The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-09
NANDABOUT NEW YORK
WESTERN JOURNALISTS ARE THERE
IN PLENTY.
Adurat Ha1stead's Connection with .
Brooklyn Paper Suggests the Subject
Western Methods Certainly Dominate
metropolitan NewspsperdOn at Present
[specsl Correspoudenee.I |

Especial Correspondence.
NEW YORK, April 26-ROrace Greeley
wrote few things that have been quoted
more than his brief edmonton, ''Go westP'
There has been, however, especially among
journalists, in the tide Of humanity which
flows westward an eddy which has brought
western men back to the east. The latest
and most conspicuous craft on this eddy
is Murat Halstead, the brilliant Ohio
editor, who has just taken charge of The
Standard Union, of Brooklyn his career
as editor Of The Cincinnati Gazette has
been too prominent to require recapitula-
tion here, even if his recent political mis-
adventures had not refreshed the memory
Of the public so completely.
Field Marshall Halstead, though he has
chosen to take a position IN the suburbs
instead of in the metropolis, viii not find
himself lonely. "The woods are ful' Of
Western men in his own profession. In
the rank and fle-ernong the reporters
there are scores who have come here and
succeeded, to say nothing of those who
have failed, after a more or less successful
experience on the Western papers. And in
the higher ranks-among newspaper pro
prietors and managing editors-Jhere is q
goodly sprinkling Of men who were fairly to
be called famous before they came here.
The most conspicuous among them is
Joseph Pulitzer, the editor and owner of
The World. No man Of this generation of
workers has done 50 much to modify the
methods of New York journalism as he.
His rise in life, from the time he was pow
ertJ stricken immigrant till he bought Ths
Post-Dispatch, has been often told-gener-
ally by bis enemies. Mr.. Pulitzer has a
talent for making enemies, but the bitterest
among them never ventures to dispute his
ability. The methods he adopted, or rather
transplanted from ST. Louis, when he
bought the moribund World have resulted
in success And though these methods are
sensational in the extreme, and are often
denounced as scandalous, they have been
to some extent copied by nearly all his
competitors.
Col John A. CockoFilI, who was Mr..
Pulitzer's chief aid in ST. Louis, came hers
with him and still retains the position Of
managing editor of The World, though he
has by no means the relative power he had
on the staff of The Post-Dispatch. Col
Cockerill's talent is directly opposite to Mr..
Puhtzer's. He can hardly talk to a stran ger
five minutes without making a friend.
He combines the sqaviter in modo with the
fortiter in re to remarkable extent, though
they say be can be very terrible when he Is
enraged. He is not, | suspect, fully Ia
harmony with all bhe methods of The
World, bat he is thoroughly loyal to his
paper and his leader, and he Is credited
with doing much In the way Of wholesome
restraint. He is an extraordinarily busy
man, but finds time for play, also. His
leisure time is mostly devoted to the Press
club, almost every member Of which is his
stanch a6herent. So long as he viii con-
tinue TO consent to be president no other
member is likely to be elected to that posi-
ton.
In the same Office is that dashing Ken
tuckan, Ballard Smith, who came from
The Louisville CoUrierJournal a dozen
years ago to be city editor Of The World,
which Was then edited by William Henry
Hurlbert. The paper was then poor
thing, with little standing and less capital,
but Smith made it the best local newspaper
in town, despite the fact that The World
paid its reporters the least Of any morning
daily here. He knew how TO select men.
He left The World, after a time, TO become
managing editor of The Sun, and later
served as corPespo@lent and as city editor
Of The Herald. He is a man after mr. Pu-
htzer's own heart, and early joined the
new World staff. His latest achievement,
the first announcement by cable Of the par
ticulars OF the City Of Paris accident, was
characteristic. Socially heis d most charm
ing friend or an unrelenting enemy.
An equally delightful man socially and
one of the clever writers of the metropolis
is Mr.. A. +. Duneka, who has just left The
World staff to become editor Of the Sun
day edition OF The Press. He came from
Kentucky originally, and served on The
Louisville Courier-Journal and The Chica-
go Times before comin&3o New York seven
years ago.
Horace Greeley's successor, Whitelaw
Reid, need only be mentioned, for his his
tory of late years has been extremely con-
spicuous. He was a struggling reporteron
some obscure country paper in Ohio before
he came 10 New York.
One paper-I almost said newspapers
run by western men exclusively. Texas
Siftings itself was trsnsplsuted from Aus
tin, Tex, to New York, and J. Annoy |
Knox and Alex. Z. Sweet, its owners, came /
with it. Being satisfied that they could /
earn moro money with the paper than I
there is in New York, they have estao- (
lished a London edition. They have, like |
the evil spirit in the parable, associated |
with them one who is seven times more so /
A Miner Griswold, the Fat Contributor |
and the trio are now buying up Broad /
way.
The list Is a long one, and can't begin i
to enumerate all the western journalists /
here, but two OF them can hardly be passed /
over. J. 3. BEcCorm ack was for a long l
time the sporting and dramatic editor Of /
The Ci-czz-zzs Enq-ire-, and his letters, /
signed Macon" that first appeared In that 1
paper, soon became d prominent feature IN /
nearly all the leading sporting papers Of /
the country. He, too, came % New York 4
and became sporting editor Of The Evening I
sun. and though lie ia now II theatrical
work, and Is travelling, lie Is expected back
The other Of the two Is John Brisbane
Walker. Ar. Walker vas little known In
New York vvhan be came here, about =
year and q half ago, but soon after bis ~
-ival it began 20 be rrmoref that he was a
Denver u1illcnairs, and, further. that be
had invested q c1-s.6 araLle sum 10 the
purchase Of Ihe Cosmopolitan Magazine,
which was then n Loe hsn6s of tie sAeri6
,vexT other week. Lr. Walker bas the
courage q Eis opinions, ana is spending
money literally OF h.s rAgSzi7e, and
What does not always foilo--is making
yood ore Whether It pays CT VII pay TIA
,uidnuacs are Ecil discussing
Beyond question, t6is fnf1a4nn cf west
~ methclx AZ ! western t5oIgat has ID
iuenced New YORK Journalism Vsry great
= Any cns wko VII compare the news