The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-05-14

New York Journals and Journalists.
,sr,maEew York Letter In Chicago Trlburel
TIE RIAL OWNERS OF THE TRIBUNE.
have heard so many absurd storlesrG.
Gently about Wall street operators and
prominent politicians owning large inter
ISIS in the New York Tribune, that l have
thought il might DO well TO give an accu'
rate list Of the stockholders. The stock,
consisting OF 100 shares, valued at $40 900
each, IL owned as follows: Whitelsw
Reid, 81 shares; Horace GreeleY's daugh'
tiers, s; DR.. J. Q. Aver, IA; Bayard Taylor,
/. Ii. Parsons FGrnham, 8; Silas E. Che
nry, 3; Mrs. s. 7. Clark, 2; E. II. Jenny,
2, George Ripley, /; Thomas N. Rocker,
/; John +. Cleveland, /; John Hay, i
Theodore Tilton, /; Oliver johnson, l.
Scion Robinson, /; Cornelius A. Runkle,
!; Philip A. Fitzpatrick, /; Patrick
OROurke, |; Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson,
l. william Orton, !; and Charles E. VIII
bOur, !.
There has been very little change In
the stockholders for several years past,
except in tho number of shares which
they hold When William Urton got
hold Of 81 shares, he bought about so be.
longing TO Samuel Sinclair, and made up
the balance by purchasing Of George Rip:
ley, Mrs. Clark, Rocker, O'Rourke and
three or four others-each one OF them
retaining, however, a single SHARE. Near.
lyall the stockholders arc now connected
with the Journal. The relations to it Of
Reid, tho Misses Greeley, Taylor, Ripley
and Hay, are Well.known. Dr.. Aver has
Teen stoCkholder for many years, hay.
tgS originally purchased the stock with
the expectation Of getting more, and con-
uOing the paper, using It 10 advertise
bis patent medicines. Finding 1t impos.
sbe to do this, and finding also that his
Investment was TGmunGraive, he kept
hs shares. Mrs. Clark is the widow Of
The former financial editor; John F.
Cleveland Is the present financial editor
Rocker Is the foreman Of tho composing
room; O'Rourko Is the engineer; Fitz-
patrick, the pressman; RunlIle, tho att0r.
Rey, Cheney, the brother.in.law OF Dir.
Grekley; Mrs. Richardson, the wife Of
Albert D. Richardson; Jenny, the collec.
l5f; and Wilbour, johnson, Tilton and
Robinson arc former members Of the staff.
Otton still holds his single share, as has
been said, as u consideration for his sell.
1ng back his 80 shares TO Reid; so that all
reports OF the Tribune having passed
into new hands, and being swayed by
lew influences, are stuff and nonsense.
PoMERoY.
The report has been so often circulated
uat Pomeroy's Democrat was extinct, and
then afterwards denied, that should hes,
tate to credit the statement now, II ! had
not seel the Democrat sign removed from
iis recent office In Printing. House Square
romeroy, when he camo TO the Metropo'
lis nearly five years ago, boosted that he
came to stay, and he made his best Ctort
10 90 so. It Is said by those who ought
70 Know, that Pomeroy might HAYS eStab
Issued himself Il be had been politically
lncofrupu6le, il he had censured and ex-
posed the Ring, and stubbornly refused e
DC bought up or silenCed by II. Hh
vputse, however, Is represented exactly
me contrary. He was eager as the eager
sL 10 share the plumber; and so notorious
N% The TACT that he lost all the influence
ae might have had. lie might have
,eAtned lesson from Mike Walsh and
nom The Su6teTdRedW but he did not
i%1oGgl he had ono advantage which
walsh had not,-sobrlGty. Pomeroy Il
Wpqted to have sunk not far from $3.50,
wv bis vain enterprise 10 establish him