Telegram-herald., 1891-05-21


Presidents.
The Men Who Wear Out
Newspaper work Is usually represented
as very hard and wearing. As matter
Of fact it isn't and IL ia Il all depends
upon the kind.
No work Is easier and, on the whole,
more healthfai than tina, of the newspaper
free lance whose responsibility ends when
his days work Is written, who keeps no
Office hours, sleeps care free unless no II
q fool and earns decent living Such
man, or woman, certainly ought to live
longer and more happily than the hAr-
assed merchant orAlawyer.
But the work Of the managers Is simply
killing. In every great newspaper Office
the managing editor, the city editor and
the night editor have work SO hard, and
responsibility 30 constant, that they wear
out very rapidly. It's . standing maxim
In Journalism that Herald" night
editor lasts six monthA The managing
editors lass . little longer. The city
editor Of the Evening Sun" frequently
eats breakfast ss 4 o'clock In the after
noon after his work bsntirsly completed
Tor the day.
John c. Reds retirement from the
managing editorShip of the Recorder"
was forced by his broken health. He was
Tor years managing editor Of the Times"
left 10 for his health, went to Paris, Lon
don and California for relief, ventured
back to New York and stood 1t for q little
over . month. He Is not an old man,
but looks like feeble ono. with his bent
head. STOPPING shoulders, tall, gauns
frame and sesny face
have known Of n woman who. thrown
into a place OF responsibility in which
assistance was not Immediately obtain
able. worked at her desk from o'clock
fn the morning till 12 or at night, with
brief intervals for snatching food. nos for
one week but for several in succession,
for each Of the seven days Of the week.
This is the pace that kills ~e.sa
The story os . New York House.
There IL . certain house upon Sixth
avenue, New York city, which turns its
gloomy. brownstors side to the roar and
rattle OF the elevated trains which thun-
der by II Is high, like oil New York
houses. but low extension juts out in
the rear. aud . few feet back Of that a
sickly, stuntsd tree rises scarcely to its
level The New Yorker who Is whirled
past the house twice each working day
never notices u, except &C tbo>e times
when he is plotting sons out OF town
guest On such occasions, as he leaves
the station al Twenty third street bound
down town he begins ~ peer out 70 the
left. aud presently he says: See that
house there. the one with the extension
That's whore broker Hatch met his
death. You remember reading about Il
I'm the papers. The woman scoville or
Scosisld, or whatever wss her name, iured
him 70 there. and then. when caught, he
ran cut on the extension root and jumped
for the tree. missed II and fell fat on the
naxssones. Splendid family. too; knew
him we'll" And the visitor cranes his
neck also TO see the gloomy old place a.
he goes rattlius past
Few things live longer In tho memory
than q scandal Probably the story Of
that house will not b. forgotten until
long after IL is pulled down.
The Beauty she~
Twency-thi-d street, once quiet resi-
dence shoroaxhssrs well mp town. IL be
coming one ef the principal shopping
quarters Of New York city, much Of the
life and bustle Of Broadway lowing into
A. beth 70 .sss aud west Back Of Tween
svshird street naturally, is Twensy-sec-
ond, which i az quiet ~ the ether IL
rossy sad crowded With crowds Of shcp-
pers and pavement huskst&rs. For all
shss. the knowing ea-s locate on Twen-
sys>ccnd street one Of the beauty shows
cf New York err Many Of the great
shopping stores run through the block
snd hsv- sf The rear . modest entrsne-
for carriage pssrcs& where their coach
men can await shssr pleasure witaost BE-
sns in the w.v - hers~ ears Her>s by
watching leax enough II n-vsv iid so u
ds>.n9 seem worth ~hii~--sre can So
fs@ ross lannon's wernsa ~ Yes fers
essv stepping quietly lnso th~ss carriages
-. +. driven awav--Nr. 9i~esisna. Mrs.
wkue~y the gesas Ars Asfnss sas fsos
slerksiss Hssr. ses. eessss as-. hs~risea
On hes shoppisst essnFsssss
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