St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-24
MILWAUKEE LETTER.
FURRY Over the Early Ar
rival of the Chicago
Papers.
Interesting Newspaper Gossip
A Lucky Strike in a
Lottery.
Failure of Edward SiIyerman-Gen-
eral Manager Merrill-ShOrt
Notes.
Snecia, ro--esnondence of tbe Globe

train has raised Whirl OF excitement IN
newspaper circles here. The propinquity OF
Chicago, and the possibility of increased ex-
petition in the mail service between the two
cities has from time immemorial hung over
and against newspaper interests in this city,
like the sword of Damocles. The igurative
blade has at last fallen and cut a great cash
IN the morning journalistic field. Leaving
out OF the calculations the reasons agains t
the delay of the fast mail at Chicago, the op-
position OF the Sentinel to the service has suf-
fcient basis in the invasion of its not over
remunerative city field. The huge five cent
dailies, and the lively two cent papers of the
big city at the head of the lake, are now de-
livered by carrier early in the morning, and
are hawked about the streets by the peddlers
who sell the Sentinel This ia enough to make
any overworked newspaper howl; and the
Sentinel is overworked. 1t has had an up
hill task from the start. By ''it' is meant
the corporation that now holds the reins
which it first grasped and buckled to a new
enterprise called the Repu6lican-Nears, which
was
BORN OF SPITE.
Caused by the Senfnel's cratic political
course some years ago. A clique of wealthy
citizens of Republican proclivities determin-
ed to have ''an organ" that would not often
them as the Sentinel had repeatedly done, and
after a concentration of grievances and
capital the franchise of the Daily NeGs, a
paralytic Democratic morning paper, the
only organ the Bourbons had in Milwaukee,
was purchased by stock CON pany with such
names as Horace Rublee H. H. Camp, Chas.
L. Colby, E. H. Broadhead, Chas. F. nlsley,
| E, II. Abbott and Chas. Ray on its books. A
| fierce war between the two papers was in
augurated, and in little over year, through
The resultant stress of circumstance, an
| amalgamation was effected by the swallow
ing of the Smltinel by the Republican, Nt1Os,
which had the widest financial nav, and the
merging OF the two papers under the name
Repa1blican-Sentir,Al. The fight had been a
bitter one, and although N. s. Murphey and
Samuel McCord, who owned the contro.i!n g
interest in the Sentinel, were forced out, they
GOT THEIR PRICE,
which was something like 100000. But the
Republican-NeeCS cannot be said to have been
flushed with victory. 1t had purchased the
old NewS franchise and worn out type from
over $4,000 in forcing Murphy and McCord
to terms, and in waging the war it had cut
off part of its own nose by dividing the
morning Republican reading constituency
against itself. Amalgamation of stock and
amalgamation of subscription lists were
found to be wholly different tasks, and the
fumes of battle had not enticed into the field
new readers in numbers sufficient to double
anirn lot rrir- fha
Sentinel circulation equal to the combined
lists of the two papers. Since the consolida-
ton the Senta,d-which soon after the event
dropped the word Republican from its head
ing-has had stormy existence. 1t has had
the field all alone, but has failed to make
money enough to pay interest on the invest
ment the paper now represents. A gentleman
of newspaper experience told your cor
respondent the other day that it would
TAKE 5000, 900 TO WIPE Up THE DEBT
of the Sentinel and give it financial freedom.
In all corporations struggling against fate,
whose controlling stockholders are not prac-
teal men, change is the order in the work
ing force of the business, and the Sentinel
has not been an exception to this rule. Its
latest managing editor, j. l.. Stickney, is
about to retire to make room for another
more suitable to Mr.. Gates, the business
manager who succeeded Mr.. Boyd at the
opening of the year. The fault lies in ex-
pecting too much from the field the paper oc-
cupies, and in giving too much for value re-
ceived. There is no denying the fact that
the paper is good one 1t has been too good.
Too much money has been spent to make it
keep pace with the big dailies up the lake,
papers with constituencies which in compare
son to that of the Sentinel are as swarm of
''5uzzadrs' against
LONE FLY ON DRIED PRCNE.
And now the Chicago papers are early in
the field each day, and contesting it with
more vigor than usual. They are tasting of
sweets that they will not readily relnquish,
and in the event of the discoutnuance of
the fast mail train will probably combine and
run an early train of their own. Their adj
vent has completely shut out all chance for a
two-cent morning paper, which has been a
political enterprise common to the mouth of
Rumor for some time past. Besides the Sen
tinel, Milwaukee has two English daily papers,
the Evening Journal a small two-cent sheet,
and the Eveniag Wisconsin, three-cent six
column quarto paper, whose history dates
back to the '40s. These papers seem to have
separate constituencies, and do not clash to
any great extent 1t was rumored to-day, in
connection with the Journal, that Mr.. Stick
ney, the retiring managing editor of the
Sentinel, had made a bid for it, and that Lutte
Nieman, the editor of the Journal, was fgur-
ing to succeed Stickney on the Sentinel. But
Rumor says good many rapid things. II.
Z. Myrick, who has been telegraph editor of
the Sentinel for some time, will succeed Mr..
Stickney.
LUCK IN A LOTTERY.
A pool made up of employees of the West
Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railway, has been lucky enough to
draw SIS, 900 in a lottery, on ticket num-
bered IA, 467 The money has been received
at Mitchell's bank, and John Johnston wilt
see to its division. a young man who in
formed the writer Of the windfaH, had forty
cents invested in the pool. His share of the
prize will be the neat sum of S240.
This streak of luck has caused much excite
ment among the railroad workmen, and an
other pool has been formed. Counting what
has been sunk previous to. the lucky strike
mentioned, and estimating the probable los
| ings on future pools, it is safe to calculate
| that the lottery company will not be the loser.
| This pooling seems to be common about
town at present. The prevalence of the
practice among the employees of John Pritz-
laff, the hardware dealer, was revealed by a
hoax perpetrated on the holders of tickets in
Canadian lottery. Someone cognizant of
the situation in the store sent fictitious dis
patch announcing the drawing of S27, 900 by
one of the tickets held by the Pritzlatf pool.
Naturally there was great rejoicing among
the members of the pool, who gave the item
to the city press. Its publication drew out a
confession by the perpetrator of the joke,
and now the Pritzlaf clerks feel flatter than
the iron market.
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