Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-12
TWO CENTS.
GEORGE JONES OF THE TIMES DEAD.
The Veteran New York Editor Expired This
Morning.

The Veteran New York Editor Expired This
Morning.
POLAND SPRINGS, Me-, August l2.-Editor
George Jones of the New York Times died .. 4
O'Clock this morning.
LIFE OF GEORGE JONES
The story Of George Jones life 10 the story
OF the founding and building up Of the New
York Times. Although Mr.. Jones had reached
the age Of forty when he Joined Henry J. Ray
mond In establishing the Times and had
and a competence in other 'SSu Susis
ness enterprises, his earliest inclinations
had brought him into the field of New
York Journalism, and his return to it as Q
founder and publisher Of the Tunes was but
the fulfllment Of his youthful ambitions.
And from the day when the FIRST copy
OF the Times was issued to the day
OF his death, Mr.. Jones has devoted to il, TO
the exclusion of all other interests and affairs,
his undivided time and energies His success
trolled His honorable career and repute are
inseparably associated with the career and the
standing of his newspaper.
The father and mother Of Mr.. Jones were Of
that sturdy Welsh stock that has contributed
prominent and successful men to 80 many Of
try. Coming to America some years
before the birth Of their son
George. they had settled in the village Q; Poult-
ney, Vt, where the father engaged in the busi-
ness OF q woolen manufacturer. 1t was in
Poultney that George was born on 10th of Au-
gust, 1911. He would have reached the age Of
eighty on Sunday, the 10th Of this month.
1he story Of his youth is the familiar story
OF slender means and hard toll. His father
and mother died when he was thirteen years
old and he was left to make his own way and
take care Of himself in the world.
There was q country store in the
village of Poultney, kept by Amos Bliss.
That humble merchant, himself also a journal
LIST, enjoyed the uncommon distinction of be-
ing the first employer Of two men, VIII
figures in New York journalism Mr..
Jones, before he was fourteen years old
became the clerk and errand boy in Mr.. Bliss
store. At about the same time Mr.. Bliss took
into the composing room of his newspaper, the
Northern Spectator, as printers apprentic
boy named Horace Greeley, who was
to serve him five years and be boarded and
lodged and after the first six months was
70 receive $40 year. The two lads became
friends and playmates at once, and their ac-
quaintance and friendship, renewed not many
years later in this city, continued with only
such interruptions as are natural and perhaps
inevitable to the rivalries of journalism, to the
time of Mr.. Greeleys death.
1t was In 1888 that Mr.. Jones went to New
York. MIR. Greeley had preceded him by two
years 1t was in the business office of Horace
Greeley's Tribune that Mr.. Jones became first
connected with journalism Just as his youth
ful acquaintance with Greeley, formed in the
vermont village some seventeen years earlier,
had nodded the beginnings of his career
In New York, SO his friendship with Henry j.
Raymond, beginning while the one was en-
ployed in the business office and the other in
the editors room of the Tribune was destined
speedily to ripen into intimacy, confidence
and mutual respect, and later to bring them
into business partnership in the founding and
management Of the New York Times.
Upon the death of Mr.. Raymond Mr.. George
Jones became the responsible head Of the New
York Tunes. in control of rs business manage
ment and editorial policy.
complete history of Mr.. Jones manage
ment OF the Times during the three years fol-
lowing Mr.. Raymond death would of necessity
include history of the Tweed ring, broken
and overthrown by the Times.
Mr.. Jones had secured the secret accounts of
the Tweed ring, and had begun q fight which
was only to end with the complete overthrow
OF Tweedism. In some way Tweed discovered
that these accounts were about to be published
In the Times, and he at once sent an agent to
MIR. Jones with an offer to buy the Times al
any price he might namo. This offer being
refused an offer Of $4,000, coo for the suppress
sion OF the accounts was made, but it was like
wise refused.
Mr.. Jones married, in 1886, Miss Sarah M.
Gilbert of Troy. The fftieth or golden ami
versary of this wedding was quietly observed
In the family Of Mr.. Jones in 1886 His sur
viving children are Mrs. Emma Ireland, Mrs.
Edward J. Lowell of Boston, Mrs. Henry
L. Dyer OF New York city and Mr.. Gildert E.
Jones.