AN ADVENTURE WITH A GENIUS
Recollections of JOSEPH PULITZER
BY ALLEYNE IRELAND
1914
PREFACE
In the course of my wanderings about the
labyrinth of life it has been my good for-
tune to find awaiting me around every
corner some new adventure. If these have
generally lacked that vividness of action
which to the eye of youth is the very test
of adventure, they have been rich in a kind
of experience which to a mature and reflec-
tive mind has a value not to be measured in
terms of dramatic incident.
My adventures, in a word, have been
chiefly those of personal contact with the
sort of men whose lives are the material
around which history builds its story, and
from which fiction derives all that lends to
it the air of reality.
I have had friends and acquaintances in
a score of countries, and in every station of
society — kings and beggars, viceroys and
ward-politicians, judges and criminals, men
of brain and men of bra^vn.
My first outstanding adventure was with
a stern and formidable man, the captain of
vi PREFACE
a sailing vessel, of whose ship's company I
was one in a voyage across the Pacific; one
of my most recent was with a man not less
stern or formidable, with the man who is the
central figure in the present narrative.
The tale has been told before in a volume
entitled "Joseph Pulitzer: Reminiscences of
a Secretary." The volume has been out of
print for some time, but the continued de-
mand for it has called for its re-issue. The
change in title has been made in response to
many suggestions that the character of the
material is more aptly described as "An Ad-
venture with a Genius."
Alleyne Ikeland.
New York, 1920.
I. In a Casting Net 9
II. Meeting Joseph Pulitzer 39
III. Life at Cap Martin 71
IV. Yachting in the Mediterranean 103
V. Getting to Know Mr. Pulitzer 142
VI. Weisbaden and an Atlantic Voyage 176
VII. Bar Harbor and the Last Cruise 211
CHAPTER I In a Casting Net
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