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Show ARTHUR BRISBANE GETS $46,000 A YEAR. Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst chain of papers is said to be the highest priced editor working on a salary in the country today. Mr. Brisbane was born in Buffalo forty-two years ago. He was educated edu-cated in France and Germany, and speaks several languages. His father was Albert Brisbane, one of the most eminent scholars and brilliant writers of his time, who intorduced the doctrines of Fourier, Four-ier, the great French sociologist, to America. For two years the elder Brisbane paid advertising rates to the New York Tribune for .daily space to advocate his peculiar theories. It is said that William Wil-liam Randolph Hearst paid Arthur. Brisbane f 46,000 a year for writing the doctrines which his father could not cet printed except upon payment of regular advertising rates. But Brisbane does more for Mr. Hearst than write a double column of editorials each day. He is the life and soul of the Evening Journal, the all-inspiring genius of that great concern. Perhaps he is the moving spirit of the "whole chain of Hearst newspapers. No one except Mr. Hearst and himself knows the. extent of his authority. He is u bachelor. He lives at Hempstead, L. I., eighteen miles from the city hall in Manhattan. He writes many of his editorials on the train, as he is whirled along. When he does not write them with a pencil he dictates them to . the phonograph or directly to a stenographer, ste-nographer, who must be one of the swiftest. But the phonograph is his most valuable associate in business hours. It takes too much time to jot down ideas for future use with a pencil ; lie tells them to the phonograph. - - , ' : - |