Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-05
EAGER TO BE JOURNALISTS,
Newspaper Offices Flooded with APP
iicati0ns from Amateurs-Eew Draw

Newspaper Offices Flooded with APP
iicati0ns from Amateurs-Eew Draw
rizes.
New York Mail and Express: "I
think every young man and young
woman In this town wants to 90 into
journalism.
The speaker was one OF The best
known managing editions in New York
City, and he passed his hand over his
troubled brow as he spoke.
81 get forty applications per day from
men and women who want to become
Journalistic, aud the proprietor OF this
paper gets twice As many more. A
young man whom know to be making
800 per week in the dry goods business
came to me this morning and offered TO
work for $S25 per week as n reporter. II
makes me q trlhs weary. III these
young msp end young women knew how
many blanks there are IN this lottery
and how few prizes drawn they would
quit"
This managing editor was in O bad
hnmor, but he was all right as to facts.
There isn't newspaper Office In town
hat isn't flooded with applications for
work. The prizes in New York journal.
ism are few. You are reasonably sure
of drawing a blank pretty nearly every
| time. There are more than 1000 hard
| working newspaper men in New York
Oity. Outside OF their own offices and
the New York Press Club not two zen
OF them are known to the general public
Those who are well known ou tside OF New
York could almost be counted upon the
tisRers of a single hand.
/ The men who have drawn prizes can
not themselves tell you how they did it.
All they know is that they started OF
the bottom and got there-somehow
| This is not intended so encourage
printers devils to throw type around,
but as an illustration.
Charles A. Dana is, perhaps the most
famous one OF the haen who have drawn
prizes. AS editor of the Sun he draws
asslary of $25,000 per year, upon which
he manages to live very comfortably,
sidedsby French cook. whose income
! is biggsE than that OF e 66nSTsssni ali !.
Dana started on the New York Tribune
at salary OF $l2 per week. He started
IN small way from small town in the
interior of Ohio. Joseph Pulitzer, of
the World, Is said to clear $4,000 per
day. He is not working Journalist
now, but not many years ago he was an
ordinary reporter in st. Louis, and they
say he was hustler, too Whitelaw
Reid, es a matter of form, draws SAL
ary OF some $4,000 per per year from
the Tribune, but his income from bis
stock in the paper Is several timea this
amount. John A, Ccokeril), Is one OF
the working managing editors and news-
paper men, and draws salary OF SIS
600 a year from the World, and has On
interest IN it besides. Cockerill was q
typo and fought his way up from the
ranks. Amos Cummings is said to have
sn income OF Sl5 900 year, He was q
oompositor and private in the union
army during the rebellion, and he, too
came from the bottom up TO where be ie
, now. Chester A. Lord, tho managing
editor OF the Sun, has salary OF 81, 500
per year. He started on q small
paper in the interiof OF this state, and
had to work bard for success But he is
; little known outside OF New York. Geo.
f. Spinney, as managing editor OF the
Sew York Times, has salary OF about
81 900 per year. Bot he hes been hard
working journalist all his life, and the
salary is net SO muoh. He, too, is little
known outside of New York.
liners hFe ptoDaUly uIty OF slxty men
Who are simply writer's, likely Blnkely
Hall and Julian Ralph, who earn every
where FROM $50 to $3.50 per week, but
With the exception OF the men named
and four or five more they are never
heard or spoken of except in their own
homes and circles.
at the Fifth Avenue hotel the othe,
night, Archie Gunter, the author OF "Mr
Barnes OF New York" was lion. He
was more courted-tha any one at the
hotel, and most of the young men around
him are ambitious to become journalists S
Ii they knew Of Gunter's struggles up to
the time that he succeeded in getting
Mr.. Barnee OF New York" before the
public they will hesitate. II they could
go into any newspaper'cffice end see how
long and how hard men work for smal
salaries, they would hesitate some more
And ii they could go into some Other
places and see some Of the wrecks thai
; the tides of the years have cast up OF
the shores OF journalism, they would q
! into some other business.