Evening journal., 1896-04-11

at which he was a guest, and with Mr.
Washington, the United States vice consul
general went to the colonel's bedside.
His death was painless. Mr.. Long
worth, Mr.. Barney Washington and the
doctor witnessed the end and saw th,
body conveyed to mortuary chapel.
Sketch of Colonel CockerilI.
There are few newspaper readers te
whom the name of John A. Cookerill IL
unknown. He has been well known as
newspaper maker for 80 years or more.
When the fact became evident that the
Japanese war was to be the theater of bis
events and big news, Colonel Cockeril
set out for Japan, sailing from San Fran.
cisco in February, 1885, BY the time hi
reached Japan most of the big fighting
was over, but the important diplomatic
battle was to come. Colonel Cookeril
wrote series Of letters to his paper, The
Herald, on this, which made a consecutive
and interesting history. it was while OF
his return from this mission In the fai
cast, while stopping in Cairo attracted BY
the military preparations and the politica
situation there. that he had his fatal seiz
ure.
John A. Cockeriil was born in Dayton,
o.. in 1S45. When the war broke out, he
enlisted as a drummer boy, and after the
war became oompositor on The Scion OF
Temperance in Dayton.
He subsequently became one of tht
clerks Of the Ohio senate and next became
q partner with the famous Clement l.
valIandigham in the publication of the
DAYTON Empire, at the time the organ Of
the Montgomery county Democracy.
From Dayton Colonel Cockerin went tc
Hamilton, O., where he found employ.
ment as general reporter on a paper. His
work there attracted wide attention. ano
he was offered q position on the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, which was then edited by
Washington Mclean. He accepted the Of
fer aud began his career ON first class
newspaper as its humblest reporter. His
enterprise in getting news and his bright
snapny way Of writing it up soon gained
him promotion to tho city editorship. He
was later made managing editor of Tht
ENQUIRER, and by his energy and enter
prise he made Is one of the foremost or
gans in the west
Whom the Russo Turkish war broke out
no went to the scene Of hostilities as spe
cial correspondent for The Enquirer anc
materially added to his reputation by hii
graphic dispatches.
Colonel Cockerill was also successivelJ
editor of the Washington Post the Balti
more American and st. Louis Post Dis
patch, in all of which positions he acquit
ted himself with distinction and by his
efforts added to the prestige and materia
prosperity of those journals.
His New York Experience.
When Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer took hold o.
the New York World, he invited Colone.
Cockerll TO assume the duties Of nanag
ing editor of that paper. The success
achieved by The World under the manage
ment of Colonel Cockerill is of too recent
date to require recapitulation.
Colonel Cockerill's next move was I,
assume the editorship of The Morning
Advertiser and The Commercial Adyer
tiser, in which position he remained foi
three years.
He was always proud of the fact thai
he had done everything about newspa
per Office from setting type and making
rollers to editing and directing the Who'll.
concern. He had filed every chair except,
perhaps, that OF financial reporter
Colonel Cockerill was a member of the
Loyal Legion, the Ohio society, the Re
publican club and the Quaint club, and
was president of the Press club for five
terms. He was married, but had no chill
dren.
One who worked with him says Colo
mel Cockerill was a handsome man, above
middle height aud compsctly built H'
~ss ous Of the most popular men iD New
York During his long residence IN thi'
cifs both among his coworkers ana 5mons
lsylaeD. His Judgment OF news was qGics
and invariably correct. He never gay'
contradictory orders, as his first impres
sion of the value of matter proved to b'
the best. The men who worked with hin
and under him admired and loved him
The loyalty Of his staff was, one of th'
best recognitions of his journalist genius.