The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-01-28

rapers. Charleston, s, c., with $1,000
people has one morning and one even
ing; so Knoxville. Tenn, with $4,000;
Nashville, with $4,000; Dallas, Tex,
with 40, 900; Galveston, with 10000; To-
peka, Kan, with $4,000: Seattle and
Tacoma, Wash, each with 10000.
Wheeling, VT. with $4,000, shows two
morning and two evening papers, but
Wheeling has large suburban popula-
tion on the Chic side of the river. At
lanta, Ca, which is a city unto itself,
has only one morning paper for it's
10000, though il is supplemented by
three evening papers GAINESVILLE, O.,
with only $4,000, makes the sams
showing as Atlanta. Providence, r. l.,
the metropolis of the state. with u
population of 10000, only goes them
one better having two morning papers
or the same number as Guthrie, Okla
homa, has, Columbus, the capital city
of the great and only Buckeye state,
with 100000 population claimed Is
equipped exactly as Providence IL.
Those two hated rivals. Minneapolis
and st. Paul, have the same number
lis has three morning to st. Paurs
TWO. Each has paper in foreign
language. St Paul, German Mime
apolis, Norwegian. The population of
st. Paul is 10000 less than that Of
Minneapolis, which may account for
the extra paper in Minneapolis. OF
the larger cities. San Francisco, with
is papers, morning. 9 evening, to
.I1N
showing, though Prescott, Ariz. with
one morning and one evening to her
l,SOO population, scoops all comreti-
tors.
COMPARISONS
Boston, with u population of half a
million souls, most of them highly in
tellectual, and all of them sure that all
or them are, has a dozen papers, seven
of them evening, and yet Boston is the
best theater town in the country, which
shows that the people read their even
ing papers next day or on the cars
going home.
Brooklyn is the largest city without
morning paper, its million or so peO-
pie having only evening home papers
and only five of them. Jersey City, with
couple of hundred thousand
people. more or less, has only two
evening papers and no morning, but
these cities are too close to New York
to worry over a homemade paper ev-
cry morning.
! AS rule, the newer the town is, the
the more westerly it is, the more news
| papers it is supposed to have. but the
rule doesn't work, for Seattle and
Tacoma, with $4,000 population each,
have only a morning and evening pa
! per apiece, while Mobile, Ala, with
I $4,000. has one morning and two even
ing, and Portland, Me-, with $1,000, has
J two morning and three evening. Port
| land Ore, with a claimed population
| Of a hundred thousand. has only two
morning and two evening papers, not
as good a showing as her much
| smaller Eastern namesake. Denver
which is about the size of Indianapolis,
say 125,000, has the same number Of
morning papers, four but its half
dozen evening papers are double the
number the Hoosier capital can sup
port. New Haven, with only about
10000 population and three morning
and five evening papers, shows that
! Yale has had an influence to the in
crease of the reading public. All New
York papers also have a large support
in that town. Newark, N. j., is the
ONLY city whose entire morning out
put 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 a population Of
| quarter of a million.