The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-07-30
THE NEWS OF LONG AGO.
Contents of the First Issue of n
Paper in 1888.

!
All interest does not centre in the latest
edition of newspaper, but quite deal
! of interest in the minds Of many people at
/ taches to back numbers, particularly if they
be far back numbers, as for instance. the
first issue of the New York Sum-" copy
! of which is in possession of Thomas B.
! Queen, of this city. 1t is a little paper,
/ old. yellow and wrinkled, with four pages
! and twelve short half -columns OF printed
J metter-three of news, two of miscellany,
! one OF poetry, ard six OF advertisements.
/ Its date is New York, Tuesday, September
! 3. 1898 At the top of the first column en-
I the first page is the following:
Published daily. at 30 William Street.
! Benz. H. Day, printer.
THE object of this paper is to lay before
| the public. at a price within the means of
| every one, all the news OF the day, and at
the same time afford an advantageous me-
dunn for advertising. The sheet viii be
/ enlarged rs soon as the increase of adver-
! tisements requires 1.-THE price remaining
the same.
yearly advertisers. without the paper,
thirty dollars per annum. Casual advert S.
ing, at the usual prices charged by tie city
papers,"
The price is set down as one penny per
copy.
Following the salutatory are ten shipping
ads. few of which follow:
For Albany, passage only 81.
1.-THE large and commodious steamb boat
Commerce. Capt. r. II. Fitch. will leave
the foot of Courtiandt Street on Friday at
o'clock p. m. for Albany, stopping at the
usual landing places to land and receive
passengers
For Newport and Providence. TIE
splendid steamboat Benjamin Franklin.
Capt. E. 6 Bunker, and the President.
Capt. R. s. Bunker
For Hartford, through by daylight. The
splendid pressure steamboat Water
Witch, Capt. Vanderbilt. leaves the foot Of
Catherine Stree; every Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings at O'Clock y
For London. to sail 10th of September.
The new PACKET ship Montreal. ChanpEin,
n-ter, viii sail on the 10Th instant"
For Liverpool. The fast calling ship
Tallahassee, s. Glover. mate, Will be ready
TO receive cargo in few days and have
despatch. She has excellent aecommod.-
lions for both cabin and steerage passer-
gers
Among the other old-time ships and mas
tiers mentioned are:
THE packet ship Formasa. orne, master,
for Havre.''
''The elegant coppered ship Orbit. for
Kingston, jamaica.
THE very fast sailing coppered ship
Nashville, Captain Rathbone. for New Or
leans.
At the toe OF the first column OF the zee
ond page, under the head, Melancholy
Suicide occurs a story OF "A Mr.. Fred A.
Hall, young gentleman from Boston, who
had been boarder at Webbs Cong; es5
Hall for week Or ten days previous. put
an end to his life on Sunday last by tax ng
laudanum. He is supposed 10 have COM
mitteG this rash act in a fit OF temporary
arrangement occasioned by an affair OF the
heart. in which his happiness was deepy
involved. He was about twenty-four years
Of age. of engaging manners, and amisble
disposition, and one whose loss even under
less affecting circumstances would have
been deeply lamented."
The second column of the second page
is given over to polls court news. under
the heading Police Office" The charac-
ter of matter and the - lie of treatment IS
shown by the following paragraph, which
leads the column:
John Evans, brought up for throwing
stones at the house OF Eliza Vincent, who
refused him admittance. The complainant
a Waterman, said he advised prisoner to de-
sist. The prisoner called the Waterman a
rascal. ard told him to clear out, or at
some future time he would get devil of
foggipg; whereupon the Waterman se.zel
EOtu Oh MIN ana walked nlHl up 10 tHe
watch house, neld to bail for his appear
ance at court
In the third column of the second page
there Is a three-line item urder the head of
Burglary" II follows:
Stores so and so Exchange Pace were
broken open on Saturday night BY some
villain or villains and robbed OF one hun
dred dollars
SThe issue contains a paragraph about 4
fire at Rochester, which occurred one week
before the paper went to press. in which
no lives were lost. and in which the whole
loss is estimated at s.. 500 or 90 000.''
On the third page -.sJa reward advertise
ment part of which follows:
''Sl eco reward! On Thursday. 11!h ult.,
were tolen from the mail stage between
Boston and Lynn three packages of bank
bill. lntaining about Sl3, 500 in Hills OF the
Pisca,aqua Bank, and about $500 in bills of
the South Berwick Bank"