The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
FROM THE "BOYS"
Who are Evidently Well Posted
About The Times Management.
A GENTLE ROAST OF THE SAME
Both Psre and Fills HutChIns, Also Mr. lseCh
and The Whole Outfit, Sized Up, mol Forget
ting Our Old Friend FedsrIns, The Once
Bright Eyed, Rosy Checked Boy Who Tried
10 Put US 0ut of Business.
EDITOR GLOBE: :

EDrToR GLOBE:
If the introduction to your story
about the Times, in last Sundays
| Globe, was written on the crown of
your hat while riding on a street car
| sincerely trust you will live to pen.
ell many reams of paper under the
same happy conditions. It was the
| best thing | ever read, barring, pos
sibly, two editorials in the Globe of
June 10th, under the captions RE.
! markable Sympathetic Condolences
and The Crook as an Economic Fac.
tor"
But it is not the purpose of this COM
munication to praise the Globe-prac-
tically all Washington is doing that
but to furnish you with a few facts
about the Times which the above men
toned article plainly indicates you to
be ignorant Of.
You must know, first, that Stilson
Hutchins-"Old Stilse," as he is called
by printers-is owner, editor, and bu-
siness and circulation manager of the
Times, He is it in every department
of the paper and not one Of the figure
heads in his employ, so-called edit
ors, % managers" etc, would dare take
the initiative in any action involving
his paper without first consulting him.
In his room on the third floor of the
Times building he opens the mail and
superintends the entire business, from
the paying out of penny daily for the
New York Journal from which the tel
egraph is sCissored, to the assigning Of
topics to "The Major" who grinds out
editorials for the two editions of the
Times.
OF course, the paper has an alleged
managing editor in the person of Still
son Hutchins' son. Walter, who could
not write two grammatical sentences
if it would save him from the gallows;
and one Leech poses as business man
ageg Leech, as every one knows who
has had two minutes conversation
with him, is the most objectional biped
north of the Avenue. His duties CON
sist in driving the overworked and
underpaid clerks-Federline ct al
and distributing theater passes to ad-
vertisers. Walter bosses" Major
West and Miss Lamphrey, the only
writers on the paper, and the reporters,
so-called.
At present there is no ostensible cir
culation manager Circulation man
ayers come and 20 in the Times office.
The last claimant for that title was
good-looking chap from Pittsburg who
held on for about a month and then
Jumped cases" and went west. He
had had experience in the circulation
department, OF a large Western publica-
ton and was possessed of real ability
in his line, which probably opened his
eyes to the fact that he was out of
place in the Times office.
Frank Federline, one of the two
youthful clerks who compose the cir
culation department. of the Zines
which is located in a filthy hole ad-
joining the pressroom-is the most
pitiable human object | have ever met.
his unlucky youth was a bright-eyed,
rosy-cheeked boy when he entered the
Times service four years ago. Fresh
from the school.room, he was equipped
with a good business education and a
knowledge of stenography and type
writing which would have spelled sue
cess for him in any office in the city
the most Inundated and abiect of all
"Stilson's minions,' as Times employees
are called. The brow-beating, bull
doing course characteristic of Stilson
Hutchins, and emulateu by Walter and
Leech in their treatment of those asso-
cited with them on the Times, has
crushed the spirit out Of this youth,
while his long confinement in the cir
department is manifested in
his heavy eye and emaciated form.
Federline is a prototype Of his cola
borer in the circulation department,
who, because he is deaf and has an i'm
pediment in his speech, is not dubbed
any kind of an editor or manager IL
is such drudges that enable Stilson
to ride to Office behind a
double team and give statues to the
city in his attempt to break into So
ciety.
But the circulation department is not
the only example of Stilson's parsi-
monious policy to be found under the
Times roof. 1t extends to every de-
partment of the paper, including the
composing room, with its chapel and
boasted unionism. The skillful manip-
ulduOu Oh lue DOyS III llllS utpdlE
ment would prove a valuable lesson to
publishers seeking to reduce the eX-
pense account. The eight or nine who
get out the Evening Times are whisked
from machine to "ad. alley" and from
"ad. alley" to machine with a celebrity
that would strike an old knight of the
stick and rule dumb with amazement,
If he we're permitted to witness 1t.
And then there are the apprentices, so.
called The three who work on the
day shift have all served more than the
required four years apprenticeship,
but will not be coaxed or cajoled into
joining the union, preferring to remain
apprentices at S. or 81 per week to
becoming journeymen and walking the
streets with cards in their pockets,
One Of them, who has served six years
at the business, reads proof on the
Evening Times and draws the munit-
cent salary Of $5 per week.
Boz