El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-18
Greeley's Early Effort
Three Great New York Editors
started Business Life nder
DiSeOuraEing difficulties.
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eCo,vrigl.t 1915 BY Madison c.
Peters.)

-OPACF GREEDY, founder Of the
- New York Tribune, went TO New
i L York City at Il to seek his for
tune He walked most Of the distance
through the woods. from Erie, Penn
svlvania, to Buffalo, New York he
rode on a canal boat to Albany,
descended the Hudson in a barge and
reached New York. just as the sun
was rising. August IS, 1881 His
iaurney of coo miles had cost him six
dollars. He found board over ss-
loon at s2.5O week
For DAYS Greedy wandered up and
down the streets. going into scores OF
buildings and asking II they WantSd
"a hand" but no was the IneFltaoI9
reply. His quaint appearance Ie3
MANY TO think that he was an escaped
aDDrentice One Sunday at his board
ing place ne heard that printers were
He was at the door at five O'Clock
Monday morning and asked the Iore-
man for a job at seven Ihe latter
had no idea that a country green
horn could set type for the Polyglot
Testament on which help was needed,
but he said: Fix up a case 1or MIN
and we viii see II he can do anything
! When the proprietor came IN, ne 90
jected to the newcomer and told the
foreman to let him go after his 1lrst
days work was done That niSnt
and most correct days work that mad
Establishes the Log Cabin
Ten years later Greedy was a partner
in a small printing office He founded
the New Yorker. the best weekly paper
in the United states, but It was not
nominated for president in 1870, Greedy
started the Log Cabin. which reached
the then fabulous circulation OF 10000
But on this paper. at a penny a copy,
I
was the New York Tribune, price one
cent To start II he borrowed
thousand dollars and printed five thou
sand copies OF the first numb II
was difficult to give them all away.
He began with 500 subscribers and in
creased the list to 1900 in six weeks
The demand for the Tribune grew
! faster than new machinery could be
obtained to print It
Bennett'S Failure and Success
James Gordon Bennett had made a
failure of his New York Courier in
1925. and OF the Globe in 1882 He was
known only as a clever writer for the
press. who had saved a few hundred
| dollars by hard labor and strict
/ economy for II years In 1885 he
asked Horace Greedy to Join him IN
starting a new daily paper. the New
Herald was started May 5, 1895. with a.
| cash capital sufficient to pay expenses
! for ten DAYS Bennett hired small
} cellar on Wall street furnished II with
| supported BY two barrels. and there,
doing all the work except the printing,
began making q really great daily
! newspaper. thing known IN America.
/ as all its predecessors vera partly or
| gans.
l PuIftIerss Success.
I Marx Joseph Puiitzer's rise from
l homeless Jewish immigrant boy. who
/ could not speak English upon landing.
/ to the founder OF the New York n orld.
/ and who among other oenefaction5
| gave S2.000.0o0 TO Columbia university
/ 10 establish and maintain a school OF
/ journalism and bequeathed $1,000, 900 to
I the New York Philharmonic society
! The rise Of this remarkable man
I who once wandered homeless upon the
streets OF New York, heart-sore and
/ hungry. with only remnants OF shoes
I on his feet and his clothes in rags il
! illustrates the truth OF that famous say
! ing OF Oliver Wendell Holmes: when
a rsSoiute young fellow steps Up to the
great bully. the World. he is often sur
nrised TO find the mask come off in his
/ hand and that il was only tied on 10
scare away timid adVenturers."