Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-08-19
THE EVENING PAPER,

The attention Of the public has, dur
mg the mst few years, repeatedly been
called TO the fact that the evening pa
per Is rapidly becoming the paper OF
the people The Seattle Times re-
Gently gave some interesting facts aud
figures on that subject We quote
the following;
Fifteen years ago the Washington
Evening star was Just coming to the
front as an evening publication In COM
petition with the Washington Post
ana under circumstances quite different
than are presented In any other city
and almost entirely because at the
national capital are 10 be found a
greater proportion Of wealthy people
who do not go TO their business before
q or 10 O'clock than can be found IN
any similar city OF like population, But
i'm spite Of that fact the Evening star
has reached a circulation Of more than
10000 copies-probnbly so per cent
greater than its morning competitor
IN the city Of Philadelphia, whore
evening papers were at n discount NJ
teen years ago. they are away above
par today. The Bulletin didn't have
2J,00O circulation in 1890, but today II
has nearly 100000 circulation. In the
cities Of Minneapolis and St Paul may
be found two other Illustrations Of how
rapidly the evening papers have come
to the front 10 the detriment-and, I'm
one instance, to the complete destruc-
tion--of the morning newspaper TWEEN
~ years ago the ST. Paul Dispatch was
the merest bin poster 20 be found any
where-unleas It was the Minneapolis
Journal To-day the Dispatch has a
circulation OF $1,000 copies per diem,
and the Journal has $1,000 circulation.
This does not include the Evening
Tribune. established In 1899 and which
claims to have a circulation Of 10000
The Morning Tribune, however, has
been published for nearly thirty years,
but on an examination by strangers the
| following facts We're developed touch
| ing the Morning Tribune, which had
not an evening edition until about ten
| years after the morning edition had
| been published. In the city of Min
| reapolis alone these examiners found
| that the Morning and Evening Trlb-
| une had paid circulation OF 44l6
| Ccples-and at the same time I'm COM
pairing with the Evening journal found
| that the Evening Tribune had 1909 Of
the total given above, This left but
! 1854 copies Tor the morning paper cir
culated i'm the city Of Minneapolis,
whose population has just been count
ed and found to be 1858 600 people,
I'm the meantime the st. Paul Globe
| has been discontinued for lack Of pat.
ronage and soon the Times win be for
the same reason. Then there will be
but two morning papers published IN
Minneapolis and 81, Paul whose COM
bined population considerably exceeds
400, 0OO."
The reasons FOR the tendency TO de-
cadence Of the morning paper are per-
fectly obvious. Through the excellent
service Of the Associated Press, the
news Of the day is given TO the even.
Ing paper so completely as to leave but
little for the following morning. Be.
sides, all the readers, with the excep.
ton of the few who do not work for a
living, have more time to devote tC
the paper I'm the evening than IN the
morning These facts sufficiently cx,
plain the change noted