The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-14

ricd passengers In the eighteenth con-
tnY-bad To- work his way across the
water as Il common sailor and finally
ended his poverty In tavern by commit
ting suicide. Fulton. too. died poor and
Whitney had n hard beginning With his
cotton Gin. the original OF which AFTER
having been carried on by thievlng rivals.
before Inc had patented it. was repro
duccd in various inventions, giving rise
To- continual infringement suits that
vcN"d linn for years And the years OF
struggle and hardship which Elias Howe
hnd tn endure while lie was striving tu
Introduce his sowing machine 50 com
plelely broke his h'alu' that he could
never enjoy th" honors and money which
came To him in later years.
Some Slow Beginnings.
Bel. after invcntng the telephone.
secured II good part OF Ih" world trying
To work up some public upprc ia lion ot
his invention. IIo could Hud no pur
chIS"r for half his European rights In
1874. and Chauuccy NJ. Dcpew. wncn Of
fcr"d Il onc-siNth interest iu The enter.
prise. took the advice uf The president
az the Western Union Telegraph com
pany nnd refused what would today hoyc
amounted 60 ten thousand times as much.
or 500 nnn .nnu. Similarly George West
iuchous" waited fnr appreciation Of bis
airbrakos. FOR th" inst train that IL was
tried on bad stopped 50 uuiullN that II
was wrecked bv thc process, but even
after mechanical success WAS realized
this man WHO had saved NOR" liN"s
than Napoleon lu9t.' received III" r"buH
from Commodore Vanderbilt. "TCn him
hnvc no Time to waste on Il id fool
Eut mere "Umr these Wright brothers
bursting into success rs quickly rs th"y
blaze into glory; and doubtless they VIII
die mlllonaires.
Rooscvelt's Big Honoraria.
PIomptcr rewards are coming also Il"
writ"ls-not only unvoliSiS. bui journal
lists as well ana speaking Of Journalists
We viii cummCnc" with Miro Thcodor"
Eoos"y"lt, ON" uf the latest recruits "f
the fourth estate. Prior tn his leaving
ih" Whit" House MS sanctum WAS DO
siog"d 10y publishers. oUlbiddiDg on" an
other l"r anything be might pul pen TO
fisher IS alleged tu have offered him
Slnn.noO HAT FOR Il travel book aud am
olh"r $4,000 Tor 4 VulUD1" ON sports ana
hunting. And finally hc Is said TO have
contracted with one Grm to furnish 150.
UoO words from the African junalts for
ON" dollar word, which means an hon
orHrlum equal I" tw" years "t his last
prcsiJ"ntial salary. Mud In addition 20
this ho is tu receive $&H 0oo year for
editorials IN New York weekly. This
amounts T." about sos per editorial.
Mover before was there such magic in
tn" till" OF '"N-prcSd"pt
Tn" first OF th"m To- earn n good rate {
journalism was benjamin Harrison. il Is
said. who eot $1,000 apiece for the series
OF articles, "ThiS Country Of OuI5s.
which ran in noted wpman's maSa%inc.
Mr.. Cleveland also got hig rates from
weekly journal published by The sam"
Philadelphia Hm. Eui in th" old days
our W!tc House veterans had no such
chances. Jefferson, with all his mastery
al jhc pen. di"d s" poor that his home
had to he sold I" pay his debts, While
Ills daughter had Co depend Tor Il liy"l"
hood on funds voted to h"r and her cH!l-
dU,u hy the states oi North Carolina and
Virginia. Then. too, th"r" WAS poor Mou-
roe. who spent his last DAYS urging the
government To pay his claim for the re
turn uC expenses which hr had incurred
abroad. BuI the government did not pay,
and Monroe died without leaving even
enough money to bury him.
OF course these big rates given 10 Mr..
Roosevelt are due TO th" fact that his pen
is dipped always in tn" sulphitIc and
never i'm tho bromide flud. And the
magazine which is To pay so generously
for his editorials VIII be the exclusive
channel Tor his views on political, indus
trial and local topics.
How Writers Rates Have Grown.
Indeed for any man With something
big to say. and with ii big way Of say
ing it, this Is the age 0t generous hon
nr1,ia That master genius. dc MIll-