The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-11-08
THE PAY Or NEWSPAPER MEN.
What the Majority OF Editors Receive
Routine Morkers and Rcporters.

What the Majority OF Editors Receive
Routine Workers and Reporters.
The pay Of newspaper mon Is indeed most
OutrageOusly small With the exception OF
three managing editors, not one chief editor
of New \ Ork daily receives over so per
week-the ma jority of item range from S4O
to SO per week Edi orial writer's of well
known repute and force command from so
to SO per week; but there are few men on
the great dalies who secure more than the
welLestablished rate Of so per week Rou-
tine workers-men who read, edit and pre-
pare for the printer foreign and domestic
letters tslegraphic dispatches-are mere ma
chimes who usually fail in all other posi-
tions, and are shelved away IN the lntellec-
tual department at from So to so per
week The regularly salaried reporter re-
ceives from SIS u so per week, and if be
remains half century in that position he
has no hope for advancement.
Of late years the English penny-a line
system has been brought into vogue by
nearly all the morning papers. There is
this difference, however, that instead of
paying by the line they pay a stated sum
per column. The result is, that while many
Of those piece writer's are gentlemen Of
education, ability and clever resources,
nearly all the Offices are infested by crowd
of seedy and needy would-b journalists,
who bring the profession Of journalism into
disrepute and palm upon the papers much
bogas news This has been a severe year
for journalists of this class, few of whom
make more than from SO to SIS per week.
If a young man aspiring to a journalistic
career in the metropolis were to ask my
advice about coming here, l would say
Halt! better stay where you are, even if
you have to herd cattle or groom horses for
a living There is some honor in being
good herdsman or an expert stableman-
none in being a journalist under such chiefs
as now control nearly all the leading
daiiies. Cor New York Journalist
The Antiquity Fields of Egypt.
Egypt is not at a standstiH at present; it
is moving faster, for better or for worse
than it ever moved before. And this is
true of Its antiquities as well as of other
things; the ancient cities are being in the
present day dug away and their earth
spread on the ground as a fertilizer; and
this is going on at such a rate that some
have almost entirely disappeared already,
and fields of corn have taken their place,
others are diminished 20 half the size they
were a generation or two back, and are still
diminishing every day. And the time Goes
not seem very far distant when scarcely a
site of city will be able to be identified
Certainly Egypt Will have exhausted its
antiquity fields before England exhausts its
coal fields And up the Nile tombs are
opened every year. and fewer left to be dis
covered In one sense we are only Just be-
ginning to explore Egypt, and the treasure
seems TO US inexhaustible, but that is only
because of the puny scale of our attack from
the Scientific side; in another and terribly
true sense Egypt is exhausting itself, the
natives are ceaselessly digging, and unless
we look to it pretty quickly the history of
the country will have persisted before our
eyes, by the destructive activity OF its in
habitants Never before has that land of
monuments BEEN so fiercely worked on,
daily and hourly the spOils of ages past are
ransacked, and if of marketable value are
carried off; but whether preserved or not is
a small matter compared with the entire loss
of their connection and history which
always resu is in this way.-English Illus
trated Magazine.