New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1925, Page 15

FRANK A MUNSEY, PUBLYSHER, DIES AFTER OPERATION (Continued from First Page) mfered a rel about 4 o'clock this morning, The end came peace- fully and apparently without much suffering, Thoughtful for Aged Sister Mr. Muneey retained his faculties until the final relapse, He had re- quested that his sister, ) John M. Hyde of St Potersburg, Fla, not be sent for becausc of her great age and weakencd condition. nts will be pse \\lll 'lo Bie Filed, disposition M made of his large ) ¥ cluded two New Yor will probably not be made uatil the filing of his will, Mr, ) sey 13 understood o have been fn- terested in a chain grocery eys in New York and to have held ex tensive interests in varlous enter- prises. His aggregate wealth is said by general report to have reached several million dollars Messages of condolence President Coolldge and other public officials cams to the a ates of Mr. Munsey when Lecame known. Message ed from S Kansas, estats s were re- tor Charles Curtis | _majority leader of the csentative Bertrand | 1, of epresentative amilton Fish, of New Yorlk; Sena- James W. Wadsworth, Jr. v York; William Howard ' cldef justic the United States; Herbert cretary of com- | Fenator Re Benator Arthur During paper an apper of Kansas. varied carcer ag news- magazine publis! Munsey edited or owned §core of publi publications the Argosy: 1889, he bought and named it which later L Monthly maga Story magazine was fl’!hlwh‘\] by him in 1024, Other magazines owned by Mr. Munsey and combined with others at one time or another, but all now extinct, were: The Serap Rook, The Q r, The Puritan, | Godey’s Magazine, Woman, The Live | Wire, The Junior Mun: The Cavalier, The Railroad Man's Mag. ezine, Newspapers once owned by Mr Munsey were the New York Con- tinent established in 1890 and| merged with The St: he Washing- ton Tiw the New York Daily News; the Boston Journal; the Gal- timore Ne the Philadelphia Eve- ning Times; New York Press; New York Sun, merged with the Press; Raltimore Star and Baltimore Amer- jcan; the New York Herald and the New York Telegram, the Paris edi- tion of the Herald; the Globe and Commercial Advertiser, merged with o Sore Throat A harmless and effective gargle ssolve two “Bayer Tablets " in four tablespoonfuls and gargle throat thor- Repcat in two hours |if | Ty. Be sure you use only the gen- uine Bayver Aspirin, marked with the Bayer Cross, which can be had in tin boxes of twelve tablets for few cents. SMOKE PIPE REPAIRS o fight to hang on. r wa trom X | ¥rank Andrew Munsey | United States, ®|The Sun and the ’ | Evening Sun, | me tinued, { compensation, for a and the Evening \\hl(.] was merged with the D York Evenlng Tclegram in 1024, At Dls death, Mr, M y owned only Wo newspapers, the New York Sun and the Evening Telegram, Was Telegraph Operator Frank Andrew Munsey was 28 years old and a telegraph operator when he arrived in New York one cold, bleak day in the winter of 1882, | He had come down to the metropolis {rom Maine, bringing all his pro ty with him. It consisted of a grip- full ‘of manuscripts, the clothes he | had on, and $40 in cash. He was going to start a publishing business. Seeking a focussing point for what he felt cel n, even at that time, would ona be a great enterprise, he engaged a little room for an of- fice, bought an eight dollar tahle | and a couple of cheap kitchen chairs some pens 1 a bottle of ink, and e $40 was gone. Frank Munsey broke in the world's greatest where even the mighty mnst city, | With all his troubles aheal of him, | arted to work, and two months appeared the first number of | o Argosy magazine—then an illus- | trated weckly paper of elght pages | |for boys and girls. Horatio Alg 5 one of the contributors. was the beginning of a which has had few if any parallels in the publishing world. | Torty years later, after one of the st remarkable demonsirations of hewing success out of failure ever seen in that particular business, | had hecome one of tha foremost publishers in the numbering his news- by the score s | struggle | | papers and magazine nd his wealth by the millions. 