The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-18

vious1v tired out the enterprising Albert
Pulitzer and knocked out the resource
full John r. Mclean of the Cincinnati
Enquirer Young Mr.. Hearst knew he
had an invalid on his hands; that a
condition, and not a theory, confronted
him, and he Immediately indicated the
gold cure, as it were.
In applying this treatment he first
tapped The Sun and Harper's Weekly
and took out Julian Ralph, the we'll
known descriptive writer, who rumor
says had been drawing salary Of 500
per week under an ''easy boss ;" He
staggered The Recorder by mesmeriz-
ing Julius Chambers, a man whose
journalistic reputation had been estab-
lished by the fair fruits of genuine
achievements. He lured Alan Dale
away from The World. And, by the
way, this man Dale, whose real name
is Cohen, is the wittiest dramatic critic
in New York. With his golden wand he
tapped the springs Of art that rest in
various recesses of his esteemed contem-
poraries, and, loi additionally uncon-
tro1led and cratic genius gushed out to
do his bidding. He took H. Pruette
Share, The Worlds art manager, and
secured Artists Phillips, Kerr and Trow-
were others. Again he smote the rock
with that golden wand, and immediate
1y it brought forth the 1eading-being
void of offense do not say best-adver-
Using men from The World, Herald and
Sun.
The Effect of 1t.
He spent money like a prince-1ike a
level headed princeton specials from
f6o ~ A. % A.
as from its intermediate centers. His
reports of the recent South African trou-
bles may possibly have cost the price of
good sized farm, but he beat all his
esteemed contemporaries He sent the
veteran Murat Halstead to Cuba simply
because he could not find better equip
ped man for that important place. All
this had its effect, albeit it takes a good
deal to do SO in New York in these fin
de steele days. Soon people who would
not have touched The Journal with the
kitchen toDgs began to buy it.
But Mr.. Hearst was not satisfied. AL
though he had conplimented The World
by drawing most generously from its
corps of talent he reached out once more
and took Morrill, Goddard, the Sunday
editor, and practically its complete Sun
day staff. This was a trif1e more than
Mr.. Pulitzer could bear, for, although he
is quoted as an adherent to the very
sound idea that when a valuable man
becomes imbued with the conviction
that he cannot be spared it is time to
get rid of him, yet its application several
times is not so satisfactory. So Uncle
Joseph had talk with Goddard and his
staff and as result they all returned
but for day or two only. Possibly Ed
itor Hearst saw 1.-THE raise'' or stthe
ante'' or whatever the correct term NAV
be. At all events Mr.. Goddard and his
colleagues meandered back to The Jour
nal Office, the former with contract for
a term of years in his waistcoat pocket
at a salary of $15, 900 per annum. It is
said that Mr.. Pulitzer had so high an
opinion of his former Sunday editor that
he would have paid him $25, 900 per
year rather than have lost him, for The
Sunday World steadily increased in cir
culation from the time Goddard was
placed in charge of it. Whether this was
due to Goddard's penchant for the hor-
rifying in sensational journalism or to
something else deponent saith not, but
If it were, SO much the worse for jour
nalism. 1t may be remarked in passing
that The Sunday Journal under Mr.
Goddard, has more substantial flesh
creeping and sickening features than
ever The Sunday World has had. This
is saying a good deal.
Mr. Pu1itzer Aroused.
But the loss of Mr. Goddard and his
staff reused Mr.. Pulitzer to a declara-