Evening star., 1934-01-31
FRANK DOUBLEDAY,
PUBLISHER, EXPIRES
New Yorker Handled Books
by Conrad, O. Henry
and Others.

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla, January 3l.-Frank
Nelson Doubleday, 72, prominent New
York publisher, died here late yester-
day
Although Mr.. Doubleday had been
in i'll health for many months. death,
due to an internal hemorrhage. came
Unexpectedly Mrs. Florence Double
day. his wife, was at the bedside.
Publisher of Conrad
NEW YORK January 81 (P).-
Frank Nelson Doubleday, the publisher
who died in Miami yesterday, was
known to the book world here as 'the
man who made publishing business" }"
He was the first man to realize the
possibilities of Joseph Conrad as an
author, and from Doubleday Conrad got
the first substantial royalties for his
books of romance and adventure. now
famous
He kept a list Of writers who write"
They were the authors whose works he
accepted and published.
Among them were names such as 0.
Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Gene Stratton
Porter, Booth Harrington, Edna Ferber,
Rider Haggard. c. N and A. N Will
hanson. William McFee mad a host of
others who achieved fame in the world
of literature.
He was born in Brooklyn in 1862, was
schooled there in the Brooklyn Poly
technical Institute and entered the en-
plov of Charles Scribners Sons, pub
fishers. in 1877.
In the days when publishing was
young in New York-When names now
famous were still unknoWn-DOubleda
was one of the young publishers who
met with newspaper men in Park Row
and talked plots with man who later
was known as O. Henry.
Manager of Scribners.
Doubleday served his apprenticeship
with SCrlbnerS and for 10 years
worked as an assistant there. He le1t
Scribners to rebound and edit maga-
zine known as the Book Buyer. but re-
turned to become the first manager OF
Scribners Magazine when it was found-
ed in 1886.
The name of Doubleday entered the
lists of book publishers in 1897. when
S. s. Mcclure Joined with Doubleday
in a publishing enterprise which lasted
three years.
Then Doubleday met Walter Hines
Page, later Ambassador to England, and
the firm became Doubleday-Page & Co,
Doubledays best known contribution
to the publishing business was his plant
in Garden City, where he adopted the
principles of industry to book making.
Doubleday consolidated the depart
ments of his company into an efficient
organization under which magazines
and books were produced units OF
a manufacturing organization.
Once the writer has proved his
worth with the public or with a pub
Usher" he once said, the thing be-
comes a business and must be treated
as such and not as a thing to be toyed
with"
Issued Magazines.
The publisher included among his
enterprises the Worlds Work. Country
Life. Garden Magazine, Short Stories
and other magazines His Garden City
plant. as he first built it. had a capa-
city of 10000 books a day.
Until recently, when he spent most
of his time on his Oyster Bay, Long
Island estate, or in Florida, the pub
Usher was a familiar figure to the
printers in his Country Life Press at
Garden City where he often appeared
to watch the publication of the books
he had accepted.
Today the firm is known as Double
day. Doran Co.
OF Conrad Doubleday once said:
Il liked the things he wrote, so /
thought he was worth a gamble. l
financed him-and he was worth it."