A GREAT JOURNALIST.

Mataura Ensign, 15 December 1911, Page 9

A GREAT JOURNALIST.

The funeral of Mr Joseph Pulitzer, the proprietor of the 'New York World,' on November 1 was attended by a notable gathering of men distinguished in all walks of life. When the simple episcopal service was started at St. Thomas' Church, New York, there was a sudden cessation of machinery in the vast 'World' building, as well as at the offices of the St. Louis 'Post-Dispatch,' of which Mr Pulitzer was proprietor. Reporters laid down their pencils, the evening presses came to a standstill, compositors stopped working linotypes, and for five minutes complete silence reigned in the offices of New York newspapers, which had flags flying at half-mast. In the church the front pew was occupied by the widow and her three sons and daughter. The coffin was literally buried by costly floral offerings. Before the service thousands of people passed through the New York residence of Mr Pulitzer to take a last view of his body, which rested with his right hand over the heart clasping a copy of the 'New York World.'

The pall-bearers were the most distinguished New York editors, headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University.