The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-18
Business Suits
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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND
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rs manager ana Ms Assistaa1a.
From Pactard's Afonthlv.

from tuckdTdS Monthly.
Here we are at the door of the edito
rial room. Step within this little entry
and snap small spring fitted into tn
side ofthe door casing. Before the dis
tant dnkle of the bell dies away littl
Johnny Weinheimer,s the Office bow
opens the door, and throws suspicious
glance at us from his black eyes. w
are In the City Editors room. Thl
walls are covered with maps. A per
pendieular Viadnct, for communication
between the counting, editorial, anC
composing rooms, with speaking pipes
copy boxes, and, bells, run from the low
ceiling through the centre of the room
like the succulent branch of a banyan
tree. a small library of books relating
TO city. affairs leans against the viaduct
A water pail and jar of ice water oc
cupies one corner oftthe room. Paste
pos and inkstands are scattered Over
The desks In lazy confusion. Bits Of
plotting paper and scores of rusty look,
ing steel pens are strewn about the TIA
bles. A dozen reporters are seated at 6
dozen small green desks. Some are
writing, few are reading, and two are
smoking brierwoOd pipes, The mos
conspicuous reporter in the room Is
Col. James b. Mix, man of magnif
cent physique, and a genuine Broad
way lounBer. he Is dressed in exquisite
taste. wears eyeglasses, black side
iNNtulHk6IsH Ehpu anu mas
"a countenance that would create q
sensation at a Sorosis dinner. A small
but stout built man, with rosy face
| aud Intelligent gray eyes, is Mr., Bar
clay Gallagher, the Assistant City Eli
tor. he has risen to his present posi-
ton from the composing room, zsbu-
Ion White, with the pale face of a
estate report. Robert w. MCAlpine
formerly an editor on the Philadelphia
Press and the Washington Chronicles
smooth faced man, who might easily be
taken for an interpreter for the Chinese
Embassy-is busiIy dashing of a New
York letter Cor prominent Western
Journal. George w. Pearce, the police
Reporter, a rosy. complexioned, blue
eyed little gentleman, who seems as
spry as a circus rider, is hurriedly dash
ing oil an "Immense Robbery in Wall
street, stopping suddenly TO perpetrate
hours assigned him at police headQuar-
tiers. QuinlRn, thin, ebon eyed, black
moustAched reporter, is accusing Meek
er, an active, snootbed faced boy, fresh
from the pEsiries of Illinois, of borrow
ing his paste pot, and Ralph, In nasal
twang, Is retorting by counter accusa-
ton involving the loss of pair of
scissors. Thatcher, the weather man,
the successor OF the sage of Brooklyn
Heights, enters% the door, and in re-
Spouse to numerous questions, decides
that II will rain within forty hours. The
professor Is an old man OF about fifty
| i've, dressed In q seedy, Bnutf- Colored
suit, wearing rusty high hat, and a
heavy-soled pair of shoes. For twenty
| live years he has run the telescope bust
ness during the dead hours of the night
in front of st. Pauls Church.
"Eh? Mr.. YOuDg2 Yes, STR he's
here, Dye want to see I'M ?" replied
| Jnhnnv Wainhpimnr in answer tn oiir
Certainly, If he ia disengaged."
itI'll tell you in q second.U
johnny peeps through small hole in
the ground glass of the door 10 Young's
room, then darts back to a malUh-safe
hanging at our side. and pulls there's
from two square slips of letter paper.
"Please write your name on this pa
per-or, if you'yeg got your cards with
you, they III do jis as weIl.- Pm take 'em
\ In to Mr.. YonnR.n
Our cards go in, and in ten minutes
we are ushered into the presence of the
Managing Editor ofthe Tribune. You
| glance at John Russell Young, and then
| gaze back at Johnny, as If you thought
| he was peFpetrRttng a joke at our ex-
pense. WHAT this blue eyed boy the
Managing editor OF the most Influential
Americal Yon can hardly
believe 1t. In personal appearance Mr..
| Young is the most insignificant person
about the Office. He Is light com pLex-
Toned, has Hlarge, ,sloping head. thRtch-
ed with brown hair, u lciear forehead,
and prominent nose. and Is Hs quick
Iof motion as spafrowhawk, He is OF
! medium height, say Eve feet eight. His
words flow from his lips in rapid sue
cession, as If each one was struggling
to get ont of his mouth ahead OF the
other. And this-man has dTshed upon
| the 1ournelisls of New York like a
| Fnarnlxya
was q printers devil whom South Car
DINA sprouted into secession he was a
reporter. In Philadelphia (; one year
more found him q dramatic critic on
the Washington Chronicle; SIX years
ago he was the Managing Editor -ofithe
Philadelphia Press; two years after this
he was with Gen. Banks during the Red
river expedition next we find him an
agent of Jay Cookies in 7.30 times.
/ While at this business, in his leisure
hours, be wrote editorials for the ITt-
hume. They were usually spicy and
laTgumentaIive, attracted the attention
of Mr.. Greeley and Sidney How
ard Gay, and now that printers devil
is newspaper autocrat-the peer
Iof statesman. and potent pow er
| In the land. at first sight he APP
pears commonplace, but when you talk
with him, and partly fathomithe depth
/ of that wonderful blue eye, and the
1
recognize an impress of peculiar In
teilectual vitality, "a fertility ofresourcc,
q quickness OF, comprehension, and a
nervous energy, that stamp him as a
| steam engine among newspaper men.
His attire is neat, but not fOppish. He
/ wears one of those little round topped
hats, with a small, circular rim, and
i this increases his boyish appearance.
His room is lined with books of refer
ence. Bronze statuettes and lively col
ored chromos occupy various positions
in the room. Young writes by spasms.
| he pays strict attention to the business
lot the office. Every letter, every
hill, every rejected communication Is
FLED, He Is able to- Furnish at q mo.
ment's notice, a fled voucher for every
cent of expenditure during his admin
listration. Such strict attention 10
lbusiness requires q vast amount oil
Itime. But when great national en-
ereency arises, especially during the
absence OF n. g., he throws himself
into the breach with characteristic
| energy, and the columns of the I5-ibiCRe
lare red hot with his short, sharp, ring-
ling sentences, until the storm has
/ passed. His were the singing editori-
4 ais on the Philadelphia Convention his
were the coiDings OF inYective poured
over the impeachment reuegRders, his
were the fierce attacks upon the far
born movement to nominate Grant bF.
4 fore the General had defined his posi-
ltion. and his arethe showers ofsarcaEm
i launched upon John Il. Hoffman. The
phrase .lImpeachment Is Peace IL
II ounRis so are the words HLet us