The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-10

Scotland, and was In the issventy-seventh year OF
his age. rl 3D. ..r.rf E.s .t,t.f.r,.s
| from the Hillsboro IN. U.) Recorder, June 3.
| As man we have heard those, who knew him
and wrote for his paper declare he was ever gem
erous where 1t was just and In the misfortunes Of
any Of his attaches or printers b: purse was e
more power than q President, and we have often
felt that we would rather be Bennett Of the HERALD
than President o. the United states iasminiouun
From the Monmouth IN. ~ Inquirer, June 81
AS the great leader Of newspaper enterprise, Mr..
Benefits name win have place In the history Of
the age. No man did 80 much to make our news
papers what they are as he did. In the earlier
! years OF the HERALD he sometimes seemed TO care
for sensation than for the strict accuracy OF
been as fauitless as most OF It's contemporaries In
private life, Mr.. Bennett had many warm nendS.
Those who came into close contact with him IN ms
profound respect for him. Eyeay one knows the
position he occupied was one IN which the worst
to mark the generous euioglums which have fol
lowed his decease from those who were In his NE
time often placed In antagonism to him. D 10
From the Memphis Crenn.) Avalanche June 81
With the career Of tho HERALD the country is
familiar. 1t is now and has been for many years
the most widely circulated and prosperous journal
In America Next 70 the London Times the most
prosperous one In the world. AS . newspaper the
HERALD has never had an equal. In y has been
great founder who believed the greatest success In
journalism to be attained by excellence In the COM
pleteness and freshness OF the news OF the day.
The HERALD Ia q magnificent monument to the
ability energy and indomitable perseverance, Of the
greatest Of journalists. l ,s7agdo o8T do
From the Danville (va) Times, June 81 g
James Gordon Bennett died on the LIST instant,
at the age of seventy -seven. He was the founder
OF the NEW YORK HERALD, the most successful
newspaper, perhaps In the United States, possibly,
In the world. Mr.. Bennett was man Of stipend
Ous intellect, and for more than thirty-fve years
exerted wide influence over the public affairs Of
this country. 60 - &Qt4J 8he4 a
From the New York Evangelist Presbyterian
oG svCHQ organ June 81 % ia'9a9ns8
The NEW YORK HERALD was subsequently started
as penny paper with the meagerest resources,
and 1t ia probable that IL would have soon gone the
way OF the former venture but for the great fire Of
1885, out of whose ashes Mr.. Bennett raked it, and
then displayed much enterprise in collecting and
publishing news and Incidents concerning that
his enterprise This Characteristic has ever been
maintained and 1t may be said with truth that the
Country that day 20 % It's
expenditures for kilograms have been much in
advance Of any other paper In the world. 1t has
exerted marked and beneficial influence herein,
which we are disposed to set over against the
many sensational and other shortcomings OF its
dinated everything to success and has created q
newspaper property which Ii rated at million or
more OF dollars. This he leaves to his SON who
From the Wilmington IN. co. Star, June ~
He made the NEW YORK HERALD personal organ,
but personal organ that was to renect every pro-
team shade and light In its conductors mind. He
watched the public pulse and dieted his patient the
public, like prudent doctor. His intuitiOns were
sometimes as wonderful as his knowledge OF men
sarded as prophet Il Bennett said such and such
MIN going to be elected or defeated, the peo-
pie received the prediction like they would reve-
From the waterbury tConn.) Valley Index, June ~
The demise Of the great journalist requires notice
from the humblest well as greatest Of the profess
sion; and although our readers have already been
appraised OF the facts from other sources we record
the event in our columns James Gordon Bennett
the founder, editor and sole proprietor Of the NEW
YORK HERALD, died last Saturday the seventy-sev-
enth year OF his age. He forty of age when
ne started the HERALD, without capital and with
out credit-an absolutely poor man; and he dies
the pOssessOr OF millions, and leaves Inheritance
In the HERALD whose value Is beyond computa-
by single man after he had passed his fOrtieth
year. He has been retired from active supervision
S his ot so 'it
thirty years subsequent to the meridian OF life.
Mr.. Benefits character Is not easily Defined be-
cause the immense variety OF his acts puzzle the
Judgment. An alien to the soil, he has been no
alien to the soul Of America and has proved that
an adopted son may be more flllal and fervent In
his love than many native offspring to the re-
public.
From the New York Citizen and Round Table,
June 81
The death Of James Gordon Bennett proprietor
and till lately the managing editor Of the NEW YORK
HERALD, has created an immense sensation
throughout the press Of the entire world. Column
after column Of the HERALD is filed daily with Gu
logium sin different keys according to the views
OF the editors, but all, even the religious press
unite In praising the pluck and pertlnacity OF its
undismayed he tried again. taking his lesson of per-
sistence some such way as Bruces spider taught
the Scottish King, James Gordon Bennett made one
more essay to mount the perpendicular walls Of
fortune, and succeeded. The HERALD was the
Kingdom he conquered and by patient labor has
q sovereignty more potent and less precarous, and
exercising influence far more extended, than Is
welded by any Of the played-out s0veregnties Of
Christend0m.
FUNERAL OF DISTINGUISHED JOURNALIST.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, June Q, 1872.
The obsequies Of Isaac Plat, who was probably
the Oldest in the profession Of journalism In this
country, and who at the time Of his death, was
chief editor and proprietor of the Poughkeepsie
Eagle, occurred yesterday, and were attended by o
large concourse OF the leading citizens. The re-
mains were encased In casket, heavily trimmed
with silver and draped In black. Upon the lid Of