The age-herald., 1900-03-17
A Southern Woman to
 Manane New York Paper

Manage New I0rk Pa1er
 No recent announcement has created more general interest than that relating to the future management of the New York Daily News. This metropolitan daily, own ed and edited by the late Benjamin Wood, has passed into the hands of women, the editorial policy to be directed by Mrs Ida B. Wood, the wife of the founder and late editor. Mrs. Wood is daughter of Judge Henry T. Mayfield of Louisiana, and is a woman of unusual brliancy and executive ability, In assuming charge of the Daily News, she will have associated with her a staff of brainy women, who will have the distinction of being the first staff of women who have ever conducted a daily newspaper in this country. The story, as told in the New York Herald, is as follows
 Women are now in control of the Daily News of this city. They are: President, Miss Mary E. Mayfield; vice-president and treasurer Mrs. Ida E. Wood, who is Miss Mayfields sister and the widow of Benja- min Wood, founder and chief proprietor of
 the paper; secretary, Miss Emma Wood, | daughter of Mrs. Wood.
 In the future the Daily News will be con
 ducted by the women mentioned This will not result III airy SiipitSSS an -N--0 paper. but some minor changes will be
 made Mrs Wood will direct the editorial
 policy of the paper. She is not unfamiliar
 with such work, having assisted her nus
 band in writing editorials during the latter
 years of his life.
 | It is Mrs. Woods intention now, how | ever, to contribute articles from her own
 pen to the editorial columns of the Daily Il ,,,i1I l,a in
 of the newspapers finances, and no one
 else will be empowered to sign checks. The paper will continue as a Democratic
 organ. and in all likelihood will adhere to its support of William Jennings Bryan. An attempt will be made to oust Colonel Brown the manager, unless he consents | to remain as a salaried employee. Mrs Wood owns 151 shares of stock out of total number of 300 shares. She contends that Colonel Brown owns only 101 shares.
 but he asserts that he holds aS7 shares duly signed by the late Benjamin Wood and MT Purser. former president of the l company. MT. Tanning, speaking for Mrs | Wood, said:
 .sColonel Brown has been in full charge | of the paper for two years. While MT | Wood was alive Colonel Brown knew just
 how far he could go. He drew salary or | $4 OO0 a year as manager, and ran the whole 1 outfit very much as he pleased. Mrs. Wood | wanted to take a hand in the management l She paid $210 900 to her late husband for her
 stock, while Colonel Brown bought his $96,- | 900 in 1881. Nevertheless, she thinks he got | bargain for the stock Is now worth $5Ooo
 a share Mrs. Wood thinks that she can
 improve the management of the paper, and | she knows that it has not earned as much | money as it used to and as it should. She | wants to put in a manager of her own, and | Is in a position to do it. In the past Colonel | Brown has signed all the checks, but Mrs | Wood will go to the bank and give orders l that checks not signed by her are not to | be honored. Colonel Brown remains stock | holder in the company, but will not be ac- | lively engaged dn the management of the | paper"
 | Mrs Ida A E. Wood is the second wife ! of the late Benjamin Wood, who was | brother of former Mayor Fernando Wood | She was the daughter of Judge Henry T. | Mayfield of Louisiana. Her only child, | Miss Emma Wood, is a handsome demi- | blonde. The Woods have lived at the Fifth l Avenue hotel when in town, and have en- | tertained lavishly. When tile comng-out | ball for Miss Wood was held at the Fifth Avenue hotel eight years ago a notable as- l sembage was present.
 | All three of the women who have as- | stunned control of the News are accom- l plished and well educated. Mrs. Wood is l recognized in the office as woman of keen intelligence, familiar with the inner workings of a metropolitan newspaper. The development of her plans is waited with eagerness by the entire staff