Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-14

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Manson Marble was born, Iaminformed,
in Rhode Island, and graduated from
Rochester University in his nineteeath
year but eontemporaneous history does
not furnish any satisfactory data OF his car
cumsiances and parentage. 1t is presumed
however. that he inherited little more than
a good clas#aal edUcation and that he
early soHeht 10 earn his own livelihood.
He had at frst some ambition 20 become 3
LAWYER, but discovered In himself 80 strong
bias for writing, that after seribbling for
the Providence papers, he concluded,
though unheralded and unknown, TO re-
move 10 the metropolis Of New England
and seek his fortune there. He had writ
ten enough to awake the admiration of his
youthful friends and 10 gain confidence 10
himself Long before he Qaitted college
he was accounted unusually clever with
his pen, and Is said 10 have written the
theses Of his less capable fellow.students,
and to have shown as much variety IS ac-
tivity in compositions of bis own.
HIS FIRST EDITORIAL EFFORT
He went to Boston and solicited posi-
tion On one of the daily papers. be was
asked 10 show specimen Of his work, and
decided TO report Forrest in Lear, who was
then performing at the Atheneum.
Marble attended the performance, and
wrote at the close two columns of very able
and exhaustive criticism upon the play, its
historic character, and its representation
by the "great American tragedian." For
SO young and inexperienced a writer, the
orilique was remarkable, delighted the ed
itor, and pleased the provincial City Of
Notions. He was engaged the next evening
upon the regular staff. and continued in
the Office for two years. He subsequently
connected himself with other papers at the
HUB" but finally outgrowing Bunker
Hill and Boston Common, he came to
Broadway and Central Park.
THE WORLD.
He went upon the World as a general
writer, at a salary, / have been told, Of
thirty dollars a week, and rapidly rose 10
the establishment until he was made editor
in-chief. The paper changed hands, charac-
ter and politics, was reyolutionized half q
dozen times; from religious became secu-
lar, and then political was mildly Con
servative; grew Republican; waxed Demo
cratic-feeble at first, ferociously at last
and amid all those changes, Marble held
on, and developed with them into the --latest
form and freshest shape.
What his politics were originally, no one
seems 10 know. Perhaps he had none
and il is said that at college he cherished
few convictions, bat left his mind free to
embrace what at that time seemed best
| The Republicans declare he is, or ought to
be. with them but that he has tamporized
and followed where his interest led. Sucf
statements, however, are somewhat gratul'
tous. =.
Even if Marble is individually what h'
/ is professionally, a man of she world, he II
/ a shrewd and successful one and It is NJ
ones affair what he privately thinks or be
lieves. He says daily through his columns
that he il an ultra Democrat, and as suci
the public is bound 10 accept him for wea
or woe.
When Marble went into the World h
was not supposed TO be worth anything
and he now has large interest in the jour
nal he controls, report making him owne
| of one-third of all the shares, which ca
hardly be worth less, for his portion, thar
100000. He has manifested tact and en-
ergy in getting hold of the stock, and litl
ing himself from mere salaried subordi
nate to the chief editorship. He receive
a salary for his services Of $4,000 yea
and his present income from his share
ought to be at least $4,000 to $1,000
moro.
The financial history of the World BIS
been varied. Itsunk money with energeti
liberality for several ars-S3OO,O 1000
SS5O.OO0 having been swallowed up in i
fluctuations, all the way between theologi
sanciity and pugnacious psrtisanship of II
most confirmed character. The paper ]
no doubt, on a paying basis now, and i
profits last year are stated 10 have bee
about S25, 900, with prospect Of materi'
increase the current year.
LEIsURELy LABOR.
Marble, though still young, is not har
worker In the sense in which Greeley an
RAYMOND are hard workers. He maDsg
and directs the fourth OF editorial pal
| alone, leaving the other departments to Il
care of subordinate, He writes most
his editorials, not long nor frequent usual
in his own library up town, where he hy
very comfortably il not luLufiously, sen'
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