Bisbee daily review., 1911-10-07
RAYMOND OF THE TIMES.
Some Interesting Personal Reeollee tions by Colleague Who
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From a letter of the Hermit of New York. in The Troy Times.
 The New York Times having re- gently celebrated its siXtieth anni- yersary, a few facts may be offered in the same connection. he paper has at least this distinction: It IS the only New York daily which was protected in another city, the scene being Albany. Henry. Raymond while a college student sent few contributions to The New Yorker, which Greeley was then yainly striY- ing to maintain After being grad uated he planned to go south and be- come a teacher, and, reaching this city on the way, he made a friendly call on Greeley, who was so fayorably impressed by the powerful face of his visitor that he invited him to a place on The Tribune, which he had recently started on borrowed money.
 Times were hard and Greeley was poor. and all he could offer was enough 10 buy EOard and clothes, but Raymond accepted it (SS a week. in hope of something better. Greeley found him the smaTtest assistant he ever had, and James Watson Webb, who needed a managing editor on The Courier and Enquirer, soon en- gaged Raymond at $50 a week as chief editorial writer, and the improve ment in the paper was immediately noticed While holding this position Raymbnd was elected to the state legislature, and thus met George Jones, who kept a newsroom in con neCtioB with a brokerage office.
 Wehb and Raymond disagreed on the slavery question, and as the latter wanted a paper under his own con trol, he and Jones planned The New York Times, which became an i'm mediate power Raymond's ability indeed astonished his readers, and bis caustic satire was, of course, an attraction He spared neither Gree ley nor Webb, and his attack OF the latter, entitled Webb Footed" was one of the keenest things ever penned The greatest proof of Raymond 8 ability, however, was his biography of Webster. which in point of rapid and protracted work has never been equaled. The news of Webster's death reached New York on a Sat urday afternoon, and Mondays pa per contained a thirty-column biogra phy Of the great statesman. Ray mond like Greeley. could write while carrying on a conversations re- markable proof of which l noticed while attending the state senate al Albany. Raymond, being then Lieu tenant governor, presided, and when any member rose to speak he would be properly announced, and then Ray mond would write editorials, which were handed to a messenger for post ing-not very complimentary to the speaker, but that was Raymond s way. But though inattentive to oth- CTS, Raymond always commanded an audience, being a powerful orator the ablest, indeed, in the record Of New York journalism.
 Raymond was the smallest of our great editors, his stature being hard ly over five feet, while Greeley was nearly a foot taller and Bennett was over six feet. Like Greeley, he was always accessible to callers, and one day, desiring some information which he alone could furnish, I entered his office and made the inquiry, MT Raymond, are you at leisure?" No, sir was the prompt reply, but l am at your service" I need hardly add that I made my errand as short as possible, though later on l became a paid contributor.
 Raymond's death was most sudden, and impressive in the extreme. met him walking toward his office one afternoon and the next morning I read his obituary in his own paper, following one of his own editorials He had on returning home late aq night fallen helplessly in the hall, and was found dead by the attendant the victim of hard work. The inter. ment was in Greenwood, where two years later Bennett was also laid. and then in a year Greeley Cwho was ore of the pail bearers) found grave there also, and thus these once war. rinz editors all rest together. Ray. mond was the youngest of this re. markahle trio, being only g, but he ] left as his monument The New York | Times, and he also left a multitude of admiring readers, some of whom still hold him in memory.