Life — February 26, 1903 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- IN VIEW OF THE PRESENT AGITATION CONCERNING TRAPPIC IN NEW Yo! 181 “ LIFE" REPRINTS NEREWITA, PROM SOME OP ITS PORMER IPSUES, A PRW PICTURES REARING ON A SUBJECT DEAR TO THE MEARTS OP ALL NEW YORKERS THE NEW YORK STREET CAR VE YOR CATTLE, BUT GOOD ENOUGH FoR HUMANS. Serer LIVELY, Lavina! The Worst Newspaper. VV HICH is the worst daily newspaper in the United States, and why? Lire's Contest to decide this important question is begin- ning to attract wide attention. Every one is invited to compete, and no daily newspaper in the country, no matter how bad it is, necd suffer by being left out. Remember, that a Prize of Fifty Dollars in Gold is offered for the cleverest contribution showing why any particular daily newspaper is the worst in the United States. Coxpitioys. Competitors must limit their arguments to three hundred words each, Write on one side of the paper only. The contest will close March 1, 1903, and the award will be made as INSIDE.” MANY BECKON IN Vain. juning argument will be print y of that distingu and addresses of the writers shou! will these be printed without permiss e returned should (the vender. Tho: nelose ® stamped and MADUSCTIpt may Lear a pseudonym, which will be printed with the Ne Euitors of Lire ate to be tbe sole Judges of the merits of the arguments. Neuen Eraur, Tam surprised that a handicap of forty-nine dollars and ninety nine cents was not placed on the contestant selecting The Boston Herald as the worst newspaper ever. of this paper is bounded on the north by the city limits; on the east by Boston Harbor ; on the south by Thomas Lawson's stock farm; on the west by the Harvard Pump. The Boston Heraid is the herald of Boston and nothing else. It never tires of its job. The front page is usually given to advertisements a description of what a city reporter saw on his way to the office. and a picture of the new member of the School Board. The Herald has not yet recovered from the Sp line type. Its pseudo-ethical discussions literature give it a pass into Back Bay, while i tortionism, with a general leaning towards Irish (in Boston), gives it a considerable circulation at the other end of town. The Herald's recent effort to prove that the * , took aboard most of her passengers at Cork has, however, not met with universal acceptance. The Herald is green, not yellow. Its editorial page smacks of the Harvard class-room, with its accompanying unripe theories. Further than this it never commits itself. If Harvard wins a football game, the sporting editor monopolizes the p: overflows into every issue for six weeks. If some college, Yale or good old Princeton, licks them, you can look for an account of the game under the weather report on the seventh px The defeat of The Boston-Herald-Lawson-Boat,"' Independence,” has closed the paper to all mention of boats except under the eral subject of shipping. The Boston Herald is untraveled. They ought to move the whole outfit around the country on a flatcarto observe that the country has grown a little since 1776. Like The Old Ladies’ Home Journal, it gets a whole lot out of nothing. ‘The price of the paper varies with politics. Individual copies sell for two cents. Looking forthe world outside, The Herald shows you a new view of the Boston Public Library ; for travel, it takes you for a ride through the Subway ; asking for news, you get hash. The Herald is not vicious, but weak. Its insipid crime is its provincialism. Send me the fifty dolla he news zone nish warhead art and political con mus! Home Rule aytlower”™ s I want to get a sack of coal. A Hoosier Sojourning in the Effete East, comicbooks.com