The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-30
JOSEPH PULITZER DIES
ABOARD PRIVATE YACHT

Post Dispatch, but in the highest class |
Of giit-edged securities. He was a
arge stakeholder In the Illinois Gem |
raj railroad, it appeared at the time
OF Hartman Fish fight. He Is also
a heavy holder of Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western railroad stock, the
highest priced railroad stock in the
country. lie owned also an interest
In banking institutions and besides had
his magnificent home In East seventy
third street. his home at Bar Harbor,
a house at Lakewood. y. j., and
large estate on Jekyl Island, New
brunswick, Ga.
Mr.. Pulitzer left a Will drawn by
his personal counsel William Il.
Hornblower, and what It may con
tain is not known to any of the men
who were most closely connected with
him in his newspaper or general lvasl-
ness.
The general belief is that his eld-
est son. Ralph. will become the Of
fetal head of the New York World,
as he has been to great extent for
the four years. The second son, Jo-
seph, will. 1t is supposed. assume a
similar position with the st. Louis
Post Dispatch. but all that is only
positiveness tonight.
sketch OF His Life.
When Joseph Pulitzer. u tall. lean
youth Of seventeen years. almost pen
niless and unable to speak word OF
English, arrived in Boston in the war
time summer of 1854. none who saw
him would have dreamed of predict
ing the remarkable career which was
to follow in his rise to wealth ana
power
He had been born of German par
ents near Budapest. Hungary, April
10, 1s47. He received an excellent
preparatory education. but his native
country was torn by political fac
tons. and the boy conceived the idea
of going to new land to make his
fortune.
He had intended, it seems, to go to
Mexico, but when he landed at Bos-
ton he had little more than enough
money to reach New York. When
he arrived here he had just twenty
cents.
Alone, ungainly, frieendless though
consumed with the passion Tor WORK.
which characterized his whole HE. ne
could find no employment, ana ne
slept on the benches in the City Hail
Park. There was a recruiting station
in the Lincoln Cavalry as private
He served until the end III the war
but he saw little lighting. In the
/ Shenandoah Valley he acted as or
derly. He was mustered out in the
grand review in Washington after
Lees surrender.
Ordered From Hotel.
| Again he came to New York, where
! work was even harder to get than
1 before. because of the many return
1 ing soldiers. In the intervals OK wan
| dering the streets seeking emploSH ient
! he sometimes fingered around OLD
E,rench's Hotel, at Frankfort street
/ and Park Row. II is said porter
! once ordered him out Of the place
and vet twenty-three years later tha'
i ,,ttered youth. grown into man,
I was TO purchase old French hotel
,nr $500 900 and eventually buliu Tue
| pulitzer building on It's site.
! Mr. pulitzerfinally got enough noie9
~ 90 to St Louis where ne hhe"
tbare we're many Germans ana "heie
/ he hoped to nd success ,..
He found 1t. but 1t was onis any,.
the serverest ordeals OF ms ~
was rorced to accept the hardest anu
NOSE unpleasant work. In AFTER ny
no xaid that the toughest task ne ever
mad was -,ife taking care OF sixteen
n,,Ias out in st. Louis. 1t Is saio
that he, during the cholera epideinie
,here. braved the dangers ofthe plague
and became grave disser. ;
starts as Reporter.
II happened one day that the young
man WAS III restaurant watching
game of chess. A shrewd comment
| in his tefse quick manner uIeM Tue
attention Of one of the chess players
| Dr. Emil preetorius. the famour Ger
4 rnan patriot, wfonssss then ASSOCIATED
/ with Carl Scnurz in conducting tht
westltche Post. an influential daily
newspaper.
Or. Preetorius took fancy to tht
youth and MIR. Pulitzer was engaged ~
A reporter. He had been a student
both of books and men, spending al
his spare moments In the public IT.
braries, Now he had an opportunit,
ficir that suited him. TIE was sue
cess and rose to the city editorship
Successfully he became the Legislative
correspondent editorial writer ane
partial owner OF the Post.
In 1896 Mr.. Pulitzer was elected t
the Missouri Legislature. He hat
found time to study and be ADMITTED
to the bar. lie became member o
the Missouri Constitutional conven
ton. lie was IL ueiSSdto W eho ava
tional convention which nominated
Horace Greedy in 1872.
In 1874 he sold his newspaper stocl
land went to Europe. returning at tn
time when the Tilden- Hayes campaign
was beginning. He Joined in the cam
paign and made seventy speeches II
sixteen States for Tiiden.
He went to Washington as cor
respondent for the New York Sun an
thu. made his trenchant first fel
i'm the metropolis.
Married Niece Of oAvfs.
+ In Washington he met Miss Kat
|, Davis. a niece OF Jefferson Davis. Sh
was one OF the most beautiful wome
, of Washington society. but the youn
. correspondent triuinphed over man
| suitors and won her hand in mar
rlage.
; After another trip In Europe he re
turned to ST. Louis in 1878, and pun
Z chased the Evening Dispatch for 81
, 900 In few DAYS he consolidate
r il with the Evening Post, thus found
ing the Post dispatch which becan
r one OF his largest properties
II was in 1883 that Jay Gould offere