The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-30

The change for the worse came at
about O'Clock in the morning, when
he suffered an attack OF severe pain.
By daylight he appeared TO be better
and fell asleep after 1890. He awoke
at O'Clock and complained of a pain
in his heart. Soon he fell into a faint
and expired - 1870 o'clock.
Mrs. Pulitzer arrived from New
York and reached the yacht shortly
before her husband died. At his bed
side when the end came also was his
youngest son, Herbert. who had been
cruising with his father
Mr. Pulitzer's body viii be taken
north on special Pullman car. The
funeral viii be held at Woodlawn
cemetery in New York probably to-
ward the end of the week.
Mr.. Pulitzer's son. Joseph ir is
now on his way from St. Louis with
his wife. and one of his daughters
viii come from Florida. Ralph Pulit-
zer, the eldest son. is on his way to
route
Up to an hour and half before his
death Mr.. Pulitzer's mind remained
perfectly clear His German secretary
had been reading to him an account
of the reign of Louis the Eleventh OF
France, in whose career Mr.. Pulitzer
had always taken the liveliest inter
est. AS the secretary neared the end
of his chapter and came to the death
of the French king. Mr.. Pulitzer said
to him:
'Leise, ganz Ieise." (softly. quite
softly.) These were the last words he
spoke.
Mr. Pulitzer's yacht had been in
Charleston harbor only six days She
was on her way to Jekyl island. near
Brunswick. Ca, where Mr. Pulitzer
owned summer home.
There also had been some talk of
taking cruise to the West Indies and
but for the fact that the yacht was de-
layed in port by a threatened West
Indies hurricane, Mr.. Pulitzer's end
probably would have come upon the
Became III last Friday.
New York. oct. 3O.-AIr. Pulitzer. ac-
compamed by his younger son. Herbert.
left New York aboard his yacht October
20, intending t. take a leisurely voyage
to JelSyl island, near Brunswick Ga.
Aside from heavy cold which had
prevented him from taking his custo-
mary drive in Central uark for "a day
Mr.. Pulitzer was in his usual health
when he left this city. He was taken
i'll on Friday and the zach. put into
Charleston His illness proving to be
serious, a telegram was sent to his wife.
who left New York for Charleston yes
terday, arriving shortly before he died.
For mored than quarter Of "a cen
tury Joseph Pulitzer had been one ~
the leading figures In American sour
nalism. Born in Hungary in 1g47 ana
educated there, he came to this coun-
try in 1863 enlisted in the Union army
and served as cavalryman until tho
end of the war, when he settled In ST
Louis. which was for many years 20
be the scene OF his activities. His early
newspaper training was as "A reporter
and afterward city editor, managing ed
itor and part proprietor of the West
liche Post, edited by Carl Schurz- He
bought the st. Louis Dispatch in 1875
and united IL with the Post. as tho
t-Dispatch, which. under his man
agement, became. in a few years. one
of the best known and most widely cir
culated journals Of the section.
Bought the World.
Mr.. Pulitzer's entry into New York
Journalism took place in 1888. when he
bought the World, then a paper q
small circulation. It's circulation an ]
prestige grew rapidly under his gem
eraI direction. A building 20 house e..
which he erected in 1890 on Park row,
was, until overtopped by the skyscrap-
ers Of later years, one Of the most strik-
ing of New York's Office buildings
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