The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-07-22

When B.nn-r Began tn Push His Paper
Int. pubii. >otiss-A SiAtesn-i'sgs
N.aspas.r- E,tabii> hnsnt of = sunday
Edition Marseiau> Changes
lie wa, an obi New Yorker, ami h, talked
With III, prS.l>fon IL tbs. printed page.
~WouLi yuu t.lieve IL Whea The rrlbune
Was started il n'f,ls-i Ia I.ublt,h thsatri,tl
advertisements az tn,tlronirkr the n,,.. nitilts
oi PLAYERS Nuw it gives mu,h >iate L. the
STAG Wh.n Mr. Bonner "a> itr>llns The
Ledger, h.. tnught page IN Ill" 'iaIiN. ~ni-
weekly, and weekly friiun', as,n,n.- IL pay
GiaD for il After the s,iN.rtt4 ut hai
apy.ar,si in -. daily, Mr. Grrtha raised the
obl.,tla that ii would hurt ,h' a~kly.
vhkh hal IA very large eiruttl ~, Ia allow
oile man Ia 0rupy 81, much >Ist Ia II. Mr..
B.lnisr insisted that the cuitutt Hh,,ukl lac
carrl,>i OUT in ga.i faith, but Mr. tr~'ey
was obstinate. AMI the matter WIS ,s,mpro-
nlisd by no charsr t.ihg nRtic tot the page
O.rupisSi In the ,i.ly.
When Mr.. knslt, the founder If The
Herald, heard ri the tralrsi. tlon, he sai,i Ia
his trusted lieutenant. joe Elicit, that The
1IllmtN WHY 'iit Nv u"'Sh
tisr cuULl ask tor t,o much space at the
regular rates III the Herald MIR Elliott N
lsat.Sl this conversation to Mr. Bonner, ami
the proprietor Ut The Ledger quickly N
marked, Tell MIR. Bennett that ] Will take
eight pages Il his paler,' As The Herald
was an eight page Journal, I'll" advertiser put
IN tpd for 1t, cnlrt space Mr.. Bennett
Wa, equal 10 the emergency. He put On
sixteen lsiae>. thr,e pages ri the Ledger AL
vsrtrsnsilt going into one half s.stlon AMI
five into the other half. This wa, the first
time The H.rakt ever lssucd "A sixteen page
IsiI@r ami the feat Was Regarded IL s"iiie-
thing wonderful How different at til,
present, when more than thirty-twoIases are
splptiIlss caught ami folded from the press.
/ A sINrEEN PAGE NEWSPAPER
sam Sinclair, the pul'lisherof The Tribune,
lived ut that time IN Twenty eighth street,
near Eighth avenue. The morning that the
sixteen page Herald came out, he tok Iii
sat il, the street ear ami bought \ copy Of
Mr BENEFITS Ialsr When he opened the
first half ami saw thre Of the pages mono
,oliasl by The I~iger, n sowl came on his
fa.v, AMI In t~~d the sheet over his shoulder
through the oIsn window. MIR Bonner, who
ha,i got into the SANG car, one bl'sk higher
up, was amused 10y Sinclairs at ami he
called out 'Nou have thrown away the lesser
part; You will iini the greater IN what you
have kept Mr.. Sin lair colJre,l 10 the roots
of hi, hair, AMI opened the sheet and was
gr,atly surprised To src that five OF thu laSes
wcr given up 10 The lelger.
The fact then dawnul on him that h. and
Greeley hai male mistake IN refusing ~
carry out tn, contract with Bonner tor one
page IN The TRIBUNE The first Sunday
Herald WAS is,,ied a. s,t rll vi the left over
matter which enrunllsrel the galleys. II
was an experiment; but 1t brought such good
results II, to head to the establishment of u
regular Sunday edition OF the paisr. MIR.
Itslnett was quick to sleDe point and profit
10y H. Now all the morning journals, in
GLIDING The Tribune, print Sunday issue
AMI II Is really the elaborate AMI most costly
paper Of the week The change, in the news
paper world are mary Ions to an obi timer
like myself" \ ar-away look came into TIN
eyes Of the speaker as h. uttered the las
words, as II thu faces Of thu elder Bennett
Horace Grs'L,y, Henry J. Raymond, an'
other Journalistic stars rose before him from
the nists Of the past. Then he mutt"rt,
something about time moving on with ~
niorselcss tread, indifferent to change, an,
thrust hi, hands into his packets und Wake,
away.--Turf, Field and Farm