Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-23
ECHOES OF NEW YORK
SOME REASONS WHY JOURNALISTS
ABANDON THEIR PROFESSION.

salsried JournsIists-Another Native
PIaywrights-An Inquiry for the Old
Journalists who Depend on Salaries
Especial CorrsspondenceI
NEw YORK, May 17-David D. LLOYD or
DemOrest Lloyd, as he used TO write his
name, has just finished a play founded ON
our revolutionary period for WaIlack's thea
tire, and it has been accepted with the e1-
pectation of producing 1t there next season
lie Is the author Of ~For Congress, which he
wrote some years ago. Lloyd is, or has been,
a journalist by profession, having been for
ten or twelve years on the staff of The
Tribune, where he wore himself out with
work, and went abroad for bis health. WhiIs
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
he seems to have a decided vocation.
For Congress" was done at leisure hours.
while acting as Washington correspondent
OF The Tribune. II Is, as he is aware, little
more than a sketch; but he wrote it specially
Tor Raymond, who wished to be the central
and absorbing figure, as be has been He has
had such success with the piece that he has
already paid the author s8, ,OOe for it, and has
engaged him to do another, now nearly COM
pleted- Lloyd has commissions for several
other plays, 30 that he is likely to have his
hands full for some years. The revolutionary
drama Is said TO be strong and interesting,
and Lester Wallack feels confident Of Its cor
dial acceptance by the public. LIoyd'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 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 a hard worker, too, since
childhood, having gone from Portland, Ne.
when only 5, to Boston, where he was an
errand boy in a grocery After becoming
printer, having been educated at Brown
university, and having had various news
paper exneriences, he, in company with his |
brother James. established The Express He
retained his editorial and proprietary inter
est for forty years, retiring with a hand |
some independence II he had been on a |
salary in the same offce-salaries were mig |
gardly there-he would have been dead, in |
all probability, before middle age
George Jones, of The Times. is about n, |
and has Ten thrty-five years intimately |
connected with the management OF the |
paper. He has not for good while been in |
robust hellth but his position and means |
have enabled him to rest when rest wa>
needed, and, cons quently, he is full of affair, |
at a ripe old age
Parke Goodwin is ~. and still young, DESPITE |
rather delicate health, partly causei by an
exec of sumptuous dinners He has been A
writer and literary laborer for more than
forty years; but he has had an interest in
The Evening Post and is now one of the pro-
prietors of The Commercial Advertiser.
William Cullen Bryant, his father-in-law.
lasted nearly eighty four years. and wouli
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 a Cen
tury James Gordon Bennett, founder of
The Herald lired TO be almost -, notwith-
standing his tough struggle with fortune un-
til he was beyond ~ George Ripley, one Of
the first stockholders in The Tribune, was
nearly an octogenarian when he passed
away, with mind undimmed and perfect
freshness Of heart. from an acute disorder
Charles A Dana Of The Sun at 81 is as Wig
orous and alert as he was twenty years since.
de has always been a journalistic proprietor
Other instances might be cited, if necessary,
to show the preventative character Of
financial Independence among newspaper
laborers Where are the old men in Jour
nalism who have depended on salarisSf
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, ever r-waged
battle for existence.
As l 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 Mime. RestelL The house, on account
Of her horrid trade, was a 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
10 justice II convicted she would have been
sent to state prison for a 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
rial doubtless helped her business immeas-
lrably, and she therefore rejoiced at 1t, for
ler one object in life was monetary accumu-
alton After that she bought through an
agent sworn to secresy, several lots in Fifth
avenue, and on one Of these she put
up a big, faring bsuse, and made it
ler home. 1t was hen very far up
own, and for years stood solitary and
lone No one would Bay the adjoining lots,
# course, and they long stood vacant as if
hey had been infected ground Finally,
when apartment houses began to be the
ashton, shrewd operator purchased three
# her lots and erected thereon a handsome
louse of that kind He rightly estimated
hat a number of genteel families would live
where a single family would not; they would
hink that by dividing the moral response
'ility il would cease to affect any OF them
The Osborne, as it was named, was soon
He'd, because the neighborhood was very
and the tenants tried to ignore
he proximity Of the unsavory madame.
hey were delighted, however, when they
earned that from some morbid fear Of con- I
ricfinn for har Grim aha had IN har throat