Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-05
PRESS OF THE FUTURE.
Innovations Predicted by Sir AL fred Harmsworth.
HIGHLY SPECIALIZED JOURNALS
Wealthy British Newspaper Proprfe- tor Anticipates One Devoted to Sport, One to Religion, One to Poli- tics, and So On-Favors Fully Illus trated Newspapers or Not at All.

Sport, One to Religion, One to Poli-
 tics, and So On-Favors Fully Illus
 trated Newspapers or Not at All.
 Tt is very probable that the daily press of the future will be highly spe- cialized, so much so that we may antic- ipate one daily devoted entirely to pol itics, another to sport, another to re- ligious matters, another entirely devot- ed to literature, and so on," said Sir Alfred Harmsworth in the course of an interview recently granted to the New York Worlds staff correspondent in London. ''Then the man who reads will be able to take any or all of them, as he pleases. Of course, we already have daily papers entirely devoted to sport, and it will be found that there is an equally good public for papers devoted exclusively to some one other subject. In London, for instance, there are several daily papers trying to cover the whole ground, very much like one another in their supply of news, and not few of them losing a great deal of money. In time to come this will give place to specialization in the direc tions which have mentioned.
 q do not see any objection to daily newspapers, like the Times here, run ming large lending libraries. Perhaps in the distant future the newspaper will supply the public not only with news, but with everything else that it wants"
 Twelve months ago Sir Alfred Harms worth, the multimillionaire of English journalism, contributed an article to the World on How to Achieve Busi- ness Success" He then owned thirty three publications. Since then they have nearly doubled in number During these twelve months also the English public has been rather startled to find that in addition to starting many fresh pub lications of the popular kind with which his name is associated he has turned his attention to old established papers. some of them possessing more prestige than circulation.
 Latterly 1t has been rumored, and some definite statements have been made to that effect in New York and in London, that Sir Alfred Harmsworth has been completing arrangements for duplicating his London enterprises in New York. On being asked by the cor respondent if these statements were true, Sir Alfred Harmsworth replied:
 "They are absolutely untrue. I have not the slightest intention of building up any establishment in the States. I have arranged for the publication of the Self Educator there because spon- taneous demand arose for it. That Is all. If were foolish enough to think of catering to the American public I should have just as much chance as an American would have In catering to the English public if he came to London.
 "Nor have I any intention of develop ing Sunday newspaper on the lines of the Sunday editions of the big New York dailies. There never will be any demand for such paper in London. There Is a great difference in the re- quirements of the British and Ameri- can public. and the journalistic supply runs on different lines altogether. The British public Is accustomed to getting all it wants in the way of stories and illustrations in our weekly periodicals, for which there is practically no equiva- lent in the States. Consequently the Sunday editions of the big American dailLes supply this want by delivering a composite publication, including hu- morous pictures, made up in sections.
 with regard to illustrations, my ex- perience of the daily newspaper is that it should either be fully illustrated or not illustrated at all. Consequently the Daily Mail is reducing its illustrations to the vanishing point, while we are increasing their number in the Daily Mirror The public demand is that the newspaper shall be one thing or the other. The same thing applies in the States. That there is a large public growing up which prefers solid reading matter to a combination of letterpress and illustrations is shown by the grow ing number of 'all reading magazines now being produced on both sides of the Atlantic"
 Tt is suggested that the extent and variety of your business. it's all em- bracing character. are bringing your op- erations more or less into line with the American trusts.-
 There seems to me to be no reason for that suggestion. The distinctive feature of trusts which is so much dis liked is the squeezing out by any sort of means of all other competitors and SO obtaining a monopoly. Nothing of the kind takes place with my business. In fact. our own success in various di- rections has enabled others to obtain success on similar lines. There can not be anything to depIore in the growth and expansion of a business which succee,ls on the basis of fair competition
 T confess. however. that 1t is one oF my ambitions. which I commend to my energetic friends in the States. to make my business self sufHcing and b manufacture for myself everything that I require: benoe my purchase Of land ln NeEfoundiand in order that 1 may be able to make my own paper. Soon TO h1pe to make everything for ourselves
 @I think the big Bewspapers of tho near future will find it convenient f1