Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-10-27
Che FREEMAN.
A Great Journalist.

Frederic Hudson of Concord. Ma>sachu-
sctts who was killed in that town last
Thursday, was a man unkn'Wn y rel'uta
ton. even, to the great mass of the Anl /
lean people, and WAS vet on" of the "bieSt
newspaper men in the country, and one
who had. perhaps, more influence upon
Journalism than any other living Amer
lean.
Mr.. Hudson was born in Quincy, in
1of4 but his childhood was spent IN Con-
cord. and it WAS there that he received his
,,rIv education. He subsequently, attend
cI school in Boston, and graduated ut the
Mlvhcw school in the class Of 1880, III
which. among others, were 1hos. Ii.
Gould and Edward Davenport In 1886
he went to New York.
In 1897, then Il boy of seventeen, he
walked into the Office Of the New York
H1ld in answer to an advertisement 1t Is
id. His bearing impressed James Cor
don Bennett. and he was straightway en-
p!pvcd a. Il reporter. He rose steadily II
hi, profession until he became the manag
;t.c. r.litur Of the HruH. His work was
done, it j. true under the General direction
# Mr.. bennett. but even as Il subordinate h'
ORGANIZED the methods which kept the
III r1t3d among the advanced newspaper
of the time.
The HrtN became the great news
IL. Nr,,.1-
in this line. it showed it to be the way il
which the modern newspaper must sustain
itself The wide reaching arms Of tn
A-~ocitt Il Press, moving with clectri
-wiftnr>,, now put the most Emporium
events happening through the country, in
10 the possession Of hundreds Of ncwspa
any one paper in general news at this day
Bat it is doubtful whether this very reach
inn out for news by the Associated Press
Il Is not owe much of its efficiency to til
methods adopted by Hudson and his fello,
workers, in the transition stage of iourna
ism
Mr.. Hudson retired from the HtruN te
wears ago, and has since then lived quietl
in Concord, Massachusetts, He has take
much intnrcs. in such town affairs is TIN
public library and other kindred matters
in 1872 he published his History of jour
nIism, on which his literary fame mus
rest, rs his writing for the UertH wa
hurried and not on such subjects as woul
enable il to live.
Mr.. Hudson wrote an entertaining art
Gle last sprinL on the Concord Fight.
1t appeared in Huypcr'S Mt9nzine.
wa, after Il visit to the old battle grount
where he had been to see the new statue
the Minute Men, that he was killed. I'll
manner of his death is thus told:
His friend. Mr.. John $. Reyes, was driN
ing with him in Il light wagon from tn
battle-ground towards the post-oilice, an
had occasion to cross the track of the Mi,
dle~cx Central railroad, where it pas>t
over the highway leading to the Oh
Man,c ana the old North bridge. An cr
cine or some part Of II train had Just gon
hr. and the rest of the train disconnected
was following. Without noticing this, tn
two friends drove across the track, an
their wagon was struck by the train. Nj
Reyes was thrown out, but escaped will
out serious injury. Mr.. Hudson, remain
ing in the wagon, was carried along an
hurled down an embankmcnt. siI>tan;n
injuries that soon proved fatal. He ".
conscious when taken ", an .,,,v.. 'i:I'''
tions about his affairs. hl' Il III >!.c.l e,
animation made by Drs Bartlett and Ia
,.r,on soon showed that recovery was LOOP
I.>-. He died Thursday morning btlol
sunrise, about twelve hours after the acc
dent.
Mr.. Hudson leaves n wife ard one son,
student at Harvard