, 1886-07-14
HARD WORKERS OF THE PRESS.


oilers OF the Day and Night-sIen Who
Guide Newspaper Machinery.
There il a drug store down in The Her
Id building, at the corner of Ann street
nd Broadway, which has wide celebrity
IL over the United States as "Hudnut's.r
t is a small box of a place, not many
Get deep and still fewer feet wide, but it
) full Of customers all day long, and it
las n good many purchasers clear through
he night. 1t does an enormous business
n surgical instruments and ready-made
Medicines, but it derives by far the
,reater part of its celebrity from the
arge quantity of soda water disposed of,
where the purchaser winks solemnly at
t the clerk and calls for "the same"
Late at night when the morning pap
rs have gone to press, the back part of
Iudnut's store becomes the gathering
lace of about us distinguished and in
e~resting a group of men as one often
inds together. They are the men who
make the journalism of New York. l
lon't mean by this expression that they
ire the commanding officers of the jour
ialistic army, who go by the technical
INV vi tiito . tAto 6tAihAt
men | tell you of as being won to gather
1t Hudnut's are the actual workers, the
men who take charge of the entire great
machinery of the papers under their con
rol, beginning early in the day and re-
naming until the next mornings edi-
Jon begins to roll off from the presses,
which clatter and bang away in the sub
CELLARS with a noise almost like the rat
lie of artillery.
In many walks of life l have come
icross men who thought they were hard
worked and generally abused. But l
1on't believe there is any position in the
world in which a greater quantity of
10Th labor and unjust criticism exists
han finds its way into the daily life of
.hese gentlemen who build daily publ
,ations. The managing editor of a big
newspaper is responsible for all the news
If the day in every part of the world. If
ne doesn't get it, and some other news
paper does, he is likely to hear from the
,~ditor-in-chief, and whether he gets it or
not, he is the person in a newspaper
office who is pitched into alike by orint-
ers and proprietors and by reporters
and editors. All day and all night he is
reading and answering letters and dis
patches, ordering special accounts of
certain things which occur in various
parts of the universe, declining to re-
,eive accounts of certain other happen
ings, skimming through proofs, giving
orders to subordinates, comforting with
visitors who range all the way from the
man who has been hauled up the day be-
fore in a police court for drunkenness
and thinks he has a 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 will be
seen, must be the possessor of an alert
mind and untiring physique, of the
faculty of forming his Judgment in
simultaneously, and of that degree of
application which will enable him to
stick to his desk from morning to 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 it is one of the mys-
teries that simply amaze the close OBJ
server ofitheir career.-Leander Richard
son in Boston Herald.