Arizona republican., 1911-12-04
MIR. PULITZER AT CLOSE RANGE.
Great Editors Mind Mighty Engine That Turned Everything Into
 Food for Newspaper.

Every man who often saw Mir. Pu- , litzer at close range has been asked over and over again to describe him,
 says William Inglis in Harper's Week l ly. As no two witnesses entirely agree l in their description of any man or thing, so no two gave the same report of the great American journalist; yet lall agreed on two things: that his mind was d mighty engine that turned everything il met into food for his newspaper. and that whil. he spared lin satisfying the needs of that paper, he sacrificed himself most of all. He lied the way and drew all his men, tfrom the greatest to the least, into a lfierce. relentless. resistless activity that took no heed of pain or fatigue
 so long as results were achieved. He set a heartbreaking pace. yet had the art of making all his men follow with enthusiasm. no matter how exhausted. One cannot conceive of Mir. Pulitzer ever forgetting his newspaper for one waking instant. He made it. It ruled lhim. lived on him. devoured him. All history. ancient and modern, to the fullest extent of the politics of the world. an intimate knowledge Of the arts and sciences. tremendous accu- mutation of facts about the daily busi- mess and pleasure. the hopes and fears 1 nd ideals of mankind-were his equip lment for the making of great news Ipaper.
 Tt is amusing to read" MT. Pullt- ger said to a group of men dining m ihis house at Jekyll island with him it is most amusing to read that l am the father of the illustrated daily newspaper. They praise me for nav ling invented the scheme for giving the news pictorially day by day. for nav ing thought the whole thing out. Rl- idjculous, When l began to publish the World it had a very small circu- Iation. To have any influence, to ac- complish anything worth while. it was necessary to have large clrcula'ioh- II was constantly looking about Tor lsomething new. something to starue
 che public and to attract attention It occurred to me that l could print especially on the first page oi the
 paper. pictures of persons prominent
 in the news of the day that would pc
 a valuable aid. to circulation. 50
 engaged Valcrien Gribayedoff, who
 had remarkable talent for doing DOT
 traits in black and white. to make as
 many portraits as were needed every
 day. The other newspapers ignored
 the illustrations awhile. then neere
 at them. then began to use them' s"
 [ found myself in the dilemma ol
 having to enlarge the scheme of IT.
 Iustrations, make it a big part "i
 the equipment of the daily paper
 and to keep adding improvements m
 order to stay in the lead. But when
 I began the thing l only hoped to attract brief attention and comment
 advertise my paper
 As MT. Pulitzer's sight grew less and less by degrees, his hearing be-
 came correspondngly acute. He who had to depend on that sense for all he could learn of the world around him became extremely sensitive to all sounds. no matter how minute It distressed him to hear heavy
 breathing: the weird ticking and elfin chatter that will occur in the best
 regulated steam pipes was a source of deep annoyance At , o'clock one morning he sent a man off from
 Jekyll island to stop a bothersome noise on steam yacht anchored
 nearly half mile away and the
 man found a sailor tacking bit of awning canvas on a frame.
 When in the course of his frequent
 travelling MT. Pulitzer took rooms in a hotel-which was very seldom-he sent a courier in advance to engage three suits. one above the other. He occupied the middle suite. keeping va
 cant those above and below in order
 to secure silence Perhaps the most
 remarkable provision for soundless-
 ness known in any age is the silent
 room at MT. Pulitzer's town house in
 East Seventv-third street, New York.
 This seems to be part of the house,
 but is really separated from it by
 gaps in the steel beams and the sheathing. so that though one en-
 ters the apartment-by an interrupted