Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-30
Proprietor of the New York
World Passes Away.
III for Several Days, but Heart
Failure Immediate Cause.
End Comes Suddenly on His Yacht
At Charleston, S. c.

/ Charleston, :. C., Oct. 29.-JoSeph
/ Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York
World and the st. Louis Post-Dis-
| patch, died at lao O'Clock today aboard
| his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston
| harbor The immediate cause of death
! was heart failure. He had been i'll for
| several days. but until n few hours
| before the end none of those around
| him realized the gravity Of his condi
| ton.
The change for the worst occurred
/ ABOUT O'Clock this morning when he
suffered severe pains. BY daylight he
appeared To be better and he fell
4 asleep soon after 1885, He awoke at
! o'clock and again complained of pain
/ in his heart. Soon after he fell in a
faint and expired at 1.4O o'clock
Mrs. Pulitzer. who had been notified
/ in New York. reached Charleston
| shortly before her husband died At
| his bedside when the end came also
was mis- youngest son, Herbert, who
was cruising with his father. Mr.
Pulitzer's body will be taken North
| tomorrow afternoon, on a special Pull
man car The funeral will be held at
Woodlawn cemetery in New York,
probably toward the end of the week.
Mr. Pulitzer's son, Joseph, Jr., is
I now on his way from st. Louis with
| his wife, and one of his daughters will
come from Florida. Ralph Pulitzer.
the Oldest son, is on his way to
Charleston and will meet the train en-
route. Up to an hour and a half be
fore his death, Mr.. Puitzer's mind re-
mained perfectly clear. His secretary
| had been reading to him an account of
the reign of Louis, the Eleventh of
France. in whose career Mr.. Pulitzer
always took the liveliest interest. As
| the secretary neared the end of his
chapter and came to the death of the
French King Mr.. Pulitzer said to him:
'Leiz. GAM leiz'' C'softly, quite soft
! Ivy. These were the last words he
| spoke.
New York. Oct 29.-Joseph Pulit-
ger. proprietor of the New York World,
died of heart failures today. on board
his yacht Liberty in the harbor of
charleston, S. c., after an illness of
two days. The news was received
here in a telegram from his secretary.
Mr.. Pulitzer. accompanied by his
younger son. Herbert. left New York
Oct. 20, aboard his yacht intending to
take a leisurely voyage to Jakyl is
land near Brunswick, Ca, where he
had a winter homo
| Aside from heavy cold which had
prevented him from taking his custom
larry drives in Central Park. for a day,
Mr.. Pulitzer was in his usual health
when he left this city. He was taken
ill on Friday and the yacht put into
charleston. His illness proving to be
lserious a telegram was sent to his
wife, who left New York for Charles
ton yesterday and arrived shortly be-
fore he died. The hcdy will be brought
to New York. tomorrow, where funer-
al arrangements will ne made
For more than quarter of a cen
ltury Joseph Pulitzer had been one OF
the leading figures in American jour
lnalism. Born in Hungary in 1S47 and
educated there, he came to this coun-
try in 1863, enlisted in the Union
iarmy and served as cavalryman UNI
It'll the end of the war After the war
he settled in St. Louis, which was for
Imany years to be the scene of his
Journalistic activities. His early news
Ipaper training was as a reporter, and
he was afterwards city editor. manag-
ing editor and part proprietor of the
Westliche Post, edited by Carl Schurz
He bought the St. Louis Dispatch in
ISIS and united it with the Post as
the Post-Dispatch and under his man
agement that paper became in few
years one of the best known and most
widely read in that section of the Unit
ed States.
Mr.. Pulitzers entry into New Yorl
journalism occurred in 1888. when ht
bought the World. then paper o
! small circulation. Its circulation ane
. prestige grew rapidly and under hi.
general direction it has continued it
, great influence. a building to house i
which he erected in 1890 on Park Row
, was until overstepped by the sky
serapers of later years, one Of tn
, mest striking of New York's Ollie
, buildings.
r Mr.. Pulitzer's sight began TO fai
, him in the late eighties and after !
time he became totally blind. From
then on he was q partial invalid bu
!. up OF the last he kept UP general su
lpervision over his newspaper proper
ties here and in St Louis and took ;
. pronounced interest in civic affairs
Much of his wealth has been givel
for educational purposes. He donated
a Isl, 100000 to Columbia College to es
> tablish and maintain a college of jour
: nalism and established scholarships II
: That Institution for deserving DO.
graduates of New York public schools
During his residence in Missouri, MI
Pulitzer served as member of tn
Legislature and was delegate from
that state to the Democratic Nationa
convention in 1850. He was elected t
the 10Th Congress from a New Yorl
: district. but resigned after a fey
:, months service.