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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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es is theprohibition of the use of superlatives inthe columns of the Herald, Mr. Bennettindulges in all sorts of superlativeness topromote the interests of his newspapers.On election nights, the Heralds signalsearchlight must be placed on the highesttower in all New York. In the hurryingof the early editions to the trains, theHerald must be carted by the fastest ofthe newspaper delivery automobiles. Inits reports of opera premieres, of summerresort news and of foreign happenings, theHerald must have more pictures and devotemore space than any other paper. If an-other newspaper has six men on the Van-derbilt Cup race, the Herald must haveseven. Everything must center on the se-curing (this word is also a Herald dont)of a beat, i.e., something exclusive. Itis related that the entire staff of one of theHeralds departments was discharged atone time because another metropolitanpaper had printed a beat in its line. James Gordon Bennetts actions havealways been modeled after the Monte Cristo
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Copyright photograph by Underwood & Underwood. James Gordon Bennett, who rules his great newspapers with a rod of iron. 694 The Outing Magazine principle: The journalistic world ismine! And his great fortune he is alwaysready to use to back up his cry. His per-sonal life, too, has been laid in the laneof royalty, in a romantic Monte Cristoanatmosphere that is almost unequaled inmodern day American prosaicism. Hisfriends have been culled from the royalhouses of Europe; kings, queens, lords,dukes, earls have been his companions.He has put up in the Imperial Palacewith the Czar (which he spells Tsar) andhe has wagered on the Derbys outcomewith the then Prince of Wales and the nowKing of England. His breast has beendecorated with multi-colored ribbons andvariously made medals. His yacht Lysis-trata, ornamented with the same sort ofowls that blink from the cornices of theHerald Building in New York, has enter-tained on board many of the worlds rulers,artists, men of affairs and other b

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