The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-13

.1arding the salary paid to W. G. Reick,
city editor Of The Herald, than there is
regarding the compensation Of any 9TH
or newspaper editor in New York. Tt
is put all the way from $40, 900 to
$25, 900. I think that it is not less
than SIS, 900, as he is by far the ablest
executive man that Mr. Bennett has had
in his employ within the past Is years.
Mr.. Reick's career reads like a story
from a book of fairy tales. About 1887,
when he was less than 20 years old, Mr..
Reiek was the Camden correspondent of
The Herald. He had previously been
employed upon the local stats of one or
two Philadelphia newspapers, but was
discharged fol- incompetenoy, and then
Mr.. Reiek went to Camden and CORE
sponded for The Herald.
Most of my readers will remember
that about eight years ago family of
Camden youngsters were bitten by a
mad dog. The Herald raised money and
sent the youngsters to Paris, where
they were successfully treated by Pas
teur. The whole scheme was of Mr..
Reick's invention, and it attracted the
attention of Mr.. Bennett, who had the
young man transferred to the New York
Office Shortly afterward he sent for
him and made him the Rome CORE
spondent Of The Herald Later on he
served an apprenticeship on the Paris
Herald, and when Mr.. Bennett started
the London Herald Mr.. Reick took
charge of it, organizing the staff From
this post he was promoted to the news
editorship of the home paper and then
was made city editor.
The city editor is virtually the man
aging editor Of The Herald, and in his
present place Mr. Reick has demon
strated his own ability and the sound
ness of his employers judgment. This
Judgment, may remark without any
dispaIagement of Mr.. Benefits talent
as a newspaper proprietor, has not al
ways been as fortunate as it is in the
present case. Here is a story which I
have often heard and never heard de-
MED: Many years ago Mr.. Bennett is
said to have met d young man named
White, who was a very clever bank
clerk at that time. Mr. Bennett was
pleased with the young man and made
him city editor of The Herald.
An Alphabetical List.
On the day of Mr.. Whites debut in
metropolitan journalism he kept dozen
or more of The Herald s brightest young
men waiting at their desks until long
after o'clock. Then Harold Raymond,
the ''crack" descriptive writer, who
always received his assignment among
the first, went to the foot of the throne
and addressed Mr.. White. saying, ''Mr.
White, will you have anything for me
TO do today?"
''Let me see. your name is
Raymond, SIR supplied the re-
porter.
''Ah, yes, Mr.. Raymond, shall have
something for you presently am only
down to the Ms now
Mr.. White had written on one large
sheet of foelscap list of his assign
ments, and on another he had set down
list of his reporters in alphabetical or
der, and he had given the NEST impor-
tant story of the day to the man whose
name began with "A'' and So on down.
Mr.. White soon learned how to do
things better, and he is today enc of the
most valued ana experienced men in
Mr.. Benefits employ.
Regarding the salaries paid to other
leading men on the New York dailies
am teld that they run about as fol-
lows:
Chester s. Lord Of The Sun, from
SO, 900 to SO. 900; Henry Carey of Tho
Times, from 81, 900 to $1,000; Foster
Coates of The Advertiser and CONNER
cial Advertiser, from So, 900 to 81, 500;
George Dickinson Of The Telegram, So, :
500; George f. Fleming of The Mail
and Express, from So, 500 to So, 900; F.
A. Dermeka Of The Evening World, 81,
900; George Bartholomew of The News,
So, 500; Julius Chambers of The Record
er, from So, 900 to So, 600; Mr.. Nichol-
son of The Tribune, from $40, 900 to
$12, 900; Mr.. Wardman of The Press,
81, 900; J. I. G. Clark of The Journal,
$1,000. It is said that John w. Kellar
of The Recorder gets 1925 a week; E.
L. Godkin and Horace White of The
Evening Post, $1,000 each, besides
their large proprietary interests in the
paper, and Lemuel Ely Quigg Of The
Press, So, 900.
Reporters get from SIS to $75 week
in salary, although l do not know of
my own knowledge of any reporter who
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