| Show NEWS I 1 THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NE EW w YORK two or three years year S a ago go I 1 was one of a group of newspaper men arguing about who was the best reporter who ever worked a round around roy burton barton here ere one old tim knew how to er was holding out fan up story for roy K burton whom he had known on the brooklyn eagle in the nineties burton he said was the best legman leg man and digger the most fearless and the most gifted in fanning up a story out of nothing at all he knew make makeup up too said laid the oldster the diligent reporter has been duly rewarded he is the sir pomeroy burton whose magnificent french chateau the duke and duchess of windsor were looking over recently with the northcliffe papers in london he became a multimillion multi million aire as he be transformed british journalism with daring american techniques lie he became a british cit citizen izene in 1914 and was knighted in 1923 in addition to his vast newspaper interests he be is a magnate of electric power and utilities he was a printers devil on his his fathers newspaper in Young youngstown sto wn ohio and at the age of twelve was knocking about country print shops in ohio an the same job he became a compositor on the brooklyn eagle hearing of a vacancy on the news staff he persuaded the city editor to give him a try at reporting he hired evening clothes to cover a society function there colonel hester owner of r r i j boss liked the he eagle was youth in tremendously im hired tails pressed with the personable young man with whom he was talking and thought he had met him somewhere young burton did not remind the colonel that he had seen the young man in a printers apron a few days before he became city editor and managing editor of the eagle held important executive positions with the world and the new york journal and was taken to england by lord northcliffe in 1904 ten years later he owned all but a few of the daily mail shares not owned by lord northcliffe e in the world war he virtually headed the organization of british propaganda and many of the most damaging anti german stories were attributed to him his enemies charged that he had debauched british journalism with degrading american sensationalism his friends insisted he had enlivened and regenerated it he sir pomeroy makes an occa roy dional t trip r I 1 p to visits U U S america with a with valets staff of valets and se secretaries cret aries suaye suave dressy and still fit and impressive at seventy two with more than a touch of british accent over here he always hated the name pomeroy and shortened it to roy but picked it up again in england he had been named for brick pomeroy the cyclonic journalistic na listic disturber of the latter half of the last century and he held mr pomeroy in low esteem pomeroy was almost but not quite a winner from a wisconsin crossroads he rammed around the country in in newspaper and financial brawls and in his old age just through sheer animal spirits started plug ging a tunnel through the rocky mountains at georgetown colo he was flattened by the 93 depression and died soon after with nothing to show for his lifes work but a hole in the grou ground rid then thed it was discovered that the tunnel had gouged into fabulous mineral wealth in kelso mountain eight years ago the tunnel went on through the mountain as the moffatt att tunnel aney REPORTING the return of poultney bigelow from a visit to his friend the former kaiser and his fervent approval of dictators has mr bigelow 0 become a matter of annual routine has a yen it is an old stor story Y for Fuehr ers but the freshness freshner Ss and vehemence of mr Bige lows disgust with democracy and enthusiasm for fuehr ers always makes it interesting he is the patriarch of malden maiden on the hudson with relatives and descendants ants down to great grandchild dren all ah up and down the river lie he will be eighty three years old on september 10 his father john bigelow was american minister to france under abraham lincoln he hunted birds eggs with the kaiser forming a lifetime friendship broken only by the war which he charged the kaiser with having started he recanted afterward and the two old men freet fleet annually to salute der tag when on lythe all wise and all just shall rule again 0 D consolidated news features feat service |
