A BLIND MILLIONAIRE.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 34, 10 February 1910, Page 3

A BLIND MILLIONAIRE.

Mr Joseph Pulitzer, the blind owner of the New York World, is the subject of an interesting character study in the American Magazine. This remarkable man landed in America in 1864 with only a 20franc piece in his pocket. To-day he is the possessor of a fortune estimated from 25,000,000 dol to 30,000,000 dol. When Mr Pnl-

itzer erected the building in New York which bears his name, he intended it to be the tallest building on earth, and, for some years it bore this distinction. But it was to see little of its owner, for during the las-o twenty years he has only entered it two or three times. He spends most of his time on board his yacht, cruising in all parts of the world. The story of how Mr Pulitzer became blind is told by the same magazine. He had burned the candle at both ends until shattered, raw nerves and a persistent mist before his eyes drove him to seek rest in a yacht cruise. One evening just before sunset, as his vessel was standing out of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea loomed full ahead, the blow fell. He was at the rail reading when ho was plunged into darkness. "Has the sun set so soon?" he asked querulously. "Not yet," answered a companion. "It has," was his astounding rejoinder. "Please take me below and tell the captain to put about." Mr Pulitzer's blindness has compelled him to withdraw behind the scenes of public life. He has hidden himself and sunk his identity in bis papers, and particularly in the New York World.