London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
THE GROWTH OF THE EVENING PAPER.
Another remarkable development of the Press at the end of the century is the growth of the evening paper. In the sixties I had the honour to edit , which made its appearance in the same year as, but a little earlier than, The . We modelled our publication on originals. We gave the lists of the plays of the moment, after the fashion of The and a | |
11 | . Even in those days I soon discovered the value of and did my best to outdo the accounts of races published in the last edition of . There were in existence (the afternoon version of the organ of John Bright), (then, as now, an admirable paper), and , issuing from the offices of . I thought myself particularly in my salad days, because I managed to get my second edition-we had no first-into the hands of the public shortly after two o'clock. Nowadays half-a-dozen evening papers are selling long before that hour. (now edited by my old and valued friend, Sir Douglas Straight, one of my colleagues on ) soon followed, describing itself as as well as an evening paper. I remember that we considered ourselves extremely clever because we referred to the as Then came (I had used the title earlier for a weekly of ), and, later still, and . As I write, and compete at a halfpenny with their higher-priced contemporaries. When -a four-paged sheet-was started, it was considered a marvel of cheapness at a penny, and (smaller than at present) most reasonable at twice the money. |
