Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-04-16
The New York Herald-The Salaries it
Paws

| The editorial staff of the New York Herald
consists OF one chief, one managing, one fnan-
ica, one city editor and eight editorial writer's.
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 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 reporters.
who cover all the news points in New York.
Jersey City, Brooklyn and contiguous places of
easy access to New York. The salary of manag-
ing editor is $4,000 per annum and financial
editor $5, 900 per annum. and the writer's, or
SUBJ editors. from $40 to $50 per week report
ers $25 to $50 per week.
In the composing room, seyenty-fve men are
employed, whose pay 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, father or son, as the
case may be, or in the absence of both these
gentlemen, then by the senitr WRITER'S DR.. Geo.
b. Wallis. At this council all the current ques-
tions OF the day are discussed, all formality In
speaking on topics is avoided, and it partakes
more of the character of family gathering. -
Mr.. Bennett, after carefully looking over his
memorandum points, breaks silence, and the
conversation takes cheerful turn and contin-
ues for upwards of two hours. In the interim,
each editor is assigned to write certain article.
Mr.. Bennett, Sr., has not written an article in
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
long) connecting the Herald office with his resi-
dence at Fort Washington; also shorter line
(three miles) to his house on Fifth avenue. By
this means he is in communication with the Of
hce. Important news from Europe and indeed
from any part of the world is announced to
him, and he sends the points for a leader over
the wires, the telegraph key being manuipula-
ted by the gentle hand of his beautiful daughter,
Jeanette.
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 cor
RESPONDENTS 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.
Mr.. Bennett income from his real estate and
newspaper is two hundred and twenty five
thousand dollars per day, 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 char
acter, and to this he ascribes good health.