Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-03-05
THE FRENCH P PAPERS.
The Richest Papers in the World
Are Probably in PAS
How The Figaro Divides lss Profits
Tho Petit Journals Charges
for Advertising.Paid.
for News Items.
THE Journalist


We Americans are very apt TO believe that
We have the best OF everything that goes.
We are, among other things, fond Of boast
ing that We have the biggest papers and the
largest circulations, and We charge the
biggest prices for advertising
Yet the richest papers in the world are
probably in Paris: that is to say, the papers
that pay the biggest profits. We are apt to
co;;..tcrfeit Amusement when we are told that
The Sun makes s3oO,OO5 a year, and that
Dana's own income i, III the neighborhood OF
sl00, 900 a year. But that is nothing COM
pared with the income of the Levys, of The
London Telegraph, and certainly not to he
compared with the income derived by the
proprietor Of The Petit journal. in Paris.
For long time past, the
haaI man of that concern, who
used 70 bc workman at 8
francs day, has made an average of ,0Oo,
90 francs profit a year, or about S400,O0
lis paper l. about the size of The Daily
News here, and tha price IS / cent. 1t is
claimed that The Petit Journal has a circula-
ton f 10000 copie, a day. 1t, OF course,
GOES throus bout France.
But The Paris Figaro is the most Temarka-
bic paper OF all regards the division of its
profits. 1t has circulation of not much
.-ore than S',on On some days-Saturiay
for ifIstance-the circulation runs up TO 49,
JJJ. When the late DIR. Villemessaul, the
proprietor vi The Figaro died, he left the paper
To The three men who had done the most to
ii, him. But there were many old con
..IDutOrs to The Figaro-men with we'll
.nown names, who made al cutlery at this
lI"lsion OF the property they insisted they
oISht 10 nave deem consulted, ana they
threatened TO leave the establishment In a
'ody and found new Figaro This alarmed
tie three principals, ana they male a propo-
s'tinn 10 the recalcltrant gentlemen IL was
10 the effect that they themselves should take
each sJo'eo out OF The concern yearly, and
that the other men should each have o
salary OF s",olO Tor the work they were
20 do, and at TIE end OF the year they should
iraw another st,OOO out II the offs, thus
'isur'nS them sl2,ooo year apiece, a larger
talary than any editor IN America gets to
day let these men DO not write an average
oil more than halt column day each-h,
inieed, that nuci' 50 'hat they nave very
Easy Tune oil H. IL Is one oil Inc cohdi'iohs
mat wheh any "' item "ies Ms snare goes 10
ne Others :" mat INC last one VINO remains
VIII nave an ei"ihh ,H' income something
ike Sioo,opo year. heyoiid salaries anu 50
ON out oil the lroi't-' mere Is q large sum pu'
10y as sinking luld- IL now amounts 10
over si'ooV'"'c' ana theS doh Aho" "hat 10
20 WIN IL
We are apt 10 coifsideT ~ ana ~ cents %
hne ior advertising pretty hish price III
oui .aiiy papers lhe price Inc rent Jour
iai ciafses per iihe Is ~ anu lor rsaoih@
matter si-- Inc regular price OF Inc Figaro
Is 81 u me, ana ior reaaiii3 notices %. ror
an article iaIely puoiishei ABOUT the ahania
caiai scheme, taxing ABOUT ,hree-quai ters OF
\ column On inc hrst page, the company paid
si',OoI Another peculiarity o. Inc Figaro,
AMI oil most Oh the french papers, Is that
they rent GU. tne nhaiiciai column oS 'ne
year U ahSpoiy VINO wants " a weii-
known banking mouse pays Inc Figaro i'o'-
~ francs year ior the use oi tneir nhah-
slai ooihhih' ana puS' III Whatever IL pieas''s'
Ihey nave ten years contract
but more singular 81 II, from tha amsrican