When he died he had developed the news scheme in kind, though not in the degree that we see so elaborate and resplendent in New York and other of the leading centers of population.
Mr.Bennett had led a vagrant and varied life when he started the Herald.

He had been many things by turns, including a writer of verses and stories, but nothing very successful nor very long.

At length he struck a central idea--a really great, original idea--the idea of printing the news of the day, comprising the History of Yesterday, fully and fairly, without fear or favor.

He was followed by Greeley and Raymond--making a curious and very dissimilar triumvirate--and, at longer range, by Prentice and Forney, by Bowles and Dana, Storey, Medill and Halstead.

All were marked men; Greeley a writer and propagandist; Raymond a writer, declaimer and politician; Prentice a wit and partisan; Dana a scholar and an organizer; Bowles a man both of letters and affairs.