Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-17

ing tho wirc. Boforc long, however, ho saw that tolography could bo employed as n stepping stone only. Then he be- gan at onco to Sook another way. First ho tried to get into Wall street, reaSon ing that even tho humbloSt sort of place in a brokers office would offer chance to forge to tho front, but Wall street was closed to him. Meanwhile he kept faithfully at his telCSraphing, finally rising to be offiCo manager at Augusta.
 It was whilo thrre that young Nun sey formulated his publishing plans, confiding thcm to James G. Blaine and Howard Owen. editor of tho konnvbcc Journal, who wCro numbered among his warmoSt friends. But they did all in their power to discourage him, nd vising hlm under no circumstances to go to New York. At last friend offer cd to put up $500, another agreed to ad vance $l,000, and Munsey himself raised $500 When this capital of $2, 900 was in sight, Munscy resigned his place and prepared to locate ill the big city. With $450 of his own money he bought manuscripts to begin on. When he reached tho scone of his ambitions, HIS II Iti''S NN'IltAlANCNl t'\'t ll' ISh tAlCAA money. aud thus it was that he found hinl>,lt "t tho beginning of his career in New York with a few dollars and n lot of manuscripts aS his only visible capital. Tn" situation ln'\rildCrrd hut did not discourage him. lin went to a publisher. already established, t"ld him of tho lines on which the prop,$cd ventura had been planned and induced him to establish The Golden ArSuSy, n weekly for boys. and engage its project Or as manager and editor.
 Five months later this publisher fail cd, and Munsey took the publication ill settlement of his claim for back salary. Then began n heroic struggle, Munsey assuming the diverse and multifarious duties of editor. publisher and serial writer. Under Fire, "Atioat In Great City" and The Boy Broker
 issued in close succession from his pen. Ninety five thousand dollars were ex- pended in advertising the last named story. and the result was a circulation and an advertising patronage that seem
 ed to assure continued net yearly ill come of $50. 900. But this did not last. Though the quality of the paper was maintained, the circulation fell away rapidly, and it soon looked as if all that had been gained would g., Munscy at first attributed the decline to a drCa- dence of popularity in literature for the young. With this idea he established Munsey's Weekly. a SomihumorouS pub.
 iCation, but it failed of satisfying sue cess, though the expenditures for pie lures and literary contributions for its pages wero lavish, Then he went into daily journalism, taking up the mori
 bund New York Star. which ho reju- venated and renamed The Continent
 Through no fault of is, it also hung fire, and he gave it up.
 Then he decided that the trouble
 with his weekly publication was the competition offered by the country weeklies and the Sunday papers of the cities, which. by reason of newspaper plates and syndicateS, are able to furnish as good matter and almost as good pic lures as the best general weeklieS. To save his money and reputation he then started Munsey's Magazine i'll place of Munsey's Weekly. No great success came to the magazine, however, till its price was reduced from 25 cents to 10 cents number, while at the same time
 the grade of its contents, especially the illustrations, was kept at the highest
 possible level. Today his methods are compelling the sincerest admiration that of imitation in hundred different directions.
 Though a very busy man, MT. Munsey is fond of active amusementS, horseback riding being his favorite method of re-
 taxation. He has never yet found time to marry. l. D. MARSHALL