The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1911, Page 16

tT att Bubscription her World tor t VOLUME JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘A man of w re, commanding intellect and compelling 1 Joseph Paliizer. t World is the imperfect but sincere witness, | genius died yosterday That he was h more t is by reason of his tireless zeal in the pnblic adrvice, P Not as an enc and ideals for hnman welfa Mr. Politzer brongh cal wrom: 1 ment than mos! men feel who were born to a share in its birthright. | He bronght also a &rew stronger with him law; np troe growih wit trond enough to shelter all. He saw in ont Government of checked and tmlanced powers the | on his absorbing passion, | <a means to the expression of his ideas are. from his Old-World association with politi- alases a deeper appreciation of free govern: | high regard for order and authority, and this to the end. He saw no true progress without out justice; no true democracy that was not highest type of haman administration yot devised ; and against strange | new doctrines, whether of executive usurpation, or of short-cuts to hasty popolar action, or of conquest and dominion over men of other} lunds and races, he burned as a living flame. Not this the piace or time to tell of Joseph Pulitzer’s great ser- Views to peace; of the lash he laid upon corruption in high place; of ‘his practical and persistent leadership in movements of political reform, or public purification; of his intense devotion to liberty and his passionate hatred of wrong and injustice. These are an. insepa- table part of the history of the United States for thirty years. We would to-day dwell rather upon his many manifestations of warm- bearird interesi in lesser things that would smooth the path of the | helpless, but that will never live in the formal records. Of what has been good in Tho World more is due to Mr. Pu- litmer"s power and his personal attention than most men would deem possibile, noting his heavy handicap of physical infirmity and his long wanderings in search of health. Of its shortcomings he has been the kremest critic; and interest was unflagging to the very day of his death The cable and the telegraph have brought to it his constant guidance, his ever-reedy protest against hasty judgment, his inspira- tiem i> endearor. The high ideal he set for himself he hetter told thea any one can tell for him when from his sick-bed at Wiesbaden, the day the corner-sione of the Pulitzer Building was laid, Oct. 10, 1883, ‘he cabled to The World this message: Ordl grom? that this structure be the enduring home of a newe- Pncs forever wxeatisfied with merely printing newe—forever fighting every form of Wrong—forerer Independent—forever advancing in En- Hphiewment aed Progrese—forever wedded to truly Democratic ideas— forever axpiriag to 22 @ Moral Force—forever rising to a higher plane @ perfection cs 2 Pudlic Institution. Ged gromt that The World may forever strive toward the Highest Mewk—te toth a vily schoobhouse end @ daily forum, doth @ daily sarker aad a dovily tribune, am instrument of Justice, @ terror to crime, en cid iv olncadion, om exponent of true Americoniom. Let i ever be remembered that this edifice owes ite existence ‘%» the public; thet its architect is popular favor; that ite corner- stows ta Liderty and Justiog; that tte every stone comes from the people aad reyreecais public opproval for pudlic services rendered. Ged forbid that the vast army following the standord of The ‘Worla shoud in this or im future generations ever find it faithless to Shoes ifens and morc) principles to which alone it owes its Hie and withows which 1 world retaer heve is perish. Thet Mr. Poliizer himself lived by these precopts and died true te them the ai: page and policy of The World have been the daily wit lor twenty-eight years ST Mr. i-uitizer’s Career as Soidier, Politician and Journalist Toorsh Pxlitzer, rronrietor of the} Re Nas since Deen an invalid, totally Mew York World since 1893; dorm) di et Baxicpest, Hungory, Aprid 10,| —From “Who's Who tn Amerioa," 101. W857: etucates ty private tetor:|}"2 HAND. ALWAYS WAS ON cams to the Vals Sister im 1584;| Condensed tn these lines aro brinfy | eerved wet a tae civil war’ | de a cor@iry 70% Towls; beoune Westlicte Poet oriai es the em ; went 10 Bt.