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Show JAMES GORDON BENNETT DEAD. Noted Publisher Managed New York Newspaper from Paris. Beaulieu, France. James Gordon r.ennett, proprietor of the New York Hern Id, died May 14 after having been unconscious for two days. Mr. Bennett's Ben-nett's last words before relapsing into unconsciousness were in relation to Ids newspaper interests. Mrs. Bennett was with her husband when he died. Mr. Bennett was born In Chambers' street, New York City, just off Park row, In May, 1S41. His father had then wrung success from repeated failures fail-ures and the Bennett home was in a fashionable neighborhood. The son Mas well educated by tutors and acquired ac-quired several languages abroad, also the taste for European life, which grew upon him with age. From almost every angle, his position posi-tion in the newspaper world has been unique. Upon the death of his father, who was founder of the Herald, the Younger Bennett, then just past 30 years of age, inherited the largest newspaper fortune accumulated by any-American any-American publisher up to that time. He applied it toward achievements to startle the public and thus redound to the credit of his newspaper. In many instances these achievements became be-came important items in the world's history. Such was the policy he inaugurated when, as managing editor in 1S70, he ordered Henry M. Stanley into the hear of Africa to find Livingstone; such when he sent the ill-fated . .Teanette expedition to discover the North pole; such when he joined in the laying of the commercial cable all typical instances of enterprise tc "make news" or further its transmission. transmis-sion. After developing the Herald, Mr Bennett established the New York Evening Telegram, the Paris Herald and a London newspaper. This he later discontinued. He also became interested in the Postal Telegraph company and the Commercial ('able company. |