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6 THE ATLASjCA GEORGHAJir -AHP 3£EW& BATUBDAY, MAY 18, 1907.
y. CECIL METER,
Caslitlr Business Department.
JOHN A. CHARLTON,
Circulation Manager.
SOUTH’S NEWEST AND BEST MAGAZINE
IS PRODUCT OF YOUNG NEWSPAPER MEN
Uncle Remus’s First
Issue Makes Its
Appearance.
Uncle Remus's Magazine, which
makes its appearance today. Is the
product of the concentrated labor of a
coterie of young Atlanta newspaper
men.
With these qualifications to the gen-
Something About the
Young Atlantans
Who Make It.
mirably equip him for the position he
holds, which Is really that of general
manager.
Don Marquis Is associate editor. His
editorial and feature work on The At
lanta News and during the past threo
years and a half on The Journal have
made him known throughout the South,
JULIAN HARRIS.
Business Manager.
Inntans when they joined the venture
have already fallen into the spirit.
And those two or three who are no
longer basking on the sunny side of 32
In actual years nre still wonderfully
youthful In actual fact. Joel Chandfer
Harris, for Instance.
All of them are Just out of newspaper
work, and every one of them could
handle a court trial, a murder or a
baseball game, or coax an advertise
ment out of a merchant in jam-up good
shape. All, from the eminent editor
down to his youngest son, who Is on
the staff of the advertising manager of
the magazine. They have been through
the newspaper game and each has serv-
ed with more or less distinction.
All Youngsters.
As has been said before, they are all
youngsters. Roby Robinson, , who
financed the venture, is not 35. Julian
Harris, the prime mover of the maga
zine, is only 32. Don Marquis, asso
ciate editor, Is 28. 8. E. Duvldson, ad
vertising munager, is 32. John A.
Charlton, circulation manager. Is with
in the same limit. Rdwln ('amp, man
aging editor, is 24. Charles R. Cun
ningham, subscription manager, is
known In the office as "Father Cun
ningham" because he has reached tlte
advanced age of 37. And while Joel
Chandler Harris and Charlie Pritchard,
foreman of the mechanical department,
can reminisce over newspaper work or
The Constitution two decades ago, thev
ore, in everything else but years, Just
about the youngest of the bunch.
Youth and newspaper experience are
a hard combination to beat; so you can
play Uncle Remus's Magazine to show
Continued on Page Fourteen..
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS,
Editor of Uncle Remus's Magazine.
among the six best sellers and to set a
merry pace from the very start.
First Issue Out.
The first issue, which bears the June
imprint, is a splendid magazine. It is
alive, alert and vibrant with interest
ingness. It Is not merely promising of
good things in the future. It is a ful
fillment of the best hopes that have
been entertained for the venture. From
cover to cover Its forty-eight big pa;e.<
are filled wjth "stuff”—to newspa:»er
men, everything is "stuff"—that has
quality. It is splendidly illustrated by
the leading artists of America—su'd*
people as Charlotte Harding, Chari**
Livingston Bull, Charles A. Winter.
James Preston and Walter Whitehead
—and In typography and press-work
compares with the best of the long-
established monthlies of the Rost.
It Is the most ambitious attempt ever
made to establish n first-class literary
monthly In the South. A glance
through the magnificent publishing
plant at 20 South Forsyth street will
give one some idea of the magnitude of
the venture.
The plant, housed in a new
erected especially for the purpose. Is
perhaps the only magazine home in the
country which has no office for its edi
tor. Joel Chandler Haxris says there
are not enough trees there, and after a
brief visit each morning to the various
departments he boards a West End car
and returns to the Snay-b?an farm,
where the noise of editing may be
heard at all hours of the day and night.
That Is. when the birds don't sing too
loud and the passing trolley cars don’t
make too much fuss.
Men Who Make It.
As to the personnel of the editor’s
staff:
Julian Harris, oldest son of Joel
Chandler Harris, is business manager
In title. He was, before taking up the
work of starting and organizing the
magazine, one of the best known news
paper men In the country, becoming
munaging editor of The Constitution
at the age of 24, after brilliant service
on The Chicago Times-Heraid and on
the local staff and city desk of The
Constitution. His thorough knowledge
of the details of newspaper work in all
Its departments, his indefatigable en-
and his originality of ideas ad-
ond the publication by Scribner’s, Put
nam's and the American Magazine of
his poems and short stories has car
ried his name before the entire coun
try. He Is regarded as one of the com
ing writers of the South. If it were
an original remark, it might be said of
him that his versatility is exceeded
only by his verse-utility. Poetry rip
ples from his tongue In a gentle, never-
ceasing stream, the flow sometimes be
coming a raging torrent of lambic pen
tameters, bursting all bounds, Ignoring
ail cesuras. and sweeping on to a
grand climax, epical and epochal.
That’s what one of the genus press
agents might say of Marquis. But the
fact of the matter is that he is a tre
mendously industrious young man of
undoubted talent, who is bound to
make a big hit. He has already begun
to arrive.
Edwin Camp, Managing Editor.
The work of getting the magazine
from manuscript to the press—In tech
nical phrase, the "make-up”—Is looked
after by Edwin Catnp, who Inst fall
left the city editorship of The Georgian
to take up his new duties. He hus put
In four or five years of newspaper work
on the local staff of The Constitution
and The Memphis Morning News, as
sporting editor of The Atlanta News,
night city editor of The Constitution
and news editor of The Macon Tele
graph.
S. R. Davidson is manager of the
advertising department. Though a na
tive of Illinois, he is a Southerner by
EDWIN CAMP,
Munaging Editor.