New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . e Recorderarrived and was at once taken to the bosom of the the jjublic were not deceived, the career of this nowsolidly established journal is the ])roof. It has served thel)ublic well. It has given them all the news, and it hasl)een instrumental in effecting many reforms in theirinterest. Its first achievement was the collection of $60,000for a monument to General Sherman. Its second, amemorial to the American seaman, Riggin, killed in Val-])araiso by a Chilian mob. Numerically, this is the largestpublic subscr
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . e Recorderarrived and was at once taken to the bosom of the the jjublic were not deceived, the career of this nowsolidly established journal is the ])roof. It has served thel)ublic well. It has given them all the news, and it hasl)een instrumental in effecting many reforms in theirinterest. Its first achievement was the collection of $60,000for a monument to General Sherman. Its second, amemorial to the American seaman, Riggin, killed in Val-])araiso by a Chilian mob. Numerically, this is the largestpublic subscrii)tion ever raised, 26,407 persons having con-tributed $26,000. It gave the people the proper kind ofsensation when, the Street Cleaning Department neglectingits duty, it organized a brigade of its own to ])erform theservice, which brigade he sent over to Brooklyn at thereciuest of its citizens. When Tammany Hall, throughAssemblyman Connelly, had an act passed that would con-fiscate the property of the Staats Zeitu/ii^, the Recorder so NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS, 59. stirred vip proper indignation that the bill was killed. Itfought the battle of telephone subscribers against a monopoly,it organized the movement culminating in the removal ofAmerican men and women from the cholera ridden steam-ships down the bay, and, besides, it gave, and it still gives,all the news. It claims, truthfully, to being the great homenewspaper, clean, pure, bright, newsy, and its claim isallowed. To sum up, its circulation is 100,000, in advertis-ing it stands already next to the Herald and World, and ithas erected a splendid home for itself on Spruce Editor and Publisher of the Recorder is Mr. George , now in his thirty-fifth year. From the New YorkJournalist, which keeps a sleepless eye on newspaper menwho are obtaining celebrity in its own peculiar field, weepitomize an article, semi-editorial in its scope, treating ofGeo. , then (January 12, 1889) not quite so famousas h
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