Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

Public Opinion, References to the Her
aid etc. Also a list of Herald beats oil
other newspapers, and OF beats upon
the Herald by others. Each day ca
Bile brings him a synopsis Of what the
| Herald and every other New York news
! PAPER morning and evening, has TO
! saw. and the peculiar features Of each.
! So that wherever he may be he is al
| most as en- rapport with his Herald and
his manager, as if ne was in an adjoin-
! ing room in his own palatial building.
! All this is expensive. HIS personal
tolls. even at reduced rates on his own
cable, must certainly average several
! hundred dollars daily. Add 10 this the
| expense of ordinary news cable Tolls,
! and the cost doubles. But what is this,
/ when. by circulation at three cents a
copy, and advertisements at higher
scale than any other competitor, the
net income OF the paper is three-quar-
tiers of a million dollars a year, in addi-
ton to his own private means from in
/ dividual investments.
His foibles are Inconsistency, in
trinity of purpose, the charge Lady
| Macbeth brought against the Thane-
occasional rashness, eccentric rush at
moved will-o'-the-wisps Of events, and
| extreme proneness 10 suspicion. His
excellences are) m2gnanimiJy, gen
crosby, absence of offensive self-con-
sciousne ss, dislike of flattery, fOndness
FOR history, power Of grasping equally,
generalities and details, and faithful
ness to promises.
1t is impossible to refer to Mr. Ben
nett without recurring to his great II
val. Joseph Pulitzer who, IN twelve
years, has raised the circulation of the
three times resurrected World news
paper from 1900 to over one hundred
thousand; although an immenser pat
rOnage Of readers is claimed amid much
I doubt from experts. Unlike the young
er, but not unlike the elder, Bennett,
he was not a child of luxurious nature,
but an emigre seeking his fortune.
/ Intellectually as well as financially q
self-made man who does not, like most
self-made men, worship his Creator
The worlds early buffetings has not
soured his nature, although he has
deep-seated resentmentS. He is an eX-
acting employer, yet, genial withal;
and with what Bennett lacks. happy
dOmesticity. Like Bennett, he is a
thorough editorial director, and fertile
in invention and suggestion; and even
those who have known him only to
quarrel with him, do not deny his fe-
cundity of accurately gauging what is,
and what is not, news. In other words,
his brain is a barometer of events.
His editorial victories are many.
When he first picked up the struggling
threads Of Jay Gou.d's moribund paper,
Bennett, under the guidance of his
then editor, Charles Nordhofl-a verit
able crank-undertook to chaff the new
World rs a gift enterprise paper, be-
cause it offered prizes. The whirligig,
OF time, however, brought revenge 10
Pulitzer, for OF late the Herald. in a lit
erary way. has been itself constructed
into a mammoth gift enterprise by Of
fering prizes to poets and ncvelists.
In lapse of years Bennett came to know
Pulitzer at Paris: and the latter'9
charming wife brought about d frater-
nizatiOn of the two at an amicable dim
ner, where Bennett RETAINED from too
frequently passing the Rudesheimer
bottle. Bennett being himself so thor
oUsh a man of the world. came to re-
spect the Man of the World 1t is.
however, a fayorite amusement Of men,
Ders of the Press Club TO tumble the
files of Herald and World of 1884 and
read the pros and cons Of the two news
paper proprietors then. And, curiously
enough, soon after that year, the Herald
began to follow Pulitzer's lead The
World, for instance. took to staccato
type for display advertisements The
Herald followed, alphabetically and eva
sively, however, forming display capl-
tails out Of ingeniously arranged type.
The World began to give wood cuts. and
the Herald followed suit The World
began to brag OF circulation, and the
Herald took to euphemistically extoll-
ing the same under the mask of High
water mark" The World, under sug-
gestion Of George Walter Turner, now
proprietor and editor of the Recorder,
but then its business manager, turned
its Sunday edition into a literary niche.
The Herald soon copied that method.
The World set up fixed musical and
dramatic critics, and likewise did the
Herald, which up TO that time had
boosted that it treated music and the
fOOtlights as mere items for news to
be cared for by any reporter. So. as
the elder Bennett had taught the news
paper Of his day and generation new
methods, it was reserved for his son
TO become in turn pupil to another edi-
tor. The only following of the Bennett
track by the Pulitzer explorer has been
in taking up European travel and res
idence at times and owning a yacht
They differed widely in building news
paper temples: p. erecting a fourteen
story building, which is INTELLECTUALLY
like Alexander Selkirk Cruso, monarch
of all | survey, while b. built a long.
two-story commodious edifice on a full
city square, covering twenty-four lots.
where sub-editors and reporters could
indulge rather in fights of fancy than
flights of stairs. These two gentlemen
are features in New Yorks Meuopoli-
tan life, and therefore worthy Of this
chapter.
Midwinter days find business and f.
nance pleasantly reported after the New
Year panic and society, always weary
ing of its grind, anticipates the minor
luXuries and comparative rest Of Lent.
1t is fashionable now to be reHgiOusly
inclined, and profess either liurgical
High Church EpiScopacy or Catholic
ism. The Churchman newspaper in
. Sists that the latter word should be pre-
coded by the word Roman. With
equal logic the terms Presbyterian or
Baptist, etc, should be preceded with
the term Lutheran. The whole Chris
tian church was originally Roman. and