Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-24
EARNINGS.
Estimates of the Wealth Of the Publishers
of New York.

the Philadelphia proprictors are a much
weather. set of men than the New
York proprictors. James Gordon Ben
nett is the only millionaire among our
newspaper men so far as I can discoy-
er, and yet millionaire newspaper pro-
prietors in Philadelphia are as thick as
huckleberries on bush. Mr.. Benefits
income is said to be ST. 600, 600, and I
should not be surprised if it is moro.
1t is fabulous, and I don't believe that
even he knows what it is. OF course,
there has been some inroads upon it
since his fight with the newsdealcrs,
which has cost him in round figures,
about $500, 900. But if he wins, as he
seems likely to, he will soon get his
money back.
Mr.. Dana. of the San, is a rich man,
but not a millionaire. His income TAX
ing his salary and his dividends from
the paper, which is owned by a stock
company, may reach a larger figure
than the interest on Il million or two;
but his fortune cannot be estimated IL
as much capital. Still, he is rich
enough. and it must cost him a great
deal to live in the style that he does.
Mr.. George Jones, Of the Times, is a
wealthy man, and his income is also
probably larger than that of some mil
lionaires; but I do not believe that
when he dies he will leave a property
running into the millions. Ii White
law Reid inherits any money from his
father-in-law he will be u millionaire in
time, but he is not now, though he has
plenty of money. If l am not mista-
ken, his wife is the only daughter of D.
.. Mills, and Mr.. Mills fortune is esti-
mated at $50, 900, 900. Mr.. Reid lives
in the same house that he occupied as
a bachelor, and it is quite good enough
for anyone, no matter what his means.
1t is large and comfortable without any
%pretentions to style, and is on the cor
ner OF Lexington avenue and Thirty
fourth street.
Mr. Pulitzer, of the World, is not a
wealthy pan at all, though he makns q
good deal of money by his papers, both
the World and the St. Louis POST Dis
patch. He lives very nicely in a house
on Gramercy park, but if his income
should stop to-day l do not believe that
his capital would be found to be very
large. His brother, Mr.. Albert Pulitz-
er, the proprietor of the Morning Jour-
nal, has probably Il few thousands in
vested in elevated railroad stock, and
draws 4 good salary from the Morning
Journal, but he is far from being a rich
man, though the chances are that he
will be II at no distant day.
The richest newspaper proprietor in
New York, after MIR. James Gordon
Bennett, is Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, pro-
prietor of the Mail and Express, but he
did not make his money out of his pa
per. [ do no know what MI. Fields
fortune is, but it run pretty high up
into the millions. He, however, cam
not be called a newspaper prorrietorin
the ordinary sense. He owns the
Mail and Express, but he has no more
to do with the running of it than Jay
Gould had with the running of the Ii5-
6une when he owned the controlling
stock in that concern. John Kelly,
who is the proprietor of the STIR, is :,
rich man, but | have never heard that
he was a millionaire. l don't bclie;c
that he makes Il great deal of his mon-
ey directly out of the star, though in
directly it may be worth his while.
Maurice Flynn is said to be the holder
OF the largest amount of stock in the
truth, and he is very well or for Il
young man, though | do not suppose
that he has a very extensive capital.
He makes Il great deal Of money. how
ever, and, if he keeps on as he has he
gun will one day be Il very rich mau.
He married the daughter of Theodore
Moss, a man who began by selling tick
cts in the box office at WallackS old
theater, and who now owns the lhratrr
and Mr.. Wallack, too, and is reputrd
to be worth millions.
The Evening Post, as is well known,
is owned by a syndicate, which was
first composed of three mcn-E. l.
Godkin, Horace White, and Carl
Sehurz; but Mr.. Schurz dropped out
some time ago, and now the paper is
owned between Mr.. White and Mr..
Godkin, neither Of whom is Il man of
great wealth. Mr.. Godkin. blythe way,
has been a bachelor up to within Il few
weeks, when he initiated the examine
OF another bachelor Journalist. Mr.. W.
II. Hurlbert, and married a young lady
OF means and accomplishments.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin, who owns the
controlling interest in the Commcrriol
Advertiser, is a wealthy man, but ! do
not believe that he is worth more than
$5C0,000; $3.50, 900 of this he PIT in Il
large building on the corner of Liberty
and Nassau streets, which is called the
Bryant building, and which brings him
in about 10 per cent. on his money,
and the other $3.50, 900 he puts in the
Commercial Advertiser. His son, Her
old Goodwin, who is with him. and on
whose account he purchased the Com
merc'at, is married to Il young lady who
is worth $4,000, 900 in her own right.
The Evening Telegram is owned by Mr..
Bennett. and is said to pay him $4,000
a year clear profit. This is owing 10
the fact that it costs him very little 10
run it. The Herald plays into its
hands, and it sometimes PLAYS into the
hands of the Herald, but it is oftencr
the other way.
The Evcning Meas is owned by Il very
wealthy man, Mr.. Benjamin Wood, the
brother OF the well-known Fernando.
Wood, and a man OF large means. l
think it very likely that he is Il millions
aire. and I know that he makes a very
handsome thing out of the Ercnin1
NeWs, which is II penny paper. with Il
circulation Of $50, 600 copies. The new
evening paper, the Ertru, hardly de-
serves mention among the established
papers of New York. because it is run
simply for campaign purposes, and will
probably die Il natural death after the
campaign, and then it is only Il side is
sue of the Tribune, and it is not likely
that after the campaign funds give out
the Tribune people will care to run the
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