The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-05-23
A Slick Cashier Who Invested $4,000
Of the Graphic's Money
for Himself.
The Row In Union Conege-De LeuviIls
and Oscar wilde-Operatic, Ora
matte, and Personal
Notes.
New York letter.

which New York dAilies are managed to
make it worth while to note the differences.
The Times ia managed in its special inter-
ess by Mr.. Jones and bis son, who. how
/. ever, seldom interfere with the chief of the
editorial page (now Mr.. Miller, vice Foord,
seeded as to the policy of the paper on
large and general questions. That is to say,
Mr.. Jones gives instructions on certain
matters where he thinks it worth while to
6Ainterested, and Mr.. Miller. Mr.. Carey,
SSsh Brooks, W. L. Alden and all other
editorial writer's free in all other directions.
At the same time, the sc-cslled managing
editor, Mr.. Reed, man of mental alertness,
manual EXPERIENCES and strong prejudices, is
independent of the chief of the editorial
page, and controls all the departments of
the paper. His headlines sometimes con-
diet with editorial utterances-but this is
seldom.
The Tribune is edited by Mr.. Reid in q
pretty thorough sense. He gives out topics,
suggests modes of treatment, reads the
proofs, marks what must go in and
what may lie over, supervises and
directs all the departments, and ex-
!ercissS personal superintendent in minute
matters, even to the adjustment of a SEMI
colon. In methods of work he draws a Sc
we're mark and compels everybody to toe it.
Nobody about the establishment has any
real authority IN Mr.. Reid's absence. except
Mr.. Nicholson, who holds the position US
ually accorded managing editor, but is
called private secretary. The paper is
not 60 good, think, as it would be if the
writers were thrown more upon their own
resources, and were freer to express them
selves, but it is probably nearer what Mr..
Reid desires to have it.
The Herald management is peculiar. The
managing editor, recently Mr.. Thomas B.
Corners, now Mr.. Flynn, has general charge
Of the news gathering of the paper, controls
the news gatherers, and directs the manner
in which all news shall be published. He
has the absolute expenditure of the great
fund allotted to this. But here his power
ends. He has no more to say about the eli.
torial page than has the pressman- The
EDITORIAL page is controlled neither by the
managing editor, nor by Mr.. Bennett, but
by en- editorial council, of which Mr.. Ben
nett is merely one member. The editorial
Gil meets every day about 2 or o'clock,
the senior writer, now Mr.. Chamberlain, /
infer, going around to the desks and sum-
moning, the members to the council room.
II is composed Of all the editorial writer's
now eight, besides Mr.. Bennett. Each
brings liss of topics that ought to be
treated, and these are discussed, as is also
the view to be taken. Then they are al
lotted to the members supposed to be- beet
acquainted with them. respectively. There
are about three times IS many editorial
writers on the Herald Ms are needed; the
position is about as soft q one as /
know Of, except that of bearer
of dispatches to Europe. If Bennett be
present at the council he takes part on the
same terms as the others; if he be sb.ent,
any dispatch from him is considered. He
has often told the counsel, al do not wish
my suggestion to have any more authority
than one of yours-vote me up or vote me
down as seems best to you" He holds, with
Lincoln, that everybody knows more than
anybody" but he probably has no reason TO
complain, as Lincoln did, that he has "no
influence with his own administration" 1t
is impossible that his wish should be needed
as little as that of one of his employees. Still,
he Is often outvoted and his projects de-
fested. He has the ambition that his father
had to make the Herald measure of public
feeling and public opinion. "When / am
voted down in council" he is reported as
saying, IL generally conclude that 1 am
wrong, for one fellow isn't as likely to know
what The public thinks as eight fellows
are"
DE LEUvILLE TT L'osCAR WILDE.
"A 1 hear rom Paris about one of our last
winters notsbilities, the Marquis de Leu
vile. who had many social triumphs here.
In the Frer CD paper, lie Soir, 1 find this:
After voyage of many months in trsv-
ersing FIVE continents, the unique and orig
inal An glo-French poet, the Marquis de
= ISle, has returned to Paris. The author
of Entre Nous has done much work during
his long and sometimes perilous voyages.
sa.s ''.l :. 'a.' : new book Will ''.
ludes to him as the rival of Oscar Wilde.
This is dreadfully mysterious. What en-
nifty has developed between these two gen.
tlemen7 If they are merely engaged in the
sweet emu alton of rhymes and rhythms the
melodiOus competition OF the muses, it is all
very well; but / shudder to recall
the variety of slender words
that used to hang over crimson tapestry on
the walls of the marquis parlors on Eigh-
tenth street, and t, remember the nine
duels he is said to have fought Merciful
heavensl Can it be that some rude words
have been spoken, and that the noble scion
Of Olivier de LOrncourt intends to chal.
lenee to deadly combat the laDguid pulpit
of Ruskin, the historian of the Aeshy Char
mides, the prototype of Bunthornsf 1t
can no, must not be permitted2 Mr.
Lowell ought to interfere and prevent Mr..
Wilde from crossing the channel.
Later. Horrorsl / glance again at LIE
Soir and notice that Mr.. Wilde is already
in Parisl This looks like trouble. He is
an expert swordsman, and have seen q
pictures painted by the marquis on target,
which he himself had drilled with twelve
bullet-holes within circle of two inches at
distance OF sixty feet Dsngeri Perhaps
even IS write the two rash men have hied
them impetuously away to the. Bots de
Boulogne, or the forest of st. Cloud. / re-
member the first time they ever put eyes on
each other. 1t was at Mrs. Jenny June
Croly's reception o year ago, and even then
/ observed that the marquis' dark-brown
eyes flashed with strange lustre, and Mr..
Wide seemed little ofash, - II . wild