It was difficult to give them all away.

He began with six hundred subscribers, and increased the list to eleven thousand in six weeks.

The demand for the "Tribune" grew faster than new machinery could be obtained to print it.

It was a paper whose editor, whatever his mistakes, always tried to be right.
James Gordon Bennett had made a failure of his "New York Courier" in 1825, of the "Globe" in 1832, and of the "Pennsylvanian" a little later, and was only known as a clever writer for the press, who had saved a few hundred dollars by hard labor and strict economy for fourteen years.

In 1835 he asked Horace Greeley to join him in starting a new daily paper, the "New York Herald." Greeley declined, but recommended two young printers, who formed partnership with Bennett, and the "Herald" was started on May 6, 1835, with a cash capital to pay expenses for _ten days_.