Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-28
The New York Herald-The Salaries 1t Pays.

The New York Herald-The Salaries 1t Pays.
The editorial staff of the New York
Herald consists of one chief, one man.
aging, one financial, one city editor and
eight editorial writers. The ship news,
foreign news, domestic news, statistical
matters and translation departments each
have a chief, with such assistance us he
may require from the city department.
The city department is presided over by
chief who must have gone through all
the gradations of the reportOrial depart
ment.
This force consists of twentv-seven re-
porters, who cover all the news points i'll
New York, Jersey City, Brooklyn and
contiguous places of easy access to New
York. The salary of managing editor is
$1,000 per annum, and financial editor So
600 per annum, and the writers, or sub-ed-
itOrS, from $40 to $50 per week reporters,
$25 to $50 per week.
In the composing room, seventy-five
men are employed, whose paw depends
upon the skill and steadiness of their
labor, some making as high as $44 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
Council room" of The establishment. The
meeting is presided over by Bennett, faith
er or son, as the case may be, or in the alb
sence of both these gentlemen, then by the
senior writer, DIR. George B. Wallis. At
this council ali the current questions of the
day are discussed, all formality in speak
ing on topics is avoided, and it partakes
more of the character of family gather
ing. Mr.. Bennett, after carefully looking
over his memorandum points, breaks a 81
lence, and the conversation takes a cheer
full turn and continues for upwards of two
hours. In the interim, each editor is as
signed to write certain article Mr.. Ben.
nett, ST., has not written an article in the
Herald for upwards of thirty years, vet he
Identifies himself with the editorial col
umns by requiring the editors to keep the
tone and style of their articles within GER
tain cardinal points.
Mr.. Bennett has telegraph wire mine
miles long connecting the Herald office
with his residence at Fort Washington
also a shorter line three miles, to his
house on Fifth avenue. BY this means
he is in constant communication with
the office. Important news from Europe
and indeed from any part of the world
is announced to him, and he sends the
points for leader over the wires, the tele-
graph key being manipulated by the gen.
cite.
The foreign correspondence on the Her
aid is now in charge of a gentleman in
London, who receives a salary of $1,000
per year in gold. He moves and instructs
the correspondents at the various Euro
pean capitals.
The receipts from advertising range
from two thousand five hundred to five
thousand dollars per day, according to
the changes in the busy season of the
year.
Mr.. Benefits income from his real es.
tate and newspaper is two hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars per year,
and that of his son, forty-five thousand
dollars.
Bennett, ST., is 75 years of age, yet his
brain is as vigorous as it was twenty years
ago. His habits are of very abstamious
character, and to this he ascribes his good
health.