| Show I 1 NOTED journalist CALLED I 1 joseph pulitzer Pull tzer for more than a 1 quarter of a century one of amer leas leading figures la Is dead charleston S C joseph Pull tzer r proprietor of 0 the new york world and the st louis post dispatch tiled died at sunday aboard his yacht the liberty in charleston harbor the immediate cause of mr air death was heart failure lie ile had been in III health for several days but antl a few hours before the end nono none of those around him suspected the gray ity fly of his condition for more than a quarter or 0 a cen tury fury joseph pulitzer had been one of 0 the leading figures in american lour jour nalisa born in Ilung hungary ary in 1847 ant ane educated there he came to this coun try in 1863 enlisted in fit the unlock army and served as a cavalryman un til the end of the war when he be set tied aled in st louis which was for mani years the scene ot at his activity po fat many years hla his newspaper train was as a newspaper reporter and at berward as a city editor managing ed tor aitor and part proprietor of tho the west letsche post edited by carl schurz ile ho bought the st louis dispatch it ir 1878 and united it with the post as the th post dispatch which under his man argement became in a few years one ol of the best known and most widely clr cir journals in the section mr pulitzers entry into new corli aorl journalism occurred in 1883 when h bought the world then a paper 0 small email circulation its circulation and prestige grew rapidly under his hia gen eral direction A building to house it which ike he erected in 1890 on park row roa was until overtopped over topped by the sky scrap ers era of later years one of the most striking of new yorks office buildings mr air pulitzers sight began to tall fall him in the late eighties and after a time he became totally blind ever since ho he had been a partial invalid but up tip to the last had kept general supervision over hla his newspaper properties in new york and in st louis and taken pronounced interest in civic affairs much of his wealth has been given tor for educational purposes ile he donated 1 to columbia university to establish and maintain a college of jour our and established scholarships in that institution tor for deserving boys boyi graduates of new york public schoos scho oa during his residence in Alla missouri mr pulitzer Pull tzer served as a member ol of the legislature and was a delegate from that state to the democratic national convention in 1880 ile he was selected to the forty ninth congress from a now new york diA district triet but resigned lifter a few months in service |
