The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-12-08
STEAD'S NEW PAPER
Features Of a Daily Journal Foi
London.
NO RACING AND NO STOCK REPORTS

English JOufMhAAA& 9As@
win Be a Home Paper ana cheer
ful-eIrIs to BE Messengers to col
Ieet From Subscribers complaints
or &c. o. D." orders.
London seems fertile field for news
paper ventures. judging from the mum
Der Of dailies that have sprung inlo
existence during The last few years
saws the New York leralds CORE
spondent
Only recently MIR Alfred Harms
worths new Daily Mirror, a paper Tor
women. made its first bow to the pup
liz. ana now Slr. Nj = Stead il going
Is begin early next month daly
which viii be almost entirely soeioios
ical in character.
Mr.. Stead gave me some deiails u
10 the character and makeup q FL
new publication. 4 hope not only "
produce a paper. said he. chat Nll
be good in itself. but at the same time
create an organization among is SUP
scribers for mutual purposes Of COOP
Grafton. / think if / could manage g
get 100000 subscribers in London 70
whom could hope to appeal each day
10 whom | could deliver the paper at
their own doors just al the time when
the man has gone to business and the
women and children of the household
have an opportunity Of reading II
great results might be accomplished.
"The Daily Paper and that from
ali could learn, is apparently the
name Mr. Stead has seleeted-''will be
an evening journal delivered between
10 and II o'clock in the morning. II
viii consist Of twelve pages and viii
be sold on the news stands for a pen
ny. It viii be d little larger than the
Westminster Gazette and delivered at
houses. The subscription win be a
shilling per month or half q guinea per
year
'aThe messengers who viii be bright
young girls. will De instructed ta col
lect from each subscriber letter com
plants or advertisements To envelopes
addressed to the editor and In this
way / hope to get IN personal Touch
With all my readers
Twenty depots n time @ be n
creased to sixty, viii De established &c
various points IN the city, az each Of
which / expect to have q poste ~
stante, which sort Of thing does not
exist in London now; 4 free telephone,
circulating library, reading room or
place to call aud. | hope, an automatic
restaurant
IF a wife who has to stay at home
wishes to send a message. all she win
have to do will be 10 put It into Ga en-
velope in the morning, and ia two
hours il will be at the depot the mes
sage will be sent on to the tradesman,
the articles desired being delivered
70. O ID in the afternoon,
TT is a great social experiment IS Is
whether one can use newspaper for
social service 4 newspaper IS Che
only organizing center left 10 the world
which is not necessarily sectarlan o.
partisan. shall be 4 Sort 81 preach
ing friar who viii be willing 70 at
as a maid OF an work
"The Daily Paper win De boue
paper Everything VIII be kept ON
which one might n8t desire ones eh.l
dren 10 see There nil be 10 racing III
it and no stock exchange reports. thus
! shall get 50 much more space. Ii wlfi
be intensely political but not partisan.
the idea being 10 cau8 the atmosphere
Of the home to perneate the whole en.
pire The paper Is going to Be- cheer
full shall be au optmist If opa.
mists and try to find the goodness IF
badness aud bright points Of every
thing. including London foa ana III
Chamberlain's fiscal policy.
AS to its contents. there viii be i &.
rial on the basis Of an endless story
which wiz be based on events r. tbe
days news. One page win be set aside
LOT tHhuEeii
AS TO editorials, there win Is 4 eal.
umn leader and perhaps a column n
occasional notes. About foreign news
| shall not worry much I'll Grsf / wan.
to locallze the paper.
There will be four editions an mil
lished at the same hour and one for
each Of the four divisions Of London
The first number win appear IAN
Another principle ! hope Is follow
in the paper IL Of not hitting back wban
hit | shall take it lying down ep1
while IN that posture Soc how j can IL
good to the hitter, though I rather faor
this will DO hard to live up ID.
There win be frequent cartoons nm
maps two 81 the former apnear,aa
each day. original, borrowed boual,, -
stolen y
Mr. Stead told me he lad also anotb
er subscription rate Of d guinea 4 gear
which entities the SUBSCRIBER INV NM,
70 the Daily Paper and two other o5a,
azines, but also to an accident ,nsns
ance policy for e100
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