Telegram-herald., 1889-05-08

Mr hsid's departure for Paris viii com
plsts trio 0f eminent news
paper editors sad proprletors
N 40 prefer foreign lands % their own.
Mr. Bennett. OF the Herald, IS one OF
these, aud My. Pulitzer. II the World, the
other L. VIII interest all OF Mr.. Pulitzer's
friends 20 he etr that ne is rapidly regsiuine
hIs health and promises 10 return IN the
Fail 20 this country FOR a lonz stay. lie
wlil run over here Ia tcs Summer II
his health permits. but he viii not
bring the latest addition % Ms family,
small girl who gives promise of being As
beautiful as her mother.
It is an interesting bit OF gossip on News
paper Row, too, that Mr. Pultzer's right
hand man Colonel John 4. Cockerell,
who u IN receipt OF 4 salnry OF SO go a
year las about made up bis mind 10 ac-
eept a nomination for Congress next Fall.
Colonel Cockereu "a q great social, polIti-
cal. aud b1sineSs success here, and just
now IS credited with being a power behind
Tammany Hall. and Tammany's young
Mayor, and II Is said 10 be his ambition TO
shine Ia the halls of Congress. With the
example Of Mr. Pulitzer before him, and
also that OF Amos J. Cummings and a dozen
other newspaper men the news IS really
astounding u his friends.
One u an who does not want good posi-
ti0n, and who believes that the editor OF a
great newspaper is superior 10 any Con
gresham or politician is this Chesterfield
ian gentleman with closely cropped iron
grey whiskers who has just stepped into
his carriage in front Of the Mail and ET-
press Office. II is Colonel Eliot 4. Shep-
ard
lie says: II consider my position as
editor Of great newspaper better and
more powerful than that Of any politician.
Why, my dear sir" he said Il make presi-
dents and congressman and politicians. J"
This is very true for Il Is doubtful whether
the Republicans could have carried New
York State without Colonel Shepard's aid
{ in the last campaign.
/ These two rotund little fellows almost
as broad as they are long who come swing
( ing down Park Row together, elbow 10
/ elbow as close as Siamese twins, are Rus
/ sell Harrison, son OF the President, and
/ William J. Arkell the proprietor of Judge
! and FTGnk LeSlte'S newspaper. They are
| both newspaper men, and seem 10 be IN
I the way ot making a great deal Of money.
Z Young krkell has made his mark IN the
/ business. Russell Harrison has his TO make.
/ He seems 10 be a sharp, shrewd fellow,
! not a. all couceited aud gives no evidence
/ of what comedian Discey has euphemist-
( ically called big head"
/ was on the platform OF the Chicago
/ Convention at the moment when the an
nouncement was made that Benjamin
/ Harrison, of Indiana, had been nominated
I for President Russell Harrison WAS lean
/ ing over ny shoulder watching the tally
/ sheet before me. During the week preced-
I ing that happy moment for him we had be-
| come very intimate. / hurried 10 con-
| gratulate him, and he looked me fairly in
| the face aud said: Il am glad Of it. am
q glad father has been nominated. l think
F he viii be elected, but there is nothing IN
politics for me. Lam distinctly business
man. All my tastes ana lncunauons run
that way. AS soon rs | can Will leave
| here and 90 back TO my own home in Mon
I tana. Ny future is there. | have news
/ paper there, and the prettiest woman in al
/ that big State calls me husband. l shall
/ not let my fathers success turn my head
| And he hasn't He has become one o.
( the best known visitors IN New ork, anc
( goes in and out OF the big newspaper Office
at ali times OF the day and night. H'
/ knows all the editors and reporters wei
/ enough 10 slap them on the shoulders and
/ call them by thtir first names. He Is fre
| quently seen lunching ~ the Press Club
aud is indeed ono Of the most democratic
OF men That bis business partnershi
with young Arkell will be big finsncia
succ.ss there is no question. Arkell Is I
/ money-msk.r. Hespent s2oo, 900 N making
/ Judge success Heknew that il REG quireS
money to make money. His principal as
..stsnt, Mr. Gillian, the cartoonist. Z
/ whom Mr. Arkell pays 800 week. tn
largest salary perhaps ever paid to 81
Young an artist. Is 20 some degree respon
/ sibie for this success. aud he il 20 be re
w,rded further, for H. ia whispered that b
il to marrv Arkell's beautiful sister abou