Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-30
PULITZER BURIAL
PROBABLY WILL
Be WEDNESDAY
Body of Famous Editor Shipped
to New York on Spe=
ciaI Train.
CAME TO AMERICA POOR,
DIED MULTI-MILLE0NAIRE
Had Brilliant Career as Soldier,
Lawyer and Legislator and
Owned The World.

NEW YORK, Oct. 30.-The funeral OF
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
World, who died yesterday on board
his yacht Liberty in the harbor OF
Charleston, S. c., will be held in this
city, probably on Wednesday. The
body was shipped to New York today
on a special train.
Death was due to heart disease Mrs
Pulitzer was summoned from New
York Saturday. She reached her nus
bands bedside half an hour before he
died.
Mr.. Pulitzer's father was a Hunga-
rian Jew, his mother a Cathollc. lie
was born at BUDAPEST on April ~
1S47. During his childhood in hungary
he received some instruction from a
private tutor, which was the sum total
of his schooling. Forty-seven years ago
he landed at Boston. A tall, lean emil
grant over six feet in height, he came
to New York with a twenty-franc piece
as his sole belongings. At the time of
his death his wealth is estimated a.
more thai 500. 900, 00e.
Get Job AT $40 n Week.
Ills sole amusement was chess. One
night In a German saloon be played
chess against DR.. Pretorious, one OF
the editors of the Westliche Post, a
German newspaper of s.. Louis, ana
beat the editor. In 1868 he got a job on
the Westliche Post as a reporter.
Just ten years from the time he got
this $40 a week job he was able to buy
the st. Louis Dispatch and united the
paper with the Evening Post, which he
owned until his death. AS reporter on
the German paper he was the sole
reportorial staff.
Mr.. Pulitzer in November, 1869, en-
tered st. Louis politics and was elected
a member of the lower house of Mis-
souri's General Assembly. When he
went to the State capital he took up his
work there not only as a legislator but
as a special correspondent of the Post
as well.
In September, 1864, Mr.. Pulitzer
Joined the Federal army as a private
dragon in the First New York Caval-
ry, popularity known as the Lincoln
Cavalry. He served with the army
of the Shenandoah until honorably dis
charged at the close of the Civil War.
Started West In Wrath.
He returned to New York then,
where he found things so bad hat he
half decided to tramp to New Bed
ford to ship on a whaling vessel.
Horace Greeley already was advising
ego West, young man" The youth,
still in his teens, n day in the old
French Hotel at Frankfort street and
Park row, got into a scrap with a
porter in the hotel, from which young
Pulitzer arose with wrath in his heart
against Manhattan and everything in
it and he started toward st. Louis.
Twenty-Five years after that hotel por-
ter had kicked him Mr., Pulitzer was
able to write out a check for $3.50, 900
and buy the old hotel and its contents.
nj erected there the Pulitzer Building.
Mr.. Pulitzer had become managing
editor of the Westliche Post in 1871,
OIL when the paper broke with Grant.
The Post, which was now somewhat of
a paper, threw it's sympathies with the
Liberal Republican movement. A small
inheritance added to his savings helped
him at this time to become part owner
of the PAPER
Political beliefs made il impossible
for Mr.. Pulitzer and Carl Schurz. who
N.as interested in the Post, to continue
their newspaper connections. The fol-
lowing year Charles A. Dana selected
MIR. Pulitzer to go to Washington to
report for the Sun the proceedings of
the electoral commission which had to
do with deciding the uproar over the
Tilden-Hayes presidential election
Bought 81. Louis Dispatch.
While working on this assignment
in Washington Pulitzer married Miss
Katherine Davis, a relative of Jeffer-
son Davis. After the marriage Mr..
Pulitzer and his bride went to Europe
as a special correspondent of the Sun.
Upon his return to this country in the
winter of 1878 Mr.. Pulitzer went back
to ST. Louis. The following year he
bought at public auction the st. Louis
Evening Dispatch for $500. His pur-