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The
HAMPDEN
HAVE just finished reading the life story of a millionaire with whom no beggar in the gutter would want to change places,
The name of the mil- lionaire was Joseph Pulit
zer.
His strange life of suffering is told in a fine. book, "An Adventure With a Genius," by Alleyne Ire- by land, just published Lovat Dickson (78. 6d.).
Pulitzer
who
wds a man achieved world fame as a news- Stubbs Rd. paper publisher.
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1938,
"CONSOLIDATE YOUR CAINS"
un-
The latest developments in the European aphere leaves the mind groping for the real intentions of the powers, dia- mayed by the inconsistencies of diplomacy and altogether certain of the future trend. But taking the situation as a whole there
are one or two hopeful nspects; indications of a chang- ing mental attitude which may encourage the exponents of peaceful policy. Since the Ger- man occupation of Austria and the delicate balance which re- sulted, there has been a general retreat from violence and an apparently genuine attempt on the part of one "belligerent" nation to reach a compromiso
Afflicted
In His Prime
He was the real founder of modern journalism. His news papers, the St. Louis Post Dis- patch and the New York World, cried abroad new ideas and new
dull columns of their contem- poraries.
Instead of flattering the poli- ticlans they criticised them. They exposed corruption, they fought furious campaigns for public reforms.
JOSEPH PULITZER
"Retired from the world a blind man.
.. nerves wrecked.”
him. He thought it was in digestion.
eye.
ed nerves.
must not be opened when Mr. Pulitzer is asleep."
Once almonds suddenly dis. appear from the dessert at
Noise-Proof
Bedroom
dinnor. The chief steward At Intervals Inside this shaft
hesitatingly confesses to an were placed frames with slik threads drawn across them for the purpose inquirer that Mr. Pulitzer of absorbing any faint vibrations cannot endure the sound of an which might find their way in. almond being snapped in half.
ثلات
E had, the greatest HE
difficulty in sleeping.
A curious ceremony was per- formed each day after lunch. Mr. Pulitzer would put on his pyjamas or perhaps merely take off his coat and shoes and lic down.
A secretary, one of the obe- dient throng, would be summon ed to read him some play or book.
At a certain point Pulitzer would say, "Softly." Then after a little, "Quito softly." This was a sign that Pulitzer was going off into n doze.
Lulled To Sleep
In this bedroom, with its triple window and its heavy double door closed, Pulitzer enjoyed is near op- proach to perfect quietness as it was possible to obtain in New York,
CHOOSING an hotel in which
he could bear to stay was
a heavy task.
A secretary would Inspect half a dozen bafore settling on one. would have to spend two or three hours in each, anding out certain things, for experience had proved that hotel managers' assurances were
not to be trusted.
It must find out not only whether there WeTo any noisy gureis, whether the windows rat- tled, whether the floor ercaled
had to be carefully considered. A Even the route from the station
trial run was made in a car. It the route followed a tramline, if it went by a noisy foot like a children's play- ground, if it passed over a rough plere of road, the whole route had to be revised.
By A Mumble The secretary would then make the words more and more
THE extraordinary thing is indistinct until he sank into a
that with his blindness, kind of mumble. This mumble with his wretched health, with his was very difficult to acquire, and almost maniacal nervous affection, Mr. Pulitzer was one of the greatest new secretaries had agonies in workers the world has ever seen. learning it.
An oculist told him that he principles which outdated the had burst a blood vessel in one It developed into the separa-
He kept five or six secretaries on tion of the retina of both eyes.
The mumbler would keep Mr. the run the whole time. They were Pulitzer retired from the Pulitzer in a state of dozing, the progress of his papers and of necessary to keep him informed of world, a blind man with wreck The secretary could read a novel every world event. But they were
He lived in strange or whatever he liked so long as also necessary because Mr. Pullt- sound proof houses in New. he kept up this noise with his er could not bear to be left to
minute. Some himself for a York, London, Mentone and in lips-and he might have to do his yacht.
it for hours on end.
The slightest change in the pitch of voice, a sneeze cough, would awaken Mr. Pulit- zer with a start, and an un- hour pleasant quarter of an would follow.
ay
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Many people forgot he was
Pulitzer BUT though
became a millionaire alive. and a world figure through his papers, fate took away with one his whole life. hand what she gave with the
other.
In the first place, Pulitzer de- veloped a terrible nervous ma- lady which made the alightest sound a torture to him.
In the second place, he became blind.
These affictions struck him in the prime of life. ̈ ̈*
One day he found he could hardly read the proofs put before
His nervous affliction coloured
PICTURE him us he
drifts about the seas at a snail's pace in his yacht Liberty, suffering.
Every noise pierces his inmost being as if with red-hot irons. Meal times are a torture to him.
The pleasant tinkle of spoon against a saucer makes him wince like a dog threaten- ed with a whip.
.or
EVERY door in his houses in London, New York and Mentone shut automatically and silently and was draped with heavy curtains to prevent the slightest noise from filtering through.
His bedroom in New York was unique,
one
must be talking to him all the time.
Endless Meal
Of Facts
All the scen world
was cut off from Pulitzer, His secretaries must be his eyes, must tell him of every- thing. must re-erente. the whole world for him.
I took, each of them in turn to talk to him. If they stopped for even a minute his nerves were all a-fangle, And
I not light tall either. Pulit- zer demanded an endless meal of ne chopped facia. Facts about the news, the arts, the world, poll.
ties, plays, and others-anything so long as they talked.
their chief,
The secretarica would work from early, in the morning until late at night to prepare for their talks with Some would be reading through Press cuttings
him connected with the main struc- which were sent after human items" out of America.
