The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-22
THE WORLDS NEWSPAPERS
BY w, e, JARVIS.

~ hiOOi ObuISS pOSSSSpCS ldt ihOtO
newspaper publications than any
other country in the world, and very
few people have any adequate idea
of the number of papers that are
continually being published, or of
the many and singular languages in
which they are printed.
There are in the United States and
Canada no less than 1856 daily pub
locations, and these comprise nearly
one-third of the entire daily news
paper press of the world. Accord
ing to the most recent and carefully
collected figures, there are just about
$500 papers that daily make their
appearance in various parts OF the
globe. The State of New York
alone possesses larger number of
newspapers Q97D than are found
upon all the continents south of the
equator. There are forty-three daily
papers in New York City against
twenty-four in London, seventy-nine
in Paris, twenty-five in Berlin, and
sixteen in Vienna.
The Pekin Gazette claims to be
the first and oldest newspaper in the
world, its establishment dating back
almost 1000 years, to the year Oil;
and it is said to have been regularly
published since the year 1851. 1t
still retains it's original form and
makeup. Each issue has about
eighteen leaves of soft, thin paper
size, four inches wide by ten inches
long-printed only on one side. A
yellow cover encloses these sheets,
| II Ln,,>rr fo,f1rnl ~ hn l,ol,
by few light stitches.
According to tradition, the first
printed newspaper on the CONT
nent of Europe was the Gazette,
which appeared at Nuremberg, Ger
many, in 1857. In 1899 a paper call
ed the Chronicle is said to have been
issued at Cologne, but there is no
!. authentic record concerning these,
and no copy Of either paper is now
!. known to be in existence. In 1915
Die Frankfurter Oberpostamis lei
3 tung was started at Frankfort, and
continues to the present time, claim
\ ing to be the first regular publica-
ton and the Oldest newspaper in
Europe.
During the present century the
growth of the newspaper has been
e very marked and rapid. In 1914 the
London Times commenced the use
of the steam printing-press, and a
revolution in newspaper history was
r then brought about.
The first paper to be issued on this
continent was the Boston News
Letter, which appeared April "a
17O4. A sheet known as Public
Occurrences, Foreign and Domestic
was published in Boston in 1890, but
it cannot be said that it was really
newspaper. 1t was not until I'VE
that New York succeeded in getting
a newspaper published in the city
In that year-October 16-the Ga
zette was started, and five years later
the Weekly Journal came out.
The oldest of all the New York
papers at the present time is the
Commercial Advertiser, which was
founded in 1897, and is therefore
n close upon its one hundredth ami
versary. The Evening Post is tn,
next oldest, it having been started
in 1901. The journal of Commerce
dates from 1927. The Courier de,
: Etats Unis was started in 1928; tn,
Sun in 1888; the Staats-Zeitung il
= 1884; Herald, 1885; Tribune, 1841
Times, 1851. The Evening Express
n now the Mail and Express, wa
7 started in 1916; the World in 1860
The youngest of the New Yorl
dailies is the evening edition of thu
Staats-Zeitung which has recent,
5. made it's appearance. The Oldest o
oil thn An,nr,nnn
published is the Maryland Gazette
which has been regularly issue'
since 1745.
l. The total number of periodical
7 now published in the United State
w and Canada is 1858. OF thes
1856 are dailies, 1888 weeklies, ant
1886 monthlies. Twenty-one differ
r. ent languages other than Englisl
he he are represented by these papers
Their names and the number O
%. papers of each are as follows: Ara
nd bic, L; Armenian, 3; Bohemian, e
"a Cherokee, l; Chinese, 2; Finnish, 6
French, 127; German, 745; Hungs
rian, l; Italian, 13; Hebrew, 6; Ho
landish or Dutch, ID; Magyar,
Polish, ID; Russian, 1; scandinavian
OF CldFoulC, L, spanish dhu OlUl
guese, 43; Welsh, 6.
= There are 2255 newspapers pull
~ lished in Great Britain, distribute
- as follows: England-London, 461
Provinces, 1902; total, 1853. Vale
So; Scotland, POS; Ireland, 16i
Isles, "A.
France is extremely we'll supple
wit n Thara 70 I.
A' lies in Paris alone, which are almos
without exception political in cha
acter Many of them enjoy yer
RI large circulation. LIE Petit Journa
the well-known fve-centime pape
boasts with TRUTH of larger circu
., lation than any other paper in tn
To- world. Its daily issue is over or
million copies. 1t consists of BIZ
. four pages, one of which is give
. over to standing advertisements. A
it's writers are men of acknowledge
ability, its dramatic editor particl
larly being so we'll known and high.
esteemed that the circulation of I'll
paper increases twenty-five thousan
I" on the days when his articles a.
pear.
Ice The newspapers of Russia, thoug
severely handicapped with censo
a. ship, are numerous. There is also
ami large number of illustrated paper
most of them being very artistic al
commanding large circulate
throughout the country. Peter II
:, Great took personal part in II
W establishment of the first Russi;
newspaper, which was published