100 years at 50 west
Milton V. Snyder Living at 50 West until 1938
New York Herald Tribune, July 17, 1938
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From obituary, New York Herald Tribune, July 17, 1938:
Milton Snyder…Veteran of Herald Tribune Man Who Brought Marconi Over to Report Cup Races By Radio Covered 3 Wars and Rose to Editorships
Milton V. Snyder, retired exchange editor of the New York Herald Tribune and former foreign correspondent of The New York Herald, whose career abroad included an assignment to bring Marconi to the United States to report the America’s Cup races by wireless….
He had lot one leg and, later, the other foot as the result of an automobile accident in Paris on Armistic night, 1918….
When in New York, Mr. Snyder lived at 50 West Sixty- seventh Street….
Mr. Snyder was the American newspaper man who in 1899 discovered the youthful Marconi reporting yacht races from ship to shore off the coast of Ireland by the newly invented method of wireless telegraphy. Few persons then had even heard of the invention, which was in its rudimentary stages. Within a few days, on instructions from James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the old New York Herald, who employed him, Mr. Snyder started the negotiations which brought Marconi to New York City to
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demonstrate wireless for the first time in this country be reporting the races between Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock I and the New York Yacht Club’s Columbia….
He began newspaper work with The Philadelphia Press in 1890 as a reporter.
In the next thirty years his work included assignments as foreign correspondent in three wars, the Spanish- American, South African and World War, and two peace conferences, both in Paris, the ones which closed the Spanish-American and World Wars. He worked for about fifteen years in London and Paris at various times. He wrote the dispatches describing the rising agitation brought about by Emile Zola which resulted in the vindication of Dreyfus. He described the flight of Americans from Madrid at the declaration of war between Spain and the United States. He interviewed Oom Paul Kruger when the fugitive Boer President landed in Paris. He interviewed King Leopold of the Belgians during that monarch’s visit to the Paris Exposition of 1902….
When the World War broke out Frank A. Munsey, then proprietor of The Sun, launched a tobacco fund to provide cigarettes and other tobacco for the American Army in France. Mr. Snyder was sent to France to take charge of the distribution. When The Sun organized its war correspondents Mr. Snyder became head of the bureau in
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Paris, and made occasional trips to the front with the American and French forces.
Incapacitated by his 1918 accident, he was foreign editor of The New York Sun and New York Herald from 1919 to 1924, and exchange editor of the New York Herald Tribune thereafter.
From The Petroleum Industrial and Technical Review, September 28, 1901:
The Marconi System
Returning now to my voyage, I have only one instance of interest to chronicle, and that is the inauguration of the Marconi system of communicating from the vessel to land. This was carried out by that most enterprising and energetic paper, the New York Herald. A special cabin was fitted up on the captain’s deck for the Marconi apparatus, which was in the charge of Mr. Milton V. Snyder, the Paris representative of the Journal. Through the courtesy of the New York Herald, all passengers had the opportunity of communicating with the outside world, while we were about 250 miles from New York. A receiving station was established at Sandy Hook, and I cannot do better than quote…a description of the interesting experiments and the telegraphic message which was forwarded by Mr. Snyder to his paper.
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“N.T.! N.T.! N.T.!” The sparks sputtered and hissed as if controlled by some uncanny imp from the under world….
There was at last the answering signal from the Nantucket shoals lightship.
“Here they are!” shouted the operator, and, sure enough, as distinctly as could have been accomplished by means of a land wire, the signal was printed on the receiving tape:--
“L.V.! L.V.! L.V.!
Computation was made by Captian McKay, who found that when communication was opened the two stations were seventy-two miles apart….
Less than five minutes later a message was received on board the Lucania announcing that her approach had been flashed to the shore, and from that station into the office of the New York Herald. Nothing less than a storm of enthusiasm was caused among the passengers by the announcement that communication with America had been established….
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From The Sun, September 2, 1917:
From The [Syracuse] Post Standard, 1917:
From The Pennsylvania Gazette, January 23, 1920:
…Milton V. Snyder, who in his position as press representative, visited all the fronts and was present at the surrender of the German fleet, gave a most interesting account of what he had seen abroad….
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From Journalism of the Highest Realm: The Memoir of Edward Price Bell:
…It stood alone…that pioneering London office and foreign headquarters of an American newspaper…. Even the Chicago Tribune at that time had no London office at all. Harry Chamberlain of the New York Sun was lost in a side- street off the east end of the Strand, Milton V. Snyder of the New York Herald worked in an attic-like dump above Fleet Street….
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