The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-14
TO STUDY AMERICAN METHODS
Views of {. Arthur Pearson. the Eng
TfSh Publisher

fish Publisher
NEW YORK. June &c Arthur Pear
son. the publisher. who owns a score Of
daily. weekly. and monthly publications
in England. arrived in New York yester-
day on the White Star liner Oceanic He
came here for the purpose Of making
study Of the latest and best American
journalistic methods
MI Pearson is one of the most eloquent
living rofutations of the oft-repeated
statement that England offers few
chances for the man who has neither in
flucnce nor capital, but only brains Eff
teen years ago Mr. Pearson was devoid Of
any other assets than those which were
contained in his head These proved am
pie. however, and today he is a multi-mli-
IionaiTe. whose future is almost Doundless.
and who is planning brilliant strokes IN
newspaper development
Mr. Pearson is thirty-five years Of age.
He is as alert as an American and has
the face Of a healthy person Of outdoor
habits. His spectacles give him the air
of a student The English publisher Is a
sort Of human rapid-fire gun. He IS little
given to unnecessary speech When he
does speak, however. it is in low voice,
with a complete absence of demonstra-
tiveness, but it is to say that which IS
worth listening to.
u have been five times in the United
States he said DO ike the country
l do. OF I wouldn't come so often
= lived here when I was a young man.
It was while here that I found the gump-
ton to get out Of a rut and start in bust
ness for myself You have large quanti-
ties Of initiative in this country, and I
acquired some Of It, and to that fact I
attribute my success. If I had never come
to America I should never have known
enough to start in business on my own
account
Mr.. PierpOnt Morgan has taken some
/ Of that same initiative to England There
seems to be an impression abroad that
/ English trade has gone to the dogs, and
/ that England's commerce has been wiped
! out of existence by American competition
as a chalk mark is wiped off a blackboard
/ In fact, l have listened to people with
/ tears in their eyes crying on my shoulder
| and suggesting that everything is over
/ with poor old England except her funeral
This is twaddIe- The workshops Of Eng
/ land are filled with orders two years
ahead. Pierpont Morgan and the other
/ good Americans who have gone to Eng
T land to do business are simply tOnics.
/ They viii make US wake uD to better
I methods. Anyone who imagines that a
| virile nation like that which lives in
/ Great Britain IS going to lie down and ex-
I pirc simply because it meets with sudden
competition IS DItifuIy ignorant of Eng
lish character
Then some one asked Mt. Pearson if he
meant to start newspaper in New
York, as reported He threw up his
! hands. Heaven forbid he exclaimed.
/ 4 don twant to be in American journal
I ism I prefer to live a little while I'm
alive and not work twenty-five hours a
day trying to cater to any public, how
/ ever many millions there may be in it
! Journalism is too strenuous in America
/ for an editor who wants 10 edit and en-
/ JOY life at the same time"
Mr.. Pearson on his trip to this country
/ is accompanied by Q. y Creig. publish
ct of Pearson Ma gazina.' and Walter
J. Kingsley. travelling correspondent Of
I the Daily Express
With these gentlemen EIr. Pearson Is
planning 20 found q chain of daily news
papers which viii euCiTcIc the world and
appeal to the residents Of the whole Brit
ish Empire There is to be q Pearson daI-
" newspaper ia Canada. either in Tor0G-
TO or Montreal several Pearson dailieS il
Australia, seine more in India and one in
South Africa When the Canada-AuStra-
liza cable is completed Mr. Person viii
lease 1t Tor several hours day. and in
connection with transatlantic cable
Of which he viii also be a lessee, he viii
send news round the world simultaneous
II TO all his publications This enterprise
viii involve the outlay Of some millions OF
dollars
MIR Pearson within the next three
! months viii establish two more daily
/ newspapers in Great Britain one viii be
I in Wales, the other IN the north Of Eng
/ land. The presses on which they are &c
be printed VIII be built in New York
The Americas Cup viii be won by thl
American boat" Mr.. Pearson said. u
think the British boat Is handicapped bS
! the fact that she has to cross the At