The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-12
THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Hsw it is Managed and Edited 80 The
Salaries 1t Pays.

may be interested in q correct state
ment of the cost of publishing and
labor required to conduct the New
York Herald, the Oldest of the
quarto dailies published in this city.
The editorial staff consists of one
chief, one managing, one financial,
one city editor, and eight editorial
writers. The ship news, foreign
news, domestic news, statistical
matter, and transaction departments,
have each a chief, with such assist
ance as may be required from the city
department. The city department
is presided over by chief, who
must have gone through all the gra-
dations of the reportorial depart
ment.
This force consists of twenty-sev-
en- reporters, who cover all the news
points in New York, Jersey City,
Brooklyn, and contiguous places of
easy access to New York. The SAL
airy of the managing editor is 3d..
600 per annum; the financial editor
5000 per annum and the writers
or sub-editors, from $40 to $50 per
week reporters, $25 to $50 per
week.
In the composing room, seventy
five men are employed, whose pay
depends upon the skill and steadi-
ness of their labor, some making as
high as S4 per week.
The clerical force of the paper
numbers about twenty, divided into
relays for night and day work.
The editorial force meets daily in
the Council room" OF the establish
ment. 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 editor, DR.. George B.
Wallis, who, by the way, is native
of Richmond. At this council all
the current questions of the day are
discussed, all formality in speaking
on topics is avoided, and it partakes
more of a family gathering. Mr..
Bennett, after carefully looking over
his memorandum of "points" breaks
silence, and the conversation takes q
cheerful turn, and continues for up
wards of two hours. In the inter-
i'm each editor ia assigned to write
a certain article.
Mr.. Bennett, senior, has not writ
ten an article for the Herald for up
wards of thirty years, yet he identi-
fies himself with the editorial col
umns by requiring the editors to
keep the tone and style of all their
articles within certain cardinal
points.
Mr.. Bennett has telegraph wire,
nine miles, connecting the Herald
office with his residence at Fort
Washington also a shorter line, CT
three miles, to his house upon Fifth
avenue. By these means he is in
constant communication with the
office. Important news from Eu-
rope, and indeed from any part of
the world, is announced to, him, and
he frequently sends the points for
leader over the wires, the telegraph
keys being manipulated by the gen.
tie hand of his beautiful daughter,
Jeanette.
The foreign correspondence of
the Herald 10 now in charge of a
gentleman in London, who receives
q salary of $1,000 per year in gold.
He moves and inculcates the corre-
spondents at the various European
capitals.
The receipts from advertising run
from $4,000 to 5000 per day. &C.
cording to the changes in the busy
season of the year.
Mr.. Benefits income from his
real estate and from his newspaper
is 1925, GOO per year, and that of his
son is $45,0OO per year.
Bennett, ST., is seventy-hve years
of age, yet his brain is as vigorous
as it was twenty years ago. His
habits are of a very abstemious ma
ture, and to this he abscribes his
good health.-RichDond Whig.