Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-30
Journalists and Salaries.

remember very we'll what thrill ran
through the country press when it YVES
announced that Mr.. W. III. Hurlbert.
who was then taking charge of the edi-
torial columns of the New York World.
was to receive for his services $12, 900 a
year. The figures were cited to show
how far we had advanced in civilized
ways, when an editor could command
such salary as that. All this occurred
years ago, in the ''fush times" of the
country, and I do not know that the ex-
ample thus set has been greatly followed.
'tBut they order things better in En-
gland, by which mean that newspaper
work is much better paid for there than
IN America. When Mr.. Delane under
TOOK charge Of the London Times he was
paid ia, 900, about 20, 900 of our dollars.
Mr.. Buckle, the new editor of that jour-
nal, young man of thirty, without any
previous experience, commenced his Off
clal term on IAN annual stipend of e5, 1000,
or $25, 900. Mr.. Edward Lawson, the
editor of the London Telegraph, is it's
owner, and so is not on salary, but the
two senior editors of that journal, Mr..
Edwin Arnold and Mr.. J. M. Le-Sage,
receive each salary of $17, 500 in our
money. The Standard, which is next
in circulation of the great London dali
lies to the Telegraph, does not pay as
well as it's mighty rival, for its editor, MIR,
Mudford, gets only $4,000 per annum.
The Daily News, the organ of English
Liberals and the third in circulation of
the English metropolitan journals, pays
to Its editor the extremely comfortable
yearly salary of $4,000. The editor of
the Manchester Guardian, easily the
most powerful and influential country
newspaper (meaning outside of London)
III England, pays it's chief editor $15, 900,
and two members of it's staff, who each
write only four articles a week, $500.
Mr.. Stead, the editor of the Pail Mall
Gazette, gets $4,000, and the leading
writer of that journal, Mr.. Miner, is
paid at the rate of S., 600 yearly. He is
a young man and amuses himself with
literary work, which he need not do IL
he does not care to, as he possesses an
independent income from very large
fortune. Some of the weeklies of Lon
don pay very handsomely. Mr.. Hutton,
who is at the head of the Spectator, gets
$4,000. MIR. Pollock, of the Saturday
Review receives the same sum as his con-
frere of the Spectator, and Mr.. Freder-
lex Greenwood, who steers the st. James
Gazette through the tortuous mazes of
English politics, gets for doing it
$4,000, while Mr.. f. @. Burnard, who
not only edits Punch, but writes its
sharp parliamentary criticisms, receives
$15, 900 year for his double
duty. Besides the regular staff of the
great dailies there are always at
tached to each of them several outside
contributors, who have certain special
lines of information. For example, Mr..
Charles Marvin, who knows more about
Central Asia and the Turcoman tribes
in the Merv oasis than anybody else in
England since the death of poor Dono-
van, writes the articles which have late
ly appeared in the London Times on this
subject. just now England wants to
know all about that curious region, as
Russia is pushing it's way to India by
the Merv route, and therefore Mr.. Mar
WINS years of gathered knowledge can
now be utilized to his very great pecun-
iary advantage. Mr.. Archibald Forbes
slashing articles on the Egyptian war in
"the journal of the largest Liberal cir
culatlon in the world" as the News
proudly denominates itself, are admira-
bic in the matter of criticism, although
he has no personal knowledge of the re-
gion in which Gen. Graham's troops are
meeting such an obstinate resistance.
The time will come when the fourth es-
tate will meet In America with that lib
eral pecuniary encouragement it has af-
ter long struggle attained in England.