The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-03-16


about S250-or on space and time, as is the
rule in New York, the schedule would be
about as follows.
City stall Of twelve reporters, writing
f0rty-two columns in six days.
SPACE. TINE
At g. por column. $40 40 30o per hour. .S72
40 81 ucr column. 2j2 At Doe per hour. gu
Al s. per column. 20i At zoe per hour.....i20
This makes the reporters cost FOR six days
from Sos2 20 Si4 The time average is put
at twenty hours per week per man. Is brings
up the home Office for the matter in the pa
per from Ss97 10 sl,2l9 per week
Several Of the New York papers pay IS
Der column for regular news. $40 10 go for
special matter and anywhere up in the hum
dreds for "beats
The Washington Office may require ono or
two men. II one. how'll get from s35 % S0O
The second viii cost about S2J 20 $50, giving
the expense from SIS to 800 per week.
The Albany Office viii cost nearly, If not
quito, as much more. Other correspondents
are generally paid on space for their work.
Twonty-iour columns Of telegraph viii con-
si.t, il a news agency franchise is obtained,
OF sixteen columns from this ana eight from
specials, the latter costing-for six columns,
SIS; for seven columns, $50; for five columns,
$40.
Tho press association franchises and SER
vices vary in cost in almost every city i'm The
Union. I'm New York the Associated Press
franchise is valued, for a morning paper, no
S2jO,OOO; FOR an evening paper, at something
over $4,000 This is membership in the
Associated Press, and thohgures are obtained
from The World and Mail and Express Tine
United Press service costs about $500 a week.
The telegraph tolls on tho twenty columns
Of telegraph from Washington. Albany and
elsewhere would amount o. about Sos per
week This expense would rarely Doe dimIn-
ished and often increased In the case Of im-
portant happenings % which extra space
would be given
Foreign matter always comes from ogen-
cies M The case Of cheap paper, except that
which IS rewritten from the larger afternoon
papers II is not uncommon, however. o.
have a foreign correspondent who mails a
lester each week. For this he may be paid
anywhere from $40 to 500 in the case Of a
resident correspondent.
In the business Office the expenses would Toe
about as follows:
Manager .....-..... o.. Gee. S3j 20 So
Advertisement solicitor. .............. o0to BID
E00kkeercr ............... ............. 10 20 fV
Two clerks Observation-Disclosures. aJtO SD
Total. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SID
A resume Of the whole expense. side Of
the mechanical department, including the
rent, which may vary from for O floor at
S3j week % q building at $500, would make
the pay roll Of four page daily foot up 20
something between 81. 100 and g. 500 q week.
This is leaving the Sunday paper ont of the
question and making no allowance for paper
ink, presswork, cost Of plant or composition
items ON which it is impossible TO make
even approximate figures. The paper may
be printed on a single perfecting press cost
ing about Sis,0 600, or it may require two or
three $4,000 presses. The paper may cost
anywhere from S25 70 $500 q day, accord
ing 20 the edition printed. Rates Of compo-
sition vary I'm every city In the Union and
other expenses are larger or smaller, as the
methods Of circulation, the hberality or
economy Of the management and the style Of
the paper may dictate.
1t is impossible 70 give any exact figaro
without knowing an about tine city in which
n =
and conditions. DO would no doubt, DE pos
sDle % run a daily paper in some sections
on four OF five hundred dollars a week, and
from that sum 20 The Worlds $500 is
big iump-ospecially when pay day comes.
have endoavOredtO present fair average,
not SO much for the instruction of newspaper
men as for the great outside public who have
very little idea of the details involved iu the
publication of newspaper and tho expenli-
tnre OF hard cash required bcforoit is possible
To put a paper fairly ON It's feet.
II 10 makes single ambitious individual
pause 70 calculate tho cost before he sinks his
hard cash in this most uncertain OF bu-i-
nosses. or. better still, II 10 brings home t0tho
renders an idea of the expense and labor 70
which tho editor and publisher is put and
makes the borrower a subscriber and tho DO
luQucnt pay up tho object Of this article
will be accomplished. ALLAN foAMAN.