The age-herald., 1901-02-18

There strode into the office of the New York "World" on the afternoon of De- cember 31--the nineteenth century closing day-a young man well below forty He had A clean shaven face, with pierceing gray eyes, rather full cheeks, expre ssive mouth and a shock of yellow hair His clothes were no better nor no worse than the clothes of the hundred editors and reporters in sight. The one spot of celor that shone above the dull brownness of his sack suit was a bright red necktie.
 This young man was Alfred Harms worth, London's journalistic prodigy pro- prietor of more successful publications than any man in the world and founder of the phenominally profitable London Daily Mail. He had come at MT. Pullt gers invitation to edit the World" for one day Carte blanche was given to him. He could do exactly as he pleased In any department And he did
 ''In the first place., announced the young editor-he is just turned thirty four-"we will change the size. l am going to make tomorrpw's World" just half as big There will be four columns to the page and the columns will b. much shorter than they are regularly This will make "The World much moTc convenient TUT ItEQihS anu IiiOIt tdS carried in the pocket. Men will take th paper home with them instead of throw ing it away, and that's what the adver- tieers want"
 With that the new editor sent for all the heads of the departments and in fifteen minutes he had all the methods of "The World at his fingers enls. He looked over the display type and at once relegated to Limbo ''The Worlds' reg ular scare head" type. He chose for the head lines a much smaller font, and al- lowed only four banks of type instead of the regular six, which take up fully a fifth of a column alone.
 Then he took turn with the city department, where the local news is ham, dled
 "No story" he announced, "of more than 250 words.'
 The space writers looked aghasti '"The World" today runs it's news in more con- densed form, probably than any other newspaper of it's size in the United States. And here was a man who pro- posed cutting everything in half again!
 Then this remarkable young man hur- ried out into the art department. The artists were evidently expecting an easy day of 1t, knowing full well MT. Harms worth's objections to cuts in a daily newspaper. Here came the surprise.
 q should say" he announced, decisive ly that we will need about four pictures a page wide. Make your cartoon two columns instead of four. Better have a picture on tonight's theatrical openings and one on the celebration of the new century. I suppose that will lead the local news tonight.
 Just then a note arrived for him. It was an invitation from the Press Club for him to come over and join in it's fes- tivities. He scribbled a line back:
 'I can get fifteen minutes leave of ab- sence from to 4:15 p. m. I will be de- lighted to be with you then"
 MT Harmsworth kept his word. He was gone but fifteen minutes and re- turned ready to jump in again. There was another conference with some of the heads of departments.
 ''Now We will give a whole page to the theaters," said MT. Harmsworth, "be- cause I see there are many important openings and we will give one page to editorials and two to sports-everybod likes sport"
 The Englishmans love of sport was showing even in this busy editor.
 Put he added ''let nothing exceed the limit of space. Condensation is the erything should be presented in the brief est form. People have not the time to read long~stories. They lose their inter- est in tEem."
 By this time things were shaping them- selves smoothly in their respective chan nels and in a surprisingly easy way. Here was a huge and highly specialized newspaper organization doing everything differently for just one day, and yet there was no hitch-no jar Editors and re- >orters went about their duties just as