Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-10-31
oUR NEW YORK LETTER.

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the country has to bring TO his proieSSioH
talent OF the highest possible oruei, an
is compeIled to do an amount oil l"O0-
that would kill an ordinary ur"S 49,
and The same NAV be said of the country
editor the lawyer, and the physician d "a
the popular actors or siugers-hey nav
ou ,be good things of lie unsuh'eu,
co,,,ern for instance has played Lofu
n,,ndreary 5. 900 times, for which ne mas
,1a:--.d - an average of S4OO for each per
formauce. making the snug sum Vi 81
ooo OOo for the one piece. Joe Jefferson
has PLAYED Rip Van Wrinkle TWO .llo"-
.ord times and has averaged over hYe
h,ndred for each performance. He has
made land has i! yeti over a million OF
doII.rs Booth &c is six hundred night
when be plays for certainly, but he has
received as high three thousand for sim
gle performances
But the opera singers beat the actors
in enticing money. out of the pockets of
the people. Nilsson does not open her
mouth short of two thousand night,
and Lucca and the other s9ng-bIrds get |
but little less. They live like Princesses
and throw away money with both hands.
But the writers and artists do not fare
as well; 800 for: a magazine article
looks rather large, but then it takes
Parton weeks to write one. When a
poet gets fifty dollars for little poem, it
looks like paying a good deal for small
piece of work, but remember that the po-
ct Iabored weeks and weeks constru CT
ing the.poem, and polishing and finish
Ing the lines after they were constructed.
The highest pay Journalists get in New
York is paid Whitelaw Reid, of the Tri6-
une, who gets seven thousand per ann um.
Bromley, who is the cleverest wit on the
New York press, does his delightful sar-
casm on the Tribune for five tn ousand a
year. But these are exceptional cases.
From twenty to sixty dollars week is
considered good pay, and the men who
get it are counted as lucky.
The authors of books make very little
by their work. There is occasionally an
Uncle Toms Cabin, which makes a for
tune for the writer and two or three for
the publishers, and the Lamp Lighter was
lust about as successful. But these are
two out of million. Out of one hun
dred books published, ninety are fiat dead
failures, Of the remaining ten, proba-
bly, one may reach a sale Of one thousand
copies. The author gets for his copy
right ten per cent. of the retail price,
which on a 81. so book would be fifteen
cents. 1t it sells 10000, he gets $1,000.
But the chances are as hundred to one
against its having any such sale. A book
that sells $2,s00 is consi dered fair sue
cess, which gives the aut hor 1915 for his
labor. The most of them manage to run
their work through paper first, thus
getting double pay. Bret Harte makes a
good fair living by his pen, but as yet
has saved nothing Messrs Henri Brown,
Col. Thomas W. Knox, and that class of
writers make more money be cause they
work harder.
The women writers do just about the
same as their Shirley, Dare,
Nellie Hutchinson, Mrs. Wrunkle, "Oliv-
ia" and the great army of correspond
ents and magazine writers manage to
make from $4,000 to $4,000 a year,
though there isn't one of them who ought
not to have twice that.
How these ladies must envy Nilsson
with her $4,000 night.
FAST HORSES.
This is the season to see fast horses in
the parks and on the travelling roads in
the vicinity. The cool, crisp weather
makes driving delight, and 1 doubt if
any city in the world can show so much
in the way of speed. Commodore Van
derbilt is the heaviest patron of rapid
horse flesh next to Bonner, of the Ledger;
but there are plenty of men unknown 10
fame who keep stock quite as progress
sive as either of them. There is one team
to be seen every day on the road that can
make its mile in 2:22 easily. The horses
have been driven singly, one in 2:19, and
the other in 2:18. 1t was sold to Cali
fornia speculator last week for four thou
sand dollars.
And by the way there is no business so
profitable, that 1 know OF, as the raising,
training, and matching of carriage horses.
ANY kind of matched team that will do
at all for carriage, is worth QUE thou
sand two hundred dollars; and teams sell
anywhere from that figure to five thou
sand dollars. These teams, understand.
make no pretention TO speed or any ap-
prOach to it. They are simply handsome,
well matched, stylish horses, and have
fairly decent action and look well in pla-
ted harness. TheY must have some
blood in thsm-must be well broken and
kind bqt above all must look well. To
look well in horses Is the same thing in
New York as it is in everything else.
Most everything goes here by looks. The
demand for horses of this class is always
certain The life ola horse in this citv
is necessarily brief, even though they are
as carefully taken care of as cariage
horses are. The close stables. and hard
pavements finish them rapidly.
Co-oPERAEIoN-eLUBs.
Some of the VOskingmen of the citv
have made q move in direction which
I count good, and the result of which
shall watch with interest. There is loca-
ted at1l3 West Twentieth street, work
ingmen's club, modelled after those so
| successfully maintained in England. Al
though of recent origin, it has member
ship of one hundred. composed entirely
OF workingmen. The reading, game and
conversation rooms are not only neatly
out tastefully furnished. thus providing a
pleasant homelike place in which they
may spend their evenings. All the dali
ly and weekly papers are on file, not to
speak OF library of fair proportions. It
must be borne in mind that this is entire.
~ workingmen's movement, and all the
members are poor, and hence the success
: Is the more of surprise. Attached,to to
this club in the lower part of the baild-
lug Is cooperative, store, where gro.
cerles OF all descriptions are sold at whole