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“dissolved in smoke and flame” when his office was burned in 1845.
Greeley names four causes of the New Yorker's financial failure: That it was never properly advertised, that “it was never really published,” the credit system with subscribers, and the lack of such facilities for distribution as railroads and news-companies afford to-day.
Certainly it was “never really published,” and the want of good business management made its financial success impossible.
New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.
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