Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-03-17
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He was an odd New Yorker. and he talked
with the precision of TIA" printed page.
Would vnu hnII"," it When The Tribune
was started. II refused tn publish theatrical
dVertI-.'m"nt> or Io chronicle the mu\ emeItts
Of PLAYERS. Vow It gives much space to the
stage When Nj Bonner was pushing The
Ledger, he hought page in the daily, semi
weekly. and weekly Tribune agreeing 10 pay
Sin" for II. After the advertisement had
appeared m the daily. Mr. Greeley raised the
objection that II would hurt the weekly, q,
which hal very large circulation. to allow
one man To- occupy :" much Spa'e IN IL Mr
Bonner Insisted that the contract should lie
carried out III good faith, but Mr Greeley
was obstinate, and the matter was vumPru
missed hy no rharge heIng made for the page
occupied in the daily
When Mr. Bennett. the founder Of The
Herald, heard Of the transaction, he said to
ms trusted lieutenant Joe Elliott, that The
Tribune people were fupliSh, that no adveT
tlser could ask for too much space at the
regular rates III the Herald Mr. Elliott IL
peated this conversation to Mr. Bonner. and
the proprietor of The Ledger quickly re
marked Tell Mr. Bennett that | will take
eight pages ut MS PAPER As The Herald
was an eight psSe journal. the advertiser put
III a hid for It's entire space. Mr.. Bennett
was equal 20 the emergency. He put on
sixteen pages, three pages of the Ledger al
vertisement going INTO one half ~ectlnn and
five into the other half This WAS the first
time The Herald ever issued sixteen page
paper, and the feat was regarded as some-
thing wonderful How different at the
present, when more than thirty two pages are
sometime, caught and folded from the press
SIXTEEN PAGE NEWSPAPER
sam Sinclair, the publisher Of The Tribune
lived at that time IN Twenty eighth street
near Eighth avenue The morning that the
sixteen page Herald came out he took hl,
lat in the street rar anI bought a copy OF
Mr. Bannett> PAPER When he opened tn.
first half and saw three Of the pages mono
,olized bv Tn" Ledger, a S'owl came on IN.
fare and he tossed the sheet over his shoulder
through the open window. Mr. Bonner, who
had got into the same car, one block higher
up was amu~.4d hv Sinrlar's act and h,
callt-I out 'Iou have thrown away the lesser
part; vou will find the greater in what You
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Of his hair and opened the sheet and was
greatly surprised Ia see that five Of the pagee
were gwen up tn The Ledger.
The fact then dawntSi on him that he and
Greeley had made mistake i'll refusing u
carry out the contract with Bonner for ont
page in The Tribune The first Sunday
Herald was issued to get rid of the leftover
matter which enCumbered the galleys. Ii
was an experiment but 1t brought such gOrL
results ~ to lead To the establishment of q
regular Sunday edition of the paper Mr.
Bennett was quick /" sle1e II point and profit
by II. Now all the morning journals, III
Guiding The Tribune, print a Sunday issue
and II i really the elaborate and most costly
paper uf the week. The .hanges i'll the news
paper world are marvellous to All old timer
like myself. \ far away look came into tht
eyes OF the SPEAKER he uttered the last
words, aS If the faces OF the elder Bennett
Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond, anc
other journalistic stars rose before him from
the mist, Of the past Then he mutterec
something about time moving on with re
mur>etss trrad. indifferent to change. anC
thrust his hands into his packets and walkeC
away-Turf, Field and Farm.