which but the last have light
sales The bulk of the paper business is in
the Sunday editions Of the Press and Times.
am now buying 100 copies of the Press and
= ct the Times, and iud no difficulty in
getting rid of them. Though the Sunday
| editions of the New York Sun, Tunes aud
World are often called for, they do not
begin TO come near competition with the
| Philadelphia papers.
" Have you a good call FOR your illus
,ratcd papers ?' inquired the reporter, as
his eye was caught by the brilliant colors
Of the cartoons in Puck and Judge hanging
in the window. Yes Isell 80 copies OF
| Puck every week, and perhaps 20 of Judge.
| But the sheets that seem 70 particularly
strike the fancy of the rural young men are
the New YORK Police Gazette, Police Neus
md Illustrated TINES, and q day in the
town is considered not properly rounded
out unless one of these publications with
| their mOrbdly sensational pictures are
! paychased."
The rewsm8n then turned questioner,
asking, Are yOu going into the bust
ness p and 10 order 10 ovade reply, the
reporter beat hasty retreat.