1t ad been a fight every etep of the way, and not once did luck lend a hand with the burden. Got Herald In 1920 His most notahle achievement in the newspaper tield came in Febru- tary, 1920, when he acquired the New York Herald, one of the oldest news. papers in the country, a a with it the New York . the Her- ald's senior hy two years, which M ‘| Munsey had purchased in 1916 and | consolidated with the Press. ‘The elder James 3ennett had founded the He Charles A. Dana developed the Sun. | The merged publication was called New York Herald for a time, and the 1 simply to the Herald. At t me tinie the another Munsey news- paper, was changed to the Sun Mr. Munsey also acqnired the Tele. gram and in 1 purchased Globe and Commercial Advertiser | which he consolidated with the Sun. Tn 1924, he bought the Evening Mail | and merged it with the Telegram “Later in the vear, he sold the Herald to Ogden Reid. the deal in- cluding the European edition of the paper. Mr. Munsey said he had sold | the Herald, which was consolidated with the Tribune by Mr. Reid, be- | cause of his dislike for monsiron Sunday papers “in which T have never been able to interest myself to any great degree.” His Early Tife | The early life of Mr, Munsey, as he forged gradually ahead in epite of countless disappointments and bitter reverses, was not unlike that of an Alger hero, although his ult mate success out did the i of even that famous writer. Born in the little town of Mer- cer, Maine, August 21, 1854, he has been described as ‘“one of those many bare-footed untry boys who | start life with more in their heads than in their pockets.” He attended the . public school of Mercer for a| while, but soon felt the urge to 1nake money. His first job was h\‘ the country store, where he served as general utility boy. From th office, learned to handle was sent to Augusta, the portant publishing center. 1,.n1m.s an obsession, and it. » knew he could do Th [um' walls of a tele, he wrote years afterward, as the cage to a tiger yearni for the boundless freedom ungle.” “I was so sure of myselt,” he con- “that T would willingly have given 10 years of my life, without chance with ome of the big concerns of the country — railroading, el-manu- | facturi of the great staple industrie Gradually the publishing germ en- tered his blood. He drew up elabor- | ate plans for a magazine and sub- mitted them to various persons with | money, but “an enterprise so hazard- ous as publishing., and managed by | a man who had no practical experi- | New ination an im- | His work after that the publis! | editor ‘ [toole for the goo | weekly paper, | little | was | four year mu" (under shipping, banking, or any | ¢ Starts The Argosy Finally, his scheme was laid be- fore a man more daring than the rest—a stock broker—and arrange- ments were made to begin publica- tion The Argosy. The broker agreed to supply $2,600, and Mun- sey, having $500 w h he had saved, promptly invested it in man- uscripts. With these he started for New York. When he had opened his little office, he drew one ot his new kitchen chairs up to the elght dollar ible and wrote for the 500, A few days later he collapsed over that same table. The broker up in Maine had changed his mind. He would keep his money. This Mr, Munsey described as ‘“jolt number one." Next he took his scheme to a publisk who otfered to bring the magaz out in his own name, re- taining Munsey as editor and man- iger. Two months later the first number appeared. and three months jer failed. This The insolvent publisher owed t and manager of The A something mc an a thou dollars {n salary, which the -will of the Writing 1 1t as “the nfant iod) he dserit ning of a strugsle such as no mar is justified in undertaking.” He had no capital, and no me raising any, Many criptions had been re No zazine okl ans advance sn eived and the one had any and it could money aith in t no credit rrow ) from a fricnd ir Maine, he fought on to keep w life the publi the winter of 1884 spent the ma lond serial story for T lled “Afloat in a Grea ind out 6,000 word: ndle-1 after struggle at the office. Wh finished this, he loc ile & by ¢ days o en hie had of dr ery that | lived throue York. As a reward, h yhis debts amounted to This number thres” al Story Helped coming bout $16 was “jolt helped the efrenlat started to come the the rived, 1 soriths ha sp s 0 sampls coy It was then calle e had had no writer could no At the the | circulation 1S paying 1 week, He wrofe grinding out an er” ]fil“l ‘.‘,r.,w,u., But renlation ubl public vidly somethir failins way bhefor: completely down he put $100,000 int m ]<r.]li Tost to Munsey's Ma 1 twenty cents a o By )} 0 Sing money hut it would not = had two magazines brought on ws distribu ’ {served four of this per- | < ‘mectings tonight through tunes for its owner, In addition to the two publications whose histories are so closely bound up with his early life, Mr. Munsey acquired “The Scrap Book,"” *“The Railroad Man's Magazine,” the “All Story Magazine," he Ocean,”" and others, and owned newspapers in New York, Washington, Boston, |Philadelphla and Baltimore. He algo 1‘1‘114 extensive Investments In other fields, and never permitted his capl- tal to remaln idle. Mr. Munsey never married. [Uived tor many y | York's fashionable hotels, maintained a country estate