Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-04-09

william" in the eyes of Greeley, and Bennett
instantly sprang to pick up this stray bit of
mud, and flung it again and again with
characteristically offensive additions.
The Times began with six editors, two
proof-readers and eighteen compositOrs. Mr..
Raymond was the chief; Alexander c. Will
son (now in London) was the assistant edi-
torial writer James W. Simonton (now Gen.
eral Agent of the Associated Press) and A..
Maverick were the night editors: James B.
Swain was city editor c. @. Norvell had
charge of the financial and commercial de-
partment. OF these assistants, only Mr.. Nor
veil now remains in the service of the Times.
The whole corps to-day numbers above score
and fifty or sixty printers are required to put
in type each days copy of the paper. In
S159, William Henry Hulburt (now OF the
World) and Charles f. Briggs e. Harry
Franco'') and DR.. Frank Tuthill IA Long Is
land man, attached later to the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, and now dead-poOr fellow y
and f. L. Godkin (now Of the Nation) and
W. q. Sewell (authOr Of e" The Ordeal of Free
Labor in the West Indies" and now dead)
and De COrdoya, the humorous lecturer, had
all been added to the editorial staff by Ray
m0nd's invitation-the older members re-
naming and it was in the summer Of that
year, while Raymond was observing the cam
paign in italy, that the famous article con-
cerning the - Elbows Of the Mncio' appear
ed in the columns Of the Times The whole
story Of that amusing farrago ofdrunken nom
sense has never yet been told but space here
Is too limitcd-so let it pass. The Times
was day laughing stock, but Raymond was
not responsible for it; and although Bennett
often quotes the celebrated . Elbows in the
Herald, it is a singular and interesting fact
that the Nar York World is chary Of such
allusions
The World, by the way, is a curiosity. 1t
Is the youngest of the leading morning dali
les, and it has ceased TO be religious. Its
chief editor was once an abolitionist, and he
ceased to believe in Garrison. Its brightes,
writer once denounced slavery in biting pa
per in the Edinburgh Rer,slg, and he has
ceased to write such articles. If antecedents
amour to anything the World itself will cease
some day-Or turn over and become Radical.
But this is an episode.
| desire to say something about the stiff
necked James Watson Webb and his Courier
and Enquirer and Of james Gordon Bennett
and his numerous horse-whippings and gi-
gantie Herald enterprises. and Of the Hales
and lallocks and Primes who kept the Jour
nal Of Commerce going and made money out
Of it, and Of the pecuharities Of the ErmiRg
Post, and Of the long procession Of odd folk
who sprang up and had their day and died
score Of years ago. No history Of the Press
Of New York yet written has done justice to
the memories of the men and women whose
labors insured the early successes of the Dali
les, and laid the foundations Of their present
prosperity. Margaret Fuller was help 10
Greeley and Frederick Hudson To Bennett
and Raymond TO the Courier and EnqHrer-
and 50 tn a zen more Each Of these has
a pleasant history, and in time the story will
be told.
IL is interesting To remember what the
newspapers were, and useful t. understand
them as they are. In lol4. newspaper life
was slow; in 1869 It is exceedingly fast
what will it be twenty-five years hence? As the
telegraph was no part of the newspaper sys-
ten in 1913, nor the Atlantic Gable before
1855, 50 the Balloon Express and the Oxy-
gen Light and the Electric Engine are no
part of it to-day. But who can tell what
shall bo2