The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-25

prompt and faithful delivery.
The staff of The UniVerse-the own
er, the manager, the cashier. the editor,
sub-editOr, assistant sub-edltor, re-
porter, and foreman printers named
Michael MacCailin: and Michael is
likewise Office boy, general man and
(when occasion requires III working
engineer.
Reporting at so Cents Week.
Many country weeklies can afford
the luxury of a reporter, whose salary
begins at half a crown eco cents) a
week, and very gradually grows to So.
to 81. and even sometimes to 50.
Michael often sOlaces himself, how
ever, by occasionally retaining what
he styles Our own Special Commits
sioner at a high salary, as he informs
his awe-struck readers. OF course, the
special commissioner who draws the
princely salary is Michael himself-but
the outside world labors under the be-
lief that, for their particular behalt, he
has imported a leading London or Con-
tinental journalist-and this supersti-
ton, whilst f1attering to Michael, and
beneficial to the tardy circulation or
The Legananny Universe, does no one
any harm.
If Michael and The Universe would
live in moderate decency, it is abso-
lutely necessary that he should draw
all the salaries accruing-Or almost all
of them True, he must pay compost
tors The composing room (Which IS
likewise the editors office sports hVe
boys, who, setting The Universe, ac-
quire a trade and moreover, get from
Michael a bonus of half a crown a
week The cIeVeTest of the five, indeed,
who makes up the forms, gets siXpence
extra. When the forms are laid on the
press, the editor does not disdain to
shed his coat and take his turn, with
his composing staff. at the crank OF the
cylinder machine that grinds out the
organ Of public opinion at the rate of
a hundred and eighty copies an hour
On occasions of intense excitement,
when it is wise to anticipate the pub
lie clamOring for several score extra
copies, Michael gets the loan Of Mat
thew Carrabin's yard-bOy. big brawny
Commy Gildea, who taking the crank
all by himself, gallops the machine to
four copies a minute, whilst Michael
and his five boys stand by in open
mouthed amaZement. And when Com
my gets out of puff he puts all six of
them on the machine and tOlerates
them till he has got his wind again. On
these occasions, too. COmmy Gildea is
sure TO be attacked with a phenOm-
email thurst, which requires the editor s
feeling wee Roguey Mulhern to keep
carrying pots of porter in vain en-
deavor to "squelch''-as Commy ex-
presses it.
In all, then, it probably requires from
four dollars to five dollars q week to
run The Universe. Michael charges a
penny 1.-TWO cents a line for local ad-
vertisements, and siXpence a line for
official advertisements. London adver-
Using agents vouchsafe him standing
ads about DR. KeWremalrs pills, and
Madame Ritenuff's ELIXIR Vital, at a
penny a line-which is his second most
important source of income; official
ads being the chief.
So, after Michael has industriously
and conscientiously labOred all the
week with both hands and brain-after
he has sifted the worlds workings to
intellectual wheat for his dependent
clientele-after he has tramped to the
corners of his constituency and raked in
the births and deaths, and marriages,
the inqueSts and dances, council meet
ingS and Land League meeting, the
cOmings and goings of the many men
of Importance in whom his readers are
interested, the police courts, the acct
dents and the extraordinary hao9en-
ings-after he has recorded all this,
and distributed it in fOur-page broad
sheets far and wide over his bailiwick
paid his hands, and reckOned his ac-
counts, he finds accruing to himself a
net weekly income of from Sc to S.
There are a host of weeklies in more
thriving and populous parts of the
country which. after paying five dol
lars a week to a stenograDhic re
! porter, remunerate their owner editor
with three times and four times So
the former being the average.
Coaxfng Copy With the Scissors.
The editorial duties on the Leganan-