SENILITY V. YOUTH IN JOURNALISM.
From the Special Article (1 page) by Mr. HILDEBRAND HANNIBAL HARMSWORTH.
‘The Times.’—... This once famous organ, undermined by the deadly competition of an efficient halfpenny press, fell into its dotage in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Feeble efforts were made to bolster it up by distributing it as a bonus to purchasers of the ninth and tenth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, but an article condemning motor-cars marked the beginning of the end. An old paper run by a senile staff could no longer make headway against the triumphant combination of youth and ‘hustle.’ This fact can best be illustrated in the same way that the Daily Mail displayed the ages of railway directors—by the appended tables giving at a glance the ages of the leading men in the two organizations in the summer of 1902:—
| AGES OF THE TimesSTAFF. | AGES OF THE DailyMail STAFF. | ||
| C. F. Moberly Bell | 198 | Alfred Napoleon Harmsworth | 23 |
| G. E. Buckle | 186 | Scipio Africanus Harmsworth | 21 |
| Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace | 185 | Hildebrand Hannibal Harmsworth | 19 |
| Humphry Ward | 193 | Alexander Tamburlaine Harmsworth | 16 |
| George Hooper | 179 | Wellington Marlborough Harmsworth | 14 |
| Dr. Morrison | 183 | Charlemagne Attila Harmsworth | 12 |
| G. W. Smalley | 178 | Washington Roosevelt Harmsworth | 6 |
| J. A. Fuller Maitland | 191 | Rhodes Kitchener Harmsworth | 2 |
| A. B. Walkley | 199 | ||
| Hugh Chisholm | 174 | ||
| Valentine Chirol | 170 | ||
| M. de Blowitz | 200 | ||
[The New Volume also contains Articles on THE EXPANSION OF TELEGRAMS, NEWS INVESTIGATORS, FIRE BRIGADES, and IMPERIALIST LIBERALISM.]
Superb Plate from the Article Thames in the New Volumes of the INSIDECOMPLETUAR BRITANNIAWARE.
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