The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-17
FROM soMEwHERE ELSE.
Howarl, tn New York Graphic,

AS tn olden time all roads lead to Rome, so 1t may fairly be said that in these days all avenues of ambition lead to New York, where fortunes arc made and lost, and where, ultimately, success or failure secures one either a granite pile In Greenwood cemetary or a charity hole in the "Pantheon" de Potterl
 My eye tell on an editorial para graph In Brother pana's lumiuary this morning which reads as follows: {: "We congratulate our comic contcm- porary, tho Judge, on tho accession of the Hon, James Arkell of Canajoharie to its stafl ct writers"
 The city Is full of Arkells.
 They come not only from Canajo- harie, but from the wilds of tho west and tho milds of the cast, each and all intent on the great desideratum, for tune. lt Ia somewhat remarkable fact that the chiefs in every realm of endeavor artistic, literary, factual, ot whatever sort and name, are foreign, so far as nativity In New York City Is concerned. Nuwspaper llie is par ticularly significant in this direction. l can think of but two men born here who arc to-day known In journalism, One Is the proprietor of the New York Herdld, the other modesty for bids my mentioning,
 Not truel
 We'll, now lots sce.
 The most conspicuous hguro In modern journalism is Charlos A. Damn. editor of tho Now York lSim. He has been here 80 long and filled so lm- portant niche In affairs that the ordinary reader doubtless thinks of him always as a metropolitan, born and bred. He is of New England birth, education and tendencies --ag- gressive, defiant, critical, with fund of varied information from which to draw his facts, and of wide horlzoned experience from which to draw his weapons. Tho chief writers under him on the New York .S,tH, arc not to the manor born. Mir. Lord, tho man. aging editor, Is from tho east, Mir. Bogart, the city editor, from an interior county In Long Island. John Swinton, who for years was his most able lieutenant, k Scotch.
 Take the Heraici, in every sense iar in the van of tho journalism of to- day. whose equal can bc found nowhere on the face of the intelligent globe. With the exception of it's proprietor, who spends nine- tenths of his time abroad, there Ia no ono connected with it's literary part who claims New York as his placo of birth. John Russell Young comes from pcnnsyl- vania, Charles Nordhoh, think, from Denmark, Julius Chambers from some interior point, Dr. Hepworth from the east, Major Stark from the state, while England, Ireland, Scot land and Wales furnish more than q fair proportion of it's mbortlinates. No native of Ohio need be told that Whitelaw Reid of tho Tribune comes from the Buckeye state, and Brother Dorshcimer of the Stdr turns his eye on Thanksgiving day towards the roasts and tho delicacies of n well stocked harder, somewhere between the cities of Buffalo and Rochester. Mir. Pulitzer of the World was born in Hungary, and his llcutenants are drawn from various sections of the United States; Cockerlll, from several points In the west, Ballard Smith from Maine, Moses r. Handy from Virginia, and George W. Turner from Massachusetts.
 Robert Bonner K an Iriehman, Frank Leslie was an Englishman. Louis Keppler came from beyond the sea, and Mir. Arkell still calls home pretty place in the interior of the Empire state.
 or late years the reporters ranks have been somewhat recruited from New York and Brooklyn boys, but a majority come from other sections of the country and from other lands as well.
 Trinity college, Dublin, must be n rare old mother.
 There was time when nine In every ten HeraM reporters held a Trinity college, Dublin, dipioma, and scattered through Printing House square may Ike found, at any hour of the day or night, educated IrIshmen, proud of this particular alma mater.
 What Is the inference?
 The inference from this somew hat condition of affairs in journalism Is that field, which af- forded opportunity to James Gordon Bennett of Ireland, to Horace Greeley of New Hampshire, to Henry J. Ray mond of Vermont, to George Jones of Albany, and subsequently,, by the fertility of it's literary soil, invited names not 70 prominent, but endcav- ors quite as honest and industrious, still produces harvests uncquaiIed by those of any other, must bc good place not only for U~.shn. H