The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-14
GERMANS EXTEND B0MBARDMENT IN
CHAMPAGNE AND VOSGES SECTORS
AND KEEP IT UP ON PICARDY FRONT
FAMOUS EDITOR,
JAMES G.. BENNETT,
DIED IN FRANCE
His Last Words Were in Relation to His
Newspaper Interest in United States
and in France-He Was Uncon-
scious Two Days.

Beaulieu, France, May l4.-James Cor
don Bennett, proprietor Of the New Yorl
Herald, died at $3.50 o'clock this morn
ing after having been unconscious fol
two days.
| Mr.. Benefits last words before re.
/ lapsing into Inconsistencies were in re.
lation to his newspaper interests.
Mrs. Bennett was with her husband
when he died
Mr.. Bennett was born in New York
City, May 10, ls4l. When seventy three
years old, in 1914, he married in Paris
The Baroness de Reuter-, widow of George
Julius de Reuter-, son of the founder
of Reuters Limited, British telegrsphic
news service, The baroness was then
about forty years old and the mother Of
two children. She was formerly an
American, Maud Potter, daughter of John
Potter of Philadelphia.
On the day before his marriage, Mr..
Bennett was baptized in the Episcopal
church.
Several thousand miles away from his
main newspaper office, James Gordon
Bennett directed in minute detail the af-
fairs of the New York Herald and main
tanned for himself one of the most COM
mandng positions in American journal
ism. For more than quarter of cen
tury he lived in Paris and worked sim
ultaneously there and in New York No
man before him or since has attempted
such dong distance editing.
From almost every other angle his po-
sition in the newspaper world has been
unique. Upon the death of his father,
who was founder of the Herald, the
younger Bennett, then just past 80 years,
inherited the largest newspaper fortune
accumulated by any American publisher
up to that time. He applied it toward
achievements to startle the public and
thus redown to the credit of his news
paper In many instances these achieve
ments became important items IN the
worlds history.
Such was the policy he inaugurated
when as managing editor in 1870 he or
dered Henry NJ Stanley into the heart
Of Africa to find Livingstone, such when
he sent the Inflated Jeanette expedi- |
tion to discover the north pole; such !
when he joined in the laying of the |
cable--all typical instances
Of enterprise to make news" or further |
It's transmission.
In contract to the personal journalism
IF the elder Bennett and Greeley type, |
he younger Bennett was one Of the first
10 sound the impersona note He de-
Jared that his paper should become a
sort of republic of which no man or
,arty should hold control From the
irst he refused to recognize Celebrities"
IS compared with workers" on his staff,
md it is related that even when Stan
ey came back from his triumph in Afri-
a, young Bennett rewarded him with
he mean assignment of Covering the
'enderloin police district in New York.
When Mr.. Bennett moved to Paris in
Ss7 he started the Paris edition of the
lew York Herald and again took
nique position, as this is still the only
american daily newspaper published in
Europe. During this residence abroad. ,
roken only by the unexpected arrival !
+ the Bennett yacht in New York har.
or once every two or three years for a ,
hort stop, the editors in immediate CON !
rol of the New York Herald kept a /,
hair at their conference table always
acant for the absent editor, one of his !
WI ideas to bee his men imbued with /
he spirit that he was boss" although :
everal thousand miles away. 7