Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-03-01
SUNDAY SENSATIONS.


sp1sudld Work OF the New York NsWs
papers Every week.
Especial correspondence
New YORK, Feb. 27.-The output Of
the metropolitan press on Sunday 10
one Of the modern paarvels Of literary
and mechanical industry. Twenty years
ago an eight or twelve page paper was
looked upon as q remarkable stroke Of
enterprise; now the publishers do not
think they are abreast Of the times un-
less they give you at least half pound Of
reading matter, embracing from twenty
foUr to forty.eight pages. Still greater
is tho wonder that the managing editors
90 succeed In diversifying the matter
which they send out to the public that
one feels dissatisfied with single journal
and equally unhappy at his inability to
swallow the entire mass Of interesting
literature at one gulp. Thus every paper
has an individuality Of its own, physi.
ogomy, 80 to speak, as distinct as that In
persons. Its pictures, themes, range of
thought, method OF treatment and gen.
eral style all vary from those presented
by the other papers, yet all are attrac-
tive to an extraordinary degree.
Take The Herald, Sun, World, Times,
Press, Star and Tribune, to say nothing
Of The Sunday Dispatch and Mercury,
and you have az many unbound volumes
of choice matter as a man can read In an
entire week. Yet there are thousands
who buy the whole lot. The politicians
constitute one class of purchasers; the
ladies are likewise numerous body Of
customers; advertisers are eager to scan
the "want" columns; others are following
the "To be continued" stories, while hun
dreds of literary people, with scissors and
paste pot, transfer to their scrap books
the many articles they desire to preserve.
More than one person within the writer's
acquaintance employs secretary whose
duties it is to Gull, classify and index the
material selected for future use, and in
the library Of famous correspondent,
whose name is familiar to the reading
world, score of shelves are occupied
with the scrap books that some day will
furnish him these best thoughts Of the
best writers of our land. -
1t is safe to say that within q decade
the army Of readers has increased ten
fold; editors have, therefore, been COM
PEELED to keep pace with the progressive
demands Of their more cultivated taste,
and thus we have better papers than ever
before. BY way of illustration, let me
briefly describe three Of them as they APP
peared on a recent Sunday-The World,
Sun and Herald--all the titles referred
to covering articles ranging from col
umn to a page in length, and not includ-
ing the current news Of the day.
In The World were nearly four pages
devoted TO the return of Nellie BLY, from
her remarkable trip around the world In
seventy-two days. One of these pages
contained an entire pictorial game based
on the event. 1t is safe to say that al
though the expedition did not cost The
World proprietor more than 5000, the
daily sales OF the paper during her abb
sence have been increased five times that
amount. Other articles comprised Sal
WINS farewell to America and autograph
letter Of adieu; the offer Of a ten thousand
dollar policy for the most popular police
officer in the country, the question to be
decided by the vote Of The Worlds read
ers; a special letter by CASTELAR,, the Bra
Spanish statesman, ON affairs in Brazil;
how an artist paints a portrait; ramie,
the new rival Of cotton; the progress Of
science and art; the story Of detective;
what II costs to keep brougham; what
is going on in society; new fads In note
paper, with the signatures OF somo
Of the fashionables; Annie Louise
Cary in q diet kitchen: brilliant