Clipping:An open criticism of Chadwick; his rebuttal
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| Date | Thursday, November 5, 1868 |
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| Text | The Chronicle failed to succeed from the unpopularity of its editor and not from any want of enterprise on the part of its proprietors. This fact is so well known among the fraternity that the knowing ones are predicting the early decease of Rogers’ paper [the New England Base Ballist], of which “Old Chalk” is the New York Correspondent. As Chad treats the New Englanders to a weekly rehash of his Mercury-Union articles, we have no fears on that account, however. New England Base Ballist November 5, 1868, quoting the New York Sunday News. That paper [the Chronicle] was started in June 1867, on a very limited capital, and late, too, in the season for an enterprise of this kind; but yet within three months from the day of its first issue it was paying its expenses, a noteworthy success in the history of the progress of journalism. During the winter of 1867-8, the outlay incurred in publishing the paper was of course greatly in excess of its receipts, but it was anticipated that the increased circulation of 1868 would offset this expenditure. Up to July 30th, 1868, this did not prove to be the case, for though the Chronicle had steadily increased its list of subscribers, and also its general circulation up to the above period, the receipts were not sufficiently in excess of the expenses to make up for the previous winter’s deficits, and as the gentleman who had advanced the capital for the enterprise refused further supplies, and as no one could be found to take his place, the paper necessarily had to be suspended for lack of funds to publish it, just at the very time, too, when it was obtaining a foothold for a permanent existence. New England Base Ballist November 19, 1868 [from a piece signed “H. Chadwick, Editor of the ‘New York Sunday Mercury.’”] |
| Source | New England Base Ballist |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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