Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-11-11
GREAT JOURNALS.
A Resume of the New York
Newspaper World.
The Herald, Its Policy and the
Men Who Have Made it.
The Sun Ahead OF all Others
in Many Departments.
Two Papers Which Divide the Hon.
Ors of Chief Organs.
From OIlr Srecidl COrfeSpOndeni.

economy anu Tue press III LEI suSSuiuo W
the demand for cheaper rates. Everything
marketable is subject to the inevitable law
OF change. And change is Just as clearly
law as Sir Isaac Newtou's law OF gravits.
tiop.
Newspapers are intellectual barometers,
and when they fall il means that there's
FROST \ men looks q. little CDldly al four
cent morning paper when he can get good
reading for two cent. Economy is vir'
tue; extravaganza IS vice.
1t takes Il good deal Of skill to live within
small income, fool can be eStravaSant.
Economy Is the narrow road 10 honesty.
ProdignIty is The highway TO crime. lue
New \ Ork papers have, therefore, set
good example.
The Herald.
The Herald, as news gatherer from lar
oil quarters, has hitherto been the most
enterprtslTE newspaper N North Amer
ica. Il has the largest continental C!r'u-
lation, ihouch tie Boston Herald leads II
in local sale. The Sun certainly does. |
never heard of the Boston Herald in Port
land, oregon, n.Cch less i'll London or
in Paris. The New York Herald goes To
st. Petersburg. BenEett employs more
correspondents than any newspaper pro
prietor in the world. lie pays munlLi
Gently for uews, but ottentimes he sends
his people on hazardous missions. His
treat ain has AWAY been TO secure what
his neighbors couldn't reach or pay for,
When lie came into possession OF ms
klngdom he said: My father made the
Herald a great paper, b"t I'm gVinS To
make il greater lie sent Stanley to
hunt Il G source OF tie Nile, and ordered
Jerome Collins on board the ill.tated
Jeanne .te. =" to do up the North Pole. THIS
Was bold stroke Tor the benefit OF science,
with en- under current Of electricity 70
b Up the advertising.
Collins was one Of the best men on the
Herald and his death, away oil on the Si'
berisn coast, was sad thing.
The Herald proprietUrs ideas OF manage
II, ent are monarchicai, with tendency to
absOuiisuI. An editor to-day Is CORE
spondent to morrow. Young men suddenly
coming into possession OF fortunes are apt
10 feel for crowns forgetting now their
fathers worked upward. -,
One Of the best editors OF the Herald
was Mr.. Connery, a man from fordham
college. lie was prudent, calm and good
Judge Of news. Bennett gave his orders
ana Corr quietly followed them. lie
knew his chiefs humors, and having
learned the wisdom Of perfect obedience
from the Jesuits at Forihalu, he managed
to keep he peace,
John Russell Young
had mo authority on TIE Herald than any
man ever connected with it. He had sbII'
lty beyond question, and WAS au expert
at turning a paragraph. His Orother.in'
law, JnO. /. Foley, nov on the Herald stan,
used TO bc years sgo manaslng ciittr o. the
National Republican when Muroagh X
Sheube-d owned it, and Subscq man.
a.ing editor OF the Ba. timOre OJZrtte.
Foley has n wonderful hose for news AMI Is
ore Of be best workers | evsr knew; but
he does always carry outside the Oil e
the principles he puts on paper inside.
That's Lat, and ii the public sonclmss
breaks faith with the newspapers II tsbe'
c4use they remember lLr Old story oi tho
ass III tie lions skin.
NordhGfT, for % lcng the Chlef OF the
Washington bureau las helped vastly II
make the Herald decent aud h!gh.tOued
He is abe, oppo,Cd 10 ali piracy in getting
news and knows the virtue ot being gen
tieman even after the moon goes down
NyTdhr 4 Is given 10 literature, has written
some books and is far in advance of th.
type OF men usually representing papers al
Washir glou.
Every way you oJE at II, the Sun is the
oremost newspaper. Where the Herald
excels in the OEe enterprise OF ubiquity
the sun is ahead in all others. The g'ea.
characteristic OF the sun is its instructive
rrss. This 10 is especially that gives 1t the
first place in the community.
How often do you see wOful vast" oil
ink and ysper and nothing said ] do
every day of my life. II my propensity IN
violate the commandment against swear
ing could he represented by blanks.
wouldn't | blank some OF these hlaTk
sheets
After reading the best OF our metrop vi
tan papers. You shut your eyr~ and log
your memory 10 find what yor' 'Te got, but
YOU feel a. # you'd been at an encyclopei iia
when ! OF put down the Sun.
No raper IN or out OF New York hss such
srrorg body of men, Dana, John swinton,
suG NJ tchell are superior TO the best wr n.
on the IunCOn Times. SwintoR now has
a rsIer Of his own. but he has been
Onc 4 the central figures on the sun tbr
many wears. The editorials read like Jun
ms offers. They speak to you. There :
no air3 at anything but perfect simplicity,
but that's very perfect. The language Is
pure Saxon, just as clear cut as Tcnny-
sons. Possibly the most
Remarkable Feature
OF the sun is the uniformity OF expression
all through it. They have John Locke's
idea Of unity in that office. The paper,
you would think, was made up, entirely.
by one man, 30 completely has Mr.. Dtna
impr, SEED bis personality upon those
around him.
Thls has contributed no little to It's un-
prtceceuted success 1t has a superb cir
81 loK IN, ha a a
terror TO evil doors and the stern enemy OF
al! shams and humbugs.
Amos Cummings il was, more than any
one else, introduced into the sun Office the
style CT writing from imagery rather than
from Imagination.
II Mr. llama were 10 die tomorrow you
would swear his editorials survived him.
No fI,msiress Is tolerated. Hard work and
talep, are the only passports to place.
Mr.. Edwards. the Washington correspon-
dent. isa Yale man, having gone through
the academic and law schools with distinc-
ton. He began as runner, II l mistake
not. and made his way upward. He IS de-
cidedly the best of the correspondents al
the Capital, counting such men as Boyn.
ton, Richardson, Carson. }. 4. Young and
others who have been working with dis
,inction Oh the Row" for yesIs.
The Times.
The Times IS owned by George Jones and
disputes with the Tribune recognition az
Ii. esdipg Republican journal OF the
country. John Foord, Scotchmsn, who
went on the PAPER ss q reporter was the
brains Of tie Times. His editorial. we're
IT senI fic+nt, though perhaps little heavy
now and lbs n and requiring good literary d.
giSt.Cn. FoCrd was actually the head "a "A
every way. Jones having implicit conn
dercp in his Judgment and ability OF which
he had wonderful good supply.
In tie New York offices, there is now no
such thing as managing editorship. The
managing editor is at best an executive
eek to Ihe editor in chief. / remember
when managing editor used to have fuiI
sxing, sending men here, there and every
where. contracting for news snd control
ling the turse strings. lis not 30 now.
Ford ssye up eight thousand yesr on
the Times 20 Try his fortune on the Brook
lyn Union. His friends thought he had
II ate mistake in relinquishing the spien
did probabilities he had on the Times. ou
Y hai Il. making q sucCPs