The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-15
THE ELDER BENIN EFT.
His Checkered Career Before He Made
Forum Out OF the Herald.

from the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Desperately poor IN Boston, the elder
Bennett one day found a York shilling on
the common, and he thought it was good
luck. So after a man named Wells, who
had been a pupil of DR.. Joseph Priestley,
gave him clerkship, and next he became
proof reader in printing house and tried
his hand at writing poetry. In 1922 he
came to New York, and was there hired to
go to Charleston, S. c., and take place on
a newspaper. He was in this country when
the Missouri compromise bill was passed
which witnessed the first agitation on the
subject of slavery. His South Carroll ma
residence made him torpid on the slavery
question, or rather hostile to the abolition
lists. Returning to New York, Bennett
attempted to establish commercial school,
which was a failure. Just after the election
of john Quincy Adams he went ON the
New York Courier for petty salary, and
Bennett bought this paper when it had
become failure, and paid for it in notes,
which he could not pay, SO returned the
paper. He then wrote for other papers,
became a reporter on the streets, and was
| so writing when jefferson and John Adams
died ON the same day. He seems to have
been unpopular, and turned his attention
| somewhat to politics. He next went to
| Washington city aud wrote letters. lie
| joined Tammany hail, took place on the
| New York Enquirer, got down to hard reg
| ular work, and injured his eyes by applica-
ton, so that he became squint-eyed, like
| John Wilkes.
| He supported Andrew Jackson for Presi-
dent, opposed the tariff, was assaulted on
| the streets of New York, wrote watering
| place letters from Saratoga, and at last be
| came an editorial writer on the Courier and
| Enquirer in 1882. The next year he re
moved to Philadelphia and purchased the
Pennsylransdn. In 1885, on May 6, he
issued the New York Herald, a little sheet,
| price one cent, ard prepared the entire
contents, being his own reporter of police
cases, of city news and of the money
market He had nothing but opposition
for years, as he was supposed to be a man
too ambitious and not restrained by the
opinions of other people, and bound to have
a paper somewhere, He had hardly
started the Herald when he was
attacked on the streets The next year,
| 1886, he made a great reputation and
some money by exploiting the murder
case of Helen Jewett, woman of the town
who was killed by her paramour. Soon
after this James Watson Webb attacked
him on Wall street. Placing his body in the
breech he became topic as well as a writer
upon topics, and so the Herald came along,
and has now been published fifty-three
years, and in the hands of this Scoth
pioneers son is a concern which mikes
800, 900 year. Few newspaper proprietors
in the world live in the style of Mr.. Bennett.
| He has a town house i'll Paris and country
| house a town house in New York, a villa
| in the northern part of the island and a
house at Newport. | was told last summer
| that at the Newport house oil the servants
were in perpetual waiting lest he might
turn up unexpectedly and want his dinner
within an hour. The son is well educated
man, has had a universal experience, and il
he had been minded to embark in New
| York politics he could have cen mayor Of
| this city long before the present time.