Show JAMES GORDON BENNETT DEAD I Noted tOted Publisher Managed New YO York k Newspaper from Paris t. t Beaulieu France James James Gordon Bennett proprietor of f the New York r 0 Herald died clied May 14 after having been unconscious for two days Mr B Bennetts Bennetts Bennett's Ben Ben- n- n nett's last words before relapsing into unconsciousness were in relation to his newspaper interests Mrs Bennett was vas with her husband when he died Mr Bennett Jennett was born in Chambers etre street t New York City Just off oft Park Par row in May 1841 1541 His father had then wrung success from repeated failures tail fall ures and the Bennett home was in a n fashionable neighborhood The son was well educated by tutors and acquired acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac several languages abroad also the taste for European life which grew upon him with age r I From From almost every angle his position tion in the newspaper world has been 4 unique Upon the d death ath of his father who was founder of the Herald the I Younger Bennett then just past 30 t years of age inherited the largest r f i newspaper tor fortune ne accumulated by any t I American publisher up to that time t He applied it toward achievements to t. t startle the public and thus redound of his In Inmany t. t to the credit newspaper many instances these achievements became became became be be- t came important items in the worlds world's history Such was the policy he Inaugurated when as managing editor in 1870 he ordered Henry M. M Stanley into the heart o of Africa to find fi d Livingstone I such w when en he sent sent the Ill-fated Ill ol Jeanette expedition to discover the North pole such when he joined In Inthe i the laying of the commercial cable cable cable- i c j all typical Instances of enterprise to tc i- i make news or further its y slon sion After developing the Herald Mr T. T r Bennett Dennett established the New York the Paris Herald L Evening Telegram k ii 1 and a London newspaper This he be her I later kiter discontinued r ter K 1 He Be also became Interested in the tile to Postal Telegraph company and the j Commercial Cable company I |