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NOTED PUBLISHER
! FRANK A. MUNSEY
DIES NEW YORK
DEATH COMES FOLLOWING AP
PENDICITIS* OPERATION;
SUCCUMBED SUDDENLY
Made Fortune On Magazines
Was Single Man; Started Life At
Telegraph Station; Hewed Suc
cess Out of Failure.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (£>)—
Frank A. Munsey, died here last
night from peritonitis, which
followed an appendicitis opera
tion which was performed on
him December 13. ...Recovery was
expected, but a sinking spell be
gan early yesterday.
Frank Andrew Munsey was 28 years
old and a telegraph operator when
he arrived in New York one cold,
bleak day in the winter of 1882. He
had come down to the metropolis
from Maine, bringing all his prop
erty with him. It consisted of a
grip-full of manuscripts, the clothes
I he had on, and $40 in cash. He was
going to start a publishing business.
Penniless In New York
Seeking a focussing point for what
he felt certain, even at that time,
would one day be a great enterprise,
| he engaged a little room for an of
fice, bought an eight dollar table
and a couple of cheap kitchen chairs,
some pens and a bottle of ink, and
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■ Posters, S
j Movie Slides, \
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j Cartoons,
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Advertising,
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the $40 was gone. Frank Munsey
was broke in the world’s greatest
city, where even the mighty must
fight to hang on.
Starts Argosy Magazine
With all his troubles ahead of him,
he started to work, and two months
later appeared the first number of
the Argosy Magazine—then an il
lustrated weekly paper of eight
pages for boys and girls. Horatio
Alger, jr., was one of the contribu
tors. This was the beginning of a
struggle which has had few if any
parallels in the publishin world.
Forty years later, after one of
the most remarkable demonstrations
of hewing success out of failure ever
seen in that particular business,
Frank Andrew Munsey had become
one of the foremost publishers in
the United States, numbering his
newspapers and magazines by the
score and his wealth by the millions.
It had been a fight every step of the
way, and not once did luck lend a
hand with the burden.
Acquires N. Y. Herald
His most notable achievement in
the newspaper field came in Febru
ary, 1920, when he acquired the New
York HERALD, one of the oldest
newspapers in the country, and merg
ed with it the New York SUN, the
HERALD’S senior by two years,
which Mr. Munsey had purchased in
1916 and consolidated with the New
York PRESS. The elder James Gor
don Bennett had founded the HER
ALD, and Charles A. Dana developed
the SUN. The merged publication
was called The SUN and The New
York HERALD for a time, and then
changed simply to the HERALD. At
the same time the EVENING SUN,
another Munsey newspaper, was
changed to the SUN.
Then he acquired the TELE
GRAM, and in 1923 purchased the
GLOBE and COMMERCIAL ADVER
TISER and consolidated them. The
SUN bought the New York MAIL
last year and merged it with the
TELEGRAM. He then sold the HER- j
ALD, including his European edition 1
to Ogden Reid. Later Reid consol- j
idated the HERALD with the New -
York TRIBUNE which is now called
the HERALD-TRIBUNE.
Born in State of Maine.
The earlyr life of Mr. Munsey, as
he forged gradually ahead in spite J
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of countless disappointments and bit
ter reverses, was not unlike that of
an Alger hero, although his ultimate
success out-did the imagination of
even that famous writer.
Born in the little town of Mercer,
Maine, August 21, 1854, he has been
described as “one of those many
bare-footed country boys who start
life with more in their heads than
in their pockets.” He attended the
public school of Mercer for a while,
but soon felt the urge to make mon
ey. His first job was in the coun
try store, where he served as general
utility boy.
Was Telegraph Operator
From there he went to a telegraph
office, learned to handle a key, and
was sent to Augusta, then an impor
tant publishing center. His work
'became an obsession, and .he hated
it. He knew he could do big things.
The four walls of a telegraph office,
he wrote years afterward, “were to
■me as the cage to a tiger yearning
for the boundless freedom of the
jungle.”
“I was so sure of myself,” he con.
i tinued, “that I would willingly have
! given 10 years of my life, without
| compensation, for a chance with
some of the big concerns of the
country—railroading, steel manufac
turing, shipping, banking, or any of
the great staple industries.”
Publishing Germ Enters Life.
Gradually the publishing germ en
tered his blood. He drew up elabor
ate plans for a magazine and sub
mitted them to various persons with
money, but “an enterprise so hazard
ous as publishing, and managed by
a man who had no practical experi
ence, did not appeal to them.”
Finally, his scheme was laid be- :
fore a man more daring than the
rest—a stockbroker—and arrange-:
ments were made to begin publica-1
tion of The Argosy. The broker j
agreed to supply $2,500, and Munsey j
having $500 which he had saved,
promptly invested it in manuscripts.!
With these he started for New York.
When he had opened his little of
fice, he drew one of his new kitchen
chairs up to the eight dollar table'
and wrote for the $2,500. A few j
days later he collapsed over that!
same table. The broker up in Maine j
had changed his mind. He would
keep his money. This Mr. Munsey I
described as “jolt number one.
Takes Scheme to Publisher
Next he took his scheme to a pub
lisher, who offered to bring the mag- ;
azine out in his own name, retain- :
ing Munsey as editor and manager. |
Two months later the first number
appeared, and three months after
that the publisher failed. This wvas :
“jolt number two.”
The insolvent publisher owed the
editor and manager of The Argosy
something more than a thousand dol
lars in salary, which the latter took
for the good-will of the infant week
ly Paper. Writing of this period, he
described it as “the beginning of a
struggle such as no man is justi
fied in undertaking.” He had no
capital, and no means of raising
money. Many advance subscriptions
had been received and the money
spent. No one had any faith in the
magazine, and it could get no credit.
Borrows $300 from Friend
Borrowing $300 from a friend in
Maine, he fought on to keep what
little life the publication had. In
the winter of 1886 he wrote his sec
ond serial story for The Argosy. It
was called “Afloat in a Great City.”
He ground out 6,000 words a week
by candle-light, after long days of
struggle at the office. When he had
finished this, he looked back on the
four years of drudgery that he had J
lived through since coming to New
York. As a reward, he found that
his debts amounted to about $16,- ,
300. This was “jolt number three”—
the -worst of all.
His serial story, however, had help
ed the. circulation,’and money start
sd to come in. He increased the
size of the magazine and raised the
price. As fast as the money arriv
?d, it wras used for advertising. In
live months he spent $95,000 and dis
:ributed 11,500,000 sample copies of
toe Argosy. It was then called “The
Tolden Argosy.” He had 20‘ men
>n the road east of Nebraska, dis
:ributing samples. In New York he
lad no bookkeeper, no editorial
brce, no stenographer or no type
writer. They were luxuries which
le could not afford.
At the close of this campaign, in
LS87, the magazine had attained a
nreulation of 115,000 copies and was ■
paying a net income of $1,500 a
week. He wrote a third serial, grind
ing out another 6,000 words a week.
It was called “The Boy Broker,” and
added another 20,000 to the circula
tion.
But something was wrong. The
■circulation soon began to fade. The
trouble seemed to be with juvenile
publications, all of which were rap
idly failing. In 1891 he started Mun
sey’s Weekly, hoping to get it un
der way before The Argosy went
completely down, in a few months
(Continued on Page Seven)
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