The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-12-22
THE NEW YORK HERALD.

now IT Is MANAGED AND EDtTED.-THE |
SALARIES 1T PAYS.
Correspondence Richmond Whg.l
Some of the readers of the Wig may be !
interested in correct statement of the
cost of publishing and labor required TO
conduct the New York Herald, the Oldest
of the quarto dailies in this city.
The editorial staff consists of one chief,
one managing, one financial, one city edi-
tor and eight editorial writers. The ship
news, foreign news, domestic news, statis-
ticsl matters and transaction departments
each have chief, with such assistancea as
may DO required from the city department.
The city department. is presided over by
chief, who must have gone through all the
gradations of the reportorial department
This force consists of twenty-seven report
ers, who cover all the news points in New
York, Jersey City, Brooklyn and contig-
uous places o: easy access to New York.
The salary of the managing editor is
$4,000 per annum the financial editor,
$4,000 per annum, and the writers, or SUBJ
editors, from $40 TO $50 per week; report
ers, $25 to $50 per week.
In the composing room seventy-fve
men are employed, whose pay depend.
upon the skill and steediness of their la
Dor. some making as high as Sii per
week.
The clerical force Of the paper numbers
about twenty, divided into relays for day
and night work.
The editorial force meet daily in the
"councl room" of the establishment.
The meeting is presided over by Bennett,
father or son, as the case may be, or in
the absence of both these gentlemen, then
by the senior writer, DR.. George b. Wal
lis, who, by the way, is native Of Rich
mond. At this council all the current
questions of the day are discussed, all
formalty in speaking on topics is avoided,
and il partakes moro Of family gather
ing. Mr.. Bennett, after carefully looking
| over his memorandum of "points, breaks
silence, and the conversation takes n
cheerful turn, and continues for upward
of two hours. In the interim each editor
is assigned to write certain article.
Mr.. Bennett, senior has not written an
article for the Herald for upwards OF
thirty years, yet he identifies himself with
the editorial columns by requiring the
editors to keep the tone and style of their
articles within certain cardinal points.
| Mr.. Bennett has telegraph wire (nIne
miles) connecting the Herald Office, with
his residence at Fort Washington also Il
shorter lines (three miles)to his house on
Fifth avenue. BY this means he is in con.
slant communication with the Office. I'm,
portant news from Europe, and indeed
from any part of the world is announced
to him, and he frequently sends the points
for q leader over the wires, the telegraph
keys being manipulated by the gentle hand
of his beautiful daughter, jeanette.
The foreign correspondence Of the Her
aid is now in charge of gentleman il
London, who receives a salary of $1,000 q
year in gold. He moves and inculcate
the correspondents at the various European
capitals.
The receipts from advertising rang,
from $4,000 to $4,000 per day, according t.
the changes in the busy season Of III
year.
, Mr.. BENEFITS income from his real cs
tate and newspaper is $4,000 per veal
and that of his son $4,000.
Bennett, ST., is seventy-fve years ofag'
Q | yet his brain is as vigorous as it was twent
n | years ago. His habits are OF very abst'
mious character, and to this he ascrib'
MS gOOu Hcafth.