Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-19
Editorial Writers.

One COlr mn daV Is falr aVeragr |
on the NV York press for an edlgo-
rial writer, aud this could be written
in few hours Will three artcl :
per week is tie usull stint for the
leader writer's on the London Times.
Horace Greely'r literary labors, vas
as they were, did not occupy many
hours, and much of his time was con-
sumed 10 seeing visitors, reading and
travelling; and even then be died of
overwork, a. did Henry J. Ray mond,
though he too always took long pc
RODS of rest after his spasms of severe
work. Samuel Bowles, by tho aid If
a stenographer. gets through a full
days stint of editorial writing anu
correspondence in few hours daily.
G. Dana is at the Sun Office from
about 10 to 5, while much ofths time
is given co receiving visitors and otner
light work. Whitelaw Reid and Louis
| J Jennings edit their respective pa
pers during the two hours OF each
afternoon and three or four hours at
night. Parke Goodwin, ID. q. Croly,
aud Major Bunday, who all three
have charge of afternoon newspapers,
limit their office hours usually from
9 o'clock to at the most, which in
cIudes an hour for LUNCHEON. As a
sample of the daily life of an excep-
tionally hard working journalist, the
following account given by Henry
Waterson, editor of the LoulsvIll
C0urier-J0urndl, may be interesting
1t is taken from an unpublished let
| ter. and it should be remembered tha'
| it is written by man who IS partly
blind 81 wake up at 10 O'Clock III
the moralng, and. alter a cup of cot
fee. | write for two hours 10 bed. L
ret up at noe and have plunge
oath, and take breakfast with my
family, who then have taken their
lunch. go to the office afterwards
and remain there untll seven, prep ar
ed to see any body that calls. During
the same time the work of the day IL
planned out, and every body begins it
| then 90 home and have supper, and
spend the evening until 10 O'Clock
there, usually listening 10 reading bI
my wife or having little music. A
10 O'Clock | I'm back to tho office
again, where remain until 2 o'clock
| [ am only a |, 10 write Two hours a
day myself; and the rest is done by
location, [ read but little myself, but
| glance through the exchanges, IN or
Ter 20 give an idea of th ng5, having
| Il, "A In tn
| [ have no time tor exercise and d.
not care for riding all The exercise |
get beng in walking tt and from tne
office" Az an example OF the llterari
pr0ductiveness of some OF the most
brilliant and steady writer's for tn"
press, may adj Lnat John Ii " Only
writes two hours day usua ly 10 tn
afternoon, though his favorlte time Of
composition is before breakfast. IL
writes rapidly. but his daily aVerag'
il only one column OF Tribune BREWER.
| The other members OF the tribune
staff -Ha-sard. n pah, Brooks, Brom-
| lev and Coneen-do ABOUT the SAM.
The average amount written by tho
5 aff IF the Times is about the same.
Two OF the hardest literary workers
in America are Edward Everett. Hale
and J .mes Parton Yet the former
is at MS desk but three hours each
day, and always insists on having
nine hours sleep which is tho same
amount that President Grant re-
qulres, while Mr. Parton calls his
daily work four hours composition
and three hours, research. or abou'
seven in all, and never exceeds this
limit.-NeO York Independent