New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-17
SOME LIES Nailed ar LAST.

Firm The Detroit Free Press.
All this talk about the country editor being poor,
harC-lp. down-troddcn coyote IS absurdiy which
has outlived its day. Orpheus C. Kerr or Artemus
Ward or some of tho other pioneer funny fellows,
started the stories about editors taking wood and hay
and vegetables subscription and OF having TO live
between bread and cheese and the public accepted
them as facts Tor years past the country editor has
been fondly supposed to be crying Cor more cOpy'
and to be his last sheet of paper and last shilling,
and presume my article Will be great disapp0nt-
ment 10 the masses.
supposed that the devl7 sweeps out and does other
dirty work for year or two before promotion On tho
first morning l reached the olcc told TO tako
things easy until the old man came down. vert
the bank for enc OF the comps and deposited
SO 600 for him. cleaned up The foremans 5000 diamond,
and busted off the plush chair and opened box Of
Henry Cays for the pressman, and by that time Tho
editor came down in his carriage. lie ordered his
coachman to give me an airing, and when returned
he benevoently observed:
swell, Henry you and 1 arc to run " The Cazette'
columns of crspy editorial Per week, and If you want
salary will be $50 per week for the first six months,
and Won viii occupy one OF the spare chambers In my
residenee-the blue and gold onc'
His residence was valued at $4,000, filed with
the richest OF furniture His vito thought nothing
of giving a waswoman a silk dress which cost 500
and had splash of mud on II. No tramp went away
with less than 800 in cash. Their Ice cream for ono
cost ~ 400 IS, and they were astonished at
the smallncss of the bill one of the rooms known
as the coupon room" young man with very dell
round in this room shcarng OF coupons from bonds,
and from November l TO December 81 he had 10 hayo
TWO ASSISTANTS.
While the bona fde circulation of the Gazette
was close on 10 100000, the editor kept tho figures
at l,400 in order TO avoid rush OF patronage. no
paid six of the largest merchants I'm the city $1,000
per year each advertise with us, their adj
Vertising would make extra work for the cOmpOsito
What advertising we did do was very heightened, aud
charged al the rate OF 81 per word The salaries
paid to employees not as large as in some Offices,
because we could not afford It, but every one who
had been on The Gazette two years had saved SUM-
cient money TO buy house and lot and horse and
carriage
to be hard mp but once. The proprietor bought
and railroad in New England az about the same Tine
raise about - 100000 I'm day. We raised it, but
had TO chip I'm fifteen cent, from my private finances
To make up the sum. II was only week later thar
tho wife OF the proprietor paid $4,000 I'm cash for
blue faced sun flower for corner OF the lack yard ana
the only remark made by her husDanu as nc loarno"
OF the purchase .,
Why my dear, you should have TAKEN PAR Vi
them 81 900. -,
In the seventh year Of my stay "Thc Gazette,
changed hands There the usual notice OF sherln
sale and of the plant being bid IN By young ara
entcrprsing man who would seek 10 make IL pOpuin
local organ, etc, but that all tar Tho proprietor
sold 10 open chen Of National banhs eNteInIne
from Portland TO Galveston aud TO put I'VE new III.
OF ocean steamers into operation can rhen1SJI. M.
the day he left town. | was called upon 10 STE w.,
wifes jewery TO the special car chartered Tor H. Lne
seven large dry-gOods boxes tul, and pech W
SO of diamonds which could not be crowded IN "ei'
brought along I'm a coffee sack.