The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-02-19
New York Tribune.

Henry j. Raymond, first assistant. Mr..
Raymond began hls journalist career at
ten dollars week. At the outset tho
staff consisted Of five or six men now
the Tribune writers, home and foreign,
number nearly three hundred.
1t was started IA a one cent paper
There were then twelve dailies, and but
one hundred periodicals published in New
York. At present the whole number o
periodicals is about 250. The Herald
which had then been issued about six
years, was a two cent paper. The penny
sun, neutral in politics, had an immense
circulation. Nj. Greeley had acquired
considerable reputation as political wri
ter, through his New Yorker No prudent
journalist would now undertake to found
in New York, morning daily with less
than half million dollars. But only one
thousand dollars borrowed by Greeley
from fricnd) was required for starting
the Tribune. 1t began with 800 bona f.i,
subscribers, and the first morning printed
5000 copies. AT the. end Of the wccl,
the expenses amounted to S525, which
was thought alarming and cxravagant.
d ring the past summer, in single day,
the Tribune telegraph bills (only one of
many expendturcs) have run mp to
$500.
AT the end OF three months, Thomas
McElrath took charge of the business de-
parlmcnt; and fJr several years it is con-
tinucd to be published by Greeley and
Mc!Ilrath. In 1916 it WAS changed TO ~
joint stock concern OF one hundred shar s,
with pr value of 81 00o each. These
shares now sell at from Sc, C0J to Sc 800
In 1860 Qhe most lucrative year in news
paper history the Tribune divided Sl65,
00J among its slockhol lcr+, besides set
ting aside considerable amount of its
earnings for the purchase Of material, and
the payment Of AN old mortgage.
The editorial department expanded so
greatly that Greeley was unabld to attend
to its details. Accordingly. when il was
changed to stock concern, Charles A..
Dana took ten shares, and assumed the
managing elitorship; position which he
held for fifteen years Under Dana the
Tribune had shining staff. George Rip
ley, on ofe the best book reviewers in the
United States, William II. Fry, one of
the most brilliant journalists Of his day,
Richard IIildreth, the historian Chas r.
Congdon, the humorist Bayard Taylor,
James :. Pike, now abroad in oar dplo
matte service, Samuel Wiik son, q writer
Of great strength and picturesqueness, Mar
garct Fuller, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe.
sydney Howard Gay, and many other
able authors and correspondents, helped to
fill it. columns.
Its attaches have contributed largely to
permanent literature over 30 volumes
have kcen published from their pens -
Grcelcy's american Conflict" is reaching
Il sale of 500, 900 copies, an | will bring
its author fifty thousand dollars. Jana
and Ripleys New American Cyclcpe-
dia," published by the Appletons, i, also
great success. Bayard Taylor has re.
ceived from his dozen volum IS, AMI for
lccturing, something over 100000. Tho
sale Of richardson's "Fied, Dungeon and
Escape" has reached nearly one hundred
thousand copies.
Dana, who left the managing editorship
in 1860, yas succeeded by Sydney How
ard Gay, one Of the most accomplished
editorial writers in the country. lie held
the position until last May, when his
health broke under the heavy burden.
His successor is John Russell Young !;
born in Pennsylvania, and educated in
New Orleans For several years he edi-
ted Forney's Press, and before taking the
Tribune helm he was one of its editorial
writer's. His style is strong, simple and
picturesque his reviews Of Buchanan s
History of his own Administration, and
Greeley's American Conflict, are notice
able and admirable specimens Of newspa-
perial composstonr Young is only TWEEN
ty-six years old and promises TO become
one of the most successful writing and
managing journalist in the ceuntry.
George Ripley still conducts the litcra-
~ department Clarence Coo. is the art
editor, and William Winter hu. charge Of
the ''iramaiic." Some Of the Tribune's
best work has been done by women. Mrs.
/. G. Calhoun, nominally fashion editress
but attrached to to the general staff, writes
upon ar subjects, as required. Her let
terra from the watering places last summer
and her articles upon cookery, and other
topics, have excited general attention.
Miss Kate Fields recent criticisms upon
Ristori, were widely copied, and noticed
throughout the country. For several
years the Boston Transcript was edited by
r, lady; AMI the Springfield Republican,
Chicago Republican, and some other lead
ing journals. have ladies upon their statfs.
1t is becoming :niore AMI more apparent
that in some departments of the greatest
and most exacting profession of our times,
women excel men.
Greeley WAS born in Amherst, HILLSIDE
rough county, New Hampshire, and is
now fifty. Eve years old. lie is member
Of DR.. L, II, Chapin's Uuiversalist)
church, where he may be seen regularly
sleeping almost any Sunday in the year.
Probably he is not always slumbering 50
soundly as he seems. On one occasion,
after nodding all through sermon by the
famous Charming, he went Immediately to
his office. and wrote out An abstract OF il