, 1884-09-20
HIS FATHERS SON.
A Man Noted For His Own and His
Fathers Deeds.
Two Distinguished Visitors Who
Stopped Over in Cheyenne.
They Spend An Afternoon at a
NelghbOrinJ Ranch.

a mlddle-aged man unpretentiously
dressed in a tweed suit and with an un-
mistakable foreign air stepped with a
positive tread from the special car
Vanderbilt, upon its arrival yesterday
at the depot in this city with the regular
passenger train from the East.
This plainly-dressed man whose eyes
looked keenly and rather coldly from
under the brim Of a light Derby hat ar
rived in this country from France only o
few weeks ago. He made the trip in his
own beautiful yacht, the "Naouma," and
on his arrival was rendered a brilliant re-
ception by the New York Yacht Club,
of which he is Commodore. Two weeks
later this same gentlemen gave to his
friends the most gorgeously brilliant re
ception that Newport has known for
years. This gentleman whose dark hair
is now so literally besprinkled with gray
is the same who is the leading spirit in
the New York Polo Club; who bore half
the expenses Of SANKEY'S celebrated trip
to Africa in search of the explorer,
Livingstone; who individually fitted out
the Jeanette Polar expedition; who is
the half owner of an Atlantic cable which
is just about completed; who has broken
bread with princes and been the boon
companion of blue-blooded and gilded
youths the world over; who maintains a
magnifcently furnished town house in
Paris, and sumptuously appointed villas
in France and America; who coolly I'M
dertakes mighty projects involving the
expenditure Of millions of money; who is
the proprietor of one of the greatest
known newspaper establishments, and
whose name is heard in every civilized
country on the face of the globe.
This rather slimly but compactly built
gentleman, dressed in an unpretentious
suit of tweed with a rather natty looking
Derby hat covering his gray hair, who got
from his special car at the Cheyenne depot
yesterday, was none other than James
Gordon Bennett. the proprietor of the
New York Herald, a man whose colossal
undertakings frequently fills the mouths
of two continents.
Mr.. Bennett is the son of his father,
which is 4 great matter in its way, but he
himself has accomplished wonderful
things which the elder Bennett could only
have dreamed of as the most remote and
improbable of impossible.
In personal appearance MIR. Bennett is
above the medium in size, rather erect in
bearing and with a foreign and what is
called a distinguished air. His face is
brown as u berry. A neatly trimmed mus
tache ornaments his upper lip, besides
which he wears short crisp looking. side
whiskers. The set of his jaw denotes
strong decision of character and his rather
cold, critical eyes indicate a man who has
pierced through many ofthe shams ofthis
giddy world.
MIR. Bennett was accompanied by Mr..
Charles Nordhoff, who has been managing
editor of the Herald since Mr.. Thomas b.
Connery assumed control of Truth. Mr..
Nordhoff, until recently, was Wash
ington correspondent of the Herald at a
salary of SO, 900 a year, and is Mr.. Ben
nett most trusted lieutenant. He is one
of the most forcible and elegant writers on
the American press, and is an especial au-
thority on the subject of political economy.
He has published several works which
have had a wide sale. Mr.. Nordhoff is a
large built man, whose figure is well filled
out and prettily rounded. His face is
rather completely covered with heavy
bushy whiskers, worn in the English style,
and his cast circumference betrays his leu
tonic origin.
Both gentlemen are financially interest
ed in the Anglo-American Cattle COM
pany. They were received upon their
arrival here by Mr.. Harry Oelrichs, the
general manager of the company and an
old New York friend of both gentlemen.
The party at once got aboard Mr..
0elrichs' tally-ho. Mr.. Bennett held the
reins over the four horses with the grace
and confidence of Colonel Delaney Kane
himself. After extensive drives through
out the city, during which Mr.. Bennett
expressed himself as fvorably impressed
with the evidences of thrift and prosperity
everywhere displayed, the horses head
were turned in the direction of Mr..
Oelrichs' ranch.
The afternoon was spent there. In the
evening the party returned in time to
catch the West-bound train, to which Mr..
Bennett special was attached.
Mr.. Bennett and Mr.. Nordhoff are on
their way to San Francisco.
Little Miss Haight's Journey.