Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-11-03
Friday, November 3, 1911.
THE CAREER OF JOSEPH PULITZER.

Pulitzer. publisher of the New
York World and St. Louis Post
Dispatch. who died the other day
on his yacht in Charleston harbor
from extreme poverty and obscur-
ity to power, aff1uence and nation
al prominence. says the Chicago
Record Herald, is as romantic as
it is typically American. His
career is another notable illustrat-
ion of the truth that the other
name" for this republic is oppor-
tunity."
Forty-seven years ago Joseph
Pulitzer, an immigrant boy from
Hungary, seventeen years of age,
landed in New York. He was
penniless and friendless and could
not speak word of English. His
life since then reads like a romance
with strange and fascinating feat
ures.
He took lodging the first night
at cheap hotel i'll the German
quarter and paid his last coin, a
2o-franc piece. Circumstances at
length drove him into the United
States army for he had failed to
find any other way of earning food
to sustain fife and so he went to
war as dragoon in the First New
York Cavslry and served with the
Army of the Shenandoah until
peace was declared.
With the war over Pulitzer
again found himself adrift in New
York. He often sought refuge
from the cold of winter in the lob
by of certain hotel from which
he was one day kicked into the
street by a husky porter. And at
length, still penniless and friendless,
he crawled out of a train in the
East St. Louis railroad yards and
soon found work at Jefferson Bar
racks taking care of mules. For
two years following he was fireman
on river steamer plying between
New Orleans and St. Louis. He
never lost an opportunity to read
and study and changed his employ
ment that he might haunt the pub
lie library in his leasure hours.
When boy in Hungary he
learned to play chess and it was
this circumstance that brought
him into acquaintance with Carl
Schurz, who was associated with
the Westliche Post and becoming
interested in the youth got him a
job as reporter at $Io. week.
His restless energy now found vent
and from this point in his history
he advanced with giant strides.
So rapid was his rise that a few
years afterwards he went back to
New York, bought the World and
before long also the hotel property
from which he had been SO uncer-
mOneiously removed a few years
before and builded on the ground
the new World building-one of
the first skyscrapers to be erected
in the city. 1t is said that the
gross ceceipts of the World under
his management has been approx
mately one hundred million dollars.
What is it in the nature of a
man that causes him, almost in
voluntarily, upon receipt of the
daily paper, to turn to the sport
ing page before reading the speech
of president or the progress of a
war upon which hangs the fate
of all empire? In the language of
Mulvaney, answer me thot sor!"
A man down in Oklahoma is
advertising for wife and insists
upon a widow whose husband has
been hanged. In explanation he
states that he don't want her al
ways reminding him of the excel
lent qualities of her former hus-
band.
Whether it's smile or a swear
depends upon whether you or
your neighbor has suffered at the
hands of the Halloween pranksters.