Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-19
LITERARY FELLOWS.
Some OF Thcm Make Pretty Fair LIying
on the Whole.

some OF Them Make Pretty Fair Liying
on the Whole.
AS rule, writers, it Is said, are not
overpaid, yet there are number OF
literary fellows in town who have no
cause to rail at Lady Fortune. Ac-
cordlng to estimates made by nine New
York publishers. it appears that the
best paid writers are those whose lots
are cast in Gotham. Edgar Saltus. who
has fortune. and is, therefore, not
compelled to'writc much, receives not
less than $4,000 annually for his
stories. He has received 500 for
sketch OF few hundred words.
whether 1t is the merit of his work
solely or that combined with the name
already won, he has no difficulty in
selling his stories to good pecuniary
advantage. Saltus' friend, the other
Edgar, Mr.. Fawcett, makes about
$4,000 year. but has to write con-
stantly and industriously. He is al
ways at it, and sometimes his stories
60 the way of the waste basket
Brander Mathews income is put at
$4,000 year. w. d. Howells earns
little moro than $4,000, in addition to
the sum OF $4,000 from the Harpers.
Richard II. Stoddard receives $1,000 a
year from Colonel Shepard's religious
afternoon paper, while he earns about
the same sum by outside work. Richard
Watson elders salary as editor OF the
Century is $4,000 a year, which is
considered good pay for the work done.
Bill Nye receives 500 a week for his
humorous matter printed in the World
and other papers, while his pay as a
lecturer is a little more than 5000 a
week. He manages to be funny at the
rate OF $4,000 year as reward.
Nye is very saving, and If he doesn't
exhaust himself will be wealthy some
day, although he was poor man when
he came East and settled on Staten
Island
John Habberton. who made fortune
by writing "Helen's Babies" has an
income OF about $4,000, one-half Of
which James Gordon Bennett pays him.
Z. p Roe was making $4,000 ayear
when he died, and would have in
creased that sum had he lived and con-
tinued to grow in popular favor. Mark
Twain's income is put at $50. 900 year,
although much of that is the result of
publishing his own works. M. W. Ha-
zeltine, who writes the long book re-
views for the Sun, receives for them
5000 week, or $4,000 year. Joseph
Howard makes not less than $4,000 a
year, and spends every cent of it. He
says that a few years ago he made as
high as 100000 in twelve months.
Colonel John A. Cockerill receives
about 800, 900 a year, and he is worth
it to any newspaper. The newspaper
editors are not as well paid as the pub
fishers. 1t is said that Mr.. Dana's sal
airy as an editor was $4,000, although,
OF course. his income from his stock in
the Sun is much larger than that.
The income of James Gordon Ben
nett, who doesn't write line, is sew
eral hundred thousand year, while
Joseph Pulitzer is credited with having
increased his fortune by nearly mil
lion of dollars last year. These dc
not, however, get pay for the amount
of matter written.
Among the fiction writer's, Amelia
Rives-C Chandler and Frank Stockton
probably command the highest figures
although the former is going somewhat
out OF fashion.
| A. C. Gunter has made thousands
from the sale of his last three books
and has just caught the fever for wri
ting. The writer's OF the lola style o
literature received more than their re
ward. The author of the "Grisette, '
a rather shady story recently published
hopes to run his income above thu
5000 mark. The man who wrot,
"A Marriage Below Zero is close afte
him. The New York Sun pays three
of its correspondents more than s., 00'
a year. Arthur Brisbane receives,
believe, $3.50 q week. while BlalSel.
Hall is just as literally paid. Y
Cor. Baltimore American.