Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-01-17
Onr New York Latter.
THE BENNETT-MAY AFFAIR THE SNOW
-VANDERBILT-THE DEATH OF AN
AcTREss.-SocIETY, &c. WEATHER.
Nr.y YOD,r Tay 10 1877

lAE DENNETT-hA1 AFFAIR - HE SNOW.
-VANDERBILT,-THE DEATH OF AN
ACTREss.-SocIETY, &c. WEATHER.
New York. JAN. IS. 1877.
THE BENNETT-MAY ABsURDTrY.
Young James Gordon Bennett is an ass
of the highest order, and young May is
another, with decided trace Of the bully
added. Bennett owns the NeW York. Her
aid. and has an income of something like
u million of dollars per annum, which, ass
us he is, makes him sought for by all the
managing mamnas who have daughters
to marry off. Miss Caroline May got him
hooked finally. and she was engaged to
marry the Herald man. but all Of II sudden
the match was declared off Last Wednes.
day night brother of Miss May assaulted
Bennett in front of the Union League Club
and gave him Il most satisfactory horse
whipping, which resulted in duel fought
in Delaware, in which young May was
slightly wounded. May goes TO his friends
in Baltimore and Bennett sailed for Europe
to get away from the talk the succession
of events has produced. Bennett says he
broke the match because he was satisfied
that he was not fit for marital life, while
the Mays, on the other hand, claim that
they broke it because Bennett displayed
too much of the blackguard to be trusted
with wife. 1t is told of his going to the
house of his aflianced in state of beastly
intoxication, of his getting the ladies at his
house perched upon billiard table and
turning loose Il half-dozen fighting cocks,
and not allowing them to get down for an
hour. Innumerable stories are told OF his
escapades, all of which are brutal and
semi idiotic. The elder Bennett was just
us eccentric MS this one, but he was
shrewder than Satan himself He COM
menccd the publication of the Herald in a
cellar in Ann Street, and made it the pro-
perty it is, by courses which, if followed now,
would consign in editor TO the penitentiary.
He was Il notorious black mailer, and made
it IL business to be constantly involved in
quarrels and difficulties. Nothing pleased
him so much as to provoke man to COW.
hide or kick him. lie would take his pun
shment meekly, and without resistance,
and rush to his Office and write Il long ac-
count of it in which his aSsalant would
be more scandalously abused than ever
A kicking was delight to him, and he
absolutely reveled in libel suits. Tom
Ilamin. the actor, once forced his jaws
open and spit down his throat, and James
Watson Webb cowhided him dozen lines.
Almost every respectable man in New
York thraohed Bennett, but he thrved
wonderfully for all that, These affairs at
tracted attention to him, an he did make
the Herald The best nc wspaper the country
ever had, and it is so now His business
was to collect news, and in the doing Of
it he displayed wonderful energy and
amazing shrewdness; he established
pony expresses before the days of rail
roads; he had fast sailing DO IT'S 10 inter-
cept vessels, and he was the first TO realize
the power Of the telegraph. And SO, while
the Herdid never influenced an opinion,
while it is conducted upon the principle Of
denying odaywhat it said yesterday, every.
body reads it. ana it is the hest newspaper
property in the C uniry. Young Bennett
knows nothing about journalism, but the
system established by his father remains,
and the men trained by his father still
carry it out in all its details. Were he al
lowed to manage it he would wreck it in II
year. But fortunately, he is so absorbed
in polo, in walking matches, in yachting
and kindred amusrlnentS, that lie can give
no thought 10 Ills paper, and 50 it gets on
US well us ever.