The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-01-21
EAGER TO Be JOURNALISTS.
Newspaper Ofices Flooded with "eaue'''
,,,, =. Chance to Draw "a blank.

woman in this town wants TO go into jour
nalisIn."
Tho sneaker was one 81 the best known
MANAGING editors In New York city, ana he
,osse,i his hand over his troubled brow as ne
poke. A.,
from men and women who want 10 otNoiie
journalists. and the proprietor OF this paper
gets twice as many more 4 young man
whom know TO be making 500 per week
in the dry goods, bnsinesi came TO me anu
offered TO work for 80 PER week as r.
uortnr IL make. me a tribe weary II lhs@e
vounr men and women knew no" many
blanks there are In this lottery and DO" ie"
uri1,s drawn they would quit.
This managing editor was IN bal humol
hut he vas all right as o. facts There Ism
IA newspaper office In town that isDt hoodci
with applications for work Tho prizes ID
New York journalism arc few. on arc
reasonably sure OF drawing blank pretty
nearly every Tina There are more than
lOoO hard working newspaper men IN Ne"
York CITY Outside OF their own offices ana
the New York Press club not two dozen oil
them are known 20 the general public Those
who are well known outside Of New fofS
could almost he counted upon the fingers OF Il
single hand
The men who have trawn prizes cannot
themselves tell you how they did IT, All
they know IS that thcy started at the bottom
md cot there-sOmeh0W
This is not intended 10 -. ccN age printers
devils 10 throw type rr..9', but as an Illus
tration.
Charles a. Dana is, perhaps tho most ia
nous Of tho men who have drawn prizes. As
editor Of The sun be draws IA salary OF S23ON
per wear. and from other sources his income Is
sweiled TO about Slj0OO0per year, upon which
h. manages 20 live very comfortably, aided nY
n French cook. whose income income IS big
ger than that OF "a congressman. Dana started
ON The New York Tribune al "a salary Of sl2
per week He started in a small way from a
town in the interior OF Ohio Joseph Pulitzer.
Of The World. Is said 20 clear 5000 per day
He is not a working journalist now but not
many years ago be wns an ordinary reporter
in st Louis, and they say be was hustler,
too Whitelaw Reid, as a matter Of form,
draws O salary of some $1,000 per year from
The Tribune, but bis income from his stock
In the paper is several times this amount
John a. Cockeril IS one Of the working
managing editors and newspaper men, aud
lraws a salary Of $1,000 per year from
Tho World, and has an Interest IN 10
besides. Cockerill was a typo, and fought bis
vav up from the ranks Amos Cummings j.
said % have an income OF $1,000 FER year
He was IA compOsitor and private in the
Union army during the rebellion, and be.
too. came from the bottom up TO where he is
now. Chester A. Lord, the managing editor
Of The Sun. has a salary Of g. 800 per year.
He started on a small paper 90 the interior OF
this state. and had 20 work hard for Success
But he is little known outside Of New } cra
George f. Spinney, as managing editor Of
The New York Times, has a salary Of about
5000 per year. But he has been a hard
working Journalist all bis life, and the salary
Is rsf SO much lie, too, is little known out
side Of New York.
There are probably fifty OF sixty men who
arc simply writers, like Blakely Hall aud
Julian Ralph, who earn anywhere from -
10 $50 per week, but, with the exception OF
tho men named and four or five more they
are never beard or spoken Of except IN then
own homes and circles.
At the Fifth Avenue hotel the other nigh.
Archie Gunter, tire author OF Mr. Barnes
of New York. was lion io was more
courted than any one at the hotel and most
Of the young men around him are ambitious
90 become journalists II they knew OF
Gunters struggles up 10 tho time that he sue
csedod in getting "Mr Barnes, Of Ncw
York. before tho public they would hesitate
n they could 60 into any newspaper oiilci
and STE how long and bow bard men wori
for small salaries they would hesitate some
more. And IL they could go into some Other
places and sec some OF the wrecks that th'
tides of the years have cast up on the shora
II journalism, they would go into some Other
business. New York Mail and Express.