The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1911-02-03
|n)nlGf GREELEY
CENTENARY TODAY
Anniversary Of the Greatest
American Journalist Fit
tingly Observed.

New yesk Fss. s.-Ths oae hun
1ssltA ssalvsrsary ee The birth of
1lesace 0ssslsy. grsatsst Of al AIN
ogloen jou1nallsts. was atty ooopgved
to1ny ~ appsopsiate sxsrcises In the
yublle schools ee The state and BY
Uemoeial satherings under the aus
y1ces q vasloas historical and patriot
- esmnimliens IN neasly alliths col.
leges and other institutions OF learn
lug throughout the state. Special cel-
eosatloos were held under the aus
plces Of the City club and by TYPO
gIaphical unioa No. whose lrst pres
t1snt Horace Greeley was. Large
crowds visited 0reeley's old farm 1t
ChappaQua. Westchester county.
where hs Mved the latter and most
eventful part Of bic life.
Horace 0reeley was born on farm
Ave miles from Amherst. N. H.. on
February :. 1911. His father was poor
and Horace had little opportunity TO
obtain more than the most primitive
education. A. . small boy Horace
0reeley was IN omnivorous reader
and With the aid Of an excellent mem.
osy he succeeded In acquiring not
oAly thorough knowledge Of Eng.
lish language. but . large amount Of
heterogeneous information. which prov.
I'd Of great value to him In later
yoars.
0sssmss Apprentice.
AZ the age OF Aftesn he entered the
once Of The Northern Spectator at
EAst Poultney. VT. - IN apprentice.
He seemed to b. born to the trade
and soon he was the best printer In
the shop. Il might also be added that
even at that time he was Q better
journalist that the editor Of that pa
psr. Greeley remained with that pa
PER until Il died from lack of support
Ave years later. During those years
he sent the greater part Of his mea:
ser wages to his father. who had
moved to q farm near Erie. Pa.
After the Spectator had suspended
Greeley worked his way to his faith
er's farm earning ~ much ~ he
could on the way by working for .
few weeks ut time on different news
papers. After few months he made
bis way to New York. He arrived
there with but . few cente In his
pocket. no other clothes except those
become . great journalist. For eigh-
teen months he worked ~ compositor
Ut poorly paid odd Jobs. then. togeth-
er with another young compositor he
0pened . printing once. After one
or two unsuccessful efforts to start q
newspaper. Greeley In 1884 undertook
the publication Of weekly literary
Journal called The New Yorker. Two
years later the paper had 1900 sub
scribers. The panic Of the following
year nearly caused the suspension of
the New Yorker and II was on It's last
legs when In 1888 Thurlow Weed
made Greeley editor Of the Jefferson
Ian. whig paper established at Al
bany during the campaign that ended
In the election OF William II. Seward
20 governor Of New York. AZ editor
Of that paper Greeley became q prom.
inent Agure In state affairs and al.
though he was only about "a years of
age. he was recognised 40 one Of the
strongest political writer's Of the day.
Edits the "Les Cabin"
Two years later Greeley was chos-
en- TO edit tho Log Cabin. the Whig
campaign paper Of 1S4O His success
increased Greclcy's prestige and gave
him the courage to establish news
paper OF his own. April 10. 1S41. was
the birthday Of the New York Tribune
which under his management and di.