Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-11


 the public service It will bc remcmbcrcd that on numerous occasions when Mir Dana has bCcn suggested as a candidate for the presidency he has always declined tho prOfcrrCd honor saving that no post iS morc honorable or useful than the editor ship of grat newspaper.
 Thcrc arU several other editors in New York who rlEViVC salaries larAcC enough la make office holding unS,Iuctivc. Within the past fortnight havc made n Carrful attempt la obtain for publication the salaries paid to the leading journalists of thiS city. give the ns,IreS Us they wcrc given to me, The radrr may cho-es, lN~ twCrn the highest and the lowest tiSur,eS us his judgment dictates. All that can say is that have thrown out all estimates which sCrnCd to hc at variance with the truth
 MT. Cnrvalho's Career.
 Prnhahly next to Mir Dana the hast paid journalist in Now York k MT S S Carvalho of The World. Thtrt,>n wears agu MT Carvalho was r'purtrr on tho staff of The Sun. lIcwas one uf the most rCliablC reporters in the city. conscientious, industrious and IrrSCVcring. He was n gOOd but not brilliant writer but hC S,'l- dom was left" in s,ruring news. He has n rather cynical vein of thought. but alb sOlutcly no srnSc of humnr l rmrmhCr that when ono uf the Euat California min str'ls died, Charley RIckuS, l think it was, Carvalhn was scnt to collect some of the famous stories which tho funmakCr had made his own. Early that evening he brought his story into The Sun office. It came to Mir Clark, tho night city editor, in tho course uf time and thpw that talented gentleman into cold it. The jcSts wrr, all thcr, but they wCr' not funny-not one of them.
 The next morning. however, tho story" ocCupitd a column in The Sun and was | the most brilliant unC published upon the suhjUt. Mir Clark had r'wrttcn the arti Clc from h,'synnin.: tn end Perhaps it i> h,rauS,' Mir. Car\ a!h" s.N~ only tho serious side uf life that hr k Mir Pulit7rr'~ Ter -rnal representative in tn" Epat World | tahl$hmrnt and pN'ViN''~ H salary which iS tStimat.ri fr,n $l3. .Wh tn $31, ,uOO a y,ur give cr,rlit Ia the larsc'r amount.
 He went with Mir. Pulitzer aS the first city editor of The Evening World eight yrars aga Latter on he bcrlmr managing editor of that very prospCruuS paper, and l then he was trlnSfCrrCd Ia the parent plant | as general manager of tho finances His power Is almost absolute, and hc l. said to be closer to the owner than any other man | in his employ When ono considers that 1t costs about Sl0 OOO a day to publish The World and Mir Carvalho can spend or save | $lo, GOO in n month without making any apprCciablc diffCp'nce in the paper la the readcr, a salary of S25, 900 does not sCcm to be exorbitant, especially as The World Is crcditcd with making q profit of nearly | $1, GOO, GOO a year.
 MT. PulitEer's FavOrites-
 l am told that Farrcllcy, tho managing editor of The World, grtS but q, 500. These flgurrs would bc ridiculouSly small If 1t wcrc not for the fact that tho manaS- ing editorShip of The World since the days | of Colonel Cockcrill and Ballard smith iS more or less nf n nominal position and Is rarely held long by any occupant, Within the past four years thcrc have btrn at least half a dozen managing editors. In The World office thcrC arr always two or thre men who arc near to MT. Pulitzer, They take turns in spending short time with the owner of tn" paper at his country place in Bar Harirnr or his hotel in Paris, and they arc for the time managing editors in all but namr. IL Is commonly p'pnrt,Nl that Arthur Brisbane rCcriVtS $l5O a week from The World He Is supposed to be ncapSt uf all to MT, Pulitzer, except MT.
 Carvalho. He began his work on The Sun aS a reportcr in 1884 and soon became its star reporter. He then went to Europe and began The suns cable Sunday letter.
 Soon after Amos J. Cummings started I Inc ENCNluS sun Ilc uSSStillC us editor. Then, it Is said he quarrcled with
 Publisher Laffan and left The suns scrv-
 Ice to take editorial charge of The Sunday
 World He has bCen with Mir. Pulitzer ever since, most of the time in Europe. As a descriptive writer Mir. Brisbane has few equals in New York, and wcrc he to leave
 Mir. Pulitzer's employ ho could roadily earn alOO n week aS a reportcr upon space.
 By space" mean by the column.
 Most New York newspapers pay their re-
 porters and special writers according to the
 amount of matter that they write. The
 pay varies from Si to $S a column, with
 special prices for special pieces of work
 Sometimes newspaper will pay t25 or
 even slOO a column for an exclusive arti-
 cle of grnat news value. The usual price
 on morning paper Is $S q column. That
 Is the rate in The Herald World and Sun
 offices The Recorder pays $7, The Times and Tribune $6, and Tho PreSs, Journal and Advertiser $S.
 2 Young MT. ReIck's Rise.
 There is probably mOre mystery rcgar'i- , ing tho salary paid to W. C. Reick, city editor of The Herald, than therc Is rrgard- l ing the compensation of any other news paper editor in Now York. It Is variously put all the way from $lO, GOO to S25, 900. l
 think that it is rot less than SIS, 900, aS
 nc Is nN tut' aDlN"~t SAtNullNt AAlSAA = Mir. Bennett has had in his employ within . the paSt l5 ycars Mir. Reick'S carCer q reads like story from book of fairy tales. About 1887, when he was less than 25 years old, Mir. Reick was the Camden correspondent of The Herald. He had pre- viously been employed upon tho local staff:
 of ono or two Philadelphia newspapers, ' but was dischargcd for incompctcncy, and then Mir Reick went to Camden and COT U responded for The Herald. Most of my readers will remembcr that about eight . years ago family of Camden youngster' were bitten by mad dog. The Heralt = raised money and sent the youngsters t' ~ Paris, where they werc successfully trrateS n by Pastcur. Tho whole scheme was q > Mir Reick's invention, and 1t attracted tn : attention of MT. Bennett, who had thu t young man transferred tO the New TOrl
 office. shortly afterward he sent for hin
 and made him the Rome correspondent 0
 The Herald. Later on be served an mp