\1ife of Josoph Pulitzer, It ended in| a reporter om the|1887 with a nervous breakdown, tol-| (a German news-| lowed by a stoady loss of eyesight re- i loter became its) lentlessly creeping on until the dark- rietor; Ness of total blindness shut tn upon |’ He , his ardent spirit, , restless, rests of forty, {a the prim twenty-four years he shadow; then an ese, tlreloss man of his days, For he has dwelt tn! publlc appearances nave 7 nserved hh ning Pos* *h he stil of the 19, and was aver hie @ mewter of the Const nal Con tention in 1 wes a h with the gre his s Jate from National served on was Harbor and his wintera at Jek$) Isl ‘and, Ga., or on the Riviera--always here he could Nve the n {n the 9 n air and got » as he 1887, | could take. For th montha’| spent most of his t Cinein- | Liberty, Wullt for his nvention | he largely find ey for! unaid where he could dir President; after that a ocrat and where he ex a @dvecated the National (Gold Btand-| tor houre @rd) Democratic ticket in 1890; (n| Yet tn all t 1003 endowed with $1,090,000 the Co-| hand and dom! lumpia College of Journalism, with tho pc ot T @n agreement to give an additional ways and to the $1,000,090 when the echoot should be | his thought, his love, hie enc 2 evecessful operation: in 1887 hla hope, and ell the attention Reali was broken by overwork and health and circumstances would pam Democrat Convention in 1850, tce a Platt on rm; ont 88) op ' has few bet resigned ofter service ; as ¢ Co nat Lideral Reps which nominate a his wa walk a fi sea br jet the boundary marks of the public |» 3at his home in Rar JOSEPH PULITZER FROM A PAINTING 4 5. SARGEN! —— me mit. The World was Joseph Pulitzer’s| friende who were to prove most valu- creation. It will bo his monument. [able He played a very good game of chess REPUBLIC SPELLED CPPORTUN- | winter Quarters), and drifted one day ITY FOR HIM. into the back room of @ German sa- The Republic spelled opportunity to the|!00n and restaurant that was the Youth passionately devoted to freedom club for the local chess players. and liberty, America embodied that to | his eagerness he protested at & move him in his boyhood in Hungary. When | Of one of the masters. seventven found him a well grown lad can do better” was the retort, He over six feet tall, broad shouldered and | Sat down and did bette> and earned a rugged, he persuaded his mother to let | Welcome and many friends, him answer the call he heard across the | Joseph Pulltzer firat sought his op- eas, Arriving at Hamburg he was, portunity in the law. As he worked robbed, but thit did not even halt him, | here and there for his daily bread, he Ho worked his way across the Atlantic, ! sought out @ Mbrary and spent bis w@d on his arrival at o sted In nights @tudying law. Keenly inter- the war for the Union, joining on Sept. ested in public affairs, attracted by 30, 184, the Lincoln Cavalry (the First | politics, and having @ readiness at ew York Ca ). He served under | oratory, he soon made a reputation in Sheridan's command tn the Shenandoah | St. Louis, He was admitted to the Valley unt stered out at the end of | bar in 1887 and looked forward to @ the war, after riding In the ranks at the career there, Fate disposed otherwine, win Washington, ‘The great German paper of the Middle ity that had loomed ao large | West was the Westliche Post ed thing when the owned by Dr, Emil Preetorius and lis discharge papers 4 by Carl Schure, » of the hundreds | 1, needed a reporter, and the man- » searching foraging editor, who played @ good Kamo of chess also, thought of hts old , Joseph P He knew y, Was familiar with hiv energy, asm and geal, and offered him ed! ‘owded and City Hal “8 with ther, ark bens ho real heart © but ¢ and I reat to learn much rmans 1 knew. | American elty in from the sea iso had nazed whi ai ed HE JOINS STAFF OF ST. LOUIS PAPER. “Why, I ean't write of the young n ng The editor said he knew better and eraisted, Joseph Pulltzer gave up bis law practice and in 1568 joined the staff of the Westliche Post, Le was then twenty-one years old. Old newspaper men in St, Louts atti tell stor of the new re e's zeal, and success work, dash out on r 3 of coat or 8, pushed ev 2 city editor force, was not likely among the ad for a rea awa was the answer ay ny amazed and laugo- reavd ind tt e nd New York.” in a new wa paper rymen pre+ ‘or mules and horses at arrac! It w tly said, “Tom ad to vo back | garde But Ig As soon quit and w got a room a advance es far as vied a better Mscey a fire ala e papers. was vile wages I vi hat; he wo Ked a n he was on utive mi all, re ever. of the M ry Where. and the work we wreater “ exe 8 attracted b Was elected a 1 Stato Legislature 1n 1899, r of the State Con onal M4. He became of more the Westliche and hy He a a memb ough his one Meni tien tial bad prac De ite in camp, age ccomplish: cally saved brought hi to (a very welcome thing , in | In} Perhaps you | | 1 was Post, waa|ing paper, the Kvening Post, seeing made its managing editor and later part| that it had killed off one rival but to | Proprietor, | find @ newer and stronger one rising The post-bellum corruption of the Re- | Phoenix-like from its’ » capitulated |Publican party made Mr. Pulitzer | rather than fight. 1t had a good plant, |hearty supPorter of the Liberal Repub-| and in two days the two papers were Mean movement that culminated in the | consolidated a# the Post-Dispatch to Cincinnatt Convention in 187% which | begin its long career of public useful nominated Horace Greeley for Presi-| ness and prosperity. Mr. Puliser soon dent. He went there as a delegate! bought oyt the interests of his partners from Missouri and was made one of the) and became sole owner and editor, secretaries, In the campaign that fol-| ‘tne work that Mr. Pulitzer did with jlowed he was in great demand through.