Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-19
MISS CLEvELANDs TRIPOD.
The Uneasy Seat of a Tyro and Her
Trials
From tAe C1icnao Neacs.

From tho Chicago Neacs.
No announcement is made in this num-
Der OF Literary Life touching Miss Cleye-
lands probable retirement from the edi-
torial conduct OF the publication, nor is
there any intim alton likely to crafty
public curiosity on that subject. 1t is
understood, however, that MIR. Elder, the
publisher, is willing that Miss Cleveland
should retire; that he is satisfied that she
has done the magazine all the business
good she is capable of doing it, and that
he Is already casting out in other direc-
tions for new instruments with which to
boom his enterprise. 1t is apparent that
Mr.. Elder has wearied of the restraint
which mis- able editor is attempting to
exercise over him; in several instances
he has openly rebelled against her auth
ority, and we have reason to believe that
within month cordial relations between
the two will be entirely suspended,
Amusing stories concerning the profess
siOnal and business relations of Mr.. Elder
and his editor are leaking out gradually.
Ii appears that Miss Cleveland's salary
has been quoted at higher figure than it
should have been. Instead OF $50 a week
Miss CleVeland's salary is $500 quarter
(three mont hs) or S166 66 month-that
is 10 say about $40 week. The first
agreement between Miss Cleveland and
Mr.. Elder was for u specified time, but by
a subsequent agreement 1t was provided
that the existing financial terms should
be continued indefinitely. The first cool
ness-if such we may term it-seems to
nave arisen between the twain when Miss
Cleveland declined TO yield to Mr. Elders
opportunities to live in Chicago. Miss
Cleveland declared that she could not see
why she should be expected TO live in the
West, but subsequently, she agreed TO
come as TAR West as Detroit and to 'try
it there awhile;" if she liked it there per-
baps she would proceed to Chicago
Meanwhile, Mr., Elder was to make FREE
quent visits to Detroit and keep her ad-
vised as to the demand for her permanent
residence in Chicago.
In the selection OF an assistant editor
Miss Cleveland had but one choice, and
NNhat WAS Der nephew, a young man Of
twenty five, the son OF the Rev. w. +.
Cleveland, OF Forrestport, n. Y. This
young man VINO Is stigmatized by MIR.
Elder as sallow youth, has never bad
any experience in the editorial or publish
ing business, but his aunt insisted that be
would be great help TO her in revising
manuscripts and in carrying messages
between Chicago and Holland Patent.
MIR. Elder squelched the nephew scheme at
once, and Mr.. Bradshaw, the old assist
ant editor of the magazine, has been re.
tanned through the Cleveland regime.
The intelligent compOsitors employed
by Literary Life represent that Miss
Cleveland doesn't know anything about
reading proof, and they tell funny stories
about the interlIneatiOns and corrections
that appear on the manuscripts and
proofs that come from Holland Patent.
Writing from her quiet study at "The
Weeds" Miss Cleveland recently made
this complaint:
81 remember now that there occurs a
misspelled word in one of my German
quotations, and 1t breaks my heart
that there is nobody about your
Office intelligent enough to make the cor
rection."
Returning TO the subject OF the forth
coming number OF Literary Life, we
will say that we do not regard the new
cover OF the magazine as much OF an i'm
provement upon the old cover. The de-
sign is not particularly appropriate, and
IL seems to be rudely executed. AT one
corner Of the mortise for the table OF con-
tents appears what purports to be an
ideal head Of Miss Cleveland, entitled
"Lsterature," while just above the OPP
posite corner Is depicted rising sun with
fiamboyant streamers, and across this sun
10 stretched the regend "Fiat Lux We
are told that when MIR. Elder saw the de-
sign OF this new title page for the first
time he objected TO the Latin motto Fiat
Lux" for the very good reason that that
wasn't the way " spell "luck,"