NEWSBOY TO MILLIONAIRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13430, 11 July 1914, Page 10

NEWSBOY TO MILLIONAIRE.

ENGLISHMAN BUYS WO CHICAGO PAPERS. : NEW YORK, May 8. Mr James Keeley, a London newsboy and bootblack j Who came to America m 1882, -when he was' ls years old, equipped with only a board school education, yesterday became one of the commanding? figures m American journalisni by purchasing. two. of Chicago's best-known newspapers — the Inter-Ocean and tllie Record-Herald. Mr Keeley will amalgamate -the two, papers, and, beginning on Monday, will publish them -under the joint- name; He is backed by another Englishman, Mr! W. W. Chapin, who controlled the San Francisco Call until its absorption by the Chronicle a few months ago. , Mar Keeley's rise is one of the romances of journalisni. He worked his way through all grades, beginning as a reporter, until !h© became managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and ultimately general manager of that paper. _ In that position, it is said, he received the highest salary ever paid to a newspaper worker except Mr Arthur Brisbane,. Mr Hearst's chief aide. Mr Keeley has long been famous .m the newspaper woijld v for his remarkable sense of news, police news, coupled with his indomitable will. He became nationally famous several years ago as the leader of a fight which resultedlirt- the expulsion of Mr Lprimer P^rom" the" United States -Senate, for corrupt practices: Mr Lorimer, curiously enoughj. is also an Englishman, who ; began Sfe as a poor boy m Manchester. . It is said that Mr Keeley has £200,000 with Sdiich t» put tho new Inter-Ocean-Record,-Herald on its feet. The InteiOcqan recently went into a Teceivei >? s hands, and its sale price 'is reported to have been only £10,000. Tjhe price of the. Record-Herald is not known. It Aras sold because its -pro prietor, Mr Victor Lawson, wished to/ : retire from, the inorning newspaper field fand devote all Ids timo to his evening paper, the Chicago Daily News.