Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [303]
As if his own health: Doctor’s report of RP, 3/10/1893, JP-CU, Box 8.
The older Pulitzer children: RP to LP, 2/1/1894, JP-CU.
All winter Joseph: JP to KP, 4/27/1893, JP-CU; GWH to JP, 4/28/1894. In reporting his findings on Colorado Springs, Hosmer added, “I have not yet said any mention of this to Mrs. Pulitzer.” Also JP to KP, 4/28/1894, JP-CU.
In New York: JP to Depew, 5/17/1894, CDP.
Jones’s ineptitude at: AtCo, 12/10/1893, 18.
With the problem of Jones: ChTr, 6/7/1894, 2.
Unlike the coterie: ABF–2001, Box 3.
Upon arriving in New York: BoGl, 6/24/1894, 23.
Senator David Hill: McClellan, The Gentleman and the Tiger, 99–100. When he arrived for their appointment at the Normandy Hotel, McCellan found Hill talking with George Harvey, whom he met during a short stint working at the World, and who was now doing political work for Pulitzer’s friend Whitney.
On his return: AtCo, 12/29/1894, 3.
Jones’s contract: DCS-JP, 199. The terms of the contract described by Seitz are confirmed by a document in the Fogarty Collection.
For Pulitzer, Jekyll Island’s: AtCo, 1/11/1895, 3.
One of the few witnesses: Correspondence of Felix Webber, 9/27/1894; 12/9/1894; 1/2/1895, JP-MHS.
Kate had certainly: JP to KP, JP-CU, Box 8. This letter was partially burned, probably in a house fire.
Her separation from Joseph: “H.” to KP, Saturday, 10/10/1895 and 10/18/1895. AB-LC.
In May, Pulitzer: Moray Lodge, on Campden Hill, next to Holland Park; JP to TD, 6/30/1895, TD.
That summer the remodeled: BoGl, 1/10/1895, 8.
The “tower of silence”: Cobb, Exit Laughing, 131.
Roosevelt’s claim that: JLH, 108.
Reading the editorial: Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 504–505; Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 1, 497.
Indeed, Roosevelt’s ambitions: ChTr, 2/23/1896, 11.
The rebuff drew: NYT, 12/18, 1895, 1; ChTr, 12/18/1895, 1; AtCo, 12/18/1895, 1.
Pulitzer refused to: Quoted in DCS-JP, 203.
Pulitzer had long feared: NYS, 10/6/1878, 3.
Pulitzer now expanded: JLH, 119.
In England, the telegrams: NYW, 12/26 and 12/27, 1895, Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 1, 503–505.
Under such headlines: Eggleston, Recollections, 328–330. Eggleston based his account on notes he wrote that evening before returning to New York.
Pulitzer dismissed his men: JLH, 137.
Pulitzer won: NYT, 1/8/1896, 2. A senator asked Chandler if he would read one of the telegrams from the World. He said he couldn’t, because the paper was now in the hands of Senator Hill of New York, arousing laughter in the chamber. The men looked over at Hill, who only months before had been currying favor with Pulitzer. “Whatever else the Senator from New York may be,” Hill told his colleagues, “he is not, at this time, the defender of Mr. Pulitzer. I leave that to other gentlemen.”
Pulitzer mounted his: JLH, 122.
A few days later: DCS-JP, 209.
Roosevelt, in this: NYT, 3/19/1896, 8.
CHAPTER 23: TROUBLE FROM THE WEST
In February 1895: APM, 322.
At the beginning: APM, 285.
From its origin: APM, 272.
The Journal’s circulation: Henry Kellett Chambers, “A Park Row Interlude: Memoir of Albert Pulitzer,” Journalism Quarterly (Autumn 1963), 542. Also NYT, 11/24/1909, 3.
But his years: Morning Journal, 4/15/1895 quoted in APM, 323–324.
At long last: AtCo, 7/26/1896, 23.
Pulitzer’s men at: DCS-JP, 211. The Examiner’s office was located in suite 186 in the Pulitzer Building in 1894–1895, according to Trow’s City Directory.
Pulitzer found out: AtCo, 1/22/1896, 3; JP to James Creelman, 1/18/1896, JC.
After two years: JP to James Creelman, 2/18/1896, JC.
While the party: DCS-JP, 212–213.
“The news of”: ChTr, 2/9/1898, 3.
“The immediate effect”: DCS-JP, 213–214; Nasaw, The Chief, 104; Ochs to JP, quoted in Brown, The Correspondents’ War, 28.
Hearst’s entry into: DCS-JP, 217; Nasaw, The Chief, 105.
With his newspaper’s supremacy: AtCo, 1/17/1897, 7.
On Jekyll Island: King, Pulitzer’s Prize Editor, 295–304.
Pulitzer found tranquillity: ChTr, 7/12/1896, 14.
Its pleasures were: WaPo, 6/6/1896, 9; ChTr, 6/6/1896, 2. The entire speech is reprinted in DCS-JP, 218–224.
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