Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-02-11
New York Journalists.

Ively engaged in newspaper work
Mr. Dana is left alone TO tell the tale
Of the old time journalism in New
York. He, of I'll his fellow editors
of the great metropolis, has passed
the period of middle age; though
years apart-he is as bifhe and MIN
BILE as the youngest OF them, and has
performed, with the Sun, feat IN
modern newspaper practice that en-
titles him 10 the s'ag horns laid down
at his death by James Gordon Ben
nett. Mr Dana is no less a writer
and scholar than an editor, as wit
ness his sketch of Mr. Greeley which,
for thorough character drawing, liz
UNSURPASSED. Ia a word. Mr.. Dana,
at fifty three, is vigorous, sinewy
and live as young buck Of thirty
I've or forty His professional asso-
ciates were boys when he was man :
aging editor of the Tribune. MantoD
Marble was at college at Rochester,
aud WhteIaw Reid was going 10
school in Ohio. Young Bennett and
Bundy were wearing short jackets.
Nordhoff was ''roughing il, a mere
lad and God alone can tell US what
Jennings was doing. or where God
kin was albeit, neither could have
been much more than a gosling in
those days.
They were roug h-and-tum BILE
days, sure enough. even for New
York There was no Central Park.
Madison square was tout of town.
Feanconi's circus, surnamed N p
podrome," sprawled it's ugly wooden
towers, minarets aud "side shows"
over the ground now occupied by
the FIFTH Avenue Hotel. Miss Flora
McFlimsy of the opposite square had
not come into being nay. Madison
square itself existed in a city ordi-
nance merely, an like the original
of Mr. Praed's "Darnell Park" was
4 wretched waste or common, where
The boys skated aud played"4hlnny."
Halpine and Arnold and WrlkIn, with
the B ,hemians, had not appeared on
the stage. The elder Harpers stood
in the shoes now worn by their sons,
who were off at boarding schools.
George Rinley was larky as John
Hay is d lmonico's down town,
was thu only Delmonicoss. The
| warfare between the newspapers
G )nstituted the most exciting topics
IF the time. Bennett was Jack
Ketch. Raymond was 1.-The little vil>
lain and Greeley was by turns an
'incendiary" a "white-lIvered poll
troon," and "free.lover" Park
Goodwin and Charles A Dana were
managing editors, respectively both
scholars, ~ both, as writer's. supe-
rioa 20 all the rest. except Greeley,
who, as a newspaper writer, never
had a superior. The situation ia
changed completely. B.nnett, Gree
Icy aud Raymond are dead.
Dana aud Goodwin, both about OF
an age, stand at the head of Now
York journalism while Reid. Mar
bic, aud Jennings, all young men,
wear the purple OF the new era. Will
it be an era Of reforms? There are
sigus that it will be. Marble is a re-
cluse. Reid is essentially q man of
the world. jennings is an English
man. Que would think that hese
three, led by two ripe scholars and
gentlemen, like Goodwin and Dana,
would alter the character Of the old
ar;isan warfare in one respect At
least, and that, if they have need TO
be personal, they will be wittiIy so,
and not brutality and dirtiIy person
al ; the hich will be an advance
Tn re will never be an end TO
personal jourr aIism. But there is
already an end to the eff aiy OF fillh,
In this, as in other things. there are
fashions What i'll thing, for exam
pie. can be said personally injurious
Of Reid. Marble, jennings. Bundy,
and the rest, all Woodworking, par
taking men without vices or peculi :
aritIes. who do not invite attack
On the whole. the newspaper pros
poet in New York is very good
There will be perhaps less of what
we call "character" in New York
journalism, bnt more usefulness, hon
esty, and culture; and as the New
York dailies. like the New York mil
liners. set the fashion, these excel.
lent qualities will diffusc themselve'
over the country.