Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
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"The story of a Page.e

The title, "The Thunderer OF
| America" would well serve as the
distinguishing name Of the New York
+ World after Joseph Pulitzer acquired
/ II. It's force and power 50 quickly
/ impressed the public and its rivals
that the strongest OF the latter,
dangerously wounded in its most vital
! point, us circulation, for years re-
! feTred TO IT as the Gift Enterprise
But as the introduction to Mr.
Heatons well and ably constructed
/ brochure. says:
/ AN examination Of the conduct OF
i the editorial page of The World for
/ thirty years Is a study of a stirring
! epoch. The public advocacy Of the
/ World has in many ways affected
/ American history. At some points II
! is true.
Mr.. Pulitzer, the cavalry soldier.
was one who believed in the journal
/ of influence, a journal of sufficient in
/ dependence to voice public opinion.
not a journal which, like the NeH
/ York Herald, voices only the opinion
of one man and that Of his wealthy
| friends. And yet. If one took the
! trouble to examine the files of the
! New York Herald and read the
double-leaded editorials, the few writ
ten by Mr.. Bennett himself, he would
find opinions as foreibiy expressed,
as full of perspicacity and originality
as those of Mr.. Pulitzer; and. toward
the end, these two remarkable editors
came closer together than they were
when The Herald called The World a
| Gift Enterprise" and when Joseph
Pulitzer died no voice was more out
! spoken in laudation of the achieves
ments Of the owner of the rival
paper.
But a year or two before Joseph
Pulitzer passed away a distinguished
New York newspaper man saw him
on his yacht on the coast of the
Riviera He told me that the great
editor, blind though he was. was then
as keenly alive as ever to the course
of events in his adopted country and
as indefatigable in supervising and
directing the policy of his papers. He
was still the thinking machine, in
spired with wonderful nervous en-
ergy. the same intellectual marvel.
quivering with eagerness to know all
of human interest that was going on
in the world. His provision. said this
man, his judgment of public men, was
still as notable as ever; his curiosity
was as Unsuitable. One well remen-
] bers when the orientalist Mantou
Marble. sold The World, when Jay
Gould bought it, and then when Jo-
seph Pulitzer took it and the old
Freneh's Hotel began to come down
in Park Row and the walls of the new
World building rose. gradually shut
ting the light out of the offices of the
Morning Journal, the paper owned
by Mr.. Pulitzer's brother. and of
which the veteran J. L c. Clarke
was the editor.
BY a strange fancy of fate this
paper was in later years to become
the only serious rival of the New
York World through the policies OF
a man as able as Mr. Pulitzer him.
self.
The same capricious fate seemed t.
throw the scale in Joseph Pulitzers
favor from the beginning, and he was
not the man to let it pass by him.
This was the chance to appeal to the
people of New York to provide a ped
estal wherein could be set Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty, presented to the
United States by the people of France
through the initiative of the brilliant
logician, Eduard Laboulaye
Joseph Pulitzer's success in raising
this money, his triumph. at once
? placed, not only the Statue of LIB
e erty but The World. upon its feet.
D Other triumphs followed fast and
? their details form the momentous his
: tory of a generation. They are
E martialed by Mr.. Heaton in a log
ical, absorbing narrative, bound to-
r gether by quotations from the edi-
{ torials published in The World. many
5 of them written or dictated by Mr..
I Pulitzer himself.
And, as one reads them, one remem-
bers the host of remarkable men who
formed the staff of Mr.. Pulitzer and.
with such initiative as he allowed
them. carried out the orders OF their
chief. Foremost among these, in the
early days of Mr. Pulitzer's owner
ship there, were Colonel Cockerill and
: Ballard Smith. always attired in his
, frock coat and wearing his silk hat.
: and Colonel Harvey, tall and impress
, sive. and Merrill mot the quickly-dis-
carded Bradford Merrill) and long
) line of city editors. not least among
! them, Graham, ruined by the act OF
a too jealous reporter, and Burgin
and John Hunt, whose bones. picked
clean by the denizens of the deep, lie
, Wondering in the gloomy recesses or
the Atlantic, and others. still in the
, tall World building, Albert z. Wood.
|, with hair like the driven snow, and
Tenant and Thayer, and Lincoln and
, Johnson, the latter two both once
! notable ornaments of The Herald
staff, and Chaplin, most unpopular of
! newspaper men of the metropolis, and
, MAJOR OIOugnS, rellc OF the GAYS
when Lieutenant-Governor Dorsey
owned the New York Star.
! Who will succeed these men? Who
: will replace that marvellous staff Of
! reporters-White and Roder. Baxter
J and Choate. Swope and Rowland and
Greaves, the last now city editor OF
! the New York Times?
Doubtless their successors will be
the product of Mr.. Pulitzer's own
School of Commissioned or youths
: now being tutored by that most low
able of men, most brilliant Of city
/; editors, Robert Emmett MacAlarney.
! These are the ones, probably. who
will fill the posts of Rich and Hirsch,
the hapless. and Russell and Harding
Davis and Arthur Brisbane. and who.
! let us hope. with the new honor of a
: diploma from a school of newspaper
training, will achieve triumphs as
signal as those won by the early re-
porters of Mr.. Pulitzer's paper. whose
only training was in the police and
State courts, the police station and
the morgue. j. G. K. H.
THE STORY OF A PAGE-Thirty
: Years of Public Service and Public
1 Discussion in the Editorial Columns
2 of the New York World" by John L.
Heaton. Harper and Brothers, pub
: Fishers, New York and London, 1913.
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