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ness for figures, he calculated that it would cost $67 to produce
an edition of 3,000 a week, provided $350 could be obtained for
new printing and typesetting equipment. From an edition of
2,000, he anticipated a surplus of $15 a week, provided the paper
were printed solely in German. He estimated the potential circula
tion at 1,000 in New York, 200 in Baltimore, 250 each in St. Louis
and Philadelphia, 150 in Cincinnati, 100 each in Louisville and
New Orleans, 70 in Williamsburg, 50 each in Newark and Pitts
burgh, and 30 in Buffalo. The rest were scattered through many
smaller towns.^21
The issue of April 18, 1851, summarized the circulation for
cities outside New York and indicated that Baltimore received
500 copies, Philadelphia 400, St. Louis 300, New Orleans 200,
Cincinnati 150, and Pittsburgh 100. The remaining subscriptions
ranged from one each in isolated parts of Texas, Alabama, Michi
gan, and Iowa, to larger totals in cities as widely scattered as
Bridgeport, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Columbus,
Dubuque, Elgin, Galena, Indianapolis, Louisville, Rochester,
Troy, and Washington. Three copies were mailed regularly to
Communia, Iowa, and ninety to Europe. Always there were more
papers sent than paid for. In June, 1851, Weitling estimated the
circulation outside New York at 2,100.
It was at this point that the editor decided upon a propaganda
tour through the eastern half of the United States, to be described
in the next chapter. He offered the editorship during his absence
to Gustav Struve, another Forty-eighter of radical persuasion who
had curious interests in phrenology and vegetarianism, but the
latter declined the responsibility and presently issued his own
Der deutsche Zuschauer ("The German Observer"). Leon
Rymarkiewicz, a Pole, finally accepted the editorship but was
forced to give it up only two months later for health reasons,
though he continued to serve as a correspondent. During the
closing months of 1852, Weitling was seriously ill with typhoid
(^21) Wilhelm Weitling, "Kreisschreiben an die Tauschkommissionen und Cen¬
traltauschkommissionen der Verbrüderung." MS in Library of Congress.