The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-12-13

Why he would make the Successful
Editor of IA Great Newspaper.
New York Letter TO St. Louis Republican.

he Oh NfehI NeWSDHDer.
ed New York Letter to st. Louis Republican.
as Jay Gould promises soon to be the rail
If road king of gAmerica. No one will bea
AZ tle distinction more unostentatiouslv. HI
-. lives wholly without display His life is
IL one OF activity, intelligent enterprise and
|, money making. With all the irons that he
IS has in the fire, none of them gets burned.
1t will be no misfortune for the State of
> Missouri for him to become the chief owner
G OF the main lines of railroads. His doc.
d trlne is to make good paying property of
@ all that he invests his money in. When
the New York Tribune seemed moribund,
II MI Gould purchased the controlling inter
est III 1t. Had he become its owner earlier,
! the present brick-and-mortar suggestion of
a sugar refinery would not have been pos-
slble, for Jay Gould does not run to gim-
cracks even in architecture. The tall tow
er, however, was there and it was plastered
with 100000 mortgage. Mr.. Gould
directed that the energies of the whole in
stitution should be directed towards GET
ting rid of that debt, and said that he
wanted no dividends until the mortgage
was lifted Perhaps Jay Gould will some
DAY take editorial charge of the Tribune
himself He is terse, classical writer,
with habit of piercing the heart of his
subject in the first dash of his pen. Once
he was
AN EDITOR AND GOOD ONE.
Even IN the midst of making millions he
has found time to write an occasional eds
toral article for the Tribune or to make a
skeleton of his ideas that the pen drivers
IN the tall tower might array them in the
brocaded English in fashion there. Mr..
Gould has strong newspaper instinct.
lie has an othodox respect for fact which
becomes an editor. He gathers more in
formation daily by telegraph and mail now
about his enterprises than do some journals
about the news of the world. He has the
art OF organizing a news service, which
would come charmingly into use if he
would become the Tribunes editor. Mr.,
Gould Is humane thinker, a man fertile
IN eIpedients and remedies, and as an
editor his suggestions would be valuable
upon National, State and commercial af-
fairs He understands the selection of
men, and would surround himself with a
corps Of able writer's in pantaloons, not in
0etucoats. He could use his new telegraph
company III forwarding special news, and
out-herald the Herald, and assasinate the
Associated Press. His special corresponds
7nts could mount their chief editors loco>
motive and gather news from Oshkosh to
omaha, and from Jersey to Utah. Mr.
Tould would make great editor. because
le has 6ot brains and plenty of common
ense. We have editors in New York who
ave plenty brains but no sense, and there
e editors who seem to have mass of un-
ommon sense, but 40 brains. Mr.. Gould
'ould make great newspaper, because he
as mind for detail and a faculty of
laklng each detail great in itself. Now,
7 NayfF-YN /.
7legraph system reaching out in everv
lrection, and crawling under the ocean to
nix the continets together, with an army of
DO, 600 railroad and telegraphic employees,
le continent over, each instructed to
romptly convey to the nearest bureau all
e rumors, views and suggestions that
me to him, with Utopia of journalism
could make for himself
MR.. GoULD's MILLIONS
wv crowd close to those of Vanderbilt.
is man of finer texture than the old
son. He doesn't run to fine
uses, costly stables and blooded steeds.
night when he dismisses his operators
'm the telegrah offices in his own house
Fifth avenue, and enters up in a little
ok the telegraphic reports of the receipts
the various railroads which he owns. he
IS not 60 to club to carouse, to ban
et to steam up with champagne, or to a
ater; he retlres to the recesses of a
cetul library, and with his young sons
'ut him, reads the Latin classics. the
rid forgetting but not by the world for
by large majority. The next morn
early he has the telegraph doing light
g service, and he is sending an electric
ok through Wall street as soon as the
Is and the bears come into that field for
turage. Mr.. Gould is liberal man,
ough when he makes bequest he does
have the information written in mani
and sent to all the newspapers. The
news New York had of his gift to the
nphis sufferers of $4,000 came from
nphls, as did the news of his second
of $4,000.
r. Gould, being small man of little
'lcal prowess is naturally not disposed
ut himself recklessly in the way of the
IS of the bulls and claws of the bears.
re are some men in Wall street as
could has reason to know, who wish to
ut their losses with their fists and are
osed to follow Major Selover's example
to pitch him bodily down into con-
ant area. Accordingly Mr.. Gould
S his Office guarded by stout Irish
who prevents the intrusion of visi-
and he has usually private way to
ut INTO the street. He has, too, it is
big Italian book keeper, who accom-
IS him on many of his business trips
town and stands ready to protect his
1naire employer.