The Detroit times., 1911-10-30
HUNDREDS PAY TRIBUTE
TO JOSEPH PULITZER
Continued from Page One.

feet I'm height. and came TO New York
with a 20-franc piece as his sole be-
longings.
His estate is estimated at more
than $4,000, 900.
Two of hts mothers brothers had
been officers in the Austrian army
and one of them had fought under
Macmillan in Mexico.
Not long before young Pulitzer de-
cided TO emigrate TO America he mad
run away from home TO Paris 70 en-
list in the Legion stranger, but WAS
rejected because even then his sight
was defective. Next he tried 10 enlist
in London. but again was rejected
In America. however. in 1864. enlist
ing officers were not SO particular. In
September of that year he Joined the
federal army AS a private dragoon IN
the First New York cavalry, popularity
known as the Lincoln cavalry. lie
served with the army OF the Shenan-
doah until honorably discharged al the
close OF the civil war.
GO West, Young Mani"
lie returned 20 New York then,
where he found things so bad that
he had decided TO tramp TO New Bed
ford 10 ship on whaling vessel Hor-
ace Greeley already was advising so
west. Young man. Fl nc Youth, still
| In his teens, one day in the OLD
! French's hotel nj Franklort-st. and
Park Row. got into scrap with a
! porter in the hotel. from which young
/ Pulitzer arose with wrath in his hear,
+azainat Manhattan and everything In
! il and he started toward ST Louis.
! Twenty-Five years after that hotel
porter had kicked him, Mr. Pulitzer
! was able 10 write out a check for
$3.50. 900 to buv the hotel and it's cen
| tents. Old Frenchs stood on part
of the ground now occupied by the
Pulitzer building, the building which
in after years Mr.. Pulitzer liked to re-
fer to as my monument.
He arrived IL St. Louis in February.
1906. penniless, and first got JOB at
Jefferson barracks. where he took
care OF 16 army mules. For two years
to come he was fireman on a river
! boat running between St Louis and
I New Orleans. When he wasn't work
ing he was haunting the reading and
reference rooms of the ST Louis pub
lie library.
| His sole amusement was chess.
I One fffff4t-in a German saloon he
played chess against DIR, Emil Pree-
torius. on eof the editors OF the West
liche Post. German newspaper OF
St Louis and beat the editor. In
1867. he got a job on the Westliche
Post as a reporter.
Just 10 years from the time he got
this Si0-a-week job he was able TO
buy the St Louis Dispatch and uni
ted the paper with the Evening Post
as the Dispatch, which he
owned until his death. During the
DAYS intervening between the chess
game and his job OF reporter he had
got a clerkship in the German immi-
grafton society's Office. Later he was
appointed a notary public.
An Annoying Reporter.
His contemporaries on other 81.
Louis papers when he started in mum
bered among others Henry NJ. Stan
ley, William Fayel and Philip Fergu'
son. These men and others are on
record as saying that the lanky. rest
less reporter for the little German pa
per was the most exasperating IN
quisitive and annoying cub we ever
ran across
The first public fight OF note
which the young newspaper reporter
took up was pen campaign against
corruption in the St Louis county
court. He won his fight; the court
abolished and recognized under a
form OF government which still pre-
walls there Mr.. Pulitzer in Novem.
Der 1859. entered st. Louis pontics
and was elected member OF the low
or house Of Missouri's general assem-
bly,. When. he went TO the state CAP
ital he took up his work there nor
only as a legislator but as speciai
correspondent of the Post as well.