The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-02-02
SALARIES OF EDITORS.
Some of the Men who Have Drawn Prizes
In the JOurnnllstic Lottery.

In the Journalistic Lottery.
"I think every young man and
woman in this town wants to go into
journalism"
The speaker was one Of the best
known managing editors in New York
city, and he passed his hand over his
troubled brow as he spoke.
81 get about forty applications per
day from men and women who want to
become journalists and the proprietor
OF this paper gets twice as many more.
A young man whom / know to be
making 800 week in the dry goods
business came to me this morning and
offered to work for S25 per week as q
reporter. 1t makes me n tri1e weary.
how many blanks there are in this lot
terry and how few prizes drawn they
would quit"
This managing editor was in bad
humor, but he was all right as to facts.
There isn't a newspaper office in town
that isn't flooded with applications for
work. The prizes in New York jour-
nalism are few. You are reasonably
sure of drawing blank pretty nearly
every time. There are more than 1000
hard-working newspaper men in New
York City. Outside of their own Offices
and the New York Press Club, not a
dozen of them are known to the general
public. Those who are known outside
of New York could almost be counted
upon the fingers OF single hand.
The men who have drawn prizes can
not thems elves tell how they did it..
All they know is that they started at
the bottom and got there somehow.
Three of the brightest working news
paper men in New York to-day-and,
singularly enough, their proper names
begin with the same letter "C"--John
A. Cocl1erill, Amos Cummings, and
Foster Coates, started from the printer S
case. The latter, just about the time
when his trade was learned, and while
still a boy, was insulted by a superior,
and in an unconscious but happy mo-
ment, threw about pound of lead type
in his face. He was discharged, be-
came n reporter, and is now leading
managing editor.
When asked the other day how he
came to succeed he said laughingly:
81 hardly know, but j think that hand
full of type did it,"
This is not intended to encourage
printers devils to throw type around,
but as an illustration.
Charles A. Dana is perhaps the most
famous of the men who have drawn
prizes. AS editor of the Sun he draws
u salary OF S25, 900 per year and from
other sources his income is swelled to
about $150,000 per year, upon which
he manages TO live very comfortably,
aided by a French cook whose income
is bigger than that of Il Congressman.
Dana began on the New York Tribune
at Il salary of S12 per week. He started
in small way from town in the inte-
rior OF Ohio.
Joseph Pulitzer, of the World, is said
to clear $1,000 per day. He is not u
working journalist now, but not many
years ago he was an ordinary reporter
in st. Louis, and they say he was u
hustler, too.
Whitclaw Reid, as Il matter OF form,
draws salary OF some $4,000 per
year from the Tribune, but his income
from his stock in the paper is several
times this amount, and he is the SON
in-law of ID. o. Mills. These are about
the only editors-in-chief who are
known outside of New York. There
are three or four more who draw good
salaries, but they are not known to the
general public.
John A. Cockerillis is one of the work.
ing managing editors and newspaper
men and draws a salary of $4,000 per
year from the World and has an inter-
est in it besides. Cockerill was typo
and fought his way up from the ranks.
Amos Cummings is said to have an
income OF $4,000 per year. He was
a compositor and a private in the
Union army during the rebellion. and
he, too, came from the bottom up TO
where he is now.
Chester A. Lord, the managing editor
Of the Sun, has salary of $500 per
year. He started on a small paper in
,he interior of the State and had to
work hard for success. But he is little
Known outside of New York.
George +. Spinney, as managing
,ditor of the New York Times, has a
salary of about $1,000 per year. But
le has been Woodworking journalist
Ill his life and the salary is not SO
much. He, too, is little known outside |
)f New York.
Foster Coates, of the Mail and Ex-
press is one of the youngest but best |
Known of New York newspaper men,
md as has been before stated, he |
started as printers devil. He gets
lbout the same salary that the other |
editors do. There are prob
IDLY fifty or sixty men who are simply |
writer's like Blakely Hall and Julian
Ralph, who earn anywhere from $50 to |
$50 per week, but with the exception
If the men named and four or five moro |
hey are never heard or spoken of, ex-
,ept in their own homes and circles
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