The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-18
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rims the editorial department like
machine. Every cog strikes its RrooTs
with punetnal regularity. When he II
absent his duties fall on Mr.. John IL
q. Hassard. III Hassard Is missing
Mr. Amos j. Cummings takes the man-
aRement chair and so perfect does
q everything jibei that If all the editors
We're absent the oldest report f, like tlle
senior sergeant OF a company destitute
OF commissioned officers, would take
charge.
An editorial council is held in the
Managing Editors room every day,
between the hours of andJ2 p. N. Mr.,
Young presides. MI. ID. O. MeEwen,
his private secretary, q 6tenographer.
and one OF the witnesses in the Inn
parchment trial, sits at his side, The
editors are seated about the table. Mr..
with a light complexion, blue ewes
regular features, sandy mOustache, and
,tside Whiskers, and legs like those OF
President Lincoln, occupies a chair at
/ Mr.. Young's Left. Mr.. Hassard writes
English as smooth as the music of q
off an editorial article stepped
in an original solution of hui
\ NOR and sarcasm. In addition to his
4 other duties, Mr.. Hassard does the
4 musical criticisms OF thepaper. Oppo-
site him Is Mr.. Denslow, formerly
1 NlhuaRluk TUG N4tlCl4qO heDuO-
Licdfl, He has a dark eye, q NaBoleonic
nose, and black mouStaohe. He is the
/ only black-eyed editor In the office
| His opinions are drm-set, and, though
his editorials occasionally conflict
with the views Of Mr.. Greeley, they are
marked with deep thought, and are
carefully prepared. AT the right of AR.
Hassard Is Professor A. j. Schem, the
foreign editor. He is a large. smooth
| faced German with eyessof imperial
blue; and n head broad and well bal
| Rnced, somewhat resembling portraits
OF Bismarck. The absence of a good
growth Of hair gives IL the appearance
OF a polished egg plant, dead ripe. His
eyes are full of language. he has a
happy faculty of catching an uucon-
sciOus nap during the composition OF
his editorials. Mr.. 4CumminRs, the
City and Political Editor, sits 1.-THE
| foot OF the table, opposite Mr.. Young.
He Is pale thin, biue.eyed man, of a
nervous .sanguine temperament, and
eternally at work. During the edito-
rial councils be listens with deep tnte-
rest, and fills in the interstices OF time
by drawing strange characters on the
paper before him. Originally Doug.
las Democrat, he now Believes In God
and Horace Greeley. On his right Is
Mr. n. @. Meeker, the successor of
! Scion Robinson in the agricultural de-
partment. Mr.. Meeker is thin, spare
man, ofRn. olive complexion, with light
blue eyes, and aFfHfmefls face, hands
and dress. HIS desk is usually cover
ed with patent rat traps, pumpkin
seeds, corn shelters, fancy potatoes,
washing machines, crab apples, cucum-
Der bug killers, aud similar vegetables,
and coutrivances. Next to Mr.. Meeker
we find Clarence Cook, the terror of
artists and engravers. So trenchant
are his criticisms that artists have.been
known to run from him on the street
as they would at the sight OF n mad
dog. Last OF all at the table we find
Mr. Whuelaw Reid, OF Cincinnati, the
latest addition to the force. He looks
like Theodore Tilton, with his angular
points rubbed of. ~-
And this is the Istaf f,' of The Tribune.
When all are seated, Mr.. Young ner-
vously dances around his desk for forty
seconds, andsthen dumps on the table a
basket piled with manuscripts, memo
rRndums aud newspaper clippings.
Each editor is then asked for his re-
port of the previous days labor, after
which suggestions from every one pres
emit are in order. The meeting Is then
dismissedS With the words :. 1.-THE IFi6.
would looksvery we'll 10 day were Il not
for the poor quality of the paper and
the internal press work. L believe the
ink ia still. We must have book INK
Mr.. Greeley will write the leader to-
morrow morning, gentlemen. II he
The editors pass out the door, through
the city apartment into the main edito-
rial room, and drift to their desks. In
ten minutes q half dozen pens are Wig
orously scratching outideas for the next
days issue, The child is in embryo,
aud will be born in the morning.
Everything will move with the regular
ity OF clock-work. The editorial room
resembles a lurking place for owls; the
ceiling Is low the dooris dirty "a dozen
TicketY cane-bOttotneda rn-chaiFa, with
high backs, three cases, flled with
books of reference, ten old desks, spat-
tered with ink, two cabinets, chained
copy OF the Tribune Il tInlIldc, complete,
and q dozen old pictures, give an Idea OF
arushinR business, .WithRn occasional
dash at the fine arts.
Let us look at the cabinet adjoining
Cummings desk. In the bottom drawer
OF this cabinet We fine a series of care.
fully written obituaries of distinguish
ed live men, all arranged alphabetical-
ly, and in charge of DIR. Wood. They
are curiosities in their way. Here is a
bulky one, as thick and as long as your
arm. 1t is marked "Peter Cooper. Here
is 9 second-a Llliputian roll, small
enough to go into asneedle-case, We
find this labelled nThe Life of Walt.
Whitman.n These obituaries are found
valuable when the news OF a celebrated
PERSONS death il received at-an early
hour in the morning.
One word right here about editorial
life in New York: A New York journ-.
alist never calls on distinguished poll
ttcians or IitteTdt6KrS at their hotels.
They do this in Philadelphia, Boston,
Cincinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, and New
Orleans, but they don't do it here.
hahomet must come to the mountain,
Tor the mountain will not go to Ma.
homet. This is entre nous.
Some people think and say that Gree
ley is the IIiblEne and that the Tribune
is Greeley. There may be some truth
in the expression. But one thing is
ceriain, the Stockholders of the Tribune
are aware of Mr.. GreeIey's value. They
have had his life insured for from $780,
10 500 900 many years. Mr.. Greeley Is
with his dividend of the profits of the
establishments, makes quite a snug.
SUM- He also writes for a dozen mag
azines and weekly newspapers, besides
occasionally throwing off q book and
making stump political speeches and.
lectures One day you will hear of
him speaking at Grant meeting at
Somerville, N. ii the next day he viii
arraign the Democracy at HOnesdale,
Pa; next you will hear Of him al a
| temperance meeting in New York city;
on the day following he will speak be-
| fore some tariff association; then be-
fore some agricultural society, and
/ will top Oh the Weekiwith an address
1 before the Grant and 1Colfax Club at
ChappAqua, his residence. And all the
time he Keeps his end up on the edi-
| tortHl page. Greeley. without doubt,
i is to day the hardest working news
paper man in New FORK city. 80
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