White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-05

the last louT years. Inc sCNOhu sun.
Joseph. will il is supposed.
a similar position with the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
When Joseph Pulitzer. a talk lean
youth of L years. almost penniless
and unable to speak a word of Eng
lish, arrived in Boston in the wal
time summer of 1864, none who saw
him would have dreamed of predict
ing the remarkable career which was
to follow in his rise TO wealth and
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 orr my political fac
tions and the boy conceived the idea
of going to a new land to make his
fortune.
He had intended. IL 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 90 cents.
Alone. ungainly. friendless. al
though consumed with the passion
for work which characterized his
whole life. he could find no employ
ment and he slept on the benches in
the City Hall Park.
There was a recruiting station near
the park and the boy enlisted in the
Lincoln Cavalry as a private. He
served until the end of the war. but
saw little lighting. IN the Shenan-
doah Valley he acted as orderly. He
was mustered out at the grand re-
view in Washington after Lees sur
render.
Again he came to New York. where
work was even harder to get than
before. because of the many return
ing soldiers. In the intervals of
wandering the streets seeking en-
ployment he sometimes fingered
around old French's hotel at Frank
fort street and Park row. 1t is
said a porter once ordered him out
of the place. Yet twenty-three years
latter. that tattered youth grown into
a man. vas to purchase old French
hotel for s630,000 and eventually
build the Pulitzer building on its
site.
Pulitzer finally got enough money
to go to ST. Louis, where he knew
there we're many Germans. and
where he hoped to find success.
He found it, but only after the Sc
yerest ordeal of his life. He was
forced to accept the hardest and
most unpleasant work. In after life
he said that the toughest task he
ever had was the taking care of six
teen mules out in ST. Louis. 1t is
said hat during the cholera epidemic
there. he braved dangers of the
plague and became a grave digger.
1t happened one day that the
young man was in a restaurant
watching a game of chess. A shrewd
comment in his terse quick manner
drew the attention of one of the
chess players-Dr. Emil Precious,
the famous German patriot, who was
then associated with Carl Schurz in
conducting the Westliche Post. an
influential daily newspaper. DR..
Pretorius took an interest in the
young man. and in 1868 Pulitzer was
engaged as a reporter on the Post.
He had been an interchangeable stud
ent both of books and men. spending
all his spare moments in the public
libraries. Now he had an oppor-
tunity to display his wonderful en-
ergy in a field that suited him. He
was a success as a reporter and rose
to the city editorship. Successfully
he became legislative correspondent.
editorial writer and part owner If the
Post. An inheritance from a mem
Der of his family in Hungary gave
him the means of purchasing a share
in the paper.
In 1869 Pulitzer was elected TO the
Missouri legislature. He had found
time 10 study and be admitted to the
bar. He became a member of the
Missouri constitutional convention.
He was a delegate to the national
convention which nominated Horace
Greeley in 1872.
In 1874 he sold his newspaper
stock and went to Europe. returning
at the time when Tilden-Hayes cam
paign was beginning. He Joined in
the campaign and made seventy
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