Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-10
METROPOLITAN JOURNAL.
lists.
Personnel OF the Active Work
ers ON the Leading New York
Journals - Some Interesting

PersonueI OF the Active Work
ers on the Leading New York
Journals - some Interesting
sketches. -.
New York Correspondence Of The Fh''Aasiphia
Times
The active men on the papers today
range from % 90 90 years OF ago. mr.
Connery, the managing editor oi tue
UeraLI is - OF l5 years Of age, tall aud
him. MIR. Foord, the IL JaciO editor ot
the Tfmes, il about -. short and thin.
Mr.. Reid, the managing editor OF the
TIM. IL al, tall aud well pTOpOrtiOurd.
Mr. Whitrlaw Reed IL q little this side
al 20 very tall and lattcrly incllning to
sioutness. Ii has been the general I'M
pr,Ssion lor some tlaIe past that Nit. j.
" d. UaHsari, one Of the best musical
urit,rs oi the country, was the manag-
ms editor al tho Tribune. The Tact N
that Mr. Whitelaw Reds iormer steno-
grapher, Mr.. Nicholson, has gradually
had the duties of that position placed
upon him, aud to-day lac u all Ia all as
the important representative 0l Mr..
Reid. should Judge him 10 be- 90
yenrS of aye, tall and spare. Ballard
smith the managing editor Of the Sun. ~
about 40. medium height and thin.
Oakoy Hall, the managing editor OF the
UyrLl must he - or %, quite tall aud
and large framed. ! don't recall-iet me
sc,-t believe the city editors at tue
various papers range from - tO 10. IL
may bc that Shanks Of the Tribune, ~ a
little over that, but he doesn't show II,
aud Harry Hill, Of tho Herald, may ne a
TITLE under that. A new phase at ~
pnrterdom is last developing IN metro
poltan Journalism. Very many OF the
reporters are graduates ot our best col.
legcs, bringing. In addition to natural
aptitude aud huency, u suporSlructure
ol comparative culture, which think
must M tho cnd be- scryiceablo to mod
rrn journalism. II is lound that luss
editing il needed Ia the present state III
things. There was a time when "A ~.
purler's COpy needed So much revision
A. to make It almost necessary To rewritc
the entire matter. Now II become large
ly "A question oi space and II that IL ample
a trihiug revision, aud gcncr ally then
AZ "A matter at taste, IN needed. In view
ul tue latt lllal UNIV aN N"''''N'e "
men earning their living through the
columns III a great papers, Il N inter
cstiug to va. aud particularly Ia those
ui IA who are passing along, To know
what brcomrs oi them when they get
along Now aud then you strike u
happy -go.lucky fellow who doesn't care
much whether school keeps or not aud
whose lie sccmS 10 bo "a perpetual holt.
day among the craft; but N n general
thing lie IL hard, duty is oxacting aud
compensation IL small to the Workers ui
thu press. Charlie Webb, %tHruerly OF
the Ttna, aud since better known ~
"John PAUL., oi the Tribune, married
muacy aud went into Wall street.
George Alfred Townsend, whose work ~
as we'll known in the country ~ that oi
ANY other man, long since severed rcgu-
LAT connection with the press aud nov
dryutcs his time Ia universal CORES
pondrncc and special articles, aud lat
terry has publlshCd "a volume which !
AIN pleased Ia know " meeting with pc-
c"uniary success. Some al Our old tluuo
writer's have gone Into book publishing
and ono or Two are in the street, but the
rest don't know aud lear that no
body cares,