Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-13
The Morning Paper.

reading public kHo.s that their review |
includes very little beyond the events Of I
the lgrea0on 30 that tbey give the public |
not a picture Of a aag bat a haif day- I
This /. q necessity arising our Of the very /
condition Of thing. The average even /
Ing Taper must go to press az half pasi 4
three or four O'Clock. r. NJ. with the I
greater part Of it, edition. If indeed IT.
hour Of publication be not earlier. u viii
tins be- .een that the securing and publ |
cation 81 new. matter viii h occurs IN
the afternoon IA practically beyond the
power % the evening daily. Thin shuts
the evening paper OF from the ne9 -ie.t
part Of the day. Everyone kaoH- that
the afternoon j. the busiest part Of the
day. Then the world i fully
awake to activity and life. Every
thing Il hustle and the reporter l.
bu.y. Bat lively a. j. the afternoon 10 Is
oothing-as every practical journalist
knoRs-ln news point 81 view compar
~ With the evening Then the entertain
menf- occur, meeting. are held. the
event. u the day talked over and brought
to light, concerts, religious meetings
Grange and other assefHbiirs NEE
crimes ar. committed. and the wires are
bn~y transmitting the .tory-nnt of a
forenoon hat If n ehDie ting aud might. for
the compo-itor- on morning pap"r- do
tn ir work through the h0urs when the
world sleeps, and when the people lit At
breakfast the next morning ii has before
It the story Of the preceding day Then
II il that the evening paper begin. its " ORR
II clips from it, morning exchanges n"
news which they have gttht red through
the eventful period OF the day and thi-,
together wi b what little that Is new they
can ,crape together through the earlier
and quiet part of the day, they publish
tn, Ire bpars iater than the morning pa
per.. The great bulk Of all newspaper
telegraph j. transmitted after six O'Clock
for the simple reason that the story If the
day cannot be connectedly told earlier
/ It's this fact which IN. the morning pat
/ per- with ne~.y telegraph ard the
evening papers with clippings.
1t is this fact, also, which
enables an evening paper to get associated
press dispatches for less than half whnr
/ it costs morning paper 1t i this flr'
that makes the great new papers of the
country, which have both evening and
morning editions, put their best work and
effort into the morning edition where they
can place the complete record of the day
--tweuty-fOur hour>-before their readers,
In the form # tcisgraphic mars ran edito-
,iM coo,ment. Every reader knoN- the
truth of this. What Boston or New
York evening paper has attained cir
culation that can in any way compare with
the enormous circulations of the morn
ing papers. The records do not show
one. The reason Of this is because the
morning papers give the news, when it ia
pt,rs, and consequently when thc great
reading public wants it The int liz, mt
citizen, who reads his morning paper, goes
forth 10 his day work, among his fellow
,...., e,.,..,,..,, ,.r ast..,, L,,,.. .,,o.f -
the man who depends upon an evening
paper, ia hi knowledge of the affairs 81
n.a.,..r,t lt....., t.Ii,,,o-. u;,h ,,ban,
,......,...,... ,,t.t t.. ,..,.,.a,,..,, i. ,t.,
.,l .,.,,;a., 81, ,..,....,;,'', ,,..,.,. Gan.
hour-, ~hiic the evening paper man
no,r1 o,l,.. rno, ,hoo, ,,I,,' ha..o,,..,,
..... ,...
. -, en-, ,....i..,. ..
..,,. -,
,..,,......,;.. .,..,,,,l,. ,,,.',.;,..,
-. .....l :.
I.it,.,;.i, ,... ,....... 49,. -,
md, iii. ar....,,,,.,.', ~,
.,, ,.,.
80, .,,..
~
"7 ~
~ a"''''"' ~ '''' ''''''''''''' w.,
'''''''''''' ''-"'' ''''' " "' F''' '''"A
'''t ~ Wv ~
""'''H Wv ~ P'''',' '' P','
p''' wv = '.'' "'"', "'> ''''' ''
t'''' ''
VI" N''''
LUX N"Pl'"''' "'''i''''''' VI
p",'' ''
',''''"' '',." W NV II - ''', '.' ''''''
'' .'''"'' :" va, ''' '"''I .''' - '''e ''' S'''
N'.H r'p'' p''''''H'''" !" "'''''.' ''''' - w
or'''''' 'N'r''ns i'' '''''' e"''''N' iiliu
'''''" "''''' :" NV t,'.'' W