Show JA B gORDoN 1 DENETT TT I S I DEAD U-AO IN N f FACE ANC I IJ II J I Proprietor tor of New York Herald Hald and Other Papers Papers Papers Pa Pa- pers Talks Talks' Business With Last Last- Last Few Few Breaths By United res rT N Y p YORK May ray 14 James James ames l. l iN Gor Gordon Gordon oll Bennett proprietor of the New York Herald died at athis athis h his s home borne Villa Nam una in iri near Nice France Fance F ance this morning B Bennett dle died at p 40 40 la a a. n 1 i. i the them m message ae said sald He iad been in hi t i 1111 i m i im Jo l t lr r i r J J ng lI into I were in th relation relations to hIs his n nv newspaper v paper Interest Mrs Bennett was was' Hh her husband husband hus hus- band bana when he died Mr 11 Bennett was born in New York Tork City May lay 10 1841 1541 When 71 73 years jears old in 1914 he m married In lri Paris th the Baroness Baroness' de Reuter widow of ot George Julius de Reuter a son of or the f founder under of ot Re Reuters Reuter's ter's Limited a British telegraphic telegraphic tele tele- graphic news s service e. e The baron baroness ss was then about 40 ears yearS old ld and the mother of ot two children She w was was s I formerly an American Maud Potter daughter of or John Potter of Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia On the day before belore his marriage Mr Bennett was baptized in inthe the Episcopal Episcopal Episco Episco- pal church DIRECTS PAPERS I Several Severa thou thousand and miles away away fr from m his main newspaper r office James I Gordon Bennett directed ha n minute I detail the tle of oC the New York YorkI I Herald and maintained for himself one of the most commanding positions positions For Tor Tormore I in American Americ n Journalism more than a quarter of oC a a a. century he hei i lived in In Paris and worked simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- l there and in New York i No man before him or since has bas at atI attempted at- at t- t I tempted such lon long distance editing i From almost every other angle his in the newspaper world hast has been unique Upon the death of or his t r father who was founder of or the Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid teh younger Bennett then just jut the tile largest past 30 years ears inherited newspaper fortune accumulated by byan to that an any American m published up time He applied It toward achievements achieve ments to the public and thus S redound to the credit of or his newspaper news news- these paper In many instances I achievements became important items I in the worlds world s history NOTED EXPLOITS Such was was' the policy he inaugurated when as mana managing ing editor in 1870 he ordered Henry M M. Stanley into the heart of ot Africa to find Livingstone I such audI when he sent the ill fated Jeanette expedition expedition to t 16 discover the I p pole le such when he he lie joined joined In Jn intile tile the 1 of or the the commercial cable- cable a all 11 t typical instances l pf pt enterprise tomake tomake to tomake its trans transmission further make make- new news or mission In Tn contrast to the personal jour jour- of ot the older elder Bennett and Greeley type the 3 Bennett to sound the tile of ot the tile first was one impel Impersonal note pote He ITO declared that I sort of his ills paper should become become- a republic of ot which no man nan or party should hold ibid control From the tile first ho lC refused to reco recognize celebrities with workers on his as compared staff and It js is related that even when Stanley Stanle came back bac from tro his IlLS triumph in Africa Qung young Bennett je- je warded him with the tue mean assignment assign assignment assign assign- ment meat of or covering the tile tenderloin police district in New York VACANT CHAIR When Mi Mr Bennett Dennett moved to Paris in 1887 1881 he lie started tho the edition I of the New York Herald and again I took a unique position as this titis is Ia still the only American dally daily newspaper published in Europe During this residence abroad broad broken only by the tile unexpected arrival of or the Bennett Yacht acht in New Kew York harbor once every two or three yeats ears eais for foi v t short sto stop the tho editors In Immediate control of ot the tIle New York Herald kept 0 a. a chair at their conference table always alwa's vacant vacant va a va- va cant for the abs absent nt editor one ot his 9 own Ide ideas s to o keep e his Is m men 1 imbued with that Up w was s' s bos bo 1 I J p gt Y d f ft 1 if tz I i t l t f v 0 r. r t i JAS GORDON BENN BENNETT TT Continued from page 1 1 although several thousand miles I away away The Herald marked minutely with I the names of the men who had written certain articles or news stories was las forwarded to him in I Paris daily dally He lie kept In touch with every every- detail of personnel and policy Daily Dally or oftener the cable ble from I Paris or Wherever he might be sojourning so- so so sojourning so-I so in his yacht brought the editor in chiefs chief's executive orders for promotion or discharge for compliment compliment compliment ment or reprimand or sketch of general general general gen gen- I eral policies His whims amounting his critics said to eccentricities were one of ot I the most interesting angles of his personality It Is related that he I dismissed a musical critic simply because he was such a funny tunny looking look look- ing man man and put the financial editor In his place and that a copyboy copy copyboy copy copyboy boy who ran into the pit of Mr Bens Bennett Bennetts Bennett's Ben Ben- nett nett's nett's s stomach in the Herald office received several dollars reward for his his his' unusual haste These and many instances like them were traditions of of Herald Heral IGNORED CONVENTIONS CONVENTIONS He laughed at conventions and in invariably invariably invariably in- in variably printed In the Herald the wOrst things his enemies said about him When Jay Gould gave to the press preS's a of words attaching attacking attack attach ing Bennetts Bennett's personal life the editor of the Herald turned about and published published pub pub- It in full with the curt remark that Mr Gould was a gentleman When John Kelley leader of Tammany Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many Hall publicly assailed Mr Bennetts Bennett's character he he retorted The proprietor of Herald lost his reputation long before Mr 11 Kelley was wal ever heard of of He swung his newspaper from one side to another in public questions with startling abruptness I He lie was assailed for many 3 years ears for forthe forthe forthe the personal adv advertisements which were once an unrestrained feature of his paper In 1907 he bowed to the law with payment of a fine of ot when the court characterized the Herald personals as a public stench In his innumerable promotions all bearing upon the promotion of his newspaper Mr Bennett figured as a notable patron of sport He Introduced introduced introduced intro Intro- polo into America revived d I coaching in France Trance organized International International International Inter Inter- national automobile and aeronautical races and built and sailed numerous I yachts |