Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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rning dailies are the MorningJournal, the Morning Advertiser, the Mercury,and the latest of all, the Daily America. Of the evening papers, besides the edi-tions published by the World, the Sun, theAdvertiser and the Telegram, which is the childof the Herald, there are three distinctively andpurely evening journals, all of them solid andfirmly established : The Commercial Adver-tiser, foimded in 1797, and claiming the proud title of the oldest paper in New York; ably edited byJohn A. Cockerill, assisted by Foster Coates and Charles Hasbrook. The Evening Post, started in1801, at one time conducted by Carl vSchurz, and now successfully piloted by E. L. Godkin, J. S.Seymour, business manager, and W. A. Linn, managing editor. The Mail and Express, a consolidationof two journals by Cyrus W. Field in 1882. Subsequently it was owned by the late Elliott F. Shepard,and is at present admirably managed by John A. Sleischer, R. E. A. Dorr, and A. B. De Freece,business manager. There are also other
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HORACE CREKLKV. are also otner daily papers worthy of mentionCourrier des Etats-Unis, LEco dItalia, the New-YorkerNews, founded in 1867, by Benjamin Wood, besides a hostmore or less influence. Zeitung, such as the Journal of Commerce, theand last but not least the Eveningof lesfal, financial and hotel journals of Ixx NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. Of the weeklies, dramatic, illustrated and sporting, there are, the Led^s^cr, founded by RobertBonner in 1844; the Nation, the Spirit of the Tunes, founded in 1831 ; the Clipper, the Home Journal,Forest aiid Stream, the Critic, Life, Bradstreets, Harpers Weekly, Harpers Bazaar, Harpers Young^People, Frank Leslies Illustrated, and the German edition of the same; the Dramatic Mirror, Truth,and those great comic weeklies, which are unequalled in an)^ part of the world. Puck and Judge. These two great journals are unique of their class and are easily the best of the kind in anycountry or in any language. Puck is the older of the two. It was founded i

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