James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
James Gordon Bennett Jr. ( born May 10, 1841 in New York City; † May 14, 1918 in Beaulieu- sur -Mer, France ) was an American newspaper publisher. To distinguish him from his father of the same name, he was usually called Gordon Bennett. He became famous for his Sportenthusiasmus (Polo, Regatta sailing, car racing and ballooning ). On him an expression of astonishment goes back in British English: " Gordon Bennett ".
Life
Bennett was the son and heir of the eponymous founder and publisher of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett Sr.. 1866 he took over responsibility for the publisher.
He sent an expedition in 1871 under Henry Morton Stanley for finding David Livingstone from:
" Draw a thousand pounds now, and when to you have gone through that, draw another thousand, and when to did is spent, draw another thousand ... and so on; but find Livingstone! "
"Imagine now a thousand pounds, and if you have consumed it, imagine another thousand, and when that is spent, again a thousand ... and so on; but find Livingstone! "
In 1874 he sent Stanley to Africa trip that was clarifying the course of the Congo, and in 1879 he equipped the tragic ending of the Jeannette expedition under George W. DeLong across the Bering Strait to the North Pole from. On the expedition starved DeLong and 19 members of the expedition. After Bennett had settled in Paris, he began to publish the International Herald Tribune. He was the co-founder of the Commercial Cable Company. This courageous enterprises should break the monopoly held by Jay Gould of the Transatlantic Cable Company.
Bennett returned to the United States and organized in the Dickels Riding Academy on Fifth Avenue in New York's first polo tournament in the United States. He was involved in the founding of the first American Polo Club, the Westchester Polo Club, in 1876. He founded the Gordon Bennett Cup as a trophy for an international sailing race and the Gordon Bennett Cup for automobile races. In 1906, he donated a trophy for balloon races, the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, the there to this day. Also a price for air racing goes back to him. In addition, Bennett financed the polar expedition George W. DeLong, who returned the favor by naming the Bennett Island in the East Siberian Sea.
Bennett married at the age of 73 years, the Baroness de Reuter, the daughter of Paul Julius Reuter, founder of Reuters news agency. Bennet was buried in the Cimetière de Passy in Paris. In the vicinity is the Stade Roland Garros, the tennis stadium, will be held in the annual tennis tournament French Open, in the Avenue Gordon Bennett. After his death, his newspaper the New York Herald was merged with the rival newspaper the New York Tribune to the New York Herald Tribune.