Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-13
belmont Chronicle
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO:
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 1s, 1867.
Gossip About Cincinnati, Journalists.

Gossip About Cincinnati Journalists.
Correspondence MY. Evening Gazette.
The history of some of the journalists
here is noticeable. The Times, for in
stance, was started on q capital of $500
10y Its present proprietor, Calvin w. Star
buck, and two practical printers, who
soon sold out to the third member Of the
firm. Starbuck was n hard working, en-
tirely sober, self-reliant, New England
printer, and for several years he labored
about sixteen hours out of the twenty
four, denying himself every comfort and
recreation until he had established his
paper.
He is now worth fully half million,
and has made judicious investments in
real estate that will insure him twice the
sum in ten years. He is close manager
in business, but extremely charitable in
very quiet way, and for the past year
has done nothing but look after the in
tercsts of the poor.
He was very patriotic, too, during the
war, offering So week TO every one of
his employees who would enter the army,
and paying that sum to a numberof them
for several years. He himself "served
with distinctionJ' in the trenches when
the city was threatened by the rebels in
1862, and afterward joining the ninety
day men bore his musket like aiveteran.
Murat Halstead, principal proprietor
and editor of the Commercial, the best
aud most readable newspaper (outside of
New York, every true Gothamite must
add of course) in my judgment in the
country. He came here sixteen or sew
enteen years ago, agreat, awkward, good
natured country boy, believing in his
destiny as journalist, and after skir-
mishing few months on the city papers
he went into the Commercial, and is now
one of the ablest and most influential
newspaper mon in the West. He is pos
sessed of the demon of work, and after
writing editorial, selecting news, over
looking correspondence, and managing
his paper all day and until midnight, he
attends to the receipt of advertisements
two or three hours for recreation.
The Commercial is one of the most
profitable papers in the country Il doubt
If any New York daily makes as much
year after year, and lialstead in his
present position has reaped the reward OF
patience, perseverance,, and excessive
work, which, If not better, is ten times
as sure as genius. Indeed work, the eff
feet and result Of it, il generally mistaken
for genius, is believed to be the cause.
Beyond n premature grayness, Hal
stead, who Is still very young, looks In
his freshness and ruddness of face, and
broad comfortable shoulders as if he
and corn fields of College Hill only yes
terday to take peep ut the lions in town.
Richard Smith ofthe Gazette isanother
specimen of what hard work will perform.
Without any original inclination or nat
ural aptitude to journalism-a mechanic,
] believe, without regular education or
training he became many years ago an
Attachee of the Chamber of Commerce,
and at last publisher of the Price Current.
l,riT ipnl hnt Ia,
considerable money; gained the favor of
the merchants, and soon purchased an
interest in the Gazette, of which he has
long been the commercial editor, and
now has an income, understand, of $780,
600 year.
He is one of those, to me, incompre-
hensible men who work for the love of
work and who would be unhappy with
the wealth of Plutus, Ii they could not
spend ten or twelve hours out of every
twenty-four in downright drudgery.
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Distressing Scene at the Depot---A Child
Dies OF tarvatiOn--Hunanity OF the
Bystanders.
From the Dayton Journal.
Yesterday morning family of Ger
mans, consisting of man and his wife
and three children, evidently i'm very
poor circumstances, arrived here on the
Atlantic and Great Western train, en-
route for Cincinnati, to which place they
had secured transportation from New
York. AS the train failed to connect
with the forenoon train on the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton and Dayton road, the
family were obliged TO lay over here for
the evening train.
For while the poor family remained
on the platform, until some one invited
them into the ladies' room, and be seated.
The people seemed to shrink from OBJ
servatiUn, and were grouped together In
one corner of the room. The woman was
holding an infant in her arms, and II lady
who happened to pass close TO her, no.
ticed that ii looked like II corpse; and as
she could speak the German language,
che asked the woman what was the mat
ter with her child. At this question the
poor woman burst into uncomfortable
iamentatlon, declaring that her child was
dead.
As soon IA the grlefstriclcn mother
could partially control herself she in
formed the lady that they were very
poor; that they had just means enough
10 get 10 New York, and purchase see
ond-claGs ticket to Cincinnati, where
they had friends: that they had no mon
ey to purchase food, and were afraid to
ask anybody for something to eat; and
that they had suffered In silence, without
a morsel of food for themselves or chill
dren from the time they left New York
until they reached this city!
About three hours before they reached
here their bnbe-a child about year old
died from starvation! And that poor,
starving mother carried her dead child
upon her bosom, hoping to reach their
friends In Cincinnati before they should
Nil be starved!
The countenances of the man and wife
bore painful evidence of the progress of
starvation, and their uncomplaning chill
dren looked little better than the corpse
Of the little sufferer that had Just passed
through the gate Of death TO the land Of
plenty!
The moment the terrible condition of
this poor family was made known, they
found friends In everybody around them.
The mother was instantly relieved of her
dead babe; and while messenger was
dispatched for an undertaken, the survl-
wing members OF the sorrowlng family
were taken to the waiting-room In the
Depot, and given all they could eat
Bystanders tell us the scene I'm the depot,
when the SUFFERING mOihef rave vent III