Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-28
Changes in Magazine Field.
LFrom Ne wspaperdom.l

Years ago, when was in daily jour-
nalism '.stakeups'' were of common
occurrence, says Jeanette L. Glider.
We never knew whether we were going
to hold our positions for twenty-four
hours or twenty-four years. AS mat
ter of fact good many of us held
them as long as we cared to, sometimes
longer than was good for us; but there
was always a degree Of uncertainty In
the newspaper world. Nowadays. 1t
seems to me, there is quite as much
uncertainty in the world of magazines
and weeklles. AS many changes have
taken place in the last five years on the
STATS of monthlies and weeklies as
used to take place among the daily
journals. 1t did not use to be SO. II a
man was with a magazine he ~gener-
ally stayed there, and there you were
sure to find him. If you went away
for few years and came back lie
would be at the same desk. But nova
days you go into magazine office and
hardly see any of the people that you
saw there five years ago. OF course,
there are exceptions to this rule. 1t
is not true of Scribrer's, nor of the
Century, nor Of Harper's. There you
will find the old familiar faces.
But among the other magazines time
has brought around strange results
Mr. Wheeler, for instance, who was so
long associated with the Literary Di-
gest-in fact, he was said to have rails.
ed it's circulation from 10000 to 100000
and who was generally supposed to
be a stakeholder in the concern and
fixture If ever a man was, is no longer
with that weekly, but has left it and
become the proprietor. of Current Lit
erature, which he is booming from
small to big circulation. Then there
is Public Opinion. I don't know who
owned Public Opinion when I first
knew it, but later it was owned by
Mr.. H. A. Cuppy, who made number
of changes in it and improved it gen.
orally. Then recently it was taken
over by the j. M. Hill company, and
now the Literary Digest has bought it.
Everybody's Magazine, which was
purchased from John Wanamaker by
the Ridgway-T hayer company, has
only been with the new concern a few
years and yet Thayer is out. He was
bought out to the tune of several hum
dred thousand dollars, I understand,
and has virtually ratired from bust
ness, leaving part Of the price in the
magazine, which is paying him big
dividends. Apropos, Mr.. Ridgway is
not satisfied with a monthly, but he
is going to have weekly which is to
be called Ridgway's Weekly, a Militant
Journal for God and Country. have
not heard when we are to see the first
number. but 1 know that Mr.. Ridgway
is organizing his staff because I met
Mr. Burgess Johnson 81 few days ago
who. until that day, was with Messrs.
Harper & Brothers and he told me
he had just Joined The militant week
lyIs staff Only a year or two before
that Mr. Johnson was with Messrs
Putnam as literary adviser and man
uscript reader.
Another change is with the Woman's
Home Companion, which has now its
editorial headquarters in New York
with Mr. G. w. Hazen, advertising
manager of the Century Magazine. as
the president of the. new organization
Then, of course. there is the Cosmopol-
itan, which for years was the pride and