The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-07
THE TWO BENNETS.
Their Extraordinary Personal
Force Made the Herald"
What Il is.

10 Hova d in New York Recorder.
| The late James Gordon Bennett
was an extraordinary man.
If he we're mad. in the image oil
the Creator the creator need moi
blush for his intellectual development.
New York has never seen his equal.
Look at the papers which in Their
time were the chief Representatives
the Tribune and the Herald. See
with what limited capital the great
men who edited them not only started
but founded them, placing their cor.
ner stones in the solid masonry oil
financial prosperity, - we'll as grac.
ing their growth with all the beauties
ofintellectual effort. That papers
have been started and perpetuated BY
corporations and associations of men
may be true, but We know nothing Of
them here.
Without james Gordon Bennett, Or.
the New York Herald would never
have existed. He gave to his fortu-
nate son aud heir . princely property.
Unincum5ered by debt, unmor' gagged,
with no string to it, with . clean,
clear, undoubted title, gave he to him
the most magnificent estate in the
entire realm Of Journalism.
And what has he done with it?
Improved it.
Enlarged, enlightened and widened
its horisOn.
Probably the most excited and
amazed man in all the universe of the
benefcient God would be James Cor
don Bennett, ST., if he could come
back to-day and be taken into the
dirty marble building at the corner of
Broadway and Ann streets, be ushered
in Mr.. Howland's Office and given the
books to examine.
Eight hundred thousand dollars
profits last year, my son ?"
"Yes. father. and we hope to do
better this ear"
this"
"The composing room. More than
200 men at work and the stel eotyp.
ing room where Intelligent activities
are pushed industriously for bours to.
gether." All this surprise and amsze-
ment, all the look Of asionishment
caused by the whirring through the
tubes as the matter comes pneumati-
cslly from the associated press Office,
the click Of the numerous telegraph
machines. the noisy contiguities Of the
telephone bringing intelligence from
Chicago, from Buffalo, from Albany
and the Jerseys. would sink into in
significance when the old gentleman,
in his well remembered dress coat,
should step into the deep UNDERTAKE.
ment of the press room. Those won
derful mechauisms that take each Of
them, miles Of white paper at l
O'Clock, turning out 10000 twenty.
page papers complete, folded, pasted,
ready for delivery at 2 o'clock
whence come they. They come from
the enterprise unquestioned and the
intelligent appreciation, everywhere
acknowledged, Of James Gordon Ben
nett, jr., who knows . good thing
when he sees it, and the moment his
eye falls on it gets it.
individuals nothing!
gave ten years of loving industry,
Of sentimental service, Of loyal en-.
deavor to the New York Herald, and
l wish to say for every man con-
nected with the establishment, from
the managing editor down to the
cheapest Office boy, they were anima-
ted by . sentiment of loyalty to q
man whom many of them had never
seen unequaled by that l have en-
couutered 10 any other newspaper
service in either OF these great cities.
The New York Herald may we'll be,
as Brother Dane says, immortal, but
it had to become an antity FIRST, and
to the peculiar dispositions. the
extraordinary individuality Of the two
BENEFITS, the father and the sou, 10
due to the fact that to-day it is every.
where, the world around. recognized
as the exemplar Of American j urnal-
ism. Without the old gentleman the
Herald would never have existed.
With the young man it stands to-day
pre-emineDt and permanent - an
illustration, not alone Of the possibili.
ties of . felicitous combination, but Of
personal journalism a. well.
Am right or am wrong?
A NATIONAL EVENT.
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