Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-02-01
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From the congregationaliSt,
The New York Press.
NEW YORK TRIBUNE.


No. 33 Ann street; Horace Greeley, edi
tor; Henry j. Raymond, first assistant.
Mr.. Raymond began his journalistic ca
reer at ten dollars a week. AT the out
set, the staff was made up of five or six
men; now the tribune writers, home and
foreign, number nearly three hundred.
1t was started as a one cent paper.
There were then twelve dailies, and but
one hundred periodicals. published in New
York. At present the whole number Of
periodicals is about 250. The Herald,
which had been issued about six years,
was two cent paper. The penny Sun,
neutral in politics, had an immense circu-
lation. Mr.. Greeley had acquired consid-
cradle reputation as a political writer
through his New Yorker. No prudent
journalist would now undertake to found
in New York, a new morning daily, with
| less than half million dollars. But only
one thousand dollars Borrowed by Gree
| ley from friend) was required for start
ing the Tribune. 1t began with 800 bona
fde subscribers, and the first morning
printed 5000 copies. AT the end of the
week the expenses amounted TO S525,
which was thought alarming and extrava-
giant. During the past summer, in sim
gle day, the Tribune telegraph bills (only
one of many expenditures) have run up
to $1,000.
At the end of three months, Thomas
McEldrath took charge of the business
/ department; and for several years it con-
tinued TO be published by Greeley and
McEldrath. In 1910 it was changed TO
| joint stock concern of one hundred shares,
with par value OF $1,000 each. These
shares now sell at from $4,000 to $1,000.
In 1865 (the most lucrative year in news
paper history the Tribune divided $780,
900 among its stockholders, beside setting
aside considerable amount of the earn
ings for the purchase Of material, and the
payment Of an old mortgage.
The editorial department expanded SO
or eatly that Greeley was unable TO attend
to its details. Accordingly when it was
changed TO a stock concern, Charles A.
Dana took ten shares, and assumed the
managing edilorship; q. position which he
held for fifteen years. Under Dana The
Tribune had a shining staff George Rip
ley, one of the best book reviewers in the
United States, William ii. Fry, one of
the most brilliant journalists of his day,
Richard Hildreth, the historian, Charles
T. Congdon, the humorist, Bayard TAYLOR,
James S. Pike, now abroad in our diplo-
matte service, Samuel Wilkinson, writer
of great strength and picturesqueness,
Margaret Fuller, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Sydney Howard Gay, and many other
J able authors and correspondents, helped
! TO fill its columns.
lis attaches have contributed largely to
E permanent literature; Over two hundred
volumes have been published from their
5 pens. Greeley's'" American Conflict is
reaching sale of 100000 copies and will
! bring its author fifty thousand dollars.
Dana and Ripley's " New Amer can Cy-
I clopedia,' published by the Appletons, is
also great success. Bayard Taylor has
Il received from his dozen volumes, and foi
s. lecturing, something over 100000. The
sale of Richardson's :. Field, Dungeon and
Escape" has reached nearly one hundred
thousand copies.
Dana, who left the managing editorshiI
1t in 1862, was succeeded by Sydney How
le ard Gay, one of the most accomplished
n editoriol writers in the country. He hell
the position until last May, when his healtl
broke under the heavy burden. His sue
5, cessor is John Russell Young; born il
Pennsylvania, and educated in New Or
leans. For several yeas be edi ed For
ney's Press, and before taking the Tribune
helm, he was one of its editorial writers
g. His style is strong, simple and picturesque
his ESNl6NS OF lilstOEf vi HE
to own administration, and Greeley's " Am.
= erican Conflic'," are noticeable and admi
rable specimens of newspaporial compost,
le ton. Young is only twenty-six years old
,e and promises TO become one of the mos
successful writing and managing journal
lists in the country.
George Ripley still conducts the literary
I department Clarence Cook is the Ar,
e Editor. and William Winter has charge OF
the " Dramatic" Some of the Tribune's
best work has been done by women. Mrs
L. G. Calhoun, nominally Fashion Edi-
tress, but attached TO the general staff,
writes upon all subjects, as required. Her
!, letters from the watering places last sum-
mer, AMI her articles upon cookery, and
other topics, have excited general atten-
d ton. Miss Kate Fields recent criticisms
$. upon Ristori, were widely copied, and no.
ticed throughout the country. For several