The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-14
NEW YORK JOURNALISM.

Its Transition PhRSe.-OId and New
JournaIlsts-.-The, Newspapers Of
the Present and Their Prospects
for the Future. .....
Correspondence Boston Globc.)
New YoRK, July3.
Journalism in New York is, just now,
in transition phase, and 1t is very IN
trrestiug question, what IT'S future is like
~ tObe The death OF Raymond, Ben
nett, Greeley and Brooks, has left great
pap in the editorial ranks, and 1t Is yet 70
be seen whether those who have succeed
cd 10 the places arc capable of filling them.
Almost all Of the elder generation OF me-
tropOliLan journalists, who, were the Co
tempOrarles OF the four famous men Just
named, have retired from active news
pApcr work. Such ia the case with Thur
low Weed, and the Nestor, Of the Keealns
Posts. Charles A. Dana still siIs as daunt'
less and reCElessly Cutspoken in the sane
lum'oR the San, lis longtime coadjutol
George Ripley, Is as industrious and acute
II book reviewer rs ever, and works check
by Iowl with COngden, whose crushing
blows and rich humOr arc still feature
of tue Tribune BREWER columns. Lastly,
Chamberlain and Hubert are % fertile
aud vigorous rs ever, in the Worlds ed
iloral pages. PArkG Goodwin, Curtis,
Marble, and, for that matter, Hubert
also, belong TO a somewhat later genera
ton, but they arc akin TO those first
named, and must soon, in the inevitable
course oil events, he succeeded by young.
or generation Of writer's and editors.
What this school Of new journalists
will be like may be judged from brief
study OF the five or six young men who
al present manage several Of our leading
metropolitan journals. These arc Whllo.
law Reid, Louis Jennings, J. i. Stillson,
Bennett, Major Bundy, Joe Howard,
while with them should also DO included
misrepresentation editorial writers on each
paper, as John Hay, Hassard, Schuyler,
Ford, Wheeler, etc. Chasing all Of these
together In a lump and II must DO appa-;
rent that they dilE6r much from tho old
school Of newspaper men. On tho one
hand they arc more cultured, brilliant
and polished; they write In more fin
ished style, and can point b moral or adorn
alale with great skill. They, however,
lack earnestness and positive convictions.
They don't represent anything In parlic-
llAr, while their leading articles are too
often mere rhetorical scribling 10 cause
amusement, or fill space, JE.i .lI ;.
The 7fibAnc shows well with iLs CORES.
pOndenCG and It's lecture supplements, but
il Is narrow, varying, and bitter In Its
tone. The Times prints Jennings tCrsC,
savage, but elective leaders alongside off
lot OF weak stuff, and this makes tho ono
serve Rs an antilOle 10 the other. Will
tho remaining papers II is NOT much bet.
ter, and one often longs for Mr.. Greeley
rugged but sensible Saxon, or Raymond's
courteous yet energetic English, The
Herald has made good use, Of late, Of The
services Of John Russell Young, EdmunL
Yates, Kate Field, and It's other outside
contributors oungS Spanish letters ant
accompanying leading articles being cSpc
CiAlly brilliant. It Is q new thing Tor thu
Herald to praise lie correspondents as II l
now doing, and II II would only keep VI
all ia contents TO the high standard set b!
the above named writer's, It would Soor
become thegreatest paper 10 the country
This Is an of year in politics. and henc
the papers find Il hard 10 supply interest
ing reading matter. With several OF then
tue advertising receipts are smaller thai
they like, and so they are cutting dow
expenses. This has been notably the cas-
with the World, which has lost several'O
lis best men IN consequence. Mr.. Marbl
IS giving great deal Of time to the pspe
himself, and writes for Il lar more thai
has been his practice, He 10 an admira