Year: 1875

which, to the average mind, pre-

 sents an aspect of such profound bewildering mystery as does that of journalism. Newspaper off

 ces are, in their very nature, re

 moved from the ordinry routine of life, though everybody in tho country reads the papers" but few people have correct idea oI how they are made up. What journalist has not been amused and amazed by the ridiculous questions asked him concerning his duties? There are vast mum Der of people, to mention only one class of these knownothings (when newspapers are in ques tion who believe that the editor in-chief, or the proprietor, whoever is known to control the journal, is personally conversant with every article that appears in its col umns. They do not realize how many editors and reporters it takes to write, examine, correct, abridge, lcngthen, and subhead the matter printed in .one. issue of the paper. A journal like the Herald, or the Tribune, or the Times, has regular staff of some fifty or sixty editors and reporters, and the man whose name stands at the head of the editorial page as the proprietor, would have a nice time of it, had he even to read all the matter prepared by them. And yet people come to the offices of these journals every day, asking to see Mir. Bennett, or Mir. Reid, or Mir. Jennings as the case may be-about this or that little item of public news, about a run-ovcr case, For miss spelled name in the report of some unimportant meeting.

 They are not aware of the various divisions existing in all large newspaper offices and are rather surprised when told that there is a city editor, who will answer all questions concerning local news; a financial editor, who must be seen in regard to any manipula- tions in Wall street; a dramatic editor, who will receive the friends of any pretty actress, requiring . "kindly notice" of her budding genius; q managing editor to whom they can appeal from the decisions of either of these gen tlemen and an editor in chief who can even reverse the dictum of the last named power. As the myste- ry of the New York press has never been thoroughly unveiled, l will give your readers a slight sketch of the inner life of Metro politan journalism.

 There is probably no business in New York to-day which pays as well as the Newspaper business It is remarkable fact that all the papers now in existence in this city pay, and that many of them pay most handsomely. To be sure the time is gone when, as the late Mir. Bennett or the late Mir. Greeley did, newspapers could be started with almost no capital. It requires large sum of money now to start a newspaper in New York, and a still larger one to make it successful. The Repub- lie, three-cent paper, which was started in opposition to the Times, a four-cent paper, died from want of funds, and many of it's employ es remained unpaid. But If sufii- cient money had been forthcoming to help the young organ over the difficult period of it's childhood, il would have been sure to pay. The net profits of the Herald are csti- mated at about l,500 a day al, though the Herald will frequently , spend two or three thousand dol lars on one important dispatch 5 The Times, dividends have beer something enormous-the Time. . is not owned by one and as th' ] World, but by a stock company | The Sun which is one of the bes n paying papers in New York, de e clared dividend of nearly fort, ? per cent. last year. The Tribun' l and Post are now erecting two O s the largest and costliest building ? in the city, facts which speak fo