Some would be picking papers to provide him with topics the news-
Although his bedroom appear- The gurgle of water poured ed to form part of the house it MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. did in It
signed an agreement with Greating with what British people match, send a pang right through upon its own foundation and was the mountains of Britain, and for the first time have been led to expect from his body.
Italy, but if Britafh can change He turns pale and breaks into ture by some ingenious device in years these two nations are
her tunc, so can the fiddlers of a cold perspiration at some sound which isolated it from all vibra- on terms which do not cause
Rome. And if it is less martial, which to most people would tions originating there. misgivings. But the agreement was only won at the cost of a retreat from the moral stand taken by Great Britain, and to many is unsatisfactory for that Yesterday despatches from Europe told of Lord Hali- fax having failed to win un-
Music hath charms
M
Sunday Classical Concert,
at¡ Repulso Bay Hotel
Under leadership of
Ceo. Pio-Ulski
Programmo for Sunday, May 15, 1938.
1
、 PROGRAMME
p.m.
-2.30 p.m.
1. Turandot. --Ouverture
2. Scene de Ballet
..Weber. .Luigini.
4. Carmen. Selection
5. Dance, Slav
6. The Willow Flato
Bizet. ..Dvorak. .Herbert.
Lake.
3. Un premier bouquet." Waltz...Waldtcufel.
7. Allegro Vivace
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REPULSE
BAY
HOTEL
reason.
Aroused By Footstep
so much the better. So it is have been scarely audible. hardly fair to charge the diplomats of these two countries with inconsistencies when, had they stubbornly stuck to their Bomeone discords,
probably
lent measures, '
C
from
BACH secretary would ga
of conversation. It was of the most solid con- Some marked passages in maga-
him. Some struction and had but one win zines to read out to
would even be reading novels to re- dow, a very large affair con- late the plot to him. sisting of three casements set one inside the other, and provid- Every one in the yacht must ed with heavy plate glass. wear rubber-soled shoes, because This triple window was never E tremblingly on duty to would have been driven to vio- the scraping of leather sets his opened when Mr. Pulitzer was the task of informing or amusing teeth on edge. The part of the in the room, the ventilation be Mr. Pulitzer. He would wolf up the incal they offered him. They animous recognition at Geneva
Granted that there has been deck under which he sleeps is ing secured by means of fans foverishly looked in their pockets for Italian sovereignty in
fall will ruin his night. Ethiopia. When it is remem- this much progress towards roped off because a solitary foot situated in a long masonry shaft to see if they could not und another whose interior opening was in cutting to read to Mr. Pulltzer. bered that there were many who appeasement, the time has not
Each door which gives access the chimney and whose exterior would have had Britain go to
ing or reading, Pulitzer would. can sit back with folded hands a little brass plate. On the forbid the passage of any sound cry. "I must have something to war to prevent the Italian oc-
Occupy my mind all the time no cupation of this territory, the and "let matters take their plate is cut a legend: "This door in the streets.
matter how exhausted I am."
If he was bored with the attitude of the Government is a course". There are still large
provided, he would suddenly "My God, ia there much more of this?"
A Patient
Listener
Silence. Then
yet come when British people to the rooms above his cabin has opening was far enough away to "No, no. Don't let us stop talk-
and grave problems to be faced GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
Czecho
little disconcerting. Had the
decided. The intervening developments not and been known to an observer he Slovakian quarrel is only one; must have been dumfounded by the Spanish affair is another; this actually astonishing change the Polish-Lithuanian dispute of policy. And, it must be said, and the whole of the Eastern he probably would have been European scene require careful not a little shocked had he been watching, Britain, and other an Englishman. However, the nations who seek to keep the word of the Chamberlain ad-peace for themselves and for ministration must be taken that the present attitude is for the best. And indeed, if by re- cognising the presence of affairs out of the tangle which stone wall a nation can avoid butting its head against it, the course is probably wise.
others, lend
must be alert to what aid
they can to statesmen everywhere who are trying to extricate their
ware, treaties and depressions have created. The League of Nations, evon its warmest adherents admit, is virtually In the later developments in! helpless now. It is for in- Europe the immediate effect of dividual Governments to, net;: this changed British attitudo is and they must act without con- seen. Signor Mussolini is try fusing issues and, if possible, ing to discourage Herr Hitler without injuring anyone's feel- from any course which will in-ings. If past experience causes a little apprehensiveness on the volve the use of force in part of lesser powers and they correcting the Czecho-Slovakian have some cause for alarmit minority trouble; or so des- can only be hoped that their patches Indicate. Signor Mus- just claims will be respected. solint is apparently offering For if Europe has progressed towards some sort of permanent certain inducements, such as understanding it would be n diplomatic support for German criminal thing, to relax the
front war in Eastern Europe. these trivial tangible results.
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THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. aims, it Germany steers away efforts which have brought even "Why shouldn't he mops? Let him run away from home and
vet a fien liich any other dog!':
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fire say:
Then the secretary' would have to bring his story to a hasly conclusion and retire in diagrace, leaving an-, other to take on the Herculean task of amusing Mr. Pulitzer.
It he was interested-his interest was endless.
He would patiently listen while. some one told him the whole plot of a, play of Shakespeare. When they had finished he would ask, them the plot of another play, and so on, far into the night.
When they had exhausted their repertoire, he would nuk them t they had read Shakespeare's sonnets.
NOMETIMES Mr.
Pulitzer
would want to laugh. Then they would get a whole year's fle: of comic papers, read them through. in the small hours of the morning and serve up the dish to Mr. Pullizer next day,
One secretary had a box contain-i ing hundreds of funny stories in his cabin. He would take out a hand- ful and slip them in his pocket. whenever he was summoned to at- fend the great man.......
...
But they had to be careful to i
tall Mr. Pulitzer nothing that wanź
Loo fanny. In his disordered siuleș of nerven loud laughter eansed him. avule pain, ag
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