Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [293]
When citizens file: PD, 3/1/1879, 8 and 3/21/1879, 2, for an example of the tax oath; PD, 2/17/1879, 2; JSR, 52.
Pulitzer concluded that: PD, 2/24/1879, 2; JSR, 55. Documents in the Fogarty Collection confirm the increases in circulation claimed publicly by the paper. Pulitzer was a rare publisher in that the circulation figures he announced matched those kept in the actual books.
There was hardly anything: PD, 1/2/1879, 1 and 2. Pulitzer’s staff would fall prey to the same journalistic prank twenty years later, when he was competing with William Randolph Hearst.
The Post and Dispatch: PD, 3/28/1879, 2 and 2/21/1879, 1.
Pulitzer was not easily: JSR, 55–56.
On Tuesday: PD, 2/18/1879, 1.
For days, the: PD, 2/19/1879, 1.
After weeks of delay: PD, 05/26/1879, 2; PD, 3/11/1879; JSR, 63.
Despite the paper’s: DCS-JP, 197.
After concluding his: Stealey, 130 Pen Pictures of Live Men, 345–347.
The street urchins: William Smith to JP, 10/26/1902, JP-CU.
On April 21, 1879: PD, 4/21/1879, 4, and 4/22/1879, 4.
Pulitzer didn’t have time: WAS, 60.
Neither Dillon nor: The terms of the loan were cleverly written. There were three parties to the agreement. The Post-Dispatch turned over title to its property to Gottschalk for $1. In turn, he lent the money to Pulitzer, who provided it to the paper. Then a series of postdated checks were written for the interest on the loan, to be cashed at intervals, and for the final balance. Should the checks not clear, Gottschalk would have recourse to sell the assets of the corporation. PLFC.
Lawyers who researched: William Smith to Joseph Medill, 2/18/1880, M 0258, Box 3, Folder 2, WHS-IHS.
With his new: PD, 3/5/1879, quoted in JSR, 69.
Nothing was too: JSR, 70.
Watching with dismay: PD, 5/14/1879, 1; GlDe, 5/14/1879, 8. The original sale agreement with the name of Theodore Lemon, PLPC.
Joseph settled the pregnant Kate: Corbett and Miller, Saint Louis in the Gilded Age, 72; Eberle, Midtown, 13. See JSR, 292, and WRR, 102, for discussion of whether Kate Pulitzer was snubbed by St. Louis society.
Usually Kate, with: Galveston Daily News, 5/31/1883, 7; Stealey and Johnson diary entries, quoted in WRR, 103.
Dillon agreed to sell: GlDe, 11/30/1879, also reprinted in PD, 12/05/1879, 4. The actual cost of buying out Dillon is unknown, although several sources cite $40,000.
Joseph reorganized the: JP to Dillon, Reel II, SLPA, 3/21/1905.
That night, Cockerill: WP, 12/22/1879, 2; King, Pulitzer’s Prize Editor, 92–93.
The challenge that: In fact, the postage bill for mailing the Globe Democrat to out-of-town newspapers exceeded that of all other St. Louis papers combined; Clayton, Little Mack, 106–107.
CHAPTER 14: DARK LANTERN
Chambers put his: PD, 12/17/1879, 4; MoRe, 12/12/1879, 3.
After a week’s: On the day appointed for the auction, about 150 curious onlookers and newspapermen gathered at the courthouse. After waiting thirty minutes past the announced starting time, a man showed up and announced that the sale had been postponed: MR, 1/1/1880, 8, and 1/7/1880, 5; PD, 1/7/1880, 4; ChTr, 1/8/1880, 5.
Rather than a funeral: William Henry Smith, the general agent for the Western Associated Press, acquitted Pulitzer of any deception and ruled that the certificate could not rightfully belong to the mortgage holders. (W. Henry Smith to Joseph Medill, 2/18/1880, WHS-IHS.)
His exuberance stemmed: PD, 1/7/1880, 4.
At home, his: Information about servants obtained from 1880 census records. Two of the women who worked for the Pulitzers were Irish-born; MoRe, 12/16/1880, 3.
Unencumbered by financial: SeDe, 1/8/1880, 1.
By one o’clock: WaPo, 1/13/1880, 4; GlDe, 1/23/1880, 1.
Awakened with the news: PD, 1/23/1880, 1 and 4; GlDe, 1/23/1880, 1.
In New York: ChTr, 1/28/1880, 11; WaPo, 1/26/1880, 2.
Reports from Cockerill: Church records on file at the Diocesan Archive at Washington Episcopal Cathedral.
“Now damn you”: GlDe, 3/2/1880, 4; PD, 3/2/1880. Pulitzer admitted the following day that he had drawn a gun but said