The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-26
ECHOES OF NEW YORK
SOME REASONS WHY JOURNALISTS
ABANDON THEIR PROFESSION.
Duration of the Life Of Proprietary and
salaried Journalists-.Another Native
Playwrights-An inquiry for the Old
Journalists who Depend on Salaries.

Duration of the Life of Proprietary and
salarIed Journalfsts-.Another Native
PIaywrights-An inquiry for the Old
Journalists who Depend on Salaries.
special corresoondence
NEW YORK May l7-David D. Lloyd or
Demorest L oyd, as he used to write his
1ame, has just finished a play founded on
our revolutionary period for Wallack's thea
ire, and it h4s been accepted with the ex-
pectation of producing it there next season.
He is the author of 70 Congress, which be
wrote some years ago. Lloyd is. or has been,
journalist by professio having been for
ten or twelve years on the staff of The
] Tribune where he wore himself out with
work and went abroad for his health While
In Europe he decided not to re-entsr journal
ism after his return. but to devote his talents
to literature. specially to the stage, for which
be Gems to have a dsciled vocation.
"For Congress" was done at leisure hours,
lie acting as Washington correspondent
| Of Thu Tribune It is, as he is aware, little
more than sketch; bu, he wrote it specially
for RAYMOND who wished to be the cen raj
and absorbing figure as he has baeA He has
already paid the author $4,000 for it, and has
engaged him to do another, now nearly com
| pletad Lloyd Ila, tasn aissiols for several
l~other p,eVsss, iis s5 liselg to have III
| hands fail Ia ; M, ,-...s. tn IeTolGJ 5lary
drama is said to be strong and interesting,
and Lester Wallack feels confident OF its cor
dial acceptance by the public Lloyd's sur
render of journalism for pecuniary reasons
Is but one of the many instances of the kind
that are continually occurring. Men of
genuine ability are apt to find after a few
years connection with newspapers, that they
can earn much more money, with far less
labor and worry, at some other occupation,
which, therefore, they naturally embrace.
While on this subject | may remark upon
the difference between the duration of life of
proprietary and salaried journalists, princi-
pally due, no doubt to the fact that the
former have ease of circumstance and periodic
leisure which are denied to the latter. Eras-
tus Brooks, whom met the other day, does
not look much above 80, but he is in his I'D
year He has been hard worker, too, since
childhood, havins gone from Portland, Me-
when only 8, to Bottom, where he was an
errand boy in a grocery. After becoming
printer, having been educated at Brown
university, and having had various news
paper exneriesces b.. in company with his
brother James. estab ished The Express. He
retained his editorial and proprietary inter
est for forty years, retiring with a hand
some independence ff he had been on a
salary in the same office-salaries were mig
gardly th4re-he would have been dead, in
all probability, before middle age.
George Jones, of The Times, is about Is,
and has Eoan thirty-five years intimately
I'll
paper. He has not for a good while been in
robust healsl but his position and means
have enabled him to rest when rest was
needed, and, consequently, he is full of affairs
at a ripe old age
Parke Goodwin is 70, and still young, despite
rather delicate health, partly caused by an
exec of sump:uous dinners He has been
writer and a literary laborer for more than
forty years; but ne has had an interest in
The Evening Post. and is now one of the pro-
prietors of The Commercial Advertiser.
William Cullen Bryant bis father-in-law,
lasted nearly eighty four years, and would
have lasted longer but for gross imprudence
in exposing himself to the sun and over
fatigue But then he had owned most of the
stock in The Evening Pest for half CEN
tury James Gordon Bennett, founder of
The Herald lived to be almost n, notwith-
standing his tough struggle with fortune un-
til he was beyond 40 George Ripley, one of
the first stockholders in The Tribune, was
nearly an oetogenarian when he passed
away, with mind undimmed and perfect
freshness Of heart, from an acute disorder
Charles A Dana. of The Sun, at 67 is as vig-
1re-rRzs rli,ri ,stas aryas twenty wears since.
Other instances might be cited, if necessary,
to show the preservative character OF
financial independence among newspaper
laborers Where are the old men in jour
nalism who have depended on salaries!
cannot recall one of them. Most of them
have died young or in middle life They
could not afford to take leisure or recreation,
and they fell early in the great everwaged
battle for existence.
As / was walking through upper Fifth
avenue the other afternoon | observed that
the new family hotel the Langham, at the
corner of Fifty-second street, includes the
house once owned and occupied by the noto
rious Mr1e Restel The house, on account
of her horrid trade, was national infamy
for many years, and good women, when they
passed her residence, were wont to turn their
faces away that they might not see it. Her
trial, nearly forty years ago when she lived
down town, caused a great commotion here
and throughout the country. The newspapers
were full of its hideous details, and it was
thought that she would certainly be brought
to Justice il convi tie she would have been
sent 10 state prison for longer term than
she would probably have lived. But she
had too much money, SO she escaped in the
face of almost positive evidence OF her guilt
The extraordinary advertising caused by her
tria doubtless helped her business immeas-
urably, and she therefore rejoice at it, for
her one object in life was monetary accumu-
lation After that she lought, through an
agent sworn TO secresy, savera lots in Fifth
avenue, and on one of these she put
up dig, haring house, and made it
her home. It was then very far up
town, an for years stood solitary and
alone. No one would buy the adjoining lots,
of course, and they long stood vacant as If
tn Y had been infected ground Finally,
when apartment houses began TO be the
fashion, a shrewd operator purchased three
of her loss. and erected thereon handsome
house of that kin / He rightly estimate1
that a number of genteel asnile, would live
where single family would not; they would
think that by dividing tn, moral RESPONSE
bility il would cease to affect any OF them
The Osborne. as it was named, was soon
nli6u, because the nelSHDOIhOO0 "oS hSAJ
Fashionable. and the tenants tried to ignore
the proximity of the unsavory madame
They were delighte |, however, when they
learned that from some morbid fear of con-
yiction for her Grim she had cut her throat
one night, and was found dead the next
morning in her bath room She was said K
have had possession OF terrible secrets tha
would have blastsd the fair fame of many
But if she had they persisted with her. That
Is barely six years since, and already the
tragedy is wellnigh forgotten, though the
poetic justice that it brought might have
Kept it in vivid remembrance. Since then
the Osborne has been annexed to the Res
tell mansion, and the whole is known as the
Langham, the elegance of which has eclipsed
the shame of TINT bad woman's life, and the
righteous horror Of its clos.
JUNIUs HENRI BROWNE.
OUR SUPREME COURT.