. The city of New York. in 1801, The Sun with itsinitial number on Sept. 3, 1833, changedthe size of its paper from the large cumber-some sheet of its contemporaries to a smallquarto and instituted the present newsboy-system of delivering papers to the public,a custom quickly followed by others. OnMay 6, 1835, the Herald appeared, estab-lished by James Gordon Bennett and onApril 10, 1841, the Tribune entered withHorace Greely. While the Times followedin Sept. 1851, and the World four yearslater. In 1837 Samuel F. B. Morse perfected hisinvention of the telegraph but it was notuntil 1843 that th
. The city of New York. in 1801, The Sun with itsinitial number on Sept. 3, 1833, changedthe size of its paper from the large cumber-some sheet of its contemporaries to a smallquarto and instituted the present newsboy-system of delivering papers to the public,a custom quickly followed by others. OnMay 6, 1835, the Herald appeared, estab-lished by James Gordon Bennett and onApril 10, 1841, the Tribune entered withHorace Greely. While the Times followedin Sept. 1851, and the World four yearslater. In 1837 Samuel F. B. Morse perfected hisinvention of the telegraph but it was notuntil 1843 that the Federal Governemntgranted him sufficient funds to prove itsvalue and in 1846 New York (the home ofthe inventor) was connected with Philadel-phia and Washington by telegraph. Thebuilding of railroads was pushed vigorouslyduring this period and immense sums in-vested. Quick returns were expected butnot realized, and resulted in the panic of1857 which was felt in every part of thenation. Banks again suspended payment 79. and resulted in 5000 failures with a loss ofthree hundred millions of dollars. Arisinp^from the stupor of this set-back New Yorkagain went forward only to be retardedshortly by the Civil Y/ar, but the develop-ment of the steamship, telegraph and rail-way went steadily on, placing it in its pres-ent supremacy. At the opening of theCivil War New York had as its Mayor,Fernando Wood, an unscrupulous politicianwho sent a message to the Common Councilfor New York to secede from the heart of _ New York, however, beattrue to the Union. In July, 1863, the draftriots occurred, the most serious of lawlessoutbreaks since the Astor Place Riot of1849. It was not until tv^^o million dollarsworth of property had been destroyed andmore than twelve hundred rioters killedthat the situation came under control. Tooffset that side of our history we must pointtothe two hundred and ten million dollarsraised by the Union League Club of NewYork for the government to suppress th
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