Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [301]
Inside the cornerstone: The recording, one of the earliest of a human voice, remained hidden in the box until 1955, when the building was torn down. The box fell out of a clamshell bucket and was recovered. The recording, which was transferred to a reel-to-reel format, is among the World’s papers at Columbia. The men were right about the New York Giants, who went on to defeat the Dodgers in the championships. They wrongly predicted, however, that New York would get the World Fair in 1892. It went to Chicago.
Many of the nation’s: NYT, 10/11/1889, 2.
Back again in Paris: NYT, 10/20/1889, 12; Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy, 270–271.
Every day the sad group: Winnie Davis to Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis: Private Letters, 582–583.
He sent detailed: JP to Davis, 11/23/1899, JP-LC.
Just before Christmas: JP to KP, 12/23/1889, JP-MHS.
“He is certainly”: Ponsonby to KP, 12/23/1889, JP-MHS.
Crossing the Arabian: JP to KP, 1/14/1890, JP-MHS.
Shortly after mailing: Thwaites, Velvet and Vinegar, 53–54.
CHAPTER 21: DARKNESS
That spring, the stacks: JP to WHM, 7/23/1890, WP-CU.
Earlier in the year: Pulitzer’s return to France may be dated by a canceled check signed by Pulitzer in Paris, 3/26/1889, PLFC.
But over the succeeding: JWB, 137.
On October 2: Pulitzer’s ship and the City of New York, which left half an hour earlier, raced each other across the ocean in an intercompany competition. Passengers on each ship joined betting pools, and the two oceanliners remained within sight of each other for most of the crossing. The Teutonic, carrying the Pulitzer party, lost the race by an hour. The Teutonic completed its voyage in five days, twenty-two hours, and nineteen minutes. (NYT, 10/9/1890, 5.)
Joseph settled into: Stanford White to KP, 8/29/1891, JP-CU; bills, JP-CU, Box 1889–1898; NYT, 11/17/1890, 5; WaPo, 12/7/1890, 9, and 11/30/1890, 14.
In such circumstances: JP to WHM, 7/23/1890, WP-CU.
The gigantic high-speed: “The World, Its History, Its New Home,” Scientific American (12/20/1890), 384.
Kate and Hosmer: Garrison, An Introduction to the History of Medicine, 578.
As he struggled: Koestler, The Unseen Minority, 4; Selin, Medicine Across Cultures, 320.
News of Pulitzer’s abdication: NYH, 10/17/1890, 4.
The final price: NYW, 12/11/1890; Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1/17/1891, 9.
For almost four months: JWB, 143. The yacht cruised along the Spanish coast, crossed over to Africa, and then took them east to Greece and Turkey.
Pulitzer defied Mitchell: Middletown Daily Press, 6/27/1891, 2; Newark Daily Advocate, 5/21/1891; Galveston Daily News, 6/21/1891, 8; AtCo, 5/1/1890, 1. Bennett had once told Cockerill that “the life of a managing editor is only five years.”
Leaving Kate in Paris: NYT, 6/11/1891, 8.
Ballard Smith, the: BoGl, 6/11/1891, 10.
Pulitzer’s solution to: WaPo, 6/19/1891, 4; Johnson, George Harvey, 36.
A heat wave: WaPo, 6/19/1891.
A few weeks: Nasaw, The Chief, 88, 90–91.
Pulitzer’s emergency trip: JWB, 144; NYT, 6/16/1891, 5; WaPo, 8/16/1891, 13.
Pulitzer shared most: NYT, 12/27/1909, 1.
Unlike many of the elite: JP memo (probably to FC), 9/19/1907, WP-CU.
As 1891 closed: JWB, 144.
Again, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell: S. Weir Mitchell to JP, 12/15/1891, JP-MHS.
One of the men: John Cockerill, Pulitzer’s former editor, disclosed the proposed deal in the Democratic Standard (Coshocton, OH), 5/2/1892.
In February, the Pulitzers: JP to Smith, 2/28/1892, WP-CU; McCash, The Jekyll Island Club; AtCo, 3/9/1892, 4.
It was Pulitzers first visit: McCash, The Jekyll Island Club, 18; WaPo, 4/14/1892, 5, and 4/15/1892, 4; NYT, 4/28/1883, 1. In April Pulitzer returned to New York to catch the Teutonic, bound for Liverpool. In addition to the servants and secretaries, the Pulitzers’ traveling party grew even larger with the addition of a companion for Kate, Mattie Thompson, traveling with her own personal French maid. Her father was the former representative Phillip “Little Phil” Thompson, of Kentucky, best-known for having shot to death a man he accused, quite probably