The Washington times., 1911-10-30
PRIVATE CAR TO Be
FUNERAL TRAIN OF
JOSEPH PULITZER
Noted Journalists Body
Brought North Today
for Burial.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.--The body of
Joseph Pulitzer, best known and
probably best beloved of SAmerican
newspaper men, proprietor of the
New York World and st. Louis Post
Dispatch, who died SUDDENLY on board
his yacht in Charleston, S. c., harbor
yesterday will be brought north to-
day, the train starting from Charles
ton at 40 this afternoon.
The private car on which Mrs. Pull
tizer made her hurried trip South to
be with her husband will be drapcd
with black and used as a funeral car.
Mrs. Pulitzer and her son, Herbert,
who were with Mr.. Pulitzer at the
time Of his death, will accompany the
body.
The funeral of Mr. Pulitzer will be
held at st. Thomas Church on We'd
nesday afternoon and the irterment
will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. The
for the funeral services.
hood OF telegrams, letters, and
cablegrams of coincidence is still pour
Ing in on the Pulitzer family here.
life, who have known and admired
the celebrated journalist. Every
newspaper in New York today pays
highest tribute to his personal worth
and ability.
A Remarkable Career.
A dominant figure in American jour-
nalism for thirty years, Joseph Pulitzer
was In many respects a remarkable
man. He was born near Budapest,
Hungary on April 10. 1S47. His father
was man Of education, intelligence,
and fortune. When young Joseph
reached his sixth year his physical con-
dition was such as to preclude the be-
llef that he would attain his majority.
AS child he was restless, impatient,
ana precociously alive to the affairs of
the world. He was voracious reader,
even as a child. and to his passion for
reading in his early years is attributed
his lifelong trouble with his eyes, which
were weak at his birth.
At the age of fourteen years young
Joseph was cast upon his own re-
sources. Fortified by an excellent edu-
cation he had gained at the schools in
hungary and from private tutors, he
went to Paris and thence to London.
In 1864 his eyes turned to America
He detested slavery and he resolved to
come to the United States and fight for
the Union and the freedom of the
to join the Mexican expedition, but had
heen rejected because of his poor eye-
sight. On reaching New York he enlist
ed IN the First New York Cavalry, then
IN need OF recruits, and was assigned
70 q squadron made up almost exclll-
sively OF German-speaking foreigners
ike himself. The regiment was attach
ed to Sherman's command in Nirginil
aho served until the close Of the war.
Went to st. Louis.
Mustered out of the service in the
summer of 1865, Mr.. Pulitzer returned to
New York and took up his residence I'm
the German quarter in the hope of find
ing and adopting a congenial avocation.
One day man told him that ST. Louis
o3nered the greatest induccment to a
Germ n. and without having any def
hte pans in mind he went to the West
ern city, arriving there without frienIs
ana practically penniless. Until the
summer or 1866 he led hard life and
meanwhile learned with difficulty the
English language. He became a re-.
Porter on a newspaper and drifted into
politics. He gained a reputation as a
pu1nc speaker of ability. and as ne
was IN constant demand. He bought
several small afternoon papers and con-
Solidated them under the name of the
81: Louis Post-Dispa tcE. This venture
nous In newsraperdom
Ihe World was on May 10. 1873, when
ne purchased it. publishing essays on
foreign affairs, and was not especially
day Mr.. Pulitzer acquired the property
he enected revolutionary transsorma-
tion, and his salutatCry announced that
tne paper Would henceforth be devoted
exclusively to the public service
In 1897 Mr. PuIitzer's defecrive eve
sight resolved itself into almost absolute
hindnesS, but he never lost the energy
and restlessness which We're a part ami
parcel of his nature. Before the col
lapse OF his sight he had been elected to
the House of Representatives by an
overwhelming ajority.
Mr.. Pulitzer in 1889 established ten
manual collegiate scholarships for the
90 n nd oat
hoy graduates of the New York public
schools. He gave 100000 to Columbia
University, to secure free tuition to
these graduates. He established three
scholarships in Barnard College, and in
1913 he gave s1,o0C, 900 to Columbia Uni.
yersity to establish and maintain a col
lege of journalism and agreed to give
600 more when the school had been
IN successful operation three years.
Ihe latter gift was to become operative
after his death.