Arthur Brishane,
Editor, Dies at 2
Work Known to Millions;
Column Popular in This
Newspaper.
death of Arthur Brisbane Christ-
mas morning, the world lost its |
most widely known and most |
widely read newspaper writer
and editor. The veteran com-
mentator, whose column ‘‘This
Week’ appeared regularly in
this newspaper, died of heart |
disease while he slept. He was
seventy-two. |
True to the Brisbane tradition, he |
kept up the terrific pace of his work
to the last. When he was stricken
late in the afternoon of Christmas
eve he had almost finished his col-
umn, ‘‘Today,” which appeared in
many large daily newspapers, prin-
cipally those of William Randolph
Hearst's string. He was forced to call
upon his son, Seward, 22, to complete
it. It was the first time in his life
Arthur Brisbane had not finished
what he had set out to write.
Millions of Readers.
It was only a few hours afterward
Mr. Brisbane fell asleep in his Fifth
avenue apartment. At his bedside
were his physicians, Dr. Leopold
Stieglitz and Dr. Frederick Zeman,
and a nurse. In the apartment his
entire family had gathered—his
wife, Mrs. Phoebe Brisbane, whom
he had married in 1912; his son,
Seward, and his four daughters, Mrs.
ARTHUR BRISBANE
J. R. K. McCrary, 23;
Alice, 14, and Elinor, 12.
editor never awakened.
Probably no one knows how many
millions of persons read Mr. Bris-
bane’'s verse, analytical comments
upon the news of the day. It is esti-
mated that 25 millions read his daily
column. Additional millions followed
with satisfaction the weekly column
syndicated by Western Newspaper
Union to this and many other lead-
ing weekly newspapers
Mr. Brisbane was wealthy. It is
reported that his yearly salary at
the time of his death was $260,000.
In addition, there was the return on
his extensive real estate holdings.
Arthur Brisbane was born in Buf-
falo, N. Y., in 1864. He attended the
public schools and then, forsaking a
college education, he became a re-
porter on the old New York Sun at
19. Yet his rise to the position he
held in the world of journalism at
the last was not the Horatio Alger
type of success story, with glory
crowning the hero after countless
tear-jerking tribulations. He was
good and he was successful from the
start.
It was not long before he was the
Sun’s London correspondent. After
five years, there was a shake-up on
the paper and the management
cabled him to return. He said he
would if they made him managing
editor. Managing editor! He was
just 23. They made him managing
editor. And so well did he execute
his job, Joseph Pulitzer took him
over to the New York World, which,
under the Brisbane directorship,
soon became the most influential
organ of public opinion in America.
“Greatest Journalist of Day.”
When William Randolph Hearst
came from California and bought
the New York Journal he hired Mr.
Brisbane—at a reduction in salary
of almost 50 per cent. But there was
an agreement that as the circulation
Emily, 18;
The great
tion. His earnings on the World
were multiplied in almost no time.
The association with Hearst be
came a life-long friendship, and Mr.
Brisbane soon became regarded as
next to Mr. Hearst in importance in
the chain of newspapers. When he
died, Mr. Hearst said: ‘I know that
Arthur Brisbane was the greatest
journalist of his day.”
It was Arthur Brisbane who was
credited with bringing the trend of
newspaper style “down to earth.”
He believed that newspapers should
be written for the ordinary man, not
the intelligentsia. He wrote that way
—and his columns appealed to col-
lege professors as well as to mer-
chants and farmers.
He dictated his 1,000 to 1,200 crisp,
unwasted words daily in half an hour
to an hour. There was a dictaphone
beside him wherever he went. He
would even wake up in Pullman
berths and begin dictation at two or
three in the morning.
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Incidentally, on her husband's re-
cent trip to New York, it was said
that he left the studio somewhat in
doubt about just where he was go-
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divorce. However, nothing ap-
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few days in New York and then
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he lived with
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The meal-buyer is
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Jessica Dragonette,
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He
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At that stage of the game,
There was an
had been elected to do the job.
this time.
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Fred and
They had
tired
but not for long
So they started to move.
November night,
vision,
Says Fred:
It came from
before
the road for a short rest
getting heavy as lead.
“We began to roll down hill
seemed to tempt me.
parking
stop. The
My eyes seemed to be
the road ahead suddenly in-
I looked at Charlie and saw him
His peaceful repose
And then, suddenly,
was running wild!
managed to keep on the road.
some drivers’ instinct—brought
as he
the beam of
ness.
says Fred
climbed to forty-five.
from crashing into the wall.”
I couldn't save myself
How long
a tree and pile up.
space,
ing.
which ran the river!
There was noth-
And Fred says:
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river below.”
It moved another
Fred climbed out of
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