Show A hundred x naw YORK feb 2 half a million collm H for five years bervice a han dred thousand dollars a year twice s much aa the salary paid to to the dent of the united states this is the cleare recently offered by a newspaper publishes to another newspaper publisher and actually act nally refused by the lat tar the one that offered it was joseph pulitzer of the world and the ono that refused it was james W scott of the chicago herald and the chicago evening post the proposition which wag made by mr euln tir er when the chicago publisher was in this city last week in attendance on the meeting of the executive committee of the american nejep ner publishers association embraced a five years con tract at the figure named with other inducements that wo id hare considerably increased the sum total upon condition that mr scott settle in kew york for the period named and tire his entire time and attention to the management ot the world this offer enormous as ft was however was declined on the ground that with chicago on the eve of the worlds fair it youad be impossible for mr scott to relinquish direct supervision of his town newspaper properties in that city it is said that nothing approaching this salary has ever before been offered to any man in any profession or line of business in the country for a few yeara his retirement the late president tom scott of the pennsylvania railroad drew n presidential salary a years and thia wai birdel at the time as so en normous a figure that many a foreigner gount an introduction to him dimply to see the man whose executive ability was considered worth that expenditure pend iture |