The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-15
4 NEWSPAPER RACE
Rivalry Of the Continent" and
the "Rec0rder."
CHAMPION OF THE OTHER HALF
Custard Pie Houses-The Water Color Fashion
The schoolmasters CIub-Other
General Notes.
CHAMPION OF THE OTHER HALF

The sch00lmasters CIub-OGher
General Notes.
NEW YORK, March II, 1S91.-TSpecisl |
correspondence of THE HERALD. New |
York people are keenly interested just now
in the rivalry Of the two new papers, the |
Recorder and Continent. TIE Continent was |
first in the field and the Recorder hurried up
its preparations and came in soon after;
before it was quite ready, apparently, for
the Sunday edition hasn't yet been pub
lished.
Both papers are very interesting as ex-
periments The Continent has tiny sheet
noe larger than page OF Puck. It's pub
Usher, Frank A. Munsey, IS more of a busi-
ness man than journalist. He has abso
lutte confidence in himself and, as one OF his
editors puts it, failure is afraid of him"
He hasn't so much money as the Recorder
people, but perhaps C. p. Huntington is
backing him.
The Recorder is perhaps the only instance
of newspaper born full grown. 1t was a
complete newspaper on the day it was first
published. The best newspaper men have
been hired from other papers by good sal
aries and money has been spent literally in
advertising. 1t is said thatth men back of
it-John H. Starin, Duke, the cigarette
man, Joseph P. Knapp, Brewer Ehret and
few others have put up million to start
the paper and are prepared not to pull long
faces If they lose it. They probably won't
A million will run the paper at q loss good
! ,,,l,.fa ~ I,r-. hot firrc 1.,bn lrpnyrc2
| The Continent is being written largely by
the staff Of Munseys Weeblv which looks
like mistake, but perhaps Isn't. Howard
Carroll, Starin's son in law, has been
placed in full control of the Recorder and
oversees every detail, even to the selection
of the funny cuts On thellast page. He is
middle aged man Of medium height with
! comfortably plump body and countenance,
hair more than little grey and a keen eye.
John w. Keller, the managing editor. is big
and bearded, has been a dramatic critic and
editorial writer and has written plays,
| Tangled Lives among others Both men
| have plenty OF experience and ability, and
they know exactly what they are trying to
do
THE SCHOLARSHIPS CLUB.
The new Schoolmasters' club is bound in
time to be variously nicknamed as The
Ruler,' THE Weeping Willow" 1.-The
Birch,' 1.-THE Ferule," 'The Tear Com
peller" 'The Educational Bludgeon." but
up to date the ferociou3 suggestiveness Of
the title has escaped notice. The organiza-
ton is oy no means the least interesting of
New York's thousand clubs. Thus far its
meetings have been held al Columbia col
lege, but there Is talk of a removal soon to
the old quarters of the Aldine club, on La
fayette Place, a booiIlsh and learned region,
where the Aston Library stands and any
number OF publications are printed,
DR.. Seth Low, the president, had been
tea merchant and the mayor of great city
before his debut as q master of schoolmas-
tiers IN the presidents chair of Columbia
He is plump, round, roly- poly little man,
with rosy. young face, slight mustache
and an air more business-like than learned
or dignihed. He is favorite with his
students, partly because he was in his
student days a doughty champion at foot
bail; President Eliot, of Harvard, was in
the four oar crew of years ago in his alma
mater. DR.. Low is one OF the best platform
speakers have ever heard, because he is
always in earnest and has no rhetorical
tricks.
There are other distinguished men in the
club. DR.. Maxwell, the city superintend-
ent of Brooklyns schools, an ex-iournalst,
an enormously tail County Tyrone man,
with fine handsome face and head too
big for his neck. Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. the editor of the Educational ReUielC
Herr lie. pzlger, the manual training expert,
and good proportion of the male teachers
within radius OF twenty miles of the me-
tropolis.
Probably most of these educators would
agree that the art of teaching has made
proportionately less advance in modern
times than many less important. Perhaps
we shall lind out soon what they propose TO
do about it with their new organization.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE2
GLOW long does it take to paint water
color.'i ] asked an artist. ''Oh. not long.
1t has to be done very quickly, the paint
dries so rapidly. You remember l.. G..
Earle's 'Gamekeeper' that was so much ad
mired at the recent exhibition: Priced at
$500 Well, Earle painted that in just four
hours. Bruce Crane did "A Winter Note
none afternoon sold il right away for
$50, and has orders now on hand for two
similar pictures in oil and one in water color
He worked week to get it right, though
AMI tore up as many as dozen half-hnished
sketches which did not suit him.
1t looks as if, in spite of the present craze
for water color, the supply will likely &c
equal the demand, doesn't it? Good judges
say that the water colorsts are getting toe
ambitious, that they should contine them
selves to slight and sketchy trifes, and lei
alone the ambitious and complicated sub
jects which can only receive just treatment
in oils, where the painter can erase, correct
experiment and finish at his leisure.
NOBODY WALKS ON THE BRIDGE.
believe the trustees of the Brooklyn
, bridge owe me cent and four-fifths. WheI
! the pathway in the air was completed
everybody who ever went to Brooklyn a
once resolved that he would walk owe
every time, see the wondrous panorama O
bay and river and fill his lungs with pur,
air fresh from the ocean. Panorama an,
n pure air; l believe that was the idea
: Everybody at once bought a bunch of tick
cts The other day l found in the poke
. of an old pair of trousers nine left of m,
bunch / wonder if the trustees would lie
q me cash in the chips at fifth of g cent each
Probably not.
Now a-days no one walks over the bridg
but visitors from out of to- n. l know al
, Intelligent and active business man who la
never seen it except from distance Ye
it is undoubtedly the finest promenade il
the world.
CUSTARD PIE HOUSES.
That purely domestic product, the Gus