The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-03
ENGL.ASDs NEWSPAPER ROARl
aaaorssess Muss q Files That she nTstaa
Museum WIN store n heuduu.
From the London Da,ip Chroairls

From the London Dailp Chroairis.
His MaJesty's once Of Works Ia Just beeit
ming. AZ Heudon 20 raise house In which tot
Of newspaper files now at the Bri, ish Museui
will eventually he deposited There il who
Newspaper land In the Museum a land fro,
which n file Of almost any modern Enslis
paper can he dug out. Space gets mo,
valuable at Bloomsbury, and this building
necessary AZ Hendon for the storage Of new
papers and other printed matter" rarel
required for use
That IL the definition which Parla mpnta,
statute applies to the purposes Of the Hendo
annex. II also requires that the new
papers and printed matter SO removed" aha
be made available ON due notice being give
at the Museum. In other words, the new
papers at HendOn will be brought TO Londo
for reference when they are needed Neet
less to say the files that are constantly ber
needed will not go there at all Under Il
Copyright Act copies OF newspapers ar
periodicals, as Of books, must be sent TO IL
British Museum. The newspaper mounta
which this has produced can in the tri
phrlse, better be ina gined than describe
In fact 10 could not be described, beoau
much Of II Ii buried away in the basem
the Museum. The figures as to the sets
newspapers and fortnightly and MONTH
sufficiently eloquent.
In 1900 the number OF such sets contribute
by London was l, 226: by provincial En- CLAN
Wales. and the Channel Islands, 1885,: /
Scotland. 2ss. and by Ireland. ?.2 The
figures show a total OF $500 sets. representa-
22O, 3oy single NUM- ers OF papers and klndrs
publications. The number of sets in IL
was 2.A72 and the single numbers OF papel
ITO, SSS-a striking increase on the ten year
However. there has been slight drop. F,
1901 the sets numbered 3l7O and the sing
numbers 20s.ss? Last year the number
s Sers VT WORTH noins % s.ts atm
more than third were published in Londc
and the suburbs. When Colonial and forcia
newspapers are added it will be seen VIII
| twelve months 1t literally gathers into IT'S no
well-flled vastness huge loads Of printe
Paper Yet 40 carefully kept are the nl'
they are purely local papers. The gener
| reader does not want them. but il is interes
| ing to learn that perhaps they are most fr
anfRy nssana for of Afs spHps Of hso case
which the British Museum is so rich, will.
goes without, saying, abide where they ar
Nobody ia likely TO be. consulting the Ne
| in which files are usually consulted. Thu
| copy Of the forrrunner Of newspapers, as
is regarded. stands by itself, strange curosit
| 10 uOtb we bpNiouS I.HpuHV ~" VI "po
the same period. and The WscHev .Nerss I,
fully thirty years later. The M'rcnri'
Poliirus Of Sept. 2. 1888. had an account !
the death Of Oliver Cromwell BY Janusr
| 1861, the Mercurius Publicus was descrbir
the hanging of the bodies of Cromwell an
Ireton. Between times the Restoration HI
come. and on May so, 1900 the Mercury
T'ubiicus reported the proclamation Of Charl
IL as King. Then. Sir Roger, LEstranl
was editing the Tnteili0enrer in August. i6e
and by 1865 the Oxford Gossfe, which afte
ward became our trusty London Gazette. vi
being issued 1t does not describe fires now
days, but in it's eighty-fifth number 1t ga
an account Of the Great Fire Of London.
They have one-cent papers in America, b.
there was a London F0rfhino Post at 80
mote a date as December, Ills. II that w
the first farthing newspaper. the Daily CoIrd
of March, 1902 or 1908 is believed TO ha
been the hrs! daily. You might 5ead tt
story Of the Stamp Act and its abolition
Museum. -Junius's" first letter is there
tho Public Adrertiser. and the Times, ten yea
| after II had begun TO appear, reports ca
where a man was fined f5 for letting peop
sit In his rooms and read his papers at char
| Of