Vol. I. OCTOBER, 1888. No. 3. 



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STATEN ISLAND JOURNALISM. 



BY IRA K. MORRIS. 



THE KEMAKK is often made that "Staten Island is a little world 

 I all by itself," and there certainly can be no branch of "human 

 industry" within its limits that feels the effect of the isolation as for- 

 cibly as journalism. Yet the profession, handicapped as it is by its 

 limited field, creditably keeps apace with the progress of the age, 

 and, I believe, compares favorably with "newspaperdom" through- 

 out the country. 



Since the first establishment of newspapers in New York city there 

 has been a constant and tender solicitude for Staten Island on the 

 part of the journalists of the great Metropolis. Few important 



