Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-19
JAMES G. BENNETT.
ANECDOTES THAT ILLUSTRATE SOME
OF JlM'S PecULlARlTIES.
Ills Tribute to tho Old stsG-Achievc-
meuts Under His Management
His Moods ana Methods.
,corresuondencs Of the Richmond pi.pa,ch.l

Correspondents Of the Richmond Dispa,ch.l
New YORK, October Is, 1890.
81 do not think the time il far dis
tant," said James Gordon Bennett not
long ago to friend in Paris, "when /
shall endeayor to call around me again
those who survive of the old staff of the
New York Heraid. Comparing the
work done by them during the lifetime
and since the death OF my father with
that which has followed, they are GER
tainly to be credited with more ingenuity
and originality than has been shown 10y
many OF the younger generation.
AS body they were compact
and devoid of jealousy. for they
had in view but one end-the
supremacy of the Herald, and to at
tain this 10 personal sacrifice was too
Great. Take some Of my reporters
during tue war who went TO the front
and were wounded in the discharge Of
their duty to the paper take the man
who. many years ago, went into tho
Modoc laya-beds where General Candy
lost his life by the treachery of the
Indians. aud who by desperate riding
reached the coast and sent the news 10
the HerGh before it was printed in
the San Francisco papers. Take Stan
lev, who went in search OF Livingston
and paved the way to present African
progress Nacgahan. our Asiatic and
Turkish correspondent, who bravely
died in harness; O'Kelley, now a mem
Der OF Parliament, who was sent to
Cuba 10 watch revolution then in
progress. and was sentenced to be shot
Collins. who froze to death at the mouth
OF the Lena river in the polar eIpedi-
ton McGill, who when the steamship
Atlantic foundcred on the coast OF New
foundland did not hesitate even at the
peril of his life to descend in a diving
bell hundreds OF feet below the surface
of the ocean and interview the dead !;
take all the men OF my old staff who,
when an emergency called for enterprise,
had the Judgment to charter steamboats,
and locomotives and pre-empt telegraph
lines in order to secure beat for the
Herad, and tell me where you will find
another body Of men like them in the
ranks OF journalism
MIGHT FILL A VOLUME.
If the foregoing remarks accredited
to Mr.. Bennett are true he has done but
tardy Justice to both the living and the
dead. lie might fill a volume with sto-
ries of the journalistic achievements
that have made his paper what 1t Is and
gwen to it that touch Of individuality
which is its Characteristic the world
over. In many instances the worth
of these old employees has been
substantially recognized. In the time
of the elder Bennett, pension fund ex-
| listed and some OF those who survive
him still enjoy its benefits, drawing
every week from the treasurer q sum
sufficient for moderate support During
/ the career OF the younger Bennett, how
ever. his policy IN the recognition of an
/ extraordinary service has been to be-
! stow rewards Now, it would be a sum
| of money; in several instances it has
been valuable watch, duly inscribed
with a record of the circumstances
that called forth the gift ; in one case
he presented to fayorite official the
means to secure q handsome city resi-
drnce; in another, he doubled his
salary; as for promotions, they are
always sure to follow the exemplary
/ performance of even routine duty.
| when theidca Of illustrating the Heraid
was broache1 to Mr. Bennett he con-
/ demned it at once. but the advantages
we're so persistently pressed by its origi-
nator that he finally yielded his consent
that the experiment should be tried. The
innovation proved to be a success, and
not long ago the employee who was bold
enough to urge it received q $1,000
check and a cablegram FROM his chief
telling him to take the choice of a trip
across the continent with his family or
TO Europe and to charge the expenses to
I the Herald. This was his reward.