The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-07
ROBERT BONNER IS DEAD.
HAD NOT BEEN REALLY WE'LL SINCE
DIR. JOHN NAN DIED.
Drove Out for the Last Time on Tuesday OF
Inst Week Behind PrayteIl-The Story OF
His Life and of the Now York Ledger
The Famous Trotters He HIS Owned.

sick for moro than ak months. though the
serious nature Of the trouble had not been
apparent for so long. The first attack came
soon after the death Of tho Rev. DR.. John Hall
last September Mr. Bonner. President OF
tn" Board Of Trustees of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church and warm personal
friend OF DIR. Halls. felt his death kernly.
The death OF Mr Borner'S eldest son. Andrew
Allen Bonner, on Dec %. was another great
shock. and apparently the immediate cause Of
tho ,ii,a,.o y.hinh tha,, ,,,n,t.d Min, II,
peared first as indigestion. and developed into
trouble that sappcd strength and energy alike.
Mr.. honher rallied IN January ana again IN
In March the idea came to him that he would
inol"h torworI w his ds,,h rapiv md with.
nursn ho,,,r nm I,noIs I'm 70 tan dnvs 400
NUTS, n,n o's"n W. '"n' :" u.s. 49,
generally for drive behind his fast mare.
| prayteI The last time he was out was on
Tuesday week ago. lie drove fraytell MN
self and said when he came back that she had
| made better than $50.
Mr.. Bonner lost consciousness about II
euV ,n stItrno'S nts nntiro ~
| nun '''"V , ''"o "a, us n p ,''' A.
Mere r T NJ y' Mrs. Fra""s
f% TE" f0nor,, vii, be on Saturday morning,
| at II o'clock. at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church. The Rev. DR.. John 8. Mcintosh OF
rh'indepha will oifielste ,, Ths interme"''
hoo%r. bonner was on'n "uo", ,"e NV l "L.,,'
iI9m Lonao"dsrry Ireland on apT' 21 1s9a
of his was advised by an uncle. who was pros
10 this country f Robert was Familiarity known
in hi. family at the time as the cd man" and
G so t. S TEe ps! %f the the
remark seriously. and ultimately didi accom-
aitor his sixteenth birthday with one English
SOVEREIGN as capita ..,..u,,, U..,
M was s% 1Ss ycS sna h iHs b A9
ATT As sTFyf 4 @n' aFsJ S Of oss
1--WE years he worked nineteen and twenty
| hours day. At first he made fires and swept
ont ne ohice. but by working overtime and
to make VI tGTms and t. TO- feed ed and operate
the end Of his service. aud when no left Hart
ford he was not only master Of printing. but
attachments
In 1874 he came to this city and took place
TsS MSsdr anu BY ' MorTs Wills
Fuller, It WINS while here that he made his rec,
raPs Tsf had
set $4,000 ems in "a hours; and so was
that reyyori, H. was not well on the day
70 back down he started in. In ~ hours and nd
spent part OF the time in eating pisce Of lemon
nd a Essns that H rGs
ago. was a faster typesette,, than him
self. but Hand acknowledged Mr.. Bonner as
his superior The two never came into direct
competition. Mr. bonner made another record
| dents message at the rate OF / 700 ems all hour
When he came to New York Mr., Bonner be-
the CoTaw He sent several contributions
over the signature Threads. for which he re-
name. He hestarei some let, time over disclosing
his identity. but finally, did So and became Il
ssaS N SsSy Bdso was and vS
papers
dho special line Of aG Rsr Thish had the
cess was the arrangement Of DISPLAYS, He
began this work Yin the hs2apss of me
ment of the Mirror. noticing that the editors
1 h Eronxh mmsh Of his Work to- HIM
also With rd T47
tied tied by ; man AMMAN named Pratt, to whom he sug
this way Mr. Bonner began his connection
with the Ne'r York LsdgT, which he siterward
some time later. the latter devoting his ener-
gies to the perfecting Of printing press he had
| invented
In 1850 the LedOp,' printed Fanny Ford" a
story by Fanny Fern Mrs PartOn who was
then at the head Of women story writer's. 1t
| was the first step toward making the little list
OF business quotations a family newspaper.
and like many other steps tab en- later. was
| expensive Mr. Bonner offered Fanny Fern
SI5 column for the story at first. afterward
| advancing the offer to $50. S1J and 500 Il col
umn. The author objected to having her story
appcar alongside market reports but she gave
| in 10 Mr. Bonner's persistrncy and wrote n
| ten column story for 5 900
it was in connection with this story that Mr..
| Bonner began the system OF advertising which
hrIpcd to make him and his paper famous.
He was the first one to introduce the custom
Of printing the first part of story chopped on
suddanly with a paragraph announcing mat
the continuation Of the story may be found
only In such ard such paTer He also filed
whole pages of newspapers with repctitons Il
short paragraphs ADVERTISING the Le'ig'7, and
One day ne UrrdM was doubled in size because.
all he space Of the original paper was devoted
The L~t%er was changed in form and its
; serial stories were, kept m Tn" most con
,rriGiit"rs rn,.iyinv enormous SIMS in some