The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-30

Jacoby has been with the News since its
birth and was the city editor who with three
reporters got out the first copies of the news
paper. He was brought up, in newspaper
sense, in the office of the Philadelphia Times,
where he started in as reporter He re-
manned there some years when he went
10 the Ecening Telegraph an after
noon newspaper of Philadelphia. Then
he went back to the Times and
worked under Mr.. Steel When Mr.. Stee
looked about him for city editor for the
Erening Ne,cs, which was about starting in
Newark, he found no one whom he knew
would better fill the position, or in whose
ability he had more confidence than Mr..
Jacoby Mr.. Jacoby is now the State editor,
aud very clever leader writer
ONCE WROTE FOR PUNCH.
The Oldest man on the Ne,os' staff of edi-
torial writers is George B. Herbert, news
paper man of wide experience. He began
hls career i'll London as a contributor to
Pinch, and was for some years editor of an
other London comic paper called Mo0nsliine.
be came to this country and wrote for the
Philadelphia papers and then took the posi-
tion he now holds on Mr. Steel's staff. The
are carefully scanned by Alfred Dumphy,
competent man who is also the musical
critic.
Miss Aula Steel is in charge of the tele-
graph department. She has been with the
Nelcs seven years and has acceptably filed
several editorial positions. She at present
edits all the cable and telegraphic dispatches
which come to the office through the United
Press Association and all the dispatches and
specials which are sent in by the large army
of correspondents which the paper has all
over the State. In this work Miss Steel has
two assistants. One is Richard Remertz,
who edits the Washington and legislative
matter. Mr.. Remertz has had a wide news
paper experience in st. Louis, Chicago and
New York, and was at one time editor of the
Press OF Newark. Miss Steels other assistant
is Frank Dodge, capable young man of
considerable experience in newspaper work.
CITY EDITOR BURKE.
Editors may write prose poems and critics
may turn gray the heads of young aspirants,
but after all it is the city editor and the re-
porter that make newspaper. The Erening
Neacs is fortunate in having at the head of
its city department young gentleman who
is thorough newspaper man from the soles
OF his feet clear up to the tips of his hair.
No one is more appreciated about the Netus'
establishment than Thomas Edward Burke,
the city editor. He was brought up in the
office and began his career as a reporter for
one OF the outlying districts. 1t was not
long before his capabilities were recognized
by Mr.. Steel and he was soon brought into
districts. He rapidly made himself so thor
oughly acquainted with every detail of the
work that, when the city editors chair be-
came vacant, he was recognized as the best
man for the place.
For several years he has represented his pa
per at Trenton during the sessions of the Leg
islature and his intimate acquaintance with
the men prominent in political affairs and
their ways, together with his thorough
knowledge of the municipal affairs of New
ark and the men who conduct them both
under and above board, make him very val
liable as a political writer Mr.. Burke has
nnder him staff of twenty-five reporters
and the local page of the Euening Nelos is
daily monument to his efficiency and
ability.
THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
The newspaper whose business affairs are
not in the hands of competent men cannot
succeed. The same high order of ability
which conducts the editorial management of
the paper is present in the business office of
the Euening Neius Wallace NJ Scudder is
the publisher. He is a son of the late JJfisss'
tice Scudder, of the Supreme Court, and was
a practising lawyer in Trenton when the
Neics started and he became its publisher
Much of the success of the paper is due to
the manner in which he has conducted that
William Howells is in charge
of the advertising department, and has hada
wide experience in that line with the Phila-
delphia Press and Pittsburg Dispatch. He
is widely known among the advertising men
of the country as one of the most energetic
men in the business
One of the most popular men in the Ne,cs
office is Charles Dodd, the cashier, who is the
right man in the right place. John J. Foile
has charge of the circulating department,
and the clerical work of the Office is done by
Edward Rail and David Cohen Edward
assisted by Howard Vanderpool and the
press room is in charge of Michael Dunn,
formerly of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS press
room.
The Erening Neacs will issue its first paper
from its new building on Tuesday