The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-16
PAR1sIAN JoURNAL1sM.
The PersonalIsm of the French Press
Some OF the Leading NeWspaperS.

Some OF the Leading Newspapers.
In a recent interview Mr.. Hopkins.
OF lie AGti1, Paris, gave to a San
teresting glimpses of Partisan Journal
ism;
Partisan journalism" said he, ais
remarkable for its many failures and its
few great successes. Paris nay be said
to be the graveyard Of newspapers. 1t
is easy for . journal to be born there
and easy for it to die. Since We started
the MdtiTs as many ss fifty or Elxty pa
pers have been started and disappeared.
1t is easy to start . paper in Paris, be-
cause the cost is SO trihing. OF the
more than fifty daily papers in that city
not more than six are printed on their
own type, and of the six not more than
two or three are printed on their own
presses Even LIE Petit Journal with
its 925. 900 daily circulation Is printed
by Marouina under contract The FL
CARO- is also printed BY him. He is q
builder of machines and has the amplest
facilities. An that e necesaary to start
Journal in Paris Il an Office, desk, pen,
ink, and paper. Contracts can always
bemade with any Of the large printing
esta blishmenk on MohfnSartre street
to twenty thousand OF large four page
paper for about /, 500 francs: g The ad-
vertising is farmed out to one of the
three great advertising firms who mo-
nopolize the business. The Anglo
Saxon style of cheap and direct adVer-
tisIng is unknown in France. The cir
culatlon may also thus be farmed out
So it will be seen that . few thousand
francs Is ample 20 EtSrtS = paper In
Paris. Not only does every political
group have its own organ; but almost
every faction Of q group every senator,
and even deputies Of wealth, influence,
and ambition. They ARE found ed every
where to serve private interests and
personal ambitions In France it costs
no more to keep q daily newspaper than
it does to keep q mistress. q steam
| yacht, or pack Of hounda The news
| paper has this adVantage-t that It leads
to All sort Of things even to the presi-
dency. Ga 8 ~ VsS-3HeS~@
The greatest newspaper success OF
France probably of the world. isle
Petit. Journal 1t daily prints 925, 900
copies, and sells them all. Il is believed
that it Is read by one-half Of the reading
public Of France. 1t Is cheap paper.
selling for son. Its advertising rates
are very high. some Of its space bring
| ing as much rs 90 francs q line ~ 1t haa
/ 3 larger circulation than all the morn
| ing dailieS of New York and London
combined The net profits Of the con
Germ last year exceeded 81. coo. 600. Tho
| great success Of this Journal may be at
| ributed to ita 5euSlE eto,is, or continued
stories, Of which each number contains
two. 1t was the pioneer Of the fett!le-
ton idea Its admirable system of sd-
4srtising itself .has0 also z helped lit
Among its original contributors are
lola, Halevy, Sardou5 Daudet. Clarette.
| and others.
THE Figaro has also been a great
| financial success, and as 8 literary
product is the most brilliant newspaper
| in France. HWss. founded by Vile
messant, famous the, wofid over. Il
was the first paper in P6rEk,to intro
duce Interviews and other features Of
reporting. z IL Is naanaged->EY MN
| MaCnard, PeriVier,- and R0dayssAmons
| is staff are Albert Violin Baron~elatel
| S1gnotus9 Philippe Gle (Masq9e dc
Fer), jules PFe9el, and others. The
| Figaro isS4 great financial success. Thu
shares originally wers worth go. francs
now they ara worth IL 200 fans
The Temps b an esenipg paper of 1
serious type, and. perhaps, one of thu
best journals In Paris, 1T, has been {
very fair financial success
The FsGnce, founded by the brillian
Emile Girafdin, has been a very popula
paper in France, and formerly exercises
great political influence The genius o
1 It's founder has left it, and its wings ar
painfully dropping. The building O
i La France is one Of the finest in France
and is replete with every appointment
even to . fencing room for the. editor
and their friends ~ -e5a-ssa
''You know, Of course, said Nj
HopkinG ''that the editorial rooms 9
the Paris press are club-roorns for tn
editors and their fr1ends- Here al tn
brilliant men Of Paris gather after thu
lay or the opera. Often In forme
times (and even now1 the criticisms o.
the plays were not written for two o
three days, After the play the critic
must 20 to the cafeS And thsy really ID
not have time for work.
! Il can, perhaps, no better illustrat