The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-25
THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS.
Six Months of Earnest
Work, and Solid
Success.
SOUND CIRCULATION
GENEROUS PATRONAGE,
IMPORTANT INFLUENCE
A Remarkable Record Of News
Topics, Upon Which eur Only
Local Competitor Has Been
Left in the Cold by the Young
and Sprightly Paper.
BRIGHT FUTURE PROSPECTS

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On the oath day of February the first
issue of The JERSEY CITY NEWS was
given to the public. Today the paper be-
gins its second half year of life undernew,
and even brighter, auspices.
1t may be said, without any suspicion of
egotism, that no paper ever started in the
Stat has attracted to itself, in the first
six n. jnths of it's existence, so large l,op-
ular patronage. or commanded such a
profitable line of business, or made it,, in
fiuence for good SO widely felt as has THE
JERSEY Cry NEWS in the six months for
which 1t has been before the public. 1t
was to be expected that the publication
would at the start be attended by rye
losses. Never q newspaper in the world
jumped the first day, or the first week, or
the first month, nor even in the first year,
into dividend paying enterprise. The
common experience of all in that line has
been the experience of THE JERSEY fTY
NEWS, and of its Sunday morning ed lion.
But so quick, and SO universal, was the
hold THE JERSEY CRY NEWS acquired
among the people that it's losses have been
far below the figures originally estimated.
and in the period of its existence it has
been put in better shape and upon more
solid foundations, and has been more
firmly established than most newspaper
ventures after year of life.
1t would have been today more hand
somely paying enterprise even than it is
but for the liberality with which money
has been expended, and is being ex-
pendeds to place it in the foremost rank of
daily newspapers.
BIG ADVERTISING PATRONAGE.
The paper has shown in its advertising
columns the position 1t holds in the COM
munity of business men. With one or
two exceptions it has had the steady pat
ronage and favor of all the leading local
tradesmen, and then, not one of the great
New York houses which send their notices
to this side of the river has neglected to
have them placed in its columns.
CIRCULATION AND INFLUENCE.
The Wilderness of Its circulation is at
tested by the results it has achieved. 1t
is largely as the result of its agitation
for instance, that a first attempt has been
made in the county to provide summer
entertainment for the poor. The summer
home which the Rev. Mr.. Moffett of Ho-
boken, has established at Basking Ridge
for the children of the tenements is at
once monument to his unselfish labors
and to the ceaseless efforts of THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS in that direction.
Supplementing his labor is the mover
system the Rev. Mr. Zabriskie has intro
duced of supplying excursion tickets for
q sail to the seaside resorts to families
whom he found to be worthy of aid He
SAYS himself that The JERSEY CRY NEWS
made his self-imposed labor of love the
lighter for him. Even Mr.. Germans
circus party for the poorhouse children,
gotten up while he was reporter for the
Journal, drew its inspiration from the
columns Of this paper.
And then the labor of this paper for the
relief of the family of poor McTamany-
brave Interchangeable switchman who
gave mp his life for that of a child
started movement, not only here but in
the New York prints, that placed hun
dreds of dollars at their disposal.
Its efforts in other directions have not
been unfruitful of results. But for the
discussion Of the matter in these
columns Director Quintus Curtius
Steger would have been in
Europe now. and all the county en-
ployees at the mercy of the sharpers and
Shylocks. who feed on delays in the pay
ment of the needy wage workers. 1t has
set the keynote in the discussion Of polit-
canvass is shaping itself to the lines that
this paper long ago indicated.
SPLENDID NEWS SERVICE.
The ever-growing patronage of the read
ing public and the influence the paper
has excited, have been due entirely to the
papers splendid news service 1t has not
dabbled with the little Police Court trihes
that constitute the bulk of the reading
matter in other local prints, but it has
been quick to know what topics interest
the people, and to treat them with be-
coming fuliness.
Take the question of the county park
sites for instance. Every resident in
search of a breathing place is interested
in their location; every taxpayer is inter
ested, besides. in the price Our only
competitor has not furnished to the pub
lie a 1.-THE of the information that has
been given in these columns, and very
much OF what it has published has been
mere rehAsh Of what was first printed
here.
So with the charter contest. Il was
here first announced that the old Boards
were TO make struggle against the new,
sne every phase Of the controversy was