Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK two or three years 1 I ago I 1 was one of a group of newspaper men arguing about who was the best reporter who ever worked around roy r burton barton n here one old tim knew how to er was holding out fan up story for roy burton W whom horn he had known on the brooklyn eagle in the nineties burton he said was the best legman leg man and digger the mos most t fearless and the most gifted in tanning fanning up a story out ol of nothing at all he knew makeup make up too said the oldster the diligent reporter has been duly rewarded he is the sir pomeroy burton whose magnificent french chateau the duke and duchess ot of windsor weri were looking over recently with the northcliffe papers in london he became a multimillion multi million aire as he transformed british journalism with daring american techniques he became a british citizen in 1914 and was knighted in 1923 in addition to his vast newspaper interests he is a magnate of electrio electric power and utilities he was a printers devil on his fathers newspaper in youngstown ohio and at the age of twelve was knocking about in ohio on 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 liked r ij ross liked the g eagle was youth in in tremendously am im hired tails pressed passed 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 L 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 ills his enemies charged that he had debauched 5 british journalism with degrading american sensationalism his friends insisted he had enlivened and regenerated it he makes an occa sir pomeroy t trip r I 1 p to visits V U S america with a with valets staff ot of valets and secretaries 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 f for or brick pomeroy the cyclonic journalistic na listic disturber of the latter halt 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 be rammed around the country in newspaper and financial brawls and in his old age just through sheer animal spirits started plugging 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 ground then 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 tunnel 0 0 0 the return ol of poultney aney REPORTING bigelow from a visit to his friend the former kaiser and his fervent approval ot of dictators has become a matter mr bigelow of annual routine has a yen it is an old story but the freshness tresh ness for Fuehr ers and vehemence of mr Bige lows disgust with democracy and enthusiasm tor for fuehr ers always makes it interesting he is the patriarch of malden on the hudson with relatives and descendants ants down to great grandchild dren all up and down the river he will be eighty three years old on an september 10 his father john bigelow was american minister to france under abraham lincoln he hunted bunted birds eggs with the kaiser forming a lifetime friendship broken only by the war which he be charged the kaiser with having started he recanted afterward and the two old men meet annually to salute der tag when only the all wise and all just shall rule again 0 consolidated news features service |