Show THE NEW YORK WORLD A Papor of Surprises Something About Its Staff Special Correspondence NEW YORK April 13 The New York World has always been a paper of extremes When it was started in I860 it was S extremely religions that it roused i ro-used theatrical advertisements and so r x reraely unprofitable that in one year it move t first editor Mr Alexander Cummings nto tho west into politics and into a terr orial governorship During the war its ex reme opposition to the administration made t some money Later under the management f Mr William Henry Hurlburt it became so extremely literary that it reached about a ow an ebb in circulation and influence a i for to attain and still js possible a newspaper attin sti i ive and yet at the time in the minds of the i Scholars of this country it was regarded a he best written paper in New York When Mr Pulitzer from 1Ten Joseph Pulzer came on frm 3t Louis in 1883 and purchased it for 400 XX there to but > ther was practically nothing buy the Associated Press franchise There i something in the first twentythree car of the history of The World which points a moral for would be newspaper men It proves that a newspaper i the servant of the public and when the servant attempts tout t-out on airs of moral or intellectual super jrity over its master It ceases to pay I Under Mr Pulitzer The World has attempted at-tempted to attain the extreme of enterprise ft ba advertised It has boasted of its circu ation of it advertising and by dint of persistently per-sistently tooting its ow horn it has sue ceeded In becoming in many respects the leading paper of the metropolis There i nc ioubt that today The World i a paying piece of newspaper property but that it pay the enormous profits which are claimed for it few old newspaper men believe Col John A Coekerill i managing editor f Tho World at of 12000 > a salary 1200 a year He i a thorough newspaper man alert pertinacious per-tinacious an admirable executive editor and a clear forceful writer He i one of the most popular newspaper men in New York an officer of the Press club and active in every movement for the advancement of the profession The World has the largest staff of any paper in New York city Nearly 600 men draw their pay at The World office on Park row and it takes over 12000 weekly to cover the pay roll This i exclusive of the correspondents spondents and occasional writers who number about 4 The World i now practically three papers it Brooklyn and New Jersey editions each having its managing and city editors and local staff There i no doubt that it i Mr Pulitzers ultimate intention to make three distinct papers and the establishment of a plant in Brooklyn i a step in this direction He also thinks of following the example of several of the Boston and Chicago papers and The New York Sun in issuing an afternoon edition There i but little gossip about the office All sorts of rumors concerning it float around Park row and a the more easily believed because The World i always doing something some-thing surprising When CoL Coekerill went to Europe some time ago I va seriously informed in-formed by several old newspaper men that he fonne sever newsapr liil gone t London to start a English counterpart coun-terpart of The New York World Wild a it sounds the rumor was seriously canvassed by men who ought have know Bu it shows the feeling in regard t the paper I n can calculate pretty closely what most of thi papers will do but wo are prepared t credit a y bold or startling measure which may b imputed t The World I Mr Pulitzer should buy the New York postoffice for his paper the newspaper men would be no more surprised at the evidence of his success than they woull be at his failure i it should stop publication tomorrow It i a paper of surprises and we a getting used t it ALLAN FORHAN |