The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1911-04-18
NEWSPAPERS
AND JOURNALS
LeslIes Weekly he Oldest Of lis
Kind In America
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LREuEW Of PERIODICALS
Charles Harvey Tells Of Founding Of
Many of the Oldest Newspapers
and Magazines With Brief History
Of Last Quarter in American Jour-
nalism. -

When, on December Is, 1885, the
first number OF Leslie's Weekly was
issued, an important date mark was
set up In the history of the American
press. This was the pioneer illus
trated weekly OF the United States.
Its protector End publisher. Frank
Leslie, who was born in England,
early developed q taste for art and
acquired great skill with the pencil
and grassr. Before be was Fl his
sketches began TO appear in the IL
Illustrated London News, England's
best known and most popular peri
odical in the pictorial field in his day.
Coming to the United States he was
employed for short time on Glea-
sons Pictorial, IN Boston At one
time and another BaIlon, Gleason
and Others published illustrated
papers In this country, but they we're
crude and comparatively short lived
and their scope was narrow. Leslie's
was the first to attempt to give ade-
quate pictorial treatment TO import
ant current events. Its name. Frank
Lesiies Illustrated Newspaper. indi-
Gated that II wonld occupy a widely
different field from that which they
endeayorsd to f. OF the other two
present-day periodicals Of Leslie's
clAss. Harper's Weekly made its ad-
vent in 1856 and Golfers was born
In 1857.
OF the important magazines OF to-
day. only two were in existence In
1855. One was the North American
Review, the dean of all the present
day American monthlies. which was
started in 1915 and which will thus
celebrate IT'S centennial four years
hence. The other was Harper's
Monthly. which dates from 1850.
Other magazines were here when
Leslie's Weekly made its first APP
pearanee. The Kuickerbccker. which
started In 1888 was fourishing In
1855; but IL made Its exit so long
ago Tin 1860 that few persons who
are With ~ VINO can recall It ofsfand
a. current publication. Graham's
Magazine the most popular Of all the
monthlies which tie United States
saw previous to the Civil war ran It's
course from 1891 10 1858. Putman's
Monthly, the first series started in
1859. went down In the panic Of
1857. Reappearing in 1858 II pass
ed out once more In 1870. Emerg-
ing In It's third series in 1906. II
suspended In 1909. The Atlantic,
the Leading literary magazine in
America. dates from 1857. The Cen
tury and scribners are much young
er. while the great popular monthlies
1.-The American. Ncclure's, cosmo-
polifan. Hampten's, Pesrson's, Nun
sey's Eyerybody's and the rest OF
them-are creations Of the past
quarter Of a century. except the
American, which traces its lineage
back 70 Leslle's Popular Monthly.
established By Frank Leslie in 1876.
Lppinoott's dates from 1858 and the
Forum from 1856.
The persons who would call the
roll Of the great daily newspapers Of
the United States in 1855 would have
had a short task The Globe, for
merry the Commercial Advertiser.
dating from 1877. and the Evening
Post from 1891 are the present New
York city dalIies which rT. over a
century old. Outside Of New York
the journalistic eentenarians in the
large cities are the PHILADELPHIA
North American. the Hartfor1 Cour-
ant, the Baltimore American. the
cincinnstti Commercial Tribune, the
Plttsburg Gazetts-Tlmes, the 81.
Louis Republic. the Charleston News
and Courier and few others. Benz
jamin n. Day started the New York
Sun 1873, James Gordon Bennett.
the elder launched the New York
Herald In 1875. and Horace Creely
established the New York Tribune
in lst1, while Henry J. Raymond
brought out the ses York Times IN
1851. The Cour-enr dss Etats Tnls.
the great Frsnch daily. and the still
better known German daily, tho
Stats zeitung. appeared a little
earlier than did the Sun. BY a few
years also the san was antedated b.
the New York 10 rnzl Of Commerce.
the best known paper Of the United
States IN IFS field. Also a little old.
er than LeslIe's Weekly are the Pos,
the Transcript. the Journal, the
Traveller and the Herald Of Boston
the Baltimore Sun. the Springfield
Republican. which has had a Samuel
Bosies q, Its head for more thar
three quarters VI century. the Neu
Orleans pieayune. the Argus and the
Journal Of Albany. the Chicago Rec.
ord-Hsraid. the Chicago Tribnne. tho
Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Roches.
ter Democrat and Chronicle. the
Piftsburg Dispatch. the Memphis
Commerr Al Appeal. the Richmond
Tines Dispatch. the Mobile Register
the Troy Times. the 81 Louis Globe.
Democrat, the Cincinnati Enquirer
the Portland oregonian and oihe,
well.known papers.
The prominent daily newspapers
shith are younger than Leslie,
Weekly make formidable ilss
AmonF them are the New York
World. the New York American and