Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-06-23
There is evidently a species Of exbilar,t,o,

Beating Out a noble future from
The angel metal OF their lives
There is evidently species of exhilaratiou
in making and managing newspaper, espe-
cially in a large city like New York, where
there Is Just nov an amount of rivalry, jeal.
ously, backbiting and back talk calculated
TO give one an impression that whatever may
be their virtues in rother respects, Journalists
are not church going people A change is
also observable of late. not only in the
method Of conducting newspapers but In
their physiognomy. The staid old Evening
Post, which for 10, these many years, has
spread its wisdom on blanket sheet, Is now
shaped hike The Sun, Times and Tribune.
The equally ancient Commercial Advertiser
comes to You on Saturday in the form OF a
Quarto, and an extra sheet contains super.
excellent literary selections The Mail
and Express In its last issue Of
the week also changes its intellectual menu,
and after its perusal you feel as if you had
been feasting on the contents of a breezy
eclectic literally seasoned with scriptural
condiments Indeed, it may be said Of most
of the dailies, except The Herald, that they
give you a stronger sniff than formerly Of
the literary workshop.
The Herald, as of old, makes features Of
foreign specials and ship news, and its locals
are red hot with adiectives and sensational
headlines Since the advent of The New
York World under its present Management
and the spirited methods of Pulitzer, and
Cockerill, his first lieutenant, The Herald has
had powerful rival that has gripped the
old paper by the windpipe and given It q
worse shaking up" than Bennett now and
then administers to his own young men The
career of The World is remarkable. From
a paper that was foundering in ''the slough
OF despondn it went almost at bound to the
pinnacle of success. As your readers proba-
bly, know, its proprietor has purchased the
property opposite to The Sun office, known as
French's hotel, and in time, IL Is said, viii
erect the model newspaper establishment of
the United States 1t has bold and dashing
editors, and large corps OF copper bottomed.
brass riveted, double back action reporters,
who are equal TO any demand of first class
ability, ''get theren energy and highly de-
veloped spirit of romance that is never
weighed in the balance and found wanting.
The Wcrld has some eccentricities and man
ages to get into frequent rows, but it comes
example to the other fighters in the field
Among the latter Charles A. Dana, Of The
Sun, is probably the most belligerent When
Dana has grudge it stays by him he sits
up nights with it, and when he goes for
Pulitzer, there are no stuffed gloves in his
style or sparring for wind. His blows are
straight from the shoulder, and are meant 70
draw blood Occasionally. therefore, The
Sun is a CORY looking sheet Like locomo-
tive, it has tender, yclept The Even
ing Sun, which like its rival, The Evening
World, is as bright and CHEEKY youngster as
ever came into the journalistic field Its
and manager until he went TO
is Amos j. Cummings, a prince
among good fellows and after dinner takers
Merriman, another congressman, Is also out
of the same factory.
The Times and Tribune, always conserve
tive and eminently respectable, maintain
their old time excellence, and their Sunday
editions especially are models of good editor,
ship. Mr.. George Jones, the editor of The
Times, is at present enlarging his establish
nent and when completed it Is likely to be
the metropolitan headquarters of most of the
New York correspondents of the prominent
papers OF the country. II is to be fitted with
the latest electrical appliances for the procur-
ing and transmission of news, and it is alleged
will be far in advance OF anything Of the
kind in existence
The Star and The Press are comparatively
new papers, the first a strong administration
paper and the last an equally sturdy oppo-
nent. Both are ably edited. Hon Ben
Woods paper, The Evening News, is the
stand by of the east siders, and Manager Bar
tholemew presides over it to the queens
Tho NJ
Gordon Bennett's paper. continues its prosper
BUS career and is said to net the proprietor
handsome annual profit The Graphic, the
Illustrated afternoon paper, promises to make
.hings lively during the present campaign.
When the editors get tired of writing about
IN antagonist, like Puck and The Judge, they
will stand off and make faces at him
The best and brightest periodical Of its
kind in the country is The Journalist, which,
IS its name implies, represents the journal
SITS profession Its editor is Allan Forman
gentleman admirably fitted by long expert
snce for the work Of keeping everybody
posted as to what is going on in the news
paper world, and his subscribers range from
Dan to Beersheba Harpers, Frank Leslie's,
Puck and The Judge, as pictorial weeklies,
continue 10 hold their own in the struggle
for the mile post and spend a cord of money
for the freshest and best illustrations
Among the monthlies, Harper's, The Cen
Jury and Scribner's continue their literary
rivalry, and in their particular class viii
doubtless remain the leaders for long time
That which undoubtedly possesses the largest
in the United States, and with the
of lie Petit Journal, of Paris, the
argeSt in the world, is The Metropolitan
According TO the official receipts of the super
of the postoffice, its average
monthly circulation is ebout 5000 copies
These enormous figures are the result of the
ow price of subscription, which is only
twenty-five cents a year The magazine Is
not quite three years old, and the manager TO
whom this remarkable success is due is Col
J. A. Echols, formerly of Georgia, an ex
who carries three bullets in his
,ersoIlal corporosity as souvenirs of 6l -6a
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