Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-13
NEW YORK LETTER.
SUCCESSFUL HEwspAPER-xEu OF TIE
GREAT CITY.
rortunc Won by the Leading Daily Pa
ptrs Wealth from tho Ink-sOttle--
couyiship and Marriage Of an
AuthsrssS.
fcoro.ponsenco Of Tue Richmond Dispatch.

NEW YoeR, January II, 1889.
The differing prizes tint may be won
bv ambitious writers for the New York
rapers Can he seen to-day by looking
into tue embellisbed quarters OF thu
leading editors Of the city. Almost all
the men who now enjoy fame and for
tune hefeab0ut as masters OF the press
lave risen from the ranks of poorly
paid scrihnlers. whose notes are 40 often
Sccouutod ia long metre and short.
6%eut1ce 20 say that the proportion OF
our aeuirants IN this vocation who secure
success Is as great as It IL IN any other
line Of life whatever, including even
stock robbery. land speculation, rail-
road-bnilding, or tenement-raislDg. /
ON aware that tins assertion will be chal-
longod but the more fully 1t Is looked
into hv thOsv who know the peer Of
New ora tie mole surely will 1t stand
beyond dispute.
Take bat Few facts Ike unto many
Others Of the kind that might be given.
REID, OODETS, ASD DANA.
knew Whitelsw Reid when, in his
maturity. he lived on a small stipend a.
tine Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati r0-cNc TO IS now owner
of tnc low York Tr,bUoo, proprietor OF
ifs "fall Tower" in City-h Hall Square,
ana millionaire who dwells IN a palace
that belongs TO himself
knew h. J.. GOdlin. a man Of Irish
birth. when he drew bis pittance Of $50
n week ns q writer for the Times. He is
uow the proprietary editor Of the New
York IucafHU Past. aud enjoys an in
come from 10 higher than that of most Of
the lords In Ireland.
first saw Charles A. Dana when he
was writer on tho 7rjbUHc under
Horace Greeley. lie is now the dictator
Of the New } ork Sun. the owner OF a
lovely island on the sound, whore he re-
fiies in the summer the proprietor Of n
city mansion in which he lives ike 4
prince, and had the happiness afew days
ago of interviewing the Pope in the Vat
icon.
MADE MS MILLIONS.
know Joseph Pulitzer ten or twelve
years agO when ho was getting but a
limited reward for the manuscripts he
f.utto the Sun. lie isuow the owner Of
Tie tcw York U'1r'9, q millionaire
many times over aud the author OF
newspapor projects that are he8ildering
in their range and magnitude. From
tine time he vas private colder in the
Union army tai be became q writer for
tho press aud up to this time hls career
las been lively
+ knew his younger brother, Albert
Pulitzer, when he was clever reporter
for the Rrr0IG. lie lsnow the owner of
the sew York NoHjnV JoWH0i which
has enriched him far beyond the hopes
That Grew Ia ms brain ten years ago.
WEALTH BEYOND Ills DREAMS.
know George Jones. who. however,
did not boast Of bis manuscripts when nc
lad no notion of the fortune that has
GRABBED him TO raise the grandest news
PAPER cdI,icc in the world. In the New
ork Times Zee now possesses wealth be-
yoni the dreams of ayarlce.
Two years ago Robert T.. Potter was a
writer who had no conception Of what
che lastreyolVng suus were 30 bring
forth for him. iIe is now owner and
editor of the New York Press, daily
paper that bears The impressed power
Jul hand. and is surely at the beginning
of a. great career
Then thcreis Oswald OtteudOrier, who
formerly made lean bills as q reporter,
lut who is now tine owner OF the New
York Af1ais /ciuHp, through his mar
Iuoe % tho wealthy widow OF its
founder.
fsto the New York Hcraid, that came
60 rs present aGiUcnt proprietor 10y IN
h,ulaucc from hs energetic slrc, who
began ms career III New York AS poor
slave OF the pen.
TulI THEIR lSE BOTTLE.
Here. then, isa roll Of the names Of
thc cdItors who are today at the head Of
the leading daily papers Of this city. II
shows that nearly all of these papers are
low owned by men vino were once, and
some Il them not ioue ago. "mero scrlb-
l.cr.. au>ousIy looking for the mesns
ul hfe iu their lnh-bOttlcs. Surely they
lnye won prizes rs ghtterng as any to
le seen ma TINS great city. Surely the
editorial business here offers attractions
t. its deyot,es not lcs8alurng than those
oi any other surely there IS fair hope
Uf success for the young writers who
artiyc to secure wealth and power
through the press Surely it is not
Neccss,ry for every Mg-Wigged father
VINO ls ambitious al wealth for his pos
tcrt, Go shake bis head when hls son
tl,s 90 cultivate literary tsste The
press, at least IN this locality, has been ~
Iu'd-mme. with veins that yielded rich
returns 20 tho hands Of many endowed
with the skill 10 work its machinery.
do not know the press OF all our
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orS hut 1t is probable that the forego-
jag sentence is not less applicable else
Vn,ro than it il here.
And Vet there Is need OF new daily
papers i'm tins city, which /, growing like
mushroom. hut / must leave that fact
q he found ont by those who would like
s. provide them.
GOOD LUCK.
As matter Of fact, fortune does not
wait upon all the men, or a 1.-THE of them,
who Try their hand in the daily press OF
New ork. In past years have known,
nlss, hog many journalists the peers IN
ability Of any OF those here spoken of
VINO hayo h,cu shipwrcched 10y their
newspaper ambition. Some of them
uitd nom grief, and others yet live IN
despair. Ii wero hard to ten what are
victorious qualities tor an eiitor-and l
am not composing an essay on that sub
lect but toe grecnhoru may rs well
know that there are several of them, as
J shown by tho records OF this city. 1t
j. not theory, hut rather experience 10y
which We are con Ionted, Then. beside
al the rest, as Napoleon once said,
"atter every preparation 70 secure vie
tory has been made, one other thing is
needed, and that Is good luck.
THe WEE6IICs.
What has been here said Of the dailies
al the city might Toe applied 10 a large
proportion of It's wcekhes. could name
iir more than q hundred of oar weekly
papers that gre minis TO their owners,