The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-24
TIE LONDON TIMES.
SOMETHING AROHr THE INTERIOR
WORKINGS on THE FOURTH Es"
TATE FHUNDERER.
ICor. Of the Baltimore SUM-

Permit me to soy a. few words, however, on
this subject ne to the fnodus operandl Of Jour
nallsts on the chief London press. Since Nj L.
Delane has ceased to be the chief "leader
editor Of tho Times, and Is a yaIetudnarian In
the south Of France, many changes have
taken place In the writing departments Of
''The Fourth Estate Thundorer,' Three
representatives of the three great universities
Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity College,
Dubin-nov sit in Judgment on the leaders
they respectively write. There Is always
supply Of old stock leaders ready in type,
held in allegiance for the proper time in the
Vimea chsf office. These are under lock
and key and The supervision and custody
Of two men, who are held responsible for
them Obituary criticisms Of celebrated men
OF persOnages Of the world are always ready
in type subject to finish or amendment One
gentleman in particular has charge Of this
department, with some three Or four sub
editors under him. Most Of the tfleaders'' Of
the Times on daily events that are fresh are
written by the University men ] allude to.
| They sit In council and amend alter Or reject,
as seems prudent. This IS done between the
hours Of 10 and II p E9 taye kn4Wn ", Il; now
of the same day at "a. m, nr two hurs before
going to press. The late Lord PaImerstOn
| Frequently sent 'le8ders' to the Times afte1
debate in Parliament, when the clock was
after this manner: "Lord Palmerston's com
pliments TO the editor Of the Times, and begs
| to saw" Here commenced the "leader
| the chief night editor first carefully exam
ming it and cutting off the BIT above
quoted before sending it to the compost
tors or chief foreman. At present this fore
man or press manager Is Mr.. Macdonald, a
Scotchrnan Of about At years Of age, but &
| keen aud far seeing man. Here let me III t.
another matter, Iress cable news hence t.
America goes at 5 80 a. m for t2la cents pen
| word. Epfnre that hour the charge is 2:
cents ppr word, From !, 80 %. 1T. to z H. yOG
can send cable news hence to America for ~
| cents per word The aim Of newspaper ruet
in Europe is to give their papers ut home thF
first and best service of news They have t.
contend with Onn or moro news associations
here. and the efforts to get an early edition o
the morning papers are humorous to behold
Many r,lse has been employed to get cop
Of the Times to skim its ''speelals' and for
ward them in season to New Yor k. A certain pa
yer styled 'teuterprsing' iii enterprise mean
. asserting one thlng to-day and taking it bac
tomorrow took much pains and many way
, to get the Times under such early cirCuu
stances, Mr.. Macdonald "espied the strar
, ger" as they say in the House Of Commons
and lay in wait for him. An old copy Of tn
Times WIS prepared with the new date put 9
+ The head line The "enterprising' Colonel A
like q rat terrier in a hole where no rot Is, wa
fussing and shifting, having only 81 few mir
utes to send off his skinnings as his !" spf
cials" Words alone we're what he wanted
, sense he has not time to dwell on. Off wen
! many words. and at Il cost Of $50 per te
words in those days. out came the gref
enterprising" detOnatOr, and all Gothal
was amazed Since then Mr., Macdonald ha
not been troubled much by demands Tor earl
copies Of the Times,