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Unlike Arthur Brisbane, Publisher Chandler, 67, is not a great newspaper man; like him, he is a smart real estate man and has made millions from it. As early as 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres of Lower California. He and his associates helped build Hollywood, founded the border town of Calexico. Chandler, Ariz., is of his making. He has a 280,000-acre ranch* in Los Angeles & Kern counties, stocked with fine cattle. Recently he and a group of sportsmen bought the half-million-acre Vermejo ranch in New Mexico. Ten years ago the Los Angeles Realty Board voted him "most useful citizen." Many still share that opinion.
For all his vastness of property, Pub lisher Chandler does not affect the majesty of his neighbor, Publisher Hearst. His tastes are simple. On a recent visit to Manhattan he stayed in a $3-a-day hotel room. A stickler for exercise, he disdains golf, mows his lawn.
Of Publisher Chandler's eight children, I four are employed on the Times: Norman as assistant publisher; Constance, a reporter ; Harrison Gray in the job printing department; Philip in the engraving department.
* Hearst's ranch at San Simeon is 240,000 acres.