The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-31
Took Robert J. Carter to Paris

Took Robert J. Carter to Paris
 One of the two attempted to impress his employer with the belief that he had just left very busy desk. The other, Robert J. Carter, went to the opposite extreme and dressed with much care for the call. There were no preliminaries. MT. Carter was chosen.
 It was not many months, however, before MT. Carter was back in the New York office. When asked why his stay in Paris had been so short he re- piled that he did not know unless it was that he had eaten SGT worth of eggs one morning for breakfast.
 MT. Benett had shipped to him at regular intervals. from South America eggs that are laid by birds in the remote Andes mountains. Mr Carter was invited to breakfast with MT. Ben nett, who a mark of special favor ordered served to him two of these eggs. Not knowing the variety he was eating, the visitor made so bold as to ask for the second helping. Later on he learned that the eggs cost MT Bennett $200 a dozen. His stay in Paris terminated soon after that break fast.
 Sent Stanley to Africa
 1t would be an act of unfairness to picture Bennett the interruptions and tyrannical journalist without calling attention to the fact that many of the newspaper achievements have been his. He has a wonderful mind and is never happier than when plan ming big stroke of surprise. Sue cess came to him as soon as the Herald passed under his control In fact, it was in 1872, when Stanley reported that he had found Dr. Livingstone, that the Herald had Its greatest popular triumph.
 WheL Stanley returned to New York after his meeting with Livingstone his employer briefly congratulated him and assigned him to cover rou- tine news in the Jefferson market po- lice court. MT. Stanley never forgave the humiliation.
 Whom the last great famine struck Ireland MT. Bennett made a powerful appeal through the Herald for assist ance for the starving. He headed the with a gift of $100,000 and succeeded in raising s300,000 or more.
 MT. Bennett for many years has been convinced that war between the United States and Japan will come V hen Japan is ready to strike the blow. do not know what his opinion is based upon, but l do know that he is possessed of more of the secrets of na- tions than are in the possession of most diplomats. Today China and Ja- pan hold a score of Herald correspond ents. l do not know why.
 His Mansions and Palace
 While James Gordon Bennett is a hard working man a large part of the time, he lives like king when not at work. In New York he keeps his home "a magnificent establishment-open for him all the time. His servants are there, and it Is the domestic theory that the master may be in at any moment. If he came to New York un- announced and went to his home at 0 clock tonight he would find his din- ner ready to be served.
 In Paris he maintains two establish ments in the Champs E1ysees, one at l04 and the other at 120. But his true Paris home is at 37 Avenue d'Iene, where he lives in a princely manner. At Beaulieu-between Nice and Monte has one of the finest cha teaux known to the Riveria. Though lc spends little time there, his estab- ishmeEt, like his home in New York, | IS maintained just as If he were pres l snt.
 The real show place of all the Ben l nett establishments is at Versailles. | There he occupies the chateau built by Louis XIV for his second wife Mme 1 le Maintenon. It was there that the | oval geological gardens were main | aired. and it was there that Marie | Antoinette had her famous dairy. The |
 which run to the Petit Tria- | lon, are 1900 acres in extent.
 Intimate of Kings and Dukes
 There MT. Bennett entertained every ear the late King Leopold of Bel ,ium and King Carlos of Portugal, | whose assassination few years ago 1 h hocled the world. At Versailles, too, | le has entertained many of Russia's | 'rand dukes and many of the nobility 1 rom every country in Europe. It Is |
 fact that scores of broken down mo- | 'lemen have no other incomes than he pensions paid to them by the re- owner of the New York Her Id. He has been on terms of real in- imacy with the Sultan of Turkey low deposed-and the Khedive of | egypt, both of whom I have known o accept from him presents of large Talue.
 It is quite probable that Mir Bennett | las done more travelling than any other | nan in the world. His present yacht, he Lysistrata, Is one of the very lar sest private craft afloat, and it is too II 'ne Of the most magnificent. In 1t he 'ruises every ocean and has visited every land-always with his private physician on board and two cows. For ie Is careful of his health and must lave pure milk