The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1872-05-08
The New York Herald.

! The editorial staff of the .NeW York
! Herald consists of one chief, one mana
4 gingy, one financial, one city editor aud
eight editorial writers. The ship news,
! foreign news, domestic news, statistical
matters and translation departments
each have chief, with such assistance
as he may require from the city depart
ment. The city department Is presided
over by chief who must have gone
through all the gradations OF the report
orial department. 49,. J.
This force consists Of twenty-seven
reporters, who cover all the news points
in New York, Jersey City, Brookiy n
and contiguous places of easy access to
New York. The salary ,sfzlnanaging
editor is &3, 600 per annum, and financial
editor $4,000 per annum, and the wri-
ters, or sub-elitors, from $40 to $50 per
week reporters $26 to $50 per week.
In the composing room, seventy-five
men are employed, whose pay depends
upon the skill and steadiness Of. their
labor some making ss high as $44rper
week. g-,lt 4. , -, I. tss
+ The clerical force Of the paper num-
bers about twenty, divided into relays
for day and night work. ~. -
The EDITORIAL force meet dailyIin the
council 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 blythe. senior writer, DR.. Geo. b.
Wallis.a At1this council all the current
questions of the day are discussed, all
f0rmalityin, n,speakingon topics is avoided
and it partakes more offthe character Of
a family gathering. Mr.. Bennett, after
carefully looking, over his memorandum
points, breaks silence, and the converse
ton takes a cheerful turn, and continues
for upwards of two hours. In the i'll
terim, each editor is assigned to write q
certain article. Mr.. Bennett, Sr., has
not written all article in the Herald for
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 te1egraphic wire
(nine miles long, connecting the Herald
office with his residence at Fort Wash
ington; also shorter line three miles,
to his house on Fifth avenue. BY this
means he Is In constant communication
with the Office. Impoftont news from
Europe, duu, tuucSSl, Iou any part VI
the world, is announced to him, and he
sends the points for o leader over the
wires, the telegraph key being manipu-
lated by the gentle hand of his daughter,
Jeanette. ,.gf
The foreign correspondence on the
Herald is now in charge of a gentleman
in London, who receives salary of five
thousand dollars per year in gold. He
moves and instructs the correspondents
at the various European 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. 5 :.
Mr.. Benefits income from his real
estate and newspaper is two hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars per
year, and that Of his son forty-fve
thousand dollars.
Bennett. Sr:, is seventy-fve years Of
age, yet his brain Is as vigorous as it
was twenty years ago. His habits are of
very abstemious character, and to this
he ascribes his good health.