| the Post-Dispatch in @t. Louis in the out Oho and the Middle West to follow | way of public service did not satisty and answer Carl Schurz, and nightly| pis ambition, He looked for a New addressed large audiences of Germans| York opening, for a national Meld, He in fiery speeches on the tssue of the | Was Prepared to venture all he had of campaign, ‘The second administration | health, ability, energy, knowledge and of Grant put him squarely in the Dem.| money, confident of success, Once he ccratic party, He fought with all niy| thought he could buy the New York might for the election of Tilden in is7g| Star, but that paper was tied too and taxed bis physical resources in| tsntly to John Keily, who valued its speechmaking and campaigning. services to his political machine too He had withdrawn from the Weatliohe | Much to let tt go into the possession of |Post. Much as that work had been to|® fhter so independent as Mr. Pulltser, his Mking, he had steadily looked for. |The entire control or not @ share was ward to the tine when he could have Mr. Pullixer’s ultimatum, his own paper, make it according to| The New York World under the ed- his own rapidly crystallizing ideas of |!torship of William H. Hurlburt, with what the public wanted and should have | circulation of 3X,0W, had then a place | as news, and where he could think ag! the community fixed by the fact thai he pleased, say what he thought and 1t was owned by Jay Gould. Everything fight the battles of the people with that It printed was under suspicion of whom he had lived, labored and en- | having been colored or influenced by the dured, Ho had intended to spend a year arch manipulator cf Wall street. It was or more in travel and study in Europe, not prosperous; It was for sale, Mr, But in the tr times following the Pulitzer, 1a May, 1883, bought it of Jay jelection of 1876 he went to Washington Gould personally, One block of twenty- at the personal solicitation of Charley five snares Was held elsewhere, A Dana and wrote signed political let- | uu do not object, of course, sar, ters of the exciting times during and | Pulitzer, to Bo-and-So's keeping tho: following tho Blectoral Commission tha: twenty-five shares; he's a good fellow, attracted wide Interest. ' said Jay Gould This but delayed his trip. On his ree! turn to St. Louls fortune was awaiting him in @ guise which none but a strong relf-confidewt man would have pene. traied. The St. Louls Dispatch hag fallen into evil days, its clreuiation hag dwindled to nothing, Its pi better ¢ in But it had one thing of value Associated Press franc. all tmporiant to is paper, PURCHASE OF THE ST. LoUIS DISPATCH At the Sheriff's sale he bought the paper for $2,500. His plans were tmme- lately made known, The other even- “4¢ you do not object to my carrying on the editorial page every day: ‘Not withstanding the fact that Jay Gould still owns twenty-five shares, he does not control or influence one line in this paper!" Mr, Gould sold the entire paper and Mr, Pulitzer became the sole owner of Yhe New York World, He issued th first number on May 10, 388» No one could ignore the change of ownership, of policy, of methods, of character, of all that goes to make the paper that for over twenty-eight years has under his absolute control and active direction served the cause of the people. News Billed the frant p from whieh it hed Be. “an “Certainly not," retorted Mr, Pulttser, | mote of striking virility rang from the editorial page. There appeared his salutatory, his confident appeal to New York. We print it elsewhere. Never in these & word of it been recalled or changed. It has been iter- ated and reiterated on every occasion, HI8 FIRGT PLATFORM FOR THE WORLD. b In those columns also Mr. Pifiltser jaid down the planks of his first plat- form, to be fought for with tireless |endeavor and unending devotion and with a true Instinct and adept skill new to Purk Row and the city. Here are some of the planks in that platform ‘The taxation of luxur ‘The taxation of inheritances. The taxation of monopolle The taxation of large incomes. The taxation of the privil corporation: A tariff for revenue. Reform of the Civi Punishment of — corrupt holders. Punlshment of vote buying. Punishment of employers who co- | @Fce their employees in elections. ‘The World has kept these pledg of adherence to vital Democratic prin- | ciples, though often furiously assailed | by politicians and by great Democratic party organs. | Three days after he took control, |Mr, Pulitzer began to raise funds through the columns of his paper to | bufld the pedestal on which Bartholdt's Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. now proudly greets the incom- ing immjgrants and returning citizen The American committee had failed to Grouse the people to the necessity of supplying a fitting pedestal for the gift. The press sneered. The World's early efforts fatled, but