Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 4 | A Great Newspaper

business, tad the public can get an idea of what it ia to run a great daily by the statement in an editorial ed-itorial of the Times that the cost of running the paper during the laat twelve months haa been more than two and one-quarter millions of dollars. That it is a great power in journalism is made cltar by the statement that it waa' never so prosperous as now, and never has had as many subscribers aa at present. Some of the advertisements in the old papers pa-pers in this edition are more countrified than can be found in Salt Lake today. ' The paper as a whole shows such an evolution in journalism as will probably never be seen again in a given sixty years. It is an evolution that is a transformation. We think the newspaper has reached its limit in size. It ia not, perfect yet. A good many things are condensed that ought to have more apace; a great many things are given too much space, and the journal of the future, if it holds its place as the leader and guide of public opinion, will only be intrusted to great minds and great souls. ACSEAT NEWSPAPER. On the 18th of the present month the New Tork Times published a jubilee number, being the sixti-: sixti-: tth auniversary of the founding of the paper. It contains fac similes of the Times, the Herald ami the Tribune aa they were aixty years ago, with the ' editors who hsve been most distinguished on all . those paptrs. . In the Times is a picture of Henry J. Raymond, who first made the Times a great newspaper, and of George Jones, who succeeded him. - ; , . . The snniverHsry paper ia most interesting, and a comparison of tht- presses that were used sixty years sj;o and the perfecting presses of today - fchowg as marked an advance in the mechanical part -of journalism aa can be found in any other . 1