Image: Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) (1869) (14579474749)

Description: Identifier: sunshineshadowin00smit (find matches) Title: Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) .. Year: 1869 (1860s) Authors: Smith, Matthew Hale, 1810-1879 Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions Publisher: Hartford, J. B. Burr and company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: press very closely. He felt that it was not whatthe age demanded, and resolved to establish a paperthat should express his idea of a metropolitan journal.He had no capital, no rich friends to back him, — noth-ing but his ability, pluck, and indomitable resolution. NEW YORK HERALD. On the 6th day of May, 1835, the New York Heraldwas issued from No. 20 Wall Street. It was a smallpenny sheet. Mr. Bennett was editor, reporter, andcorrespondent. He collected the city news, and wrotethe money articles. He resolved to make the financialfeature of his paper a marked one. He owed nothingto the Stock Board. If he was poor, he was not indebt. He did not dabble in stocks. He had no interestin the bulls or bears. He did not care whether stocksrose or fell. He could slash into the bankers and stock-jobbers as he pleased. He worked hard. He roseearly, was temperate and frugal, and seemed to liveonly for his paper. He was his own compositor anderrand boy, collected his own news, mailed his papers, Text Appearing After Image: In New York. 515 kept his accounts, and thus laid the foundation of thatgreat success that has made his name as flimiliar on theThames and Danube as it is on the Hudson. THE NEW HERALD BUILDING. Opposite the Astor, on the site of the old Museum,stands the marble palace known as the Herald Build-ing. It is the most complete newspaper establishmentin the world. The little, dingy, story-and-a-half brickbuilding, standing back from the street up a court, andknown in London as the Times Printing Office, M^ouldnot be used for a third-rate American paper. Beforethe Herald buildings were completed, and while Mr,Bennett was making a savage assault on the NationalBanks, he was waited upon by the president of one ofthe banks, who said to him, Mr. Bennett, we knowthat you are at great expense in erecting this building,besides carrying on your immense business. If youwant any accommodation you can have it at ourbanks. Mr. Bennett replied, Before I purchasedthe land, or began to build, I had on dep Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Sunshine and shadow in New York. By Matthew Hale Smith. (Burleigh.) (1869) (14579474749)
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