Show SPREADING NEWS TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO New York Gazette an Early Periodical New Yorks York's tint first newspaper wn was nl published just OO years pars ago ngo It tt was WOI wasa a modest little sheet less leas than Inn one one- fourth the size of a n 1 page page ie of the Times Time and appeared weekly A bronze brone tablet tablet tablet tab tab- let on the south side hit of the Cotton Colton I exchange marks the site of ut the office ottice from which It was Issued A few fugitive fugi- fugi tl e news letters had appeared from time to time but no regular Il publication tion was ns attempted before 1723 The first Inper wit was known as ns the New NewYork NewYork York Gazette In a R r regular weekly lJ paper was published at an all ear ell Her lIer date t l' l There was not much news s In the New loew York two no centuries ago ngo The Gazette consisted of a n t single le sheet printed on both bolh sides Its page two columns culumns In filth and the whole hole contents measuring less than thuD one modem modern mod moll em ern n newspaper S column In fact the dinette Guzette printed almost no local news newl l Foreign were of superior Interest t The first number devoted de Its page 1111 to the text teM of a e eI I treaty between the emperor of Up I ninny and ond the King of ot Spain The Th see sec I ou and oid news feature was v us a n trance of the Clergy of t hance pre pre- I rented rated to the king against u new tin lox of or 2 per cent The only glimpse of local life In early turly New loew York offered l hy by the CazettE Is to be hI found In the advertisements ad EACh Ech Issue contains but from from one cine to the live advertisements IId New loew York then theu gave gu promise 1 of becoming a n shipping center Scarcely n a week eek passes It 11 appears without the arrival or de departure departure of some ome seagoing vessel Yet ret there thre were ere no hip news reporters on the Curette stuff The Atlantic crossing cross log ing then required two months or more The real estate announcements offered of farms for sale down by th the pros pres nt crowded dead lull line The suburban suburban- suburbanIte He lie however howe was already flourishing for there was n a surprising number of plantations on sale In New Jersey and Lon Long Island In III almost every ery number number num num- ber of tie the Gazette there were advertisements adver allver of Qt sla slaves for tor sale From time to time th the name of a traveler passing through New York Is la men wen Otherwise OthEr all nil attempts at fir acv the Il public with local happenings happenings hap horl- censes ceases The Gazette Ue managed to exist though h advertisements only nn un Inch or so so A line across the last page announces that the paper paper pa pa- per Is to be sold by Richard Nickel Post Cost Master where advertisements tre ue taken In It was not until 17 1744 when the paper poper hud hod run for about nineteen jears that It achieved a cir dr- of copies New New York Yort Times |