The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-01-08
WHO BRISBANE rs.
Mr.. Hearst's Right Bower is Wealthy
In His Own Right.
Washington Star.

bane in one Of the current maga-
zines" said seasoned New York
newspaper man.. "Few persons in
the United States, outside of those in
the newspaper business, could tell you
out of hand just who Arthur Bris-
bane is. But everybody inside the
newspaper profession has heard about
him. Brisbane to give his briefest
description and the most fitting one
just now, is the young man who made
Mr.. Hearst. Nobody who knows the
|. circumstances Of his connection with
Mr.. Hearst's newspaper enterprises
has the least doubt of this.
"He is in addition the highest sal
\ aried newspaper man on the globe.
His salary as editor of Mr.. Hearts
New York evening newspaper is said
to be $4,000 year. If you take a
pencil and pad and figure it out care
fully, you will find that this means
$1,000 week fair wages; but nobody
J. in the business doubts, either, THAT
Brisbane is worth that much to Mr.
Hearst. In addition to his $4,000 a
year he is said to derive percentage
Of the New York evening papers re-
ceipts. The story goes that Mr..
Hearst promised him some years ago
percentage Of the papers receipts
when the paper should pass its 500,-
000-a-day circulation mark. Brisbane
pushed the paper past that figure and
is deriving his part of the harvest.
"As a matter Of fact, though Al
thur Brisbane never need to work at
all. He was born wcll-to-do and could
have lived very easily and worlllessly
on the bully good income with which
he was provided at his birth. Buthe
preferred to work, as men Of brains
must prefer. He was educated at one
Of the great universities, being grad
uated before he was 70. When he
was 20 he strobe into the office Of The
New York Sun and asked for some
work. The Sun then had, as it prob
ably still has, it 'kindergarten, so
called-that is, a school for embryo
journalists. The likely looking young
chap, who looked as if he might turn
out to be a newspaper man, was set
to work doing unimportant little
stunts at salary of $15 week. He
was watched by his elders. If he made
| good he was put con space'-that is,
she was attached to the regular staff
and paid column rates for his stuff if
he didn't show the right kind of ma
terial he was gently dropped.
"Now, to show you what kind of
, an individual Arthur Brisbane was,
and is, he stayed in the Sun s kinder
garten just four months before he
was put con space Then he joined
the staff. At the end OF one year af-
ter he had strolled into The Sun Of
flee and asked for some work, Ar
thur Brisbane was the European cor
respondent Of The New York Sun,
and newspaper readers who like the
best will remember what brilliant
series Of weekly letter he sent to The
respondent, and he had barely begun
to shave, at that. I remember Bris-
banc very well when he was a cub re-
porter around New Yorls,-a slight
light-haired youngster, with nothing
remarkable about him apparently AMI
extremely dudish in his dress; but he
had a cold way Of looking you
straight in the eye and a jaw that
squared when he became earnest, and
pair of hard, close-set lips and the
general air, if you took the time to
look him over under the surface Of
his 'audish clothes, Of young fellow
who was going to arrive.
"When he was recalled to New
York by The Sun people to establish
The New York Evening Sun he tool,
to that task with the JOY most men
would experience in sitting down to
good dinner, and it was nothing for
him to work for eighteen hours a
day. In the meantine-this story was
Egiven to me and [ repeat it for what
]. it is worth-he had become engaged to
#fa famous Western beauty, a girl des-
Ftined to be worth many millions of
6dollars. The girl, it seems. had a
somewhat domineerin@ lisposition-
the arrogance of wealth, not to put
too fine point upon 1t. After the
Rengagement was announced, so it is
said, she exhibited tendencies of this
tklepOsition, and the eu~aoemnnt WIS