Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1906-05-10
JAMES G. BENNETT
IS S|XTY-FIVE TODAY
FAMOUS PROPRIETOR OF THE
NEW YORK HERALD is GETTING
ADVANCED IN YEARS.

Special to the Herald.
New York, May 1O.-How old i:
James Gordon Bennett, the man who
lis the New York Herald?" Few per
sons. even among those who profess tc
know New York and its people like q
book, can guess off-hand anywhere like
the age of the proprietor of the Her
aid.
1t is certain that a very few. unless
they had consulted Who's Who.
would place the number of Mr.. Ben.
nett's years at sixty-five. But such is
the fact. Today was Mr.. Benefits
sixty-f1fth birthday and the managers
of his interests in New York and the
members of his journalistic staff took
occasion to cable a congratulatory
message TO their chief in Paris.
OF all the proprietors of the metro
politan newspapers James Gordon Ben
nett is the least known TO the public.
Mr.. Bennett does not desire that he
should be personally known. or any
more than a name, either to the read
ers of the Herald or to the community
at large. Mr.. Bennett enjoys life in
Europe. Of late years his visits to
New York have become fewer and
farther between, though he is still
the master of the Herald, the owner
of it, and the recipient of the great
revenues that accrue to him from it.
The world presents no similar eX-
ample of genius successfully conduct
ing and inspiring-from a permanent
residence more than three thousand
miles distant; from scattered private
villas on the European continent, or
from the cabin of a steam yacht in
European ports-an institution so SEN
sitive to the pressure of personal in
fiuence, and so exacting of the mas
terful surveillance of ownership, as a
great daily newspaper. 1t has been
said that Mr. Bennett knows the full
contents of his paper each night be-
fore it goes TO press. While this may
be exaggeration it is certain that he
keeps a watchful eye on it wherever
he may be. He uses the cable daily
for the instruction of his editors, and
they use it daily in making reports to
him. He is undoubtedly the editor of
the paper in every sense of the word.
Those who have seen Mr.. Bennett
recently say that he still has the
BRIGHT aggressive face and the hio
Inss~.OII uructef that was
stainresd upon his brow when he was
a more familiar figure in the streets
of New York than he is today From
his eyes flash the old energy and res
olution to conquer at all hazard. His
years of life abroad have not made
him a European. He is as much an
American today as he was when he
was active managing editor of the
Evening Telegram.
In his earlier days Mr.. Bennett was
the most notable amateur sportsman
living, at Professionalism and polo. and
with the rife, shotgun and whip. He
is top-notch navigator, and has cir.
COMMUNICATED the globe twice. With
his newspaper cares he has success
fully managed a fortune estimated in
1898 to have then reached $1,000 900.
The net revenue of his newspaper
property has for years since approx |
mated s1,OOO,OOO annually. AS divert
ing side issues he has maintained |
villas at Trouville. Bourgival, Vichy |
and cape Antilles, besides a palatial |
private hotel on the Champs d'Elysee. |
Paris. He has been the subject of |
tales unnumbered that circulate in
the newspaper offices of New York.
1t is believed that he is bachelor,
but his name has often been associat-
ed with marital rumors.