Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-08-26
THE EDITOR.
A Popular View of Newspaper Mems
Work and Duties.
Boston Globe.1

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Oh, yes. He writes the love story
on the outside in the morning, then
Eve or six editorials and double as
many paragraphs. then the theatre
notices and advertising puffs. In the
afternoon be helps the compositors, or
goes down stairs and works the press
or assists the boys to fold the papers.
Should newspaper man always be
a printer ?
Oh, yes; always. You must learn
to set type before you can write at all.
Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Bacon,
Tennvson and all the rest were prin-
ters. You cannot expect to be good
compositor unless you are printer
What does the managing editor do?
He keeps the pens and inkstands
clean and manages to mark a great
deal of writing with blue pencil
What he marks goes into the paper
basket and is anxiously looked for
several weeks after by the correspoD-
dent He is the man who loves to
talk with you when you have an
hour or two to spare and you can talk
to him. and takes it very hard if you
don't stay at least balf an hour after
you have finished your business with
him-to say it all over again.
What is the bushes of the proof
reader ?
oh, he is simply hired to prove the
truth of whatever the editor writes.
And what does the exchange read
er do?
Oh, be simply exchanges news
with other papers.
And what dees the night editor do?
Oh, he simply watches the compos-
itors at night to see that they do not
shirk their work or steal any type.
Is it really necessary to go abroad
to be a good foreign correspondent.
Oh, no You can be just as bad
foreign correspondent at home
as anywhere else
What kind of writer's do editors
prefer?
Oh, people who bave great com
mand of language, or rather those
who are greatly commanded by Ian
guege, and who, can say the same
thing three or four times over in the
same sentence; also young ladies
three months out of the high school
with poetry on Spring" if spring is
in season. Also men with but one
idea in their heads who have been
studying it all their lives, and who
have got it all down on three or four
reams of paper.
Can anybody write for newspa-
per?
Oh, yes; they can if they want to.
There is nothing TO stop anybody
from writing for newspaper.
And get paid for it !?
Oh, yes. There is nothing to stop
anybody from being paid for writing
for newspaper!
What is the best subject to write
about for a newspaper
Oh. anything which happens to in
terest you. If it interests you it is a
sure sign it will interest everybody
else.
How does an editor like to have an
article commence
Commonly in this way Having
few moments to spare, | have dashed
off those few lines in the hopes that
what | have ground out may interest
your readers. / have not said on
this subject all could or all can,
but il it should prove interesting, as
/ hope it will, / trust | shall be able
to say more on this and other topics,
etc, etc" The longer von can keep
on in this strain the more will the
editor be delighted with your article.
La what style does he like to have
it written
He likes to have it written in very
fine, obscure hand, with lots of inter-
lineations and letters sprawled across
each other, and, if possible, on both
sides of the paper; and then you
should call for proof of your article,
and when you get it conclude to
strike out every third sentence and
put another in its place, and when
you get revise" you might re-
write the entire article over again.
This viii make the Office happy and
cheerful.
What will the editor do first after
looking over such an article /?
He will order q new club-ior you
when You call
Where do you generally pat the
long articles .sgt:
In the waste basket. /.
Do you pay FOR them '..
No, but the junk man does at
the rate of,a cent per pouudgsP There
Is a good opening to make some
money writing long articles providing
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