Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-15

Their letters are forwarded by cable, first
published in German, and translated to Eng
lish the following day.
Of course all this means money, and
good deal of it. Writers of such worldwide
reputation as the Herald has in Vienna can
not be employed for song. John Russell
Young they keep in Europe, by the year, at
salary of eight thousand dollars, gold.
The New York Times has employed the
leading newspaper correspondent of the world
to do its Vienna work referto DR.. Russell.
Russell is an able man, but an expensive cor
respondent. During the recent German.
French war, the New York Sun attempted to
employ him, but drew off when they learned
that his bill would be one thousand dollars
week, in gold, and travelling expenses. The
Vienna exposition, however, being peacea-
BILE concern, and no danger or hazard to run,
as in war, it is likely that the Times gets the
benefit Of his facile pen at less figure.
There are several newspaper editors and
managers in New York city who receive sala-
ries of ten thousand dollars year. Henry
Ward Beecher gets five thousand year for
his short articles in the New York Ledger.
1t is his name more than what he writes that
commands so high figure amounting, in the
aggregate to about two hundred dollars col
umn for his productions.
Editorial writer's on the New York World
receive salaries ranging from one hundred to
one hundred and fifty dollars week. 1t is
regarded in some quarters, as the ablest edit
ed paper in the United States. The Tribune
editors receive from three to five thousand
dollars year. George William Curtis, of
Harper's Weekly, is said to receive salary
of ten thousand dollars.
All these are fine salaries, but when itcomes
to the ordinary run of reporters, the pay is
meagre. On the New York dailies, reporters
receive from eighteen to thirty.ive dollars
week, the average being about twenty-five
dollars. The New York Sun employs all its
reporting done by the column. They pay
eight dollars column. One of their report
ers told me tlh other day that he sometimes
made as high as ninety dollars week, and
then again not ten. When man happens
not to find anything to write about, of course
he can't write.
The Western papers pay nearly as good
salaries as the New York papers. George
Alfred Townsend receives from the Chicago
Tribune five thousand dollars year for his
Washington letters, of which he writes about
two week. He works good deal for the
New York Herald, and between the two makes
about ten thousand dollars. The Cincinnati
Commercial used to pay Dom Piatt one hun
dred dollars week for his letters, and they
we're we'll worth it. He is the liveliest cor
respondent connected with the American press.
The army of telegraphers at Washington
those who make up their dispatches for the
daily papers-receive salaries ranging from
6fty to one hundred dollars week. The
New York Tribune has three men there also,
the Herald The other papers have less
number. But the salaries of these men, in
comparison to the telegraph tolls on what
they send, are small. Press dispatches from
Washington to New York cost one cent
word This may strike the reader as not being
heavy; but column or two, every day, at
that rate, will soon amount to large sum.
The papers here, however, have to pay much
more-the rate from Washington to Cincin.
natl being three cents word The CONNER
cial, of this city, pays out for dispatches about
seven hundred dollars a week. The entire
expenses of the paper amount to about one
thousand dollars day, but it has large
circulation, and brings its proprietors clear
income of one hundred thousand dollars a
year. The Sunday edition of the Commercial
is the most profitable. For the past three
Sundays its cash receipts for advertisements
have been over thousand dollars each day.
The Chicago Tribune pays its proprietors
handsome income, amounting year before
last, Notwithstanding the fire, to one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. After the fire,
one of the proprietors was complaining of
feeling poor and "broke up." Asympathetic
friend offered him two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars for his interest in the 1'1-
bune, which was a sum sufficient, he thought,
to give the poor fellow start. But the
"poor man" would not take it, and he has
not been heard to complain Of his poverty
since.
Fire will not destroy popular newspaper.
The Office, types, fixtures, and all concerned,
may pass away; but the good will remains,
and that is the most valuable part of a great
daily. The Chicago Tribune probably could
not be bought for million and half of dol
lars. A million would not touch the Cincin
natl Commercial 1t is not so easy to get an
interest in an established newspaper as it used
to be. It now takes money, and a good deal
of it. The men who own the great dailies of
the present day came into possession of their
property by growth, rather than by purchase.
The time was when the Cincinnati Commercial
could have been bought, lock stock and bar
rel, for thirty-6ve hundred dollars. In its
early days-thirty years ago-it had hard
struggle for existence, and came near yielding
the ghost several times. The Enquirer and
the Gazette would not condescend to notice
the young bantling but they pay some at
tention to it now, as it has larger circula-
tion and larger revenue than both of them
put together.
have thrown all these facts about news
papers together, thinking they might be Of