at Eliza- bethtown, N. Y, IState Grangers Will He Hartford, Dec. 22 (A—The chiet feature of interest at the 4¢lst an- {nua) session of the Connecticut |State grange at Foot Guard hall, this elty, Jan. 12, 13 and 14, will be the biennial election of officers. The present state officers have ars and except for the rd Welton of Plymouth, Darius A. §t. John of there will be |change | Overs may er Minor Tves of ceed State Master ok of Niantic. Amo ntioned are Mr. ward ( roton The annual sday mornir Mer{den Allen B. 7 candidates Ives, Louls G. gton and arles M b ssfon will open Jan. 12, at 11:30, | Official Probe Into Fatal Fire in Boston stan, Dec. 22 (P)—State Fir rshal George C. Neal today began an inquiry int a fire at the state house Oct. fn whieh Ch Ainsleigh, a watchman, was burned to death Light houge em ployes were called to Eive evidence hearing was private Ainsleigh, who had the ion of g the only American d by German shellfire in n waters du the World r, was enveloped in flame when he o door of an office in the gating a smell hes wounded when a German sub- a coa! barge of wl arge in Caps Cod o state distine s le! s in ch SEES U. S, EMBROILED Dee. 2 commun newspaper Rote ine quotes 1 of sovir Minister foresa England vas already ssla as de. a grave conflict and America erences over Chinese pol ommercial America and e World War. Ame ieh in all the af s attempt n of South it over rubb: fairs of the world." TO ANNOUNCE ARBITRATION New Haven, Dec. 22 () ~— The vard made by arbitrators in the ploves and the Connecticut company vill be reported to the trolleymen in Jamos H who represented 1 arbitrator. Yahey of Boston, the men as The award will then be mada lic through the neutral Charles Kleiner of third pub- arbitrator, s city. The arbitrator, Mr : of Hart- represented t TOO MANY port, Dec. 22 CASES P Bride - cases awaiting trial during the of the cor . ¢ clrenlars o e all over th lows cived order met his terms, tha new Munse 40,000 copies rapid elim 00 polnt Gave 10 Years To Get Start is marl inning of suc- < Munsey. He had 1* n willir g 10 of T life for a ¢ to get ad actua n more than years—and owed $100,000 months after M blazed the way, T its juvenile cloak field of publ y Bive soy's SAre and ente adult ence, did not appeal to them.” that day it has made several for- | NEW BRITAIN SHEET METAL WORKS E. J. GOOBY & SON 356 So. Main St. Tel. DT F'RE INSURANCE 308 Main St. New Britain e e ORIENTAL RUGS We've taken 25% off our stock; reduced it for quick clearance because we've a big shipment on the road from our branch in Persia. New Britain never saw such a big shipment as it will see soon. D. M. BENJAMIN Furniture and Oriental Rugs 67 E. Main St. Tel. 526 FURNITURE MAIN 50 Natnral Walnut Mahogany Finishes WATCH FOR OTHER BIG SPECIALS CO., ING O STREET criminal su- not be reached Dickenson said today that, follow- ting of the Frost ar- would cember term of the rvior court will 1dge Edwin D, om the bench ing the comple son trial he not consider anv at could not be completed Judge Dickenson has heen assicned to civil smperior court Hartford county, for January pleteait ars at one of New | and also | AGE FROM KRIM 0 BREAKS MAN'S LEG Dec. 22 M—Gordon Can-| While walking along the Plainvill ning, & captain In the British army [roud yesterday afternoon, reserves, arrived here from Morocco | Pascus, of Farmington, was struck today clalming to bear credentials by an automobile, driven by Jame from Abd-El-Krim authorizing him |Glolella of Waterbury, and eustained to open preliminaries to peace nego- |a compound fracture of the right {tlatlons between the Riffian tribes. [leg. 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Butterscotch Wafers— Pure creamery butter used in these wafers makes them delicious; regular price 60c. Christmas Packages of Whitman's, Schrafft's and Dow’s in 1, 2, 3 and 5-pound Christmas Boxes CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! Attractive Christmas Boxes— 69 Filled with specially selected, high-grade Assorted Choco- lates; ordinarily sells for $1.00; Our Special Price. ... Pound Box Pure Sugar Xmas Confections— American mixed — fine for 39c the kiddies TRY OUR SPECIAL BLUE PLATE LUNCHEON Ribbon Candy - 39c¢ 60c 1 pound, 6 ounces Store Open Christmas Day Until Noon We extend the season's greetings The SODA SHOPPE 95 WEST MAIN STREET WA sensarional development Fyé' G. MASH now contains - COD LIVER MEAL This vital new element means much the same effect as direct sunlight for your hens all year round, feeding new vigor right into bones and tissues. It means more eggs, larger eggs, better eggs, bigger hatches, stronger chicks— decreased mortality of both grown birds and chicks. 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