with a larger clientele.of readers, undaunted {t took up the work again on March 16, 188 The rich were unmoved, but in small gums the people gave $100,000 through the columns of The World, and the work was achieved The dent and his Cabinet, with notable com- pany, participated in the elaborate ceremonies of the inauguration on Oct. 22, 1886. The hardest kind of hard work, in- cessant oversight, new methods, brought lreaders at once, Circulation increased. ‘The far-sering proprietor ordered new press, Before it was completed he ordered a second, The cautious Hoe said: it?" and demanded a mortgage on the entire plant. For once Mr. Pulitser | was obliged to violate his cardinal prin- | ciple of I!fe—never to give his note or Service. office | mented. Mr. Hoe ceased to insist and | refused to accept the mortgage. He jhas been building bigger and bigger | presses for Tho World ever since. MONY TO HIS WORTH. ‘The campaign was hot that The breach between the Stalwarts and Half Breeds had wrecked the Ri publican party, and President Arthur's Secretary of the Treasury, Folger, was running for Governor, opposed by Grover Cleveland, the reform Mayor of Buffalo, as little known to New York as the new proprietor of The World, Mr. Pulltzer threw himself | and his pager heart and soul into the campaign and rejoiced in the land- siide that followed. He upheld the a tration in Albany and worked sturdily for Cleveland nomination and election to the Presidency in 1884, His work was the more valu- able and made a wider impression be- cause the defection of the New York Sun (Mr, Dana seeing ft to support Gen, Butler) left The World the only great city, Grover Cleveland, who observed The World from the standpoint of @ cand!- date for the Presidenc 3 borne elo- quent testimony to Mr. Pulitzer's work, writing of It thus with the calm con- sideration of later ilfe I never can lose the vividness of my recollection of the conditions and incidents attending the Pre: dential campaign of 184—how thor- oughly Republicanisn was intrenched how brililantly it was led—how arrogant {t was—and how confidently tt encouraged and aided contingent of deserters from the Democratic ranks. ‘And I recall not less vividly how brilliantly and sturdiiy The World then fought for Democracy; and in this, the first of its great party fights under present proprietorship, it here, there and everywhere in the field, showered deadly blows upon the enemy. It was steadfast in zeal and untiring in effort until the battle was won, and !t was won against such odds and by so slight a margin as to reasonably lead to the belief that no contributing ald could have been safely spared. At any rat contest was 0 close it may be without reservation that if it had lackey the forcefui and potent advo- cacy of Democratic principles at that time by the New York World the rewult might have been reversed. In the Presidential canvass of 1993 I was again @ witness of ‘the World's Democratic zeal and its eMficient party work. in that struggle it lett nothing undone that any new: per could do to ald the cai it certainly accomplished m.ch, I have spoken specifically of the | two campaigns with which [ vas | personally most familiar, and in whieh I had the opportunity .v share | campaign activities, though I do | not intend to speak of them as ex- | ceptional instanoss of The World's achievements, ‘The World grew rapidly under Mr. Pulltzer’s hand; the quarters on Pa | Row opposite the Post-OMfice were ex- |tended and oniarged only to be hope lessly outgrown, Mr. Pulltzer on April 10, 1888, bought the historic French Ho- | tel property at the corner of Park Row and Frankfort street, and the following year began to orect the Pulitzer Bulld- ing, where The World 1s now pubiished, Here again he was a pioneer, for he | was the first to use the steel skeleton and Jconstruction in @ large business bulld. jing. Hie 1d Pulitzer jr, Oct. 10, 1889, a8 part of Imposing cer montes, but the founder and proprietor | was absent ma sick Bed at Wies- |paden he had cabled his message to \ nis beloved paper and the people. It te | printea elsewhere. four-year: son, Joseph “Are you sure you need! |other obligation to any man—and as-| GROVER CLEVELAND'S TESTI-| fall. Democratic newspaper in the laid the corner stone on! City district, but sible to fulfill the duties of a man at Washington to his own faction and had resigned, The strain wae too much. @ limit even to iron constitution tive nerves, He thought as to whether do @ thing, but had done it. given his health no thought. Was 00d? -And little to the care of his They had always been shortsighted, but had been abused by strain and cease- Jess work under naked gas jets and in improper light. The breakdown came in October, 1887. Nature foreclosed mercilessly. At firat confined to his house, he had constant reports of how everything was goin brought to him tn his darkened bedroot Every nerve in his body revolted at the imprisonment, Physicians ordered him abroad. He consulted the best