The Arizona sentinel., 1889-12-07
room of an editor which is immediately

I adjoining the main entrance.
 There are a few American offices in which a person of the kind would be passed from hand to hand with supreme insolence, and would be fortunate if he escaped being kicked downstairs.
 At the Figaro such a person is well cOmed. There is an editor whose metier | it is to attend to this class. He oc- cupies an elegant apartment; he is courteous, he listens patiently to what each has to say, he invites them to be seated, and he is not sparing in thanks even to one whose communication is worthless. He knows his business thoroughly; he readily separates the wheat from the chaff of intelli- gence; his suavity pleases the public. The prompt admission to an editorial room f1atters the vanity of the people, and, as a result, considerable infOrma tion of value, bons mOts and the like, are collected in the course of the twenty four hours. What is still better is that people who have a real grievance are never snubbed by insolent subordinates, so that the very best of feeling is every where entertained for the journal.
 Opening from the gallery that encom- passes the Spanish patio, or rotunda, are halls that lead to the rooms of the va rious employees. These are all magnifi- gently furnished with rosewood furni- ture, rich tapestry, bronzes and marble statues. Some rooms contain a single writer, others two or three. The prin- cipal editor, Villemessant-since de- ceased-then occupied small room on the ground floor to the right of the prin- cipi entrance. There is also sunerhlv- fur l-aral rguEet. r0eu- tL which all rt- literary force meets once month There are bedrooms. bathrooms and breakfast and dining apartments, for majority of 0ns literary inches, cEa.p. che e5.tar-la-.-iaf. eat. sleep and live in the building
 There is also very large room whose walls are covered with glittering foils. Each day at two o'clock all the employees assemble in this hall and receive les sons from an expert in fencing. This .g. -i'o- = -l'i -ltory for the reason that each ua. of the staff is required to hold himself raady to call some one or be called. c- .nent'S notice, to the field Cf honor lrg hesitation in such a case would result in instant dismissal.
 0u have none of these in your coun-T9 queried my conductor as he pOInVou U0 the implements of Offense and defense on the walls.
 "No!'
 ''What do you employ in America?"
 thought of all the weapons in use in American editorial departments, from lr.sewhip- t0 fists. canes. hl"A~conS. boots and -huma-naIs and found my French unequal to g. lucid explanation. As a compromise which might mean every hing and nothing. looked fa-g ci9usIv mysterious and made no reply.
 "Ah.~ he said. .T understand. You to these things here" asra spoke, ha DIUug nv nIS AeI4 ,.IUU-->, o-- ---- hip and slapped that portion of the body where Yankee wears his pistol-pocket. I did not undeceive him.
 On it's literary staff at the time of my visit Le Figaro had one editor-in-chief, fourteen assistant editors, ten reporters, seventy men, which included compost tors, feeders and stereotypers. All this force was engaged in getting out news paper about one-half the size of an eight page paper in this country, and which contains not more than one-quarter as much matter.
 Each editor and reporter is furnished with 8 carnet-an ingenious protection against which ought to be introduced in Chicago. It consists of a small folio of morocco, bound with silver and shaped like a cigar-case. It con tains photograph of the employe in one compartment, and in the other written authorization of his position by his superior. The ordinary star can easily be initiated; the photograph of the owner prevents any thing like de- ception.
 H. de Villemessant, the redacteur, or editor-in-chief, was, next to Cassagnac, the most noted journalist in France. His position as second to the other was due to the fame of the latter as duel ist. AS successful administrative jour nalist VillemeSsant was the superior of all his French contemporaries. So high ly is he regarded that every issue of Le Figaro bears the statement in a conspic- uOus place at its head; ''H. de Vile messant, fondateur "
 He received me very graciously. He was then about ifty-five years of age, stout, with gray beard and hair, which bristled in every direction like the ex- tended gui11S of an pnraped DOrcuDine He had arEa, kindly eyes and face suggestive Of 5a.erm m.natEan. great .a..-- lectuality. genlal-ty and good l-rl=. His residence was just outside Paris, and of a ua}a-lal character. n. was