The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-18
STARTING PAPERS.
Prom'the Richmond Stuto.

From'the Richmond Stuto
Ono OF our contemp ,raries. pu blishing
tho list OF members Of the pany or
Raniz'd to start daily ncwspap per IL u
Virginia town of six thousand inhabi.
tants, says: 'Good business men b, t no,
ono PRACTICAL newspaper man in tn.
lot. has mark Is made b c,usc til.
company Is inc 'rpOrat. d with ctpital
u ten thousand dollars to establish u
pl mt and run u daily paper. The prac-
L.c.l wspapor man ned MT be told
that there is not a. ''prac ic Il newspaper
man in tho lot" The proposition to IS
t"ullsh daily with that amount al
capital prov's this. In tbs first plac
,her" ~ no town OF SIX thousand inhabi
tan = in Wig mia or tho South that will
supl r dairy paper. Sucl paper ha.
10 10 'k tor Its rev, nue. from circulation
and aivtrtisrm -ntS. 1t c,nnot gr.
'noi 81 of ith"r i'll Il town of Dix thou
sani W gi,o 1t lif,.. Furthermore,
Pep 'iation Of BLK thousand in the Soutl
III ani about three thousand in tn.
o I'll, wh' looked at from the new :
p"p'r standpoint. fnr tho negroes d
NV ~ - NP'A hOI w DtODlt
&c orally read tucm as much us North
.rn Lcop,..
da' paper was started in a neigh.
boring town in a n ighborins Southern
ot.t, aJout Is y,ar ago. The cash G ,pi
tai Was tvs niy-iive thousand dollars
VI Course tho III, IL who START 1t wer,
'adlng business men, and the paper
Mad gone unurr. The poi .uiatiun OF til
town Is twtnty-eight thousand, whic,
rrpre'' nus .wsp ,prr population ..
about fourteen thou sand, rs ,mparr,
with tn North. Now carefully c,m
pll,d statistic, of the Journalist maya
zinr show that eight hundr, i readers t,
po ulatiOn of ten thousand is "a spltn
u.u average, and very rar,ly obtained
Inc projectors vi the dciunCt new,
papui, not ing nrwspap m..n. du
~ hho" Tins, cut til. y have l., arn,C
the IS m. AN lnStanc: in on. of tn
4" mas also illustrate this A IN
Why VI the usual type Was organize,
Win &C .pital of twenty thousand dol
- " publish daily in town of bout
."ir'y Thousand ,nii.uItant,, VIII CHI a..
10y hud dill y nianag Il by !. com
p ht ana sur, wd II. w>pap,r mana
small DAILY. in,t,ch but as Large as TIA
o" hn the town would suplurt.
Tho Own of this small dIilv Ia
p ;cda INC As,,c,at Il ana Lni,,u
rr'Na .ls,uciativn franchise for III.
icihity-tuat II, he Controlled the news
ut W Lhuo" great telegraph news
CHEERING ASSET ,tiuns. Had his rivals
til ht~apap, men tn would have
kh '"n TIL C ,uld de nJLuing wiLnvut
t't'Sraph. and Lnat no Il lilly rap r tas
ev'r b en- able To succeed without the
tclcSr"p gotten ny "a organ u,ii.rLo
o. these press a>s Citations VIII Gu spend
million dollar, annually to get tn
h.w>. or c>',rse, tho new paper went
M alter .lsntocn months stru So,
Occasional ~ cJmplaint arc IA n d
fr IN Ii c.imond that the Richmond
q IL are hot a. loud Il, LII, So e.
e'c Baltimore ha, IL population of
ry IT," U, most VI iJc. anu yet it
10 ly t%o mvinin1 and ono
III NJ p.p !. With II tho past t, IL
- .h.>o h.v.n.ng and Two evening
pas nave Uc.n START, d in BLltlmor.
al lave di, d When tbs 4. cnnund
-p'ra n the R;chlnOnt pup.laJion
&C " la Cd With the Il. t more papers
ana B-.tIDlvrc pppu,alluh. ,hu readers
wan co;I.' - that. .n>ld, rang the Iupu-
la"i.n. the iicninonu PAPERS do more
i'r thtli ctnoLiLu> Icy THAN tbs BAiLi-
moro pap,ro.
Washington. TOO, with it's ESQ, tO), has
LOT year only suppUrL,d one PAPER, the
S.a'; bat tho Post III c-nJ y, airs has
sIccceu' u al gcttino IL iUutuUld, We be-
liz W. Daily papers iurth. l. South are
larger than thuac III k oLmund for The
reason, firstly, that they readily Il, IL fJr
nvc ms p.i c'!y, aliu b, c,ndiy. that
they ~ not cOiiio IN 'mpctltlvn with
TAG New York and hal.imurc dailits.
1t is q rare thing to see Northern
paper III q, Urgla, South Carolina, Mis-
siaoippi, kentucky or TrnLe .sc, hcnc
tio ui.iiics thcie get large S ATE C icu-
lLLlun. And yet ALlan.a only SUPPORTS
odc III. rMIns and Oh, evening paper:
Cnarl sJuh Two mosn,ng pap rs-alI at
= mpta " uIakt al c,cmIng paper there
having ialltu.
lalK against newspapers comes,
therefore, from mlsApprchcnsiun ut
the ihcts. No profession requires {, 8
much training and &c luaintuho. with
It's details 10 the Profession of news.
paper nan-h, nc, " return to cur
tcAt, 20 advi,v that board of dir. cturs
alIudtu .vby Uui q temporary AS good
O' sInchs men, but not IA pr.c e u n.ws-
lapor man III the lJl." 10 Mike their
paper weekly.