The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-01-22
DE- >
A Few Facts About the American Folded
Multsples of Thought, with

that connection In view OF tho fact that the
able and persistent statistlcians who collect
newspaper figures are not always TO be relied
upon, at least. their figures are not beyond the
round-number limit. However. they are near
enough for the purposes ~ this article.
1t might be naturally and pardonably in
ferred that New York leads In this list. but II
does not. Pennsylvania having 1876 dailies TO
1873 for New York. Illinois comes next with
100, Ohio fourth, with 1873; Indiana fifth, with
$50. and California sixth. with 112, and
no other State has as high us 100. The
last in tho string are the District OF CO.
lumbia and Wyoming. with 4 each. 1t may
be noted. as q sort of a sooth, that Massachu-
sets. the educational centre Of the universe.
with "a. is FIRST among.those out OF the hun
dred class.
A study Of the daily newspaper as herein set
forth may be Of interest as showing the charac-
ter and enterprise OF the people OF a country.
1t also shows q few peculiarities. aud proves
that reasoning by analogy doesn't always
come out according to rule. For Instance. IL
might be supposed thatif' a city OF 1900 peo-
pie. as Is Guthrie. Oklahoma, had two morning
papers, a city'ten times that size ought to have
twenty morning papers, whereas. 1t not only
does not. but 1t must grow to be larger than
any city in the United States except New York
city. which. with thirty morning papers. Is
eighteen to the good OF Chicago and Philadel-
phia. With a dozen each. It might also be in
ferred that IL O city of 10000 people had no
evening paper. as Guthrie has. thenstowns OF
that size DO not support evening papers,
whereas every town of that size III the coun-
try. and many considerably less. have evening
papers. unless they are practically suburbs OF
large cities. Therefore. the facts knock the
analogy rule Ga1ley-west. 80 to say.
And vet It would seem that AZ small towns
can and do support daily newspapers. the
large cities ought TO make q better showing
in the same direction. though 1t may be al
lowed that the extra cost OF the dailies in the
large cities enables them to make it possible
for tho dailies to exist in the smaller towns.
the bulk of the news In such papers being con-
fined to the less expensive local matter. There
are very few II any towns in this country Of
sufficient size to support a daily paper which
are not near enough to q large cities to receive
the dailies on the day Of issue. and all the
small towns subscribe literally to the city dali
lies, thus enabling local editors to save expen-
sive telegraph tolls. and make their papers in
t~eresting by publishing such local news In
detail as the city papers do not have.
OF the cities Of the United States. New York
city heads the list with 90 dailies. 81 morning
and "a, evening. which Includes a number OF
stock. law and other class. PAPERS which are
mo- rGn;i and dg ~ Of the evening sT paper ii are . pa ape
lishedIin the borough ot Manhattan. This num-
Der fora population Of about ~ 1000 rs smaller
for Chicago, with l.S0O.0OO., and philadelphia.
with 100000. have p and 20 dailies each.
And here appears another regularity. to wit.
the prevalence Of the evening PAPER. New
York has Z more morning than evening paners,
more evening than morning napers. In other
words. Chicago has z less evening papers than
He more To than im' Phi la %&Sh Iarf %hyg ftRRRi s Should iP Be
so Is not altogether clear. for it is GENERALLY,
understood that the Chicagoese are fond, Of
amusements and ~gaddlnE about. while the Phil
adelrnians are noted as homebodies. and II is q
known fact that the people who stay home Of
New York dailies are 3 Italian. / French. 3
or more dai Rese IN ioreirh Af lanTn aaa 3 t hsnf any
other city in the Union eXceptChicago and Phila-
S Ss4, ls. hat hat S ST al F1 R,nds; and Rat the B sSm he n ~n2.
Chicago. with German papers. makes a bot
man. 2 Bohemian. / Polish and l scandinavian.
which is more than any other exeelt San
and / japanese, having in this last regard
scoop OH all other cities. even ~polyglot New
While no regular ratio Of papers to popula-
ton exists in towns which have but one paper
morning paper and an evening paper do not
establish themselves in a town until it has at
that a city Of $4,000 people will have twice, that
many for the figures 'sh d SG d that It is hard arc
morning morning p pa Chnrle 81 MS S. g. ~ with. 1000
people, has one morning and one evening; 50
s k5po6SSyillSf; a Hsnni Te with w 1925 $685. SS?h Galses x1sh
with 10000: Topeka. Kan" with 81 900; Seattle
and and TWSeGVn a Wa MaSh u e %%h S sbaw So 100 m %hsel,
and two, evening papers. but Wheeling has 2
large suburban population on the Ohio side Of
90. though it is a~upplemented BY three even
ing papers' ZanesSil!s' O.; with only 25;oE44.
dence, R. l., the metropolis Of the state. with
same number that Guthrie. Oklahoma has:
only BUCKEYE state, with lo0o.OtWo' STIPULATION
claimed. is e%qeipped exactly as Proyidenee Is.
Paul. have the same number Of evening papers.
two. but Minneapolis has three morning TO st.
PauIs two, Each has a Papsr in a for i'm Ian
wegian. The population of st. Paul is 10000
less than that Of MINNEAPOLIS; which may a =;
the large cities. San Francisco. with IL rapers.
8 morning, 8 evening. to 100000 population.
Ariz; with one, morning and ,9,ne evening to
her 1900 population. SCOOPS all eompetit9rs.
souls. most OF them highly intellectual. and all
of them sure that all OF them are. has a dozen
Is The best theatre town in the country. which
shows that the people read their evening pa
BROOKLYN is the largest city without a morn
ing naper, It's million or SO peopls haSing only
Jersey City. with a couple OF hundred thousand
people. more or less. has only two evening
papers ana no morning, DuC CNeSe Clues are
too close to New York to worry over a home
made paper every morning.
As Il rule. the LeweT the to wn is. and tho
more westerly it is. the more newspapers IL
is suprosed to haya, but the rule doesn't work.
for Seattle and Tacoma, with 10000 popula-
tiOn each. have only a morning and evening
paper apiece. while Mobile. Ala. with $4,000.
has one morning and two evening. and Port:
land, Me, with 37.O has two morning and
three evening. Portland, Ore. with a claimed
population Of a hundred thousand. has ouly
two morning and two evening papers,, not as
good a showing as Ter much smaller Eastern
namesake. Denver. which Is about the size Of
indianapolis. say l25.0o.O. has the same num-
evening PAPERS are double the number the
Hoosier capital can support; New Haven.
with only about 10000 population and three
morning end five evening papers. shows that
Yale has had an influence to the increase Of
the reading public. All the New York papers
also have a large support In that town. New
ark, n. j.. Is the only city whose entire morn
ing output is German. and 1t has two papers
in that language. with two English evening;
It Is only nine miles from New York and 1t has
q population OF a quarter of a million. Buff
falo. y. Y. with less than 100000. has eleven