New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19
IN FOREIGN TONGUES.
Many Newspapers Published IN THIS
City for Immigrants.

Attention has recently been called to the cos
mopolitan character of New-York City through
the change of a Greek tri-weekly pubhsneo mere
to daily newspaper. A careful canvass sho"s
that there are ninety-three daily weekly and
monthly publications printed in foreign IAN
guages in this city. OF these nearly hair are III
the German language. Every phase of German
life and almost every part of Germany is repre-
sented in this city by a periodical of some SORT
Altogether there probably forty or tnese'
The Italian language ranks next with Iour
dailes and seven weeklies. The Jewish or fid-
dish publications come next there being elght
of them devoted to the news of the day. SIX OF
them being dailies. There are also eight span
ish publications. but they are divided between
two weeklies and six monthlies.
The Bohemans have two hustling dallies' eaeh
with it's weekly and Sunday edition. In addition
to these, there is also prosperous weekly and
monthly. The Hungarians also have four
newspapers, two of them being dailies. There
are five Syrian or Arabic news publications. two
dafies two weeklies and tri-weekly. There
are three Danish and three Polish publications,
Polish daily having recently taken the neld
There are two Finnish and two Swedish papers.
one of the latter being labor organ. OF the
JAPANESE there is one weekly news sheet. just
started, and a monthly. There is a Chinese
weekly and Russian weekly.
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makes three Greek newspapers in the city.
Strangely enough, there is only French
newspaper here, although it has daily. weekly
and Sunday issues. The Servian. Slovak Sloven
and Croatian peoples represented by paper
in each of these languages the Croatian paper
being daily
The papers enumerated represent twenty-one
different languages. An Armenian paper once
published here has moved to Boston, and the
newspaper directory people this year get
word of a Lithuanian weekly listed last year.
A prosperous weekly devoted 10 the interests
Of the Swiss people in New-York appears each
week in German.
Park Row is by no means the only News
paper Row" in the city II has replicas on the
East Side and on the West Side. East Broad
way, at it's junction with RutgeTs-st., is the
Row" OF the Jewish Yiddish papers There
the offices OF some Of the largest stand shoulder
to shoulder for an entire block Four Of the
Jewish dailies evening papers. and the size
of the crowd filling the street when bulletins
issued and the time for the appearance OF the
papers draws near would do credit to many Of
the English papers in the city. Inside these
offices the gathering and printing OF the news is
accomplished in the most up to date. American
lied method. Most of them have excellent tele-
graph service, the composition is done on espe-
clay constructed linotype machines. and the
printing fast presses OF the latest pattern
Even typewrters and cash registers printing
Yiddish characters are used
Each paper has it's own corps of editors and
reporters. There about five hundred thou
sand Jewish people in New-York City. and the
Yiddish papers enjoy comparatively good circu-
lations That claimed for the largest is O.. 900
daily.
In Greenwich-st. where the Croatian daily and
bax- {,fst he
street from each other. is another miniature
newspaper row. Outwardly these offices look
like brokers offices. but inside there is much
tivity The office OF the CToatIan daily is par
ticularly busy place.
Still another little newspaper colony is TO be
found in the Syrian quarter. where one paper
printed In Arabic is established in Washington
st. and another in the same language around the
corner In Wcst-st.
The Hungarian papers have little Row" Of
their In Sixth-st.. where they tucked
away among barber shops bakeries and
saloons. The newspapers OF other nationalities
are. however. more scattered. The Chinese and
Japanese weekes are in william-st.. the Greek
daily IN Soonest. the Se-vian paper in 11th-
ave. and the Russian weekly in East T2d-st.
These smaller papers depend. OF course. for
their news service upon the ability OF transla-
tion from the English of the big New-York
dailies into the respective languages in which
they are printed. In many cases one small room
answers for both editorial sanctum and COM
posing room. while the presswork is done al
some neighborIng job plant. In other cases the
paper is a sort OF side issue for a successful job
business. A weekly letter from the Old country
is advertised as feature by many OF the foreign
publications.
a peep inside the offices Of some Of these little
papers is entertaining. There the person looking
for the editor need pass no bodyguard OF inquis-
tive Office attendants. He opens the door of the
one room answering for editorial. composing.
and in some instances press room we'll and
there in one corner sits the editor. pipe in mouth
and piles of newspapers surrounding his chair.
II it be about personal" new, dress OF
type roller for the flatbed press that
the call is made the editor is the man 10 see and
talk with, for he has as thorough a grasp on all
things intellectual mechanical and otherwise
connected with his plant as has the typical coun-
try editor. Yet each of these little papers with
It's curious looking head and still more curious
text. has It's own particular field and its own
coterie of readers. and most of them are making
money.
AT OLD POINT COMFORT.
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