A GREAT LONDON PAPER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 100, 9 June 1900, Page 2

A GREAT LONDON PAPER.

The new London newspaper, the Daily Express, claims that its first issue had i circulation of 1,500,000 copies—beatog the world's record in daily jourlalism. It says:—Here are the bare acts: During the days before promotion orders came in to the enormous ind unparalleled' total of 1,500,000 jopies. The lay mind can hardly realise what this means at first. A gigantic idea is more easily grasped by (he ■nethod of comparison. Placed end >n end, the papers comprising the first is ua woulJ cover the enormous .istauco of 1704 mile*, or about ten times the distance between London icd Manchester, To travel along this Express road at express sp?ed would r <ake about 43 hoar.', or nearly two lays and nights. Everyone know* how the morning papers are staked in their newsagent's shop. Packed Iht in this way the day's issue of the Express would tower up through tic <-oof of 'he shop until the top would be overed with snow and hidden <y nii-t except upon very noe lays. The great paper column •vould be 4250 ft. in height, as nearly t-f possible thb height of Ban Nevis. The pilo would tower over Saowdon by be--ween 700 ft and 800 ft. Seven days of ■uuu an output W(,u!d be as high as M;ui)t Everest, which, as the lisping i..f .nt lean.s, is the highest peak in iir world, Tnis column of 1,500,000 copL's would make St. Paul's Cathedral appear a mere squat dwarf beside its mightiness—less than a tenth of its altitude—while it would take 24 Nelson columns to equal it. Of course to print this enormous amount of copies which England commandeered so suddenly from our publisher yesterday was quite beyond the power of even the many great machine* which lurk in the underground hall beneath Tudor and Oirmelite Streets. Even these etteel giants could not cope with it. Accordingly several other great firms had to be pressed into service, among them being such wellknown ones as the Argus Company, the News of Hie World, the Olemente Printing Work*, auii the Fl*t P.u,uug Works. Thin is the statistical history of an unprecedented success.