He had selected a staff of twenty; as soon as
Coulter and Stokely assented, he engaged them by telegraph. Five were
developed artists, the rest beginners with talent. He gave all of his
attention for two weeks to organising this staff. He infected it with his
enthusiasm. He impressed upon it his ideas of newspaper illustration--the
dash and energy of the French illustrators adapted to American public
taste. He insisted upon the artists studying the French illustrated papers
and applying what they learned. It was not until the first Sunday in
December that he felt ready to submit the results of these labours to the
public.
Again he scored over the "contemporaries" of the _News-Record_. They
printed many more illustrations than it did. It had only one illustration
on a page, but there was one on every page and a good one. All the subjects
were well chosen--either action or character--and as many good looking
women as possible.
"Never publish a commonplace face," he said. "There is no such thing in
life as an uninteresting face. Always find the element of interest and
bring it out."
The result of this policy, interpreted by a carefully trained and
enthusiastic staff, was what the out-of-town press was soon praising as "a
revelation in newspaper-illustration.
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