The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-08-04
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There IA drug store down In The Her.
AID building, AZ the coneTof Ann street
and Broadway. which has vide celebrity
al over The United States n -Hudnut.
II q small box Of . piaeg not many
feet deep and Still fewer feet wide, but {
4 foil q customers ~ day long, and Il
has sgoodmany purchaser eleafthrcdgh
The night Il does ~ enormous business
In surgical Instruments and ready-made
medicines, but Il derives by far the
greater pan Of IL celebrity from the
large quantity Of soda water disposed Of,
where the purchaser Winks soIemnly At
II tie clerk and calls Tor the sane.e
Late a might when the morning pap
eShaye gone 70 pres, The back part Of
Hudnut's store becomes the gathering
place n about Is distinguished and In
tereting q group Of men as one often
finds together They sro the men who
make the journalism Of New York. I
don't mean by this expression that they
are The commanding officers Of the jour
nalistic army, who 90 By the technical
name Of editorEinchief. These gentle
men 1 tell you Of a. being wont to gather
at Hndnut's are the actual workers, the
men who take charge Of the entire great
machinery Of TIE papers under their con
troll, beginning early In the day and re-
naming until the next mornings edi.
ton begins TO roll of from the presses,
which chatter and bang away in the sub
cellars with noise almost like the rat
lie Of artillery.
In many walks Of life I have come
across men who thought they were hard
worked and generally abused. But !
don't believe there Is any position In the
world in which q greater quantity Of
both labor and unjust criticism exists
than finds its way into the daily life Of
these gentlemen who build daily publ
cations. The managing editor Of a big
newspaper is responsible for all the news
Of the day in every part Of the world. II
he doesn't get It, and some other news
paper does, he Is likely 10 hear from the
editor.in-chief, and whether he gets It or |
not hc Is the one penon IN q newspaper
Office who Is pitched into alike by print !
en and proprietUD and by reporters
and editors. All day and all night he e
reading and answering letters and dis
patches, ordering special accounts Of
certain things which occur in various
parts Of the universe, declining to re-
ceiye accounts Of certain other happen
ings, skimming through proofs, giving |
orders to subordinates, comforting with |
visitors who range all the way frUm the
man who has been hauled up the day be-
fore in a police court for drunkenness
and thinks he has grievance against
the paper for publishing the fact, to the
influential politician who has an editorial
suggestion to make. A man who per.
forms such duties as these, It win he
seen, must be the possessor Of IN alert
mind and untiring physique, Of the
faculty Of forming his Judgment In.
simultaneously, and Of that degree Of
application which win enable him to
stick to his desk from morning 70 night,
and almost from night to morning,
without any material degree Of rest.
Some Of the men ! saw together the
other night at Hudnut's lead this life Of
close confinement year In and year out,
and how they stand 1t is one Of the mys.
teries that simply amaze the close OBJ
server Of their career.-Leander Richard
son in Boston Herald.