Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — New York Dailies. [ARTICLE]

New York Dailies.

Correspondence of Providence Star: The practice of having an editorial consultation still prevails in the Harald office, although what beneficial results are obtained no one is able to tell. 'The editorial writers and the heads of deassemble in great solemnity, and the leading news of the day is talked over and is treated thereafter •with no regard whatever as to the results of the consultation. The heads of departments runwieir departments in defiance of the opinions of all others. The other papers are run on different Systems. In the Times office Mr. Charles R. Miller is editor-in-chie'f, and the managing editor is subordinate to him. Miller remains in the office until 1 o’clock in the morning, and devotes himself almost entirely to the editorial page. He supervises and revises all the editorial matter. Mr. John 0. Heid, the managing editor, in the meantime is whooping up the -news, and is not bothering his head about editorial matters. He is not absolute, however, for Miller has the helm. In the World, Mr. John H. Cockerill keeps an eye on every department, and controls every line of copy. He gets to his desk by noon and remains there until after midnight, and he is writing editorials and suggesting news matter all day and all night. Mr. Ballard Smith, who has been the rounds of New York journalism, has at length got back to the World, but in a subordinate position. Probably tho most complete system of management is that of the Sun. Mr. Dana puts in five hours a day of steady work in writing and revising editorial matter, and at about 4 o’clock in the afternoon turns over the entire establishment to Chester L. Lord, the managing editor, and goes home. He hasn’t been down to the office an evening in eight years, and his orders are strict that in no event shall he be communicated with or disturbed after his departure. Lord takes up the work where Mr. Dana has dropped it, and thereafter has absolute control over every line that goes into the paper. The particular strength of the„Sun is the excellence with which the hews and editorial departments are systematized. As much or more news and correspondence is received daily as any of the big eight-page papers get, but the Sun must put the pith of it all before its readers in onehalf the space. It has, therefore, a corps of seven men who do nothing but revise copy from 6 p. m. until the hour of going to press. Each man has a department and all sit in the same room with the managing editor. A constant interchange of conversation is going on with reference to this, that, or the other article, and the amount of space that each article can occupy is settled upon before it goes to the composingroom. Ail the news of the day and the correspondence pass through these men’s hands, and they revise and cut and slash as the occasion demands. In the Tribune the most complicated system prevails. Mr. Whitelaw Reid is supreme, and under him in order are the managing editor, the day editor, and the night editor, through all of whom a trivial order or suggestion must pass. The city editor has to fight them all to get his matter into the. paper, and the night editor, on whom alights the final paroxysm of getting the paper to press, is beside himself with a conflict of orders and instructions when the fatal moment arrives. With all hands bearing down on him to put in the special matter he is at his wit’s end. There is confusion everywhere. The same is true of the methods in the Herald, and in a less degree of the Times— there is a great deal of confusion resulting from the multiplicity of departments and the men who give orders. The World goes to press with a rush and a good deal of noise. The Sun men work with the precision of mechanics, with one man guiding every part, and the time of going to press does not vary five minutes, night after night, from one month’s end to another. It is done without noise or excitement or confusion of any sort. It is the result of a carefully developed system.