Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-19

scrfpt arc of opinion that in recent years he has received not less than Si5, 1000 as n yearly income, and that upon several oc- casions he has been paid large lump sums.
 When the manuscript of Stevcnson's latest novel was received by publishers in this country, n draft for $S, 900 was sent to the novelist, and this paid only for tho serial rights. Publishers who know some thing of Stcvcnson's earning capacity as sert that since he has been in the samoan islands his income from his pen must hayo been not less than SEQ, GOO n year.
 Six years ago Jerome k. Jerome was unknown. Recently ono of tho publishers who have dealt with Jcromc's manu- scripts said that the author has been re- ceiving for some time n steady income of as much as SlO,0o0 n year, and this did not make any estimate of the royalties paid to him for his plays.
 These, however, arc illustrations taken from the experience of those who have gained very wide popularity as writers of fiction. It would scarcely bc fair to judge of the value of tho great market that exists nowadays for popular writing by the successes of those who have gained fame in the field of romance and fiction. The writer upon general topics whoso name is not known to the general public finds vastly incrcasing market for his work. X few years ago SlOO week was regarded as n princcly salary for any writer associated with n newspaper eN- cepting those who had proprietary inter ests. Horace Greeley himself until within a few years of his death received less than that.
 It used to be spoken of as q wonderful thing that the senior Bennett paid two of his editorial writers $i00 q week, and these two men wero spoken of as those who had gained tho highest prizes of jour nalism excepting those which go with pro- prietary interests. Yet the number of writ CTS connected with tho greater newspapers who receive ns much as that Is now so largo that it is no longer spoken of as an extraordinary salary. Some of the most brilliant reporters, at least in New York city, find 1t possible to earn as much as | $5, 900 a year, and the earning capacity of | one special correspondent was so great that he was paid n salary of SlOo week and required to give only six months of his time year to the newspaper which thus employed him. The rest of the time | Inc was at liberty to accept commissions | from the magazines work which paid him | quite as much as his newspaper salary. One writer still in tho harness had for n number of years received payment at
 tho rae of SIS n column and furnished | some l2 columns a week under thost ' terms, but his work was in demand out | slue, anu nt last the cultOr oL the neWspa | per said to him that if hc would furnish
 to the newspaper all of the matter which
 he wrote he would bo paid as much as he
 could earn elsewhere. X quick computa
 tion of his total earnings for two or thrcs
 years was mndc, and 1t was found to aver
 age some $500 n week. For that sum h.
 agreed to turn in to the newspaper every
 thing he wrote. This salary has been pait
 him for four years, and 1t is probably thu
 largest that is now earned by any journal
 ist who is not also an owner.
 Many of the general writers, men ant
 women, who study the taste of the read
 CTS find themselves earning on the aver
 age as much as $io0 a week, and tho mum
 Der of those who can do this is increasing
 The truth is the market-so unsuitable
 the demand of the American people fo
 reading matter that entertains or In
 structs-kecps constantly ahead of tn
 ability to supply 1t, and this new tenden
 cy is spoken of by some of the ablest edi
 tors who have watched its growth as on
 of the encouraging indications of tn
 great growth of the American people il
 literary taste and the overwhelming dc , siro to Do instructed or informed of al , that goes on in the great world
 l. J EDwARDa