The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-11-04
CAREER OF LATE
JOSEPH PULITZER
Remarkable Rise From Poverty
TO Wealth and Power.
OWNED TWO NEWSPAPERS.
Thirteen Years After landing at Now
York Penniless and Urable to speak
ENGLISH He Was on the Hoad 20
Riches.


Riches.
rhe career OF Joseph Pulitzer own
80 80 the New York World and the ~.
Louis post Dispatch. who died recent
lv was n striking example OF the op
uortunitics that have been iounu ~
~, United States for advancement
from perjury and friendlessness 70
wealth and power Few who nave
come here TO find their fortunes nave
heen more handicapped at the stari'
ua was without funds, had no nc
onaintances I'm this country, ala not
know the language and suffered from
dafactiye vision which harassed nun
ali his life and made sad his ias'
wears. when he was compelled prae
| ticolly 90 retire from active WORK.
Few have had struggles more severe
got M thirty -one. thirteen years after
landing Mt Castle Garden. he was the
owner OF a daily newspaper ana On
the road TO riches.
Iosenh Pulitzer was born In Buua'
nest I'm ls47. His father was DUST
ness man, supposedly of means pu.
when he died. while Joseph was sun
boy, IL was found that the estate
was very small. In order that ne
might not be burden on his motner
Joseph determined to enter the army
ue npnlied 10 his uncle. who was
coln,,el In the Austrian army, put
whom ne was examined as 10 physical
fitness he was rejected because OF the
= defect in one Of his eyes lie went 10
Germany and sought to enter the
prusstan army. hut wis again rejected
: fer tbe same reason. lie tried TO en-
ust IN France and England. with the
= same result
~ tfle civil war was IN progress III this
country. aud he decided to come mere
y II exhausted his resources 10 pay MS
y massage. and he landed at Castie Gar
' den In 1864 practically penniless' ne
knew nobody IN this country ana couiu
y sneak only n dozen words OF Engnsh
~ within few days. however. he met
OF follow countryman who had just en-
rs l,sted in n German cavalry regimen
'u then being raised In this city Me'
III were badly needed In the Union army
IN and tho requirements as TO sharpness
n ~ vision were not as strict as In tim
''s OF peace The young Austrian wa
Dr. enrolled and served TO the end OF I'd
or war I'm the Lincoln cavalry, "a the reg
ment was called. part OF the time i'll
der Sheridan. ;.
ms Whom he was mustered out NJ II
nd close In New York city he was still u
IN norant OF English. He had enoue
money 10 buy ticket TO East ,
Iouis. III. across the river from
AK Louis. Mo. He worked as fireman AT
steyedore on the 81. Louis whari
co Later he was couchman, but was I'll
charged because OF his defective
10 sion. :.
sue In his search for employment he on
,rts graves for victims OF the cholera 81
ed demic.
ent During his vlcissitudes he had be
for n vorocIous reader and eager stude
rcls md had already begun TO STUDY III
her This he went ahead with rapidly, u
In lsGS. four years after he landed
TRY Castle Garden, he was admlt'ea ~
IN. bnr. lie practiccd for snort VI
30 but the profession was too SLOW
this him. lie was bursting with ampi'
30; and energy and found IL impossible
the connne himself 10 the tedious rout
900 NJ u Young attorney lie looked 40
600 o. somn manner OF life in which
= could bring all his suppressed enert
10 In into immediate play. lie tounu IL
ID is Journalism. ~
400 ue became reporter for the w
= 4 uche Post. n st Louis German ph
Gifted nv Carl Schurz Within y
.ther h. had risen TO city editor ana ,h'c
nate. managing editor Still later ne pec'
ou,h mart owner OF the paper In the III
nanv time he had begun taking an &c
800. ,art en- national and local politics
1000 he was elected 10 the MISS
,o.,siature. though but twenty
z years old.
{. In 1878 he bought the Sc. Louis r
ing Dispatch for $4,000 ana aoso
No' the 81. Louis Post. This was ,ne
sdnnIno az the st. Louis Post-Dispi
the In 1881 he bought the New
huron ,yor,a from jay Gould. In 1873
".e was elected TO congress rom "
ne York district. The duties OF 'n's
ission t,on SO interfered with his 1ourna
ustih- ~ - ,ha, no resigned after a
mum ','. .arvtce
diner. CT. 1907 no had been an in'
totally blind
OF the MFR. Pulitzer had one Of the mos
~, re .ors.hoids In America.
dying - a. East seventy.
dvised nso 80, W., a 6pe estai
o Is 80" - another co
. Har- na' ,.,ana IN tho g..
com pihce vi s."' .,,.. .ad -,
10 had COAST Also wv -.
r said three places ap'o"" ~" -,
sdmlt. 200 ION steam yacht that
Ion in 100000 u year TO his expendituI
Il have since attaining afiiuencs Mr.
y ger had given considerable sn'