The Portland daily press., 1883-03-09
New York Editorial Rooms.
oroffut's Account of some of Them.

This city has an interesting variety of edi-
torial rooms. A few are equipped and en-
bellished artistically; most of them are COM
monplace; some of them are quite dreary;
perhaps the very worst are these occupied
by the Commercial and American Queen.
These are the places where mice build nests
in the editors pockets and rats as big as
poodes walk out and sit up on the paste-pot
and look the custodian of it defantly in the
eye. But of the former Office one thing can
be said: Hugh Hastings, after almost half a
century Of hard. work, is always on deck
prepared to deliver point blank 'fyes'' or
s'no," and he has no Cerberus on guard at
the door between himself and the public.
The Evening Post editorial rooms are near
the top of nine stories, up which you are
whisked by lightning elevator that makes
the distance In minute. You enter door
and find yourself in small enclosure rallied
off within. Inquiring for Gen. Carl Schurz,
the editor, a boy sheves bit of paper and a
pencil TO you, and says, sName and bust
ness, please" You write the essentials there
or on your card and the boy carries it with
in. If your business is legitimate, the edi-
tir will see you, but you had better call after
/ O'Clock. In the second of two inner rooms
Gen. Schulz sits at fiat table surrounded
with books, engulphed with papers, writing
industriously and finishing the sentence be-
fore he looks up to greet you. At his left
he looks through lofty window that com
mands the sweep of the whole bay, and the
afternoon sun is tempered by soft curtain.
The Graphic's chief editorial room is on
the first floor back Of the cuunting-room.
where Mr.. Goodsell' S desk is (if where Mac
Gregor sits is the head of the table), though
a good deal of the work is done upstairs in
great room which is occupied by his sub
ordinates in common.
The Sun editorial rooms are ON the third
floor of building that has seen better days
though, perhaps, its better days in high
moral sense were not those days when it was
occupied as Tammany headquarters and
Isaiah Rynders was power. The door first
opens into small fenced-off enclosure,
where the visitor inquiries for the person
wanted, who is summoned. This enclosure
is in a great room, 40 feet square, where the
city editor and 80 reporters have their desks.
A door opens through into John Swinton's
room, and from this another door opens to
the square table where Mr.. Dana sits and
plans, selects, corrects and rejects. l think
Mr.. Dana is growing a little mellow with
years; retaining his executive and creative
power, while getting rid of some of his
crotchets and eccentrcities.
The Herald editorial rooms are not at
tractive. Though in great marble build
ing, they are mostly shut away from the
sun and the light, small and the rev4rse of
beautiful. Fortunately, the visitor seldom
sees them; he is shut into an outer room,
and the member of the staff of whom he is
III quest waits upon him there. This room
is approached up stairway, and the Tele-
gram. is two stories higher, the great Her
aid building not yet being able to afford an
elevator. 1t is the only newspaper in the
town that is so badly off.
The Tribune editorial rooms are now on
the ninth floor, having been Lifted one story
in the recent readjustment of the great
building. They are all finished in ash, and
admirably divided, lighted, heated aud ven
tilated. The hall floors are of marble tes-
selations. Mr.. Reid occupies an inner room.
plain but handsome-I mean the room. If
you call for him on business you ask for
him at the door and are ushered into re-
ception room and questioned. If your need
y nv - eiso1al nature anu ooes not
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Nc NJ Mai ie otl " Mr heiu Heulenants, Mr.
i rlonoiSol, u. 'ynan, y. NJ; bowers.
r nmeSe i ,Io ~, are al aeilgnlul working
Tn cns8. oeo' onJoyeu " 'no uaiiy papers
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fhest and nrincinal az these Is the room
eonipned for Dr. Holland now occnnied by
his Successor. Mr., Glider The dainty fro,
place is Of pressed brick. and over it is a
Monumental tablet of wood q heapTifnI
carving Of DR.. Hollands side face fu1l SIC
in mamie. occupying the centre f1anked win
while nine na,,eIs nn which il carved The on
itanb deIicatalv framed in snravs of hiitar-
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inc and frieze Of craam colored costs ; doors
and Garnet Of olive tonchad with ooId .T nar
.iares Of raw ali. red and old ood por
banpinos of the soft Canton crona TIE Tan hI,,
ish walls are af that coarsest of pro ,,;nr ~
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the editorial rooms Of 6. Ninh uI NJ
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and othrr ladies orc Of otbar dasi,s ;i lo'
mated in a General atmosnbera If ia d, gnld
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