The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-14


James Gordon Bennett, the veteran
editor and founder of the New YorL
Herald, died at New York on SATURDAY.
June ], iE the nth year of his a,s '
Mr.. Bennett had for several DAYS been
in an Unconscious state, aud was sustain.
ed only by the free administering Of
stimulcnts. He passed Friday nigh,
TRANQUILITY, and was thought to be BET.
ter on the morning of Saturday, but in
the afternoon sank rapidly. His end
was painless. When his last hour ar.
rived lie sank to sleep in death CALMLY
and peaceabiy, and his soul passed away
without struggle.
Five years ago Mr.. Bennett entirely
withdrew from the active managemen,
OF the Herald, out, although infirm, hi,
general health had been remarkably
good, while his fine intellect remained
unimpaired, and his interest in events
of the day continued undated up 10
the moment of his fatal illness,
James Gordon Bennett was born in
1896, in Scotland. He received strict
classical and ecclesiastical education At
the Roman Catholic Seminary at Aber.
deem, and was intended for the Clergy.
In April, 1919, however, abandoning ali
ideas of joining the priesthood, lie came
to America and commenced work as
school-teacher at Halifax, Nova Scotia
Thence he moved to Boston. 1t was
with difficulty that he secured the
means of existence indeed, report has
it that only his finding a silver quarter
in one OF the walks on the Common, at
Boston, saved him from starvation or
suicide. In the fall of 1919 he became
a proof-reader in the publishing house
Of Wells & Lilly. In 1922 he removed
to New York. In New York he was
identified most closely with the old
Courier and Enquirer, then the leading
journal of the country. Half of its
ma ter and all of its spice flowed from
the facile pen of the needy young Scotch.
man. 1t was him VINO inaugurated the
Washington correspondence, givingits
lively personal and social tone, which
was a generation in advance of his
time.
After troubled life, during which he
as a writing-master, lecturer
on political economy, and an instructor
in shorthand, and after one or two en-.
deavors to start party organ,-notably
the Pennsylranian, at Philadelphia.-Mr.
Bennett founded and started, in Nav,
1885, the New York Herald. 1t is cur.
rently reported that, had his then editor
possessed discernment sufficient to see
how valuable an assistant he had, the
Herald would never have been started.
A difference of 81 week-no small
item when a man was paid SIS week
and contemplated matrimony-lost a
good sub-editor to the Courier and revo
American journalism. The
Herald was first issued in cellar in Ann
street. the editors desk consisting of
board placed on two -four barrels. Adj
were written out for the
patrons of the new paper by its in.
defatigable editor. Exhaustion seemed
to him an imposibility. Besides his Of.
fee work. from six to eight columns Of
matter of the most widely varied char.
acter flowed from his pen daily. As
he was without peer or rival
in his day; he was prompt to size upon
the popular side of every question, and
regardless of clamor or consist.
ency in its advocacy or opposition. A
contract with popular phys.
clan floated the Herald over the finan.
cial difficulties which invariably attend
the starting of new eaper. Ii became
to decry lle Herald, which
was the first step toward reading it. 10
its columns appeared the first CONNER.
cial article ever published in America,
that era of wild.cat-drew an
immense number Of readers. The great
ire in New York in, 1885, afforded Mr..
Bennett an unusual opportunity. Of
which he profited to the full. His his.
tory after lS40-when the Herald be-
came a power in the lands the history
Of the Herald. His motto was, "News,
news, news" and carrier pigeon, pony
express, telegraph wire, steam yacht
all were pressed into the service. Since
1867, Mr.. Bennett lived in complete re.
tirement at his country-seat at Ford
nam, ACKNOWLEDGMENT only occasion.
llly-directing the course of his paper
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