AT TROUVILLE 



Irrilla at Beaiilieu he controls the mighty New York 

 Herald and its Paris edition, also the Evening Tele- 

 gram in New York. He can be a tireless worker and 

 his bill for telegrams and cables of instruction must be 

 enormous. His genius is undeniable and his power 

 of initiating new features is instinctive, but in the 

 harbour of Villefranche was the Namouna, on which 

 he could go and have a short cruise or an ocean voyage. 

 Building was his new yacht, the Lysistrata, a palace, 

 with between seventy and eighty hands on board. 

 Christiansen, a Dane, who retired about 1904, was his 

 trusted right hand in business matters — private and in 

 connection with the paper. He had started life with 

 employment on the yacht and worked his way up. I 

 found him a delightful man, as was Mitchell, who held 

 a position which might be called news or day editor. 



After that interview with Mr Bennett at Beaulieu 

 I spoke to him on only two other occasions. After 

 the first summer racing season was nearly over he sent 

 for me, asking me what I proposed to do, and then 

 told me I could go to Trouville. The interview was 

 interesting, as I saw him in his flat in the Avenue des 

 Champs Elysees. The Trouville-Deauville season was 

 just opening, and he gave me various pointers about 

 the society news I had to get there, and a letter of 

 introduction to the late Mr Henry Ridgway, who was 

 one of the best known of the American colony in Paris. 

 He was a member of the Jockey Club, a steward of the 

 Deauville Meeting and Master of the Hounds at Pau. 

 Mr Bennett on that summer morning when he was 

 giving me my final instructions told me with emphasis 

 several quite good stories which were really parables 

 designed to impress how intelligence could bear on 

 obtaining intelligence, at the same time endeavouring 

 to wear an invisible cloak so far as the Herald was 



