The Washington herald., 1919-01-28
Special oorrespondent Of Ihe washinston Hss.ld.

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan. 27.-During the
past week two well-known news
paper men have deserted Park Row
for Fleet Street. New York's jour-
nalistic exodus to London began
with the first visit of Alfred HARMS
worth, now Lord Northcliffe, of the
Daily Mail, to America
1t was shortly after Northclifre
had secured control of the London
Times that he came to New York
and at the invitation of the late
Joseph Pulitzer he got out an issue
of the Morning World.
Park Row had its good laugh over
the effort. To the scribes down.
town it was a terrible journalistic
conception, the paper being publish
ed tabloid size.
While he was here, Pomeroy Bur-
ton, managing editor of the World
at the time. gave a Helshahazzerian
banquet at Delmonicos to North
cliffe. All the high lights were
there-Arthur Brisbane. Boss Lord
and the rest.
After the dinner Northcliffe hired
Burton at a salary that had never
at that time been paid in America
to any editor. He is still over there
at the head of one of the group of
Northcliffe publications.
Pomeroy Burton had been a
Brooklyn messenger boy in his day
and before going to the World was
city editor of the Brooklyn Eagle
When Lord Northcliffe took him
away. Brooklyn paragrapher
wrote:
The Lord loveth. and the Lord
taketh away. Blessed be the name
of the Lord"
There is a record at the Press
Club of every newspaperman from
Park Row who has tried out London
journalism. Not one has ever re-
turned. The reason is the unusual
salaries they receive. Most of them
will refuse to go for less than about
three times what they are making
and when they begin to make good
they naturally ask for more. Con-
sequently London is seeing what
New York never sees-rich report
ers and editors.
Mystery wins, In my recent re-
quest for letters on the subject of
the appeal of the mystery story over
other kinds, more than two-thirds of
the writer's expressed a liking for
mystery. incidentally the contest
wins a dinner for me at the expense
of New York publisher.
Nat Goodwin has a new idea. so
reliable information imparts, and is
I 10 a6Ont NpItDg yir II instaaJ oF
ryinG her. Goodwin recently recov-
cred from the effects of using A
wrong wash which nearly cost him
his eyesight. Being able to see again,
| 1t was reported that there arose on
the horizon a Young and beautiful
girl who interested him and she be
came fond of the actor. She did not
want to marry, and in a burst of con-
fidenCe is said to have told him that
she looked unOu him more as a
father. Whcreupon the man of great
eXpericncc said: well I'll adopt
you" And broadway hears the girl
agreed. and that it will soon become
a reality.
Tho Rodney club. in the West
Forties. has been opened TO the pub
/ lie. That is visitors may GO to see
1t and 1t is to me one of the most
( interesting places in New York 1t is
a large room where a group Of old
actors live. All of them are more
than % and have been on the stage
| from thirty to forty years-playing
the tanks and on Broadway. Nearly
every city Of importance has seen
them. They cook their own meals on
a tiny stOve-after their medicine
show" days they can cook. There is
/ a comfortable fireplace that is large
and open and there are plenty of
/ pipes and good tobacco and several
shelves of good books. Most of the
days are whiled away playing cards
and checkers and telling stories Of
| the old trouping days. Now and
then they give impromptu perform
ances and members of their profess
sion now playing in New York drop
in to call