The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-12
ONE WAY OF ACHIEVING SUCCESS.
The Literary Bureaus of New York
Hotels and How They are Operated.

| Hotels ana how Iney are operated
| NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-He vino is
thirsting for fame, let him come to
New York, put up at one of the leading
hotels and then get on good terms with the
clerk who has charge of the literary depart
ment. When / say fame l reckon that
newspaper notoriety counts for such. That
| being the case, the literary bureaus of the
| hotels have a system by which fame is easily
| ma ufactured These bureaus are new a.
! tachments to the machinery of well Tegu-
lated hotels, and, considering the time taey
| have been i'll operation, they have done re-
markable work. May man has gained
| by them. particularly politicians. and
conspicuous example among the latter class
| is Postmaster General Don NJ. Dickiuson.
What does hotel want with literary
| bureau. you will probably ask. Because it
| is tine best means possible of advert ing the
| hotel. One hotel having adopted it, the
others were compelled to do so. The genius
who invented this system is P. T. Wall,
himself one OF the best advertised men i'll
New York. He is connected with the
Hoffman house, and the system has become
known among hotel men as walls perfect
system" So far as known this is the only
city i'll which 1t is in operation. The CT
cumstances existing here are peculiarly f.
voIaole to it. In the first place, the New
\
ne .vs of the character usually picked up
about hotel corridors. Besides, this is tne
news center of the country, and correspond
eats OF out of town papers make specially
Of this matter.
The system had got in full working order
about the time of the inauguration of
President Cieveaa ID; Don NJ. Dickinson wa
then little known outside his safe, excepj
among tie leading politicians. For year
L. 4 -. - i.
every month without attracting a passing
no ice in the newspapers. Ali OF a sudden
he began to loom up as a national character.
Eve. lime he came TO New York some in
genious story was worked up so as to give
it news color which would act as an ex-
cuse for highly complimentary skeCch of
the Michigan statesman. 1t VI as owing h.
the efforts OF this bureau that Mr. Dickin-
sons name was mentioned for Vice Presi-
dent
The next most notable case is that of Ny
ron Bangs, whose name has recently ap-
peared in every democratic paper III the
land as the bosom friend Of the late Roscoe
Conkling, who had given $4,000 to the
democratic campaign fund. Two years ago
Mr.. Bangs name was hardly SHOWN outside
the little village in which he lives In Cen
trail New York. The literary bureau took
hold of him, and to-day he is one of the
most conspicuous figures about New York.
Nearly every newspaper has contained
something OF Col w. II. Wilson of Denver
as one of the leaders of the American parry
aud the owner of the birch rod which bent
beneath Stonewall JacksOn's weight as he
fell to the ground mortally wounded. He
was astonisned when he returned home and
found that his visit to New YorA had made
him famous. 1.-The people of my own
town." said the colonel, laughingly, "did
not know l was a great man until they
learned it by way of New York" "Col"
William H. Wade of st. Louis, now one OF
the est known men about the resorts here,
is seldom mentioned by the papers OF his
own city except when they copy what the
New Y ork papers say about him. Here he
is known "a a double millionaire and the
man who took the last drink with Jesse
James.
Francis, the democratic candidate for
governor of Missouri, i'll one visit here las,
winter achieved more Newspaper notoriety
than he ever did before, and he is now re-
ceiving the benefit of it, Gen. William p
Walsh, ex-mayor of Hot Springs, now
lives here, and no. a week passes that two
or three paragraphs do not appear in the
papers about him. 81 left Arkansas because
l was plain, everyday citizen" he says,
but by living here at a leading hotel, can
be one of the conspicuous men in the metro
polls of the country And SO it goes
us 1t likely 70 become general" said the
father of the system. repeating my question
YES, in all the large cities, for il pays thu
hotels here. The average man is fond of
newspaper nosoriety, only he may differ as
to the kind. II he lie much of a politician, il
is necessity TO him. OF course, we can
only have men written up that have some
standing at home, even il he is from a small
city and is mayor of it. Every man has had
some interesting event in life. A para
graph about it in New York paper is sure
to be copied in the local paper at his home.
and his neighbors conclude he must be n
man of some consequence to attract atten-
ton in New York This p'eases him ana
he becomes a drummer for our hotel and,
as a general thing, he will remain longe
and cone oftener than he would otherwise
HARRY WALKER.