Regarding Frank Leslie and the competition between Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and New York Illustrated News. Transcription: Stories about Frank Leslie. the evening, [Charles] Damoreau came, supping with us, up in [Arthur] Ledger ?s room subsequently, with [James] Morris, [Frank] Cahill and Burger, Ledger having gone out after dinner. Charley got to descanting on the secrets of his prison-house [Frank Leslie ?s Illustrated Newspaper], some of them not unedifying. There ?s the sharpest rivalry between the two papers [with New York Illustrated News], hence engravers are at a premium; C
Regarding Frank Leslie and the competition between Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and New York Illustrated News. Transcription: Stories about Frank Leslie. the evening, [Charles] Damoreau came, supping with us, up in [Arthur] Ledger ?s room subsequently, with [James] Morris, [Frank] Cahill and Burger, Ledger having gone out after dinner. Charley got to descanting on the secrets of his prison-house [Frank Leslie ?s Illustrated Newspaper], some of them not unedifying. There ?s the sharpest rivalry between the two papers [with New York Illustrated News], hence engravers are at a premium; Charley professes no doubt but that he could secede from Leslie to Stahl tomorrow, without abatement of income. The former has, from his outset, made it a rule that his engravers should sink the payment of their first week ?s labor, so that let them stop in his employ for years, that sum always lies in his hands till their dismissal, at which they and especially Charley chafe. He declares he would mutiny on the question if the others would back him, knowing that, in the present state of things, Leslie would be, like Dick Swiveller ?s waiter ?ǣperfectly helpless. ? A singular man is Leslie, alias Carter. All the dunning and insult he has been subjected to never provokes more than temporary indignation. The scenes his establishment has witnessed! the rows! The crises! [Joseph] Brightly in an altercation about the usual subject, non-payment, calls him ?ǣYou pup! ? threatens personal violence, then, not Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 12, page 118, March 25, 1860 . 25 March 1860. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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