The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-03-11

JunluS Henri DrOWuc, pOpllltl WI
ter, of New York City, has published
very interesting book with the title OF
"The Great Metropolis-A Mirror OF
New York." and from it we extract the
following sketches Of few noted men:
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
Privately he does not assume to con-
troll Or mold public opinion, but to fol-
low it; and he generally manages to be
about twenty-four hours behind it, that
he may publicly declare he has antici-
pated and created it. The Herald is
consistent only in its inconsistency and
it's determination to be on the strong
and popular side Of every question. By
miscalculation or misunderstanding 1t
sometimes gets on the unpopular side;
but, the moment it discovers its mis-
take it leaps to the other with alacrity.
Bennett understands that daily news
paper is emphatically thing OF to-day,
and that the mass of people care very
little for what it has said yesterday or
may say tomorrow. Consequently he
issues every number is if there never
had been and never would be another,
and so prospers. Privately, Bennett is
a very honest and strictly moral man.
He owes no one, and, as far as | can
learn, never did owe a dollar; paying
his debts having always been with him
the first of obligations He was never
other than Industrious and abstemi0us
and is said to be very charitable with
out ostentation. Ever since his mar
rage, which was, | think, in 1887, he
has been a pattern of domesticity; he
is extremely devoted to his wife, an ac-
complished lady, and his two children
james Gordon, Jr., the manager Of
the Herald, and a daughter, Lilly, a
promising girl of sixteen. He has a
very handsome house at Washington
Heights, and fine private residence in
Fifth Avenue. His income from the
Herald is fully $500, 900 per annum, and
his fortune is estimated at $3,O00,0O0
to 100000, every penny Of which he
has made by his journal. Personally,
he is over six feet in height, but is now
bent with age He is rather slight, his
eye gray, his hair white and worn rath-
er long, with strange, half cynical,
half comical expression, which makes
his countenance difficult to read. He
still speaks with a strong Scotch ac-
cent which is very marked when he is
irritated, and his irritation has increas-
ed with his years. His intellect is Wig
orous and clear, and his requirements
are numerous. He writes nothing in
these days, but in his working period
he wrote rapidly, nervously and grace
fully on almost any subject, the skcpti-
cism, cynicism and railery of his tenn
permanent always cropping out. OF late
years, Bennett has shown signs of de-
clining health He takes excellent care
of himself, however, going to bed every
night at nine o'clock. He visits the
Herald only two or three times week,
but is still, in every respect, it's editor
and feels as much interest in it as when
he toiled to establish it. There is little
need Of his visiting the Office often, fol
he can direct the establishment by telc
graph-a wire communicating with il
from Washington Heights.
HORACE GREELEY.
On the 10th of April, 1871, he ISSUED
the first number of the New York T'i
buae, himself selecting the name tina
has grown famous, and which as mere
name for truly Democratic paper il
unequalled in the world. x x From
the day he started the 1flbune-th'
darling of his journalistic heart-to thu
present time, its editors career has beer
one of unfagging labor. One ma,
well say of him what Clarendon may
well say of Sir Walter Raleigh-h
can toll dreadfully. He has a mani;
for work that persons of luxurious tenn
permanent can hardly comprehend. Ev
cry day that he is in the city-and h
never leaves it except on urgent bus
ness, or to keep an engagement to lee
ture or make a speech-he writes a
least two columns for the Tribune, no