New-York tribune., 1884-12-16
II. r. IL ROY Secretary
sovr "P0IYrERsv on CALCULATION

arrRrs1iNG FIGURES PUBLISHED IN ihh "oiip
"tur TRIBUNE" AHEAD OF THE HERALD
,xrr ran BEYOND "1nr TIMES"
rut TrmtNEs cnterrrising pcighbor, me
-, has heen collecting interesting statistics tcgaiu
,n the relative circulation of New-Nork newspapers "
,s ron,s IN tha city aud vicinity ana In the helsh
,,, sai,s These statements nllrd nearly siA columns
~ ~ u,ti,fs space yestcrlay. They show prn' w
s,,.. IA tho circulation " rnr TWnrNr and inc N0f"
s,,t tb mat year IN oil places, Tha increase nos neoh
=, h eNnae ~ tho rlfruatona of ne HeFu0 anu i"e
yss.. witch show remarkable falling on ~ hea'N
nj n nn at n places thc number "i copies oi ''"'N NJ
sold exceeds that of ne fmes or Herald anaheh'iceA'
AZ rnr FnintNt over me Nmes especially II ma'soo 81
s,ery newsstand whore fhe World reporters made IN
guiries II IL also worthy of wmara that tho points
,eeeted hy The World for the purpose OF oh'hhhs swo
OF comparison were not by ANY means 80 aNo'apo y"
fE TRluUNE a. other parts Of Now-Nork ana Nlv'"'S
That might named Tor those parts Of Now "n"
Brooklyn that are almost exclusively occupied 10y private
residences do not appear Ia have received muoh ALTON
tion from The World reporters.
A few statements OF newsdealers selected from me
Worlds article will illustrate what has been SAID;
Mr. Tiotson whose headquarters are at the iIth
Avenue Hotel said that last sunday his safes were
World. 25O; TRIBUNE. $50; Herald, l4o; HmeS loo'
Since the Chicago Convention" he added, "a great
many readers have changed from The Times to The Ikb
usE" At the Windsor Hotel, last Sundays sale was
Stated to be: WOrld, 1907 TRIBUNE, so; Times, - !;
Herald 30 AT the other hotels THE TRIBUNE also leu
7As Herald and Times.
Joseph Brennan proprietor Of two stands-one at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel Chambers-st. and West broadway
and another near by, said The Hcrad was the boss
papcr once but it's N. G. now Eighteen months ago
sold 10 Herads every day and over $50 Sundays
Then sold only II Worlds Sundays and dailes, me
WoId being lowest. Now my regular order Is 90 daily
Worlds aud Sundays but every day must send down
for extra copies TIE TRIBUNE, which Is the tlrd paper
now leads The Herald by 80 per cent? G. f. Waterman,
proprietor of q large newsstand at Carmne and water
sts said that he used sell 10 TO 30 copies of me IS
but sen only 10. IN Bsookyn similar h Usis a;
were reached the falling of I'm the sale of me HcFdd
being especially marked. At No 92i Fuon-st the sales
were reported follows: TRIBuNE, 90 Times, 40;
World. 80 Hcrald "a At the Municipal Bnulhs news
eard the figures given were: World 30; TRIBUNE, -
Herald, IS Times, 13
TIE reports from Outoft0wn stations were or inc same
general tenor q. T. Canning. at Jamaica. L. l., wrote
ig on Sundays in May 1888 he sold 1873 copies OF the
TElBuNs and 271 OF Ths Times For the SIX SUNDAYS
coIle, OF Tie Times Troy the sunday sales FOR No
yeaber 075 copies of THE TRIBUNE; $50 OF me
BrraM and ESQ of The Times Similar figures came from
oaher parts of New-NOrk and Ncw-Iersey. From Con
neetcut the proportions even moro favorable to
Tfs TRRl Nr In Bridgeport in May 1883. the number
of copies of The Herald sold 766 OF The Itns 3"l
And Of TnE TRIBUNE 2s0 The sale for sunday. Decem
te. = lsSl was fOllows TRIBUNE, G9l; Hcdid 1856;
1fRes. 392.
Il thus appears from the figures OF rival newspaper
ecfc,cd with no regard the localities favorable 10 TIE
1aIsUNE TRIBUNE is ahead OF The Herdfd. ana
ahead Ths TseS that that forlorn old paper Is
nearly on; of sight.