specialists in Burope. All that they could do to help was after ali but little. He cruised in the Mediterranean, gaining somewhat in general health, but every day @ boat put ashore for papers and letters and to send bunches of cablégrams, He visited Constantinople, and remembered |as one of the Iast views of glorious, , nature the vista of the Black Sea from the Bosphorus, He went to Indi the exquisite beautiful Taj Mahal: was * the Inst object his eyes enjoyed before., their light went out. On rare occasions after that, in a strong light, he would try pitifully to see the faces of his chil~ dren, but with the recent years eves that pleasure was denied him. | RELINQUISHES THE ACTIVE EDITORSHIP. | he condition of his eyes and health compelled him on Oct. 16, 1890, to an- |nounce in the editorial columns of The World that, owing to the advice of his physician, he was obliged to give us | the active direction of The World aad | retire from the editorship. | Mr. Pulitzer had already fixed his {Imprint indestructibly on the press of ew York, the United States and, in- | deed, of the world. Newspaper editors... wise in their old conceits, had sneered at the young man from the West and his new ways. They sought to ignore him. But the fighting qualities of The World were never ignored, changed attitude of the great newspa- pers’ editors toward Mr, Pulltser ts no- where better shown than at this time of his breakdown, when James Gordon... Bennett, proprietor of the Herald, sald, in his great and famous newspaper: As for us of the Herald, we dreop our colors to him, He has made success upon success against our prejudices; has succeeded all along * the line; has roused a spirit of en-"+ terprise and personality which up te ©» this time has not been known. It is not nec ry to speak here of Mr. Pulitzer's philanthropies. Those , who were concerned in them know of . them, and that is enough. Of one it is well to speak, because it ts public, and the plan which has been tested by @ dozen years has proved itself as usually well thought out. It ts t Pulltzer scholarships. He established these to secure for poor boys of this elty the college or technical education’ each desired but was unable to obtain. A gift of $100,000 was made to Columbi, University in 1:93, when Seth Low! was President, thus securing its assist-" ance in the matter, and {ts oversight, Mr. Pulltzer later offered Columbia | Untversity $1,000,000 to establish @ sohoal | of Journalism, with @ promise of $1,000,030) \1 | when {t should be successfully started, ,.) | He devoted much thougnt to this plan and finally decided that owing to certain, obstacles in the way, !t would be best {> éefer the working out of the plan wati!* |after his death. So he withdrew the!” | offer, . | Mr, Pullteer also presented a bronze | statue by Barthold! of Washington and Lafayette to the City of Paris. It w: set up in the Place des Etats Unis and unvetled on Dec. 1, 1896. . MR. PULITZER'S MARRIAGE AND FAMILY. Mr. Puittter married in Washingtoi July 19, 1878, Miss Kate Davie, a daughter of Judge Di and @ second cousin of Jefferson Davis, Their chii- dren are Ralph, who martied Mise o Frederica Webb in 1905, and has twas sons; Joseph jr, who married Miss Nellie Wickham of St. Louis in 1910, and lives there; Herbert, who is at school in Groton; Edith, who: is at; present in Arachon tn the Pyrenees, ang Constance. Their eldest daughter, Lucile, @ gitl of singularly alert, keen mind and most attractive and just entering society, died at Bar Harbor Dec, 81, 1897, In her memory Mr,’ »> Pulltzer endowed @ scholarship in |Barnard College. Mr. Pulltzer’s New York home was at No. 7 East Seventy- third street, with his eon Ralph next. door, His country place was Chatwood,' Bar Harbor, charmingly situated at { dif i ! i | Bear Brook on Frenchman's Bay, Constant care and skilful treatment brought great improvement in Mr. | Pulitzer’s health, though he alway had tolexercise the greatest care regularity in hie regimen, He urged to ride, and the former cavairy- .. man found that he had not lost hig. seat, For twenty years he had been a familiar sight at Bar Harbor, in Cen- tral Park and elsewhere, riding « steady Kentucky thoroughbred, with @ son, a, secretary or @ friend at his side and a. groom following. He found fine exer- cise in swimming when at Narrangan- tt Pler in 1898, gand in his private ewimming pools, Passionately fond of alt water, he found the greate: joyment of life and heaith on his yacht Liberty, Wherever he went he had his secretaries and men from The World, and with their untiring help transacted @n enormous amount of ‘Dusiness; for he kept the control of the Paper, and especially its large general policies, which have never varied from the broad lines he laid down at the ber ginning, in his own hande as much as it was possible to do under the added handicap of time and space when ad. went from New York. | Ms Puutser nad orokea down ia hare ‘The big work of Tae World bas been, the work of Joseph Pulieen