The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-13
DINVES,OF The PUBLISHERS.
CEORGE LDE'S CONFESSION AND
WHAT 1T COST MN.

dred men Of nmble ideas. publishers. au-
,hors and painters sat at table hero tonight
Of the second annual dinner Of tho Period-
SaI Publishers Association. Dr. Hamilton
". Mahie was POSTMASTER, and thu speakers
we're George Ado, DR.. Lyman Abbott,
Melville T. Stone. Holman +. Day, Francis
p Teupp F. Hopkinso Smith, Prof. Thomas
r. Lounsbury and Charles Battell Lcomis.
Dr. William II. Harper Of Chicago University
was unable 10 come and Thomas T.. Watson
e IN at his home. William Travers Jerome
also had to decline at the last moment.
Before the banquet reception was held
st tho big summer hotel Among the
guests Of the association were many OF the
live men Of letters Of the dry, George AIDE
described II:
You couldn't walk two steps without
smbbinS your toe over somebody that had
been drunk on fame for years
II WIS distinctly a young mems affair;
there were few gray heads here and there.
but the reception and dinner would have
filed DT. Osler with Joy Most we're men
who had made bullseyes before forty
The hosts, including Frank n. Doubleday.
president Of the association; Arthur L.
Vance, vice-president, Frederick l.. Culver.
secretary, Oscar W. Brady, treasurer, and
big reception committee, represented
nearly every important periodical in the
country.
The president OF the association, Frank
j. Doubleday proposed the health Of the
President Of the United States when the
time for toasis came Il Yves drunk stand
ing
we are here. f." "a lid Mr. Doubleday merely
Is good fellows 20 meet good fellows for
tweny-four G0lrs when authors will cease
10 do publishers and publishers will be too
busy 10 do authors
Frank n. Doubleday int TO duced DR.. Mabie
as toast master.
Dr. Hamilton Wright Mabie said The
last dinner Of this association in Washington
was momentous affair. Theodore Roose-
welt was there and got elected President
shortly afterward.' He told OF a lady who
boosted that she could read Henry james
In the original
George AIDE was the first on the
HIST His topic was Business end of
periodical from the authors standpoint
but his speech was OF Indiana and the
Hoosier pluck Of authors. AIDE illustrated
HE fun with a chart Of Indiana divided into
zones OF literary activity, He is a modest
young man and spoke with some nervous
ness but the joyful reception ne got soon
put him squarely on his feet. He said
7 am going to read my remarks, and
aftcr ] read them you will know why l
didn't have the courage to memori2e them.
A good many years ago, when selected
journalism as a profession because It was
the only profession that seemed to re-
q,nre no special preparation or unusual
mental a11tiNr1Gpt halinyad fhat hA
editor was the man who really welded
the Archimedean lever After | got into
the business discovered that there was
another man who wielued the editor. and
he was known rs the publisher. l had
20 get into the inner workings Of the craft
in order 70 Lean tins important fact
When applied fora job Ona newspaper
j was asked Have YOU attended college,
J said No, have attended university
We have no colleges IN the West Accord
ingly ! was assigned to the edit Oria stan
at Sl5 week. ! was sent TO push pencil
IN back room, on the top hoor After
ward | learned that II had not owned up
90 Being a college graduate / would have
leen assigned 10 the business depa rment
with roll top desk and $500 week
The publisher and his favored associates
on the business end Of the sheet had heau-
tful quarters ON the frst floor We could
zee them through the glass PARTITIONS
loling IN their leather chairs they worked
four hours day and we worked fourteen
] discovered that | had made a mistake
end that | could do better in the advertising
reid, 30 | became an author. | suppose
that Is why ] was invited here tonight. ]
know ! am an author because / am from
Indiana Every HoOsier is an author
Hong applause and cheers for AIDE and
indiana He II an author by instinct.
You gentlemen are in the publishing
business and no doubt Won are looking for
lot stun. II So 90 not worry for another
moment, There are now icing inCubated
In the state Of Indiana enough manuscripts
20 keep all OF you supplied for the next ten
years Every summer the authors Of
Indiana meet at Hyde Lake. They assem-
be in the open air because there il no build
Ing 10 the State big enough TO hold them.
Do YOU know how many authors we
Rave In Indiana? | do not speak At hap
hazard; make no careless estimates. We
have in Indiana % S37 authors. classified
a. follows Historical nOyelists Ss03:
dialect poets, 6S97; magazine poets. l625;
rea poets 43O; dramatists, 1910; syndicate
humoristS ga; short story writers 1882.
We can give you anything you want I
II you wish a scholarly essay with a dash |
81 craftsmanship, 60 down into the Beve- |
Ridge belt, where John Hay started and !
where Schuyler ColfaN, Harrison and I
voorhees, labored. and you can get On essay 1
while YOU wait. II you wish a novel with a |
turning heart interest go and inspect what |
Is known as the Harrington zone. There |
harrington, CharieS MAJOR and Nicholson |
and hundreds Of Uthens are writing the /
book Of the wear
Northwest Of there you will find the /
NcCutcheon family eight OF the family .
Hre going il. with day and night Sniff I
south Of this * the Romantic novel region I
Gen. Lew Wallace Maurice ThomT son.
David Graham Phillips pnd others. John
Clark 3idpath was one Of the pioneers Of
WAT has become n permanent industry
he wrote school histories and sold them |
70 college students at % cents apiece. After
ward II was discovered that by putting in
thnsty pictures and distotting the main
Incidents the books cCUld he sold at 81 80
per The region between Vermilion and
Posev counties is something unprecedented
Everybody there ayr: Well, II Harrington
and the Mci'utcheon boys ran get away
with u there's a chance for me-
Go 10 anv village on a peaceful summer
evening and Won win hear low huZzing
~ first you think Il Il the dynamo Of the
electric Lighting station. Not so-it is some
sixteen -year-old maiden thinking out a
historical romance. And next wear she viii
nave her picture in the Bookmdp.
Go south and west of indianapolis and
Nou ar In the home 81 dialect poetry. Riley
taried II. Vow no one seems able 20 head ,
y ~. Every nan vino cant spell thinks
10 ls an author Right in to heart OF the /
cRlact poetry region j. a cluster Of COIN
Tics which va che 4ruvIA vavnaa Nhot I