The New York Evening Mail (1867–1924) was an American daily newspaper published in New York City . For a time the paper was the only evening newspaper to have a franchise in the Associated Press .
14-735: The paper was founded as the New York Evening Mail in 1867 and published under that name through 1877. It then went through some minor name changes, becoming the New York Mail for about a year (November 1877 – November 1878), and then The Mail (through late 1879). It then became the Evening Mail from 1879 through December 1881, when owner Cyrus West Field acquired the New York Evening Express (which had been founded by James and Erastus Brooks as
28-555: A Whig paper in June 1836), and created The Mail and Express . It retained the Mail and Express moniker until 1904, when it eventually became the Evening Mail once again. In 1915 the newspaper was acquired by Edward Rumely with financing from a source in Germany . Rumely felt that most American newspapers were taking a pro British side threatening neutrality. In January 1924, the paper
42-576: A cartoonist with the New York Evening Mail . The New York Evening Mail was syndicated to the first newspaper syndicate, the McClure Newspaper Syndicate , giving Goldberg's cartoons a wider distribution, and by 1915 he was earning $ 25,000 per year and being billed by the paper as America's most popular cartoonist. Arthur Brisbane had offered Goldberg $ 2,600 per year in 1911 in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to move to William Randolph Hearst 's newspaper chain, and in 1915 raised
56-526: A verse from the Bible at the head of each edition's editorial page. As president of the newspaper company until his death, he approved every important decision or policy. Shepard's brother Augustus D. Shepard, who was the vice president, became acting president of the Mail and Express Company on his brother's death. In 1892, the newspaper's owner Elliott Fitch Shepard ordered a new headquarters built. Shepard owned
70-715: The Enemy Act Trading with the Enemy Act is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and the United States relating to trading with the enemy . Trading with the Enemy Acts is also a generic name for a class of legislation generally passed during or approaching a war that prohibit not just mercantile activities with foreign nationals, but also acts that might assist
84-670: The Government, charged with perjury. The charge grew out of a statement filed with A. Mitchell Palmer , the Alien Property Custodian , in which Rumely asserted that The Evening Mail was an American-owned newspaper. The Government is in possession of evidence which, it is held, shows that instead of being owned by Americans, the paper is in fact owned by the Imperial German Government, which on June 1, 1915, paid to Rumely, through Walter Lyon, of
98-620: The company from 1888 until his death in 1893. The building was on Broadway, between Fulton and Dey Streets. It was 66 by 25 by 211 feet, ten stories, and was built by Carrère & Hastings (architects of the New York Public Library ). The building's dimensions were challenging based on the land purchased, and thus the Buffalo Morning Express wrote that it "looks for all the world like an upright lead pencil". The ground floor featured caryatids representing
112-480: The enemy. While originally limited to wartime, in the 20th century these Acts were applied in cases of national emergency as well. For example, in 1940, before the United States entry into World War II the president imposed broad prohibitions on the transfer of property in which Norway or Denmark, or any citizen or national of those countries, or any other person aiding those countries, had any interest, with
126-573: The exception of transfers which were licensed under the regulations of the Department of the Treasury. The British Trading with the Enemy Act 1939 was applied to Mandatory Palestine , as to other British-ruled territories. On the creation of Israel in 1948, it was retained as an Israeli law and the various Arab countries named in it as "The Enemy". It is still in force as of 2024 , though Egypt and Jordan were removed from its application with
140-582: The former Wall Street house of Renskorf. Lyon & Co., the sum of $ 735,000, which transferred the control of the newspaper to the Kaiser." In July 1918 Rumely was arrested and convicted of violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act . Rumely however denied the allegations, claiming, instead, he had received money to buy the paper from an American citizen in Germany. He had failed to report this when he received
154-648: The money. He said the charge was baseless, and based on perjured testimony. President Coolidge granted him a presidential pardon in 1925. [REDACTED] Media related to New York Evening Mail at Wikimedia Commons Cyrus West Field Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.132 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 947510065 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:45:12 GMT Trading with
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#1732783512569168-521: The newspaper's reach across all "four corners of the world". The building became an architectural landmark, such that after a fire in 1900, the Troy Daily Times wrote that it was "such an ornament to Broadway that its destruction would be a calamity". It was demolished in 1920, following AT&T's plans to expand its building at 195 Broadway to take over nearly the entire block. In 1907, Rube Goldberg moved to New York, finding employment as
182-479: The offer to $ 50,000 per year. Rather than lose Goldberg to Hearst, the New York Evening Mail matched the salary offer and formed the Evening Mail Syndicate to syndicate Goldberg's cartoons nationally. The New York Times of July 9, 1918, reported that Edward Rumely , "... vice president, secretary and publisher of the New York Evening Mail , was arrested late yesterday afternoon by agents of
196-545: Was merged with the Evening Telegram upon being acquired by Frank Munsey from Henry L. Stoddard . This later became the New York World-Telegram in 1931. On March 20, 1888, Elliott Fitch Shepard purchased the Mail and Express (with an estimated value of $ 200,000 ($ 6.78 million in 2023) from Cyrus West Field for $ 425,000 ($ 14.4 million in 2023). Deeply religious, Shepard placed
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