The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-10
HOW SOME FAMOUS
JOURNALISTS GOT
THEIR START

Horace Greeley, founder of the
New York Tribune, was apprenticed
to a printer in Vermont, landed in
New York with $40 capital in 1881,
and ten years later issued the first
number of the Tribune.
Sir Hugh Graham, who was recent
ly elevated to the British peerage, was
an Office boy for a Montreal news
paper at fifteen, general manager or
the paper at seventeen, and at nine
teen founded the Montreal Star.
Joseph Pulitzer, founded Of the
New York World, was born in Hun
gary, came OF America in 1858, fought
as a private in the Federal army in
the closing year Of the civil war, be-
gan his newspaper career as re-
porter on the st. Louis Westliche
Post, and in 1878 bought two St. Louis
papers, which he combined as the
ost-Dispatch.
The elder James Gordon Bennett,
founder Of the New York Herald,
served his journalistic apprenticeship
on the Charleston Courier, and in
1885 established the Herald with a
cash capital of $500.
Lord Northcliffe, the chief figure in
twentieth century British journalism,
was born in Ireland, the son of a
barrister, and scored his first success
with a cheap popular publication,
gradually extending his field until he
Is now the owner of the London
Times, the London Mail, and many
other publications.
William L. Mclean bought the
Philadelphia Bulletin in 1895, when 1t
had circulation Of 5000 copies, and
has gained for it circulation now
nearly 100000 daily, the largest of
any two-cent paper in America.
James Kelley, publisher of the
hChicago Herald, was born in London,
coming to America as boy, and,
after several years as "newsy" and
bootblack, became a reporter.
William Nelson, q native Of Indiana,
after long apprenticeship on several
fother papers, settled in Kansas City
| in 1880 and started little paper
called the Star, which he made one
Of the great journals Of America.
Col. Henry Watterson was a re-
porter on a newspaper in Washington,
his native city, before the civil war,
when he became a Confederate SOL
der, and after the war began his long
and distinguished connection with the
Louisville Courier-Journa1.
| Col Harrison Gray Otis was a
| "devil'' in an Ohio country news
paper office, soldier in the Union
| army, foreman of the government
printing office and a division chief in
the Patent Office before he began his
connection with the Los Angeles
Times in 1882.
T. P. O'Connor became a reporter
on a Dublin paper half century ago,
and in 1870 removed to London, where
he has since founded and edited the
Star, the Sun, the Weekly Sun, M. A.
iP., T. P's Weekly, and other publica-
tions.
Adolph s. Ochs, publisher and prin-
cipal owner of the New York Times,
was in his youth q newsboy and drug
gist's apprentice in Knoxville, a clerk
| in a grocery store in Providence, and
q printer before he scored his first
journalistic success, at the age of
twenty, as publisher of the Chatta-
nooga Times.
Melville e. Stone received his bap-
tism Of printers ink as a reporter on
| the Chicago Tribune in 1864, and was
owner of a foundry, editor and pub
Usher Of several Chicago newspapers,
and a banker, before he became gen.
eral manager Of the Associated Press
in 12Q3