foreign correspondence, and writes
editorials upon European topics. The financial editor writes the money
article, and is quite an important personage. He is obliged to be well
informed concerning all the financial transactions of the day; he is
courted by bankers and capitalists, as he to a certain extent controls
public opinion in money matters, and he has ample facilities for making
money outside of his position. The post is considered one of the most
lucrative on the paper, and the salary is regarded as a minor
consideration. The city editor has charge of the city news, and is the
chief of the reporters. The leading dailies have from twelve to thirty
reporters. These are assigned to duty each day by the city editor, who
enters his directions to them in a large book. They are sometimes
required to go to certain places to obtain news, and are expected to
furnish so much matter concerning it. Some of the reporters have special
lines of duty, and report nothing but law cases, police matters, etc.,
and some limit their operations to Brooklyn, Jersey City, and the other
suburban towns. Some of the reporters are stenographers also. At times
there will be scarcely any work to be done, and again the powers of the
whole staff of reporters will be severely taxed. There are also a
literary editor, whose duties are to review and notice books and other
publications; and art, dramatic and musical critics. Some of these are,
as they should be, gentlemen of the highest culture, and impartial in
their opinions. Others are quite the reverse. The best of them,
however, are but men, though they too often assume to be something
superior, and their judgments are not infallible. The leading journals
also employ translators, who put into English such extracts as it may be
necessary to use from the foreign papers.

[Picture: PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE.]

The amount of labor thus expended upon a morning newspaper is immense.
It is followed by an almost equal outlay of mechanical work in putting
the paper in type and printing it. The principal papers are stereotyped,
and are printed from plates. Formerly the Eight and Ten Cylinder Hoe
Presses were used, but of late years the Bullock Press has become very
popular. It works quite as rapidly as the Hoe press, prints on both
sides at once, and is said to spoil fewer sheets. The paper is put in in
a large roll, and is cut by the machine into the proper sizes and