The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-07
YOU ARE SURE TO BE PLEASED
IF YOU WILL ONLY LOOK. =.
. w. WHITE

but he runs the whole paper, n ne
represented Mr.. Benefits idea OF the
impersonal and capableJournallst. he
ia One of the most industrious men IN
New York, modest, unassuming ana
watchful.
Tn the old daysi it was the practice OF
the Herald to keep it's staff alive by
frequent and unexpected shakings up.
When the paper got beat heads began
to fall. Now the old hands stick, and
the PAPER is barnacled with old at
taches. Many years ago Ashley Cole,
later on Governor Morton's secretary
and afterward president of the state
railroad commission, was city editor OF
the ape and, being in falling health,
was sent by Mr.. Bennett TO accompa-
nv the California wheat fleet on its
yearly race to Europe. While Ashley
was off Cape Horn an Internal ma,
chine was sent to the Spanish consul
in New York through the post. Ihe
Tribune got the story, and the Herald
got beat. Bennett happened to be In
barcelona and cabled to have the he
raids report repeated to him'oy wire.
It dind't have any, and the next caoie
discharged the executive city stan 10
man, and when Ashley arrived IN Cork
be was out of ajob, and he couldn't get
il again and never did get employment
on the paper, although he sought 1t
earnestly enough. Afterward ne was
Glad enough not to have buried him
self in the Herald. y.
There are no other personalities OF
importance on the paper except the
citv editor, G.. w. Lincoln, who ia
training like Reick and is an enl-
ire Incapable iousnalist and like him In
methods and spirit.
A great deal of the city news is now
covered by the press agencies, and
most of the papers have a common SER
vice. The Herald is in this pool and
retains a special staff much reduced
from its old strength of fifty and sixty
reporters to work out special stories or
to be turned loose upon the sensation
of the day which it is wished to fea-
ture.
The Herald in reality profe sses to /.
a general newspaper covering thewho
field as distinguished in policy from the
paper which makes everything subor-
dinate to the feature of the day. But
it Yields occasionally to the temptation
of the ~"feature" aspect and occasionally
gets a little yellow in its news treat
ment and headline. Then it will brace
up as if under an emotion OF reform,
which is sometimes 80 violent that it
has the nature of a..spasm. 1t has no
politics, and it has no creed In political
economy. 1t does not know whether
IL stands for tariff or free trade, for i'm
perialism or not, for municipal owner
ship or corporate control, for or against
trusts, and it can't or won't tell you
whether the constitution follows the
flag. If it knows what it thinks about
any of these things it never reveals the
knowledge to its readers. But what it
does stand for Is the news. What hap
pened Yesterday the world over is the
Heralds business and care, and better
than all other papers it gathers and
prints the history of the elapsed twen-
ty-four hours. It's news provision is a
marvel of completeness and care. 1t
schedules with a special clerical force
that it calls editors the stated events
of the future and watches them with
jealousy.
Its telegraph bills a during the
war to SIS, 900 q week. Its correspon-
dent account, settled weekly In 80 far
as possible, is nearly $4,000. Its city
staff is a charge of So, 500 a week, and
its editorial payroll last year was $ll5.-
O0O.-R. E. Raymond in Printers Ink.