Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-25
Writers Who Are Readable.

hOAAAlC OA NcoStNo DubAASAASN hhAs NeAA ' is collection of articles written by 1 newspaper men. The essays were orig ! inally published in Lippineott's Maga 1 zine and have been collected and issued . in book form. They treat of journalist i ic topics and experiences and are writ. i ten by distinguished men of the profes | sion in various parts of the country. The book is entitled ''The Making of Q Newspaper"
 The feature that especially strikes the mind of one accustomed to getting at the contents of book in hurry is brief ly this-the readableness of journalistic writing. If doctors. lawyers, preachers, economic reformers and scientific men would serve an apprenticeship in live newspaper office before they ever penned line for publication and be blue pen ciled by first class editor until they learned to write, what a gain to the worlds time and eyesight it would bel
 The book is edited by Melville Phillips of the Philadelphia Press. Mir. Phillips contributes two of the sketches. Other writers are such newspaper men as Murat Halstead, John \. Cockerill, NJ. II. de Young. John Russell Young and A. K. Mcclure. MT. Phillips informs us incidentally that more than 4 ,000, ,000,- coo newspapers annually get into tine homes of people in the United States and Canada. His story, Getting Out the Paper" will give the public an idea of the awful nerve and brain strain re- quired from day to day to lay before the reader each 24 hours the news up to date. News 12 hours old is in newspa- per slang ancient history" Of the night editor of the great morning jour nal MT, Phillips says this: His official life, of necessity brief, is lived at fever heat" It is brief because no man can endure for long the wear and tear of it.
 Colonel A. K. Mcclure of the Phila- delphia Press began his editorial career in the country at time when subscrib- CTS paid for their paper in wood, pota toes, turnips and cabbages." He rise. in the estimation when he tells us he has been the hero of % libel suits. MT. Ju- lius Chambers of the New York Recorder says that theoretically the afternoon paper is the American journal of the future"
 MT. J. B. Mccormick C'Macon'O writes from the standpoint of the sporting editor. He does not approve of reporters of races betting on the contending an imals-four legged or two legged. With the best intentions it will be hard for them to give fair report. No man can chew meal and whistle at the same time" says Mccormick in emphasizing the necessity the racing reporter is un' der to give undivided attention to his business. The proverb is true of other things than reporting horse races. II strikingly picturesque English, George Alfred Townsend relates the story oi one of lis hairbreadth escapes in recon struCtlon times.
 At the time Murat Halstead became connected with journalism the Cincin natl newspapers spent $7 week eacl for telegraphic dispatches and consid cred themselves the victims of grind ing monopoly at that. The fourth page of each paper contained six times out ui ten bear story upon its first column MT. HalStead considers the suppression of this story as one of the mistakes of hi journalistic career, for, he says, ''abou the bear story there hangs an eterna charm He recalls, too, how indignan Henry Clay became at the impertinenc of a young reporter, now known tn country over as Deacon Richard Smith who dared to listen to one of Clay stump speeches and report it offhand and not only that. but to send it ava, by telegraph without asking Clay's per mission. Times change.
 John 4. Cockerill's idea is that per haps in time not far off one grea morning newspaper may be printed il New York and hurled through pneu matic tubes to Boston, Buffalo, Balti more and other places complete in it news, editorial and feature pages. Tn local name can be printed at the top an
 the local features added at the city of 1t
 destination, and thus one mammoth pa
 per. the same in all but name and locG news, be issued from all the offices q
 once.
 Finally, Julius Chambers says of joul nalism as . profession that it is the mos , promising of all means of livelihood youth and the least satisfactory and r, munerative in the long run.