fJc W r Er & w s I IV ;-"- & r' J' ts t- t l I Ps b. ' a EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA; THURSDAY, TWrmsrm SEPTEMBER Xt 1019 . TRAUBEL DIED A TIRED MAN, DRAINED BY LITERARY WORK Sheer Will to Live Put Off Death for Days Continued Writing Articles for His Magazine Until the End By JOHN NICHOLAS BEFFEL A Mtv York netcspaper man, icho teas an intimate friend in recent years of Horace Traulel, tohote death occurred this tccek New York, Sept. 11. TTORACB TltAXTBEL'S last days were like those of a mountain climber 'slipping dowD a crevasse, clutching desperately for a bandheld. Laving momentary anchorages Rive way time after time, and, finally, with strength gone, letting go for the last Sung slide. He tat In the front room of nn old brown house at 2 Beekman plnro in New York, and looked out over the East river with Its endless pageantry of commerce. Ocean liners loaded at the Brooklyn docks across the river; the Boston boat passed daily: the siqht reein gyacht around Manhattan Island made its recurrent rounds; nnu mag May 31. when he attended the dinner in Xew York celebrating the 100th an niversary of Whitman's birth. On this occasion Troubel met Helen Keller for the first time, though they had long been friends. He had spent many winters In Can ada uith Frank and Mildred Bain, and through all the days in New York he heard the call of the Whitman colony at Bon Echo, Ontario, rive weeks ago he and Mrs. Traubel went there, into the hills. Friends here bade him fare well, with the certainty that they would never see him allvo again. David Karsner has written a biog raphy of Traubel, arrangements for publication of which were under way then tho news of Traubel's death came. The manuscript was read by Traubel onally opposite tnc gray ana green naiis p tiag an(1 beaj3 hjs iDdor!,e of the prison buildings on Blackwell t , afoU Island, reached up to touch the majestic , ' girders of the great yueensborouga bridge. He lived with folks ho loved, old our appeal.' Slid a member of the tnmtnittee. Mot of the replies are m private homes willing to take one ir two students. Offer Rooms to Penn Students Members of the students' residence PhiladelnMa friends, Roe and David committee of the University of Pcnn- Karsner. And always close at hand I STiTania nnuounced today that this city LV Montgomery Traubel. his , wife, swift, quiet, renumbering all the uas ,-"UJ many things that neeaed to be done fori whom the big enrollment and crowded her mate. Wt Philadelphia threatened to leave Seldom Lett Tils Chair homrlss. The room where he sat wa high- j ' Hundreds M persons responded to ceilinged, and its walls held memone of "Whitman, Debs, Ingersoll and their kindred. Letters, pictures, pieces of manuscript, treasure beyond price Traubel's chair was a big one, hard to get out of, and it was seldom ho tried to leave it. For ho was a tired man. drained of tho life fire by tremendous literary pro duction through thirty years and cling lng now to a few strands of vitality Daily he wrote something for his maga zine, the Conservator, pubhshed in Philadelphia, writing a'.wsys with pen nnd Ink, for he had never i?e-ei tve typewriter, despi'e tie To'-irr.ao'.. amount of manuscript he bsi trd out. And his letters we- -.-'-" always adorned with ozt-'tz' si7! never with stamps of sit c-i- : nomination. He had many visitors Azt.z; ; weeks in New York: had to bsv. -as a stimulus; would have c.-d z wilderness regardless of the s-77"' curative valuf of sunshine ard -r gullied air. The doctors bad done they could for him ; It was now sim? a matter of living on the fragments of 'reserve force remaining. His bod was a shell; he lived only because of sheer will to live. Black Satin Oxford Jest About Handwriting Traubel was a prodigious penman, though his writings were invariably il legible to all save those friends who were accustomed to reading his letters : one had to bridge over numerous gaps. This was often the subject of jest with him and the group that centered about him. The person who could read his penmanship with mnt unswerving ac curacy was his printer, .Tames Hebron, who for years has printed the Conserva tor in Philadelphia at 1031 Chestnut street, 1 big. full $10 value. I. n II I s llOvls. turned soles. A stunning new model, light, dainty and beau tifully made. JUST SHOW YOU where vou can save $2 to $5 on There Is one story Traubel liked to ' eveiV liair of shoes VOU buy. " Oncewh'ifhe was living in Camden ' This isn't a bargain ''special' some Philadelphia clubwomen wrote In- a chance job lot picked Up viting him to be guest of honor at a somewhere because it didn't SjwS&tta sell anywhere else. All our had written Their secretary wrote shoes are "regular." They are again, explaining the difficulty, and re- , our own design and made by quested him to use a sign system to In dicate his choice. H he accepted the invitation be was to signify by marking a cross at the bottom of the secretary's letter, and if he could not attend he was to mark a circle. Traubel followed Instructions, but when his second answer reached the, clubwomen none of them were able to, nlafce out whether he had set down a j cross or a circle. j TUa.it Public Appearance In May His last public appearance was on our own manufacturers FOR US. That's why ROYAL on your shoes means satisfaction. Roy&l Boot Shop 2.. A 'fO" WOMEN . nd Floor Saws$2 1206 86io Chestnut St JEWS MOURN DEATH OF LOUIS LOWENTHAL South Street Man Livod Simple Life and Gave Money to Zionist Cause Many Jews here sjlealt with sorrow today of the death of Louis Lowenthal, who had a small millinery business at 12r0 South street. For ho was n "rochman" a man with a notably kind and merciful spirit and was widely esteemed, although a quiet, re tiring man throughout the thirtj-five j ears he had spent in Philadelphia Lowenthal was sixty years old and came to America from Kovnow, Russia. He did not aspire to wealth nnd did not grow rich, but he won a firm place in the affection of those who knew him, especially those who profited by his ad vice or help. While he was satisfied with his lot in America and wanted his children alwnye to be Americans, he took a great inter est in the Zionist movement and even purchased land in Palestine. On his deathbed, he had his wife and his brother, Hyman Lowenthal, promts to see that the property in Palestine went to some Jew In Russia or one who wished to leave Germany He also asked that his insurance, amounting i to about $1000, be contributed to the Zionist movement. This insurance was to come from the Dr. Tcodor Hertzel Lodge, Independent Order of B'rlth Abraham, which he founded. He was also a member of the Order of B'rlth Sholem. Mr. Lowenthal died Inst Sunday and was burled on Monday at Montefiore, Tox Chase. The funeral service was held In the Orthodox Sjuagoguc Beth Israel at Sixth and Lombard streets. NEW YORK HONORS TRAUBEL Addresses win ha made by friends of the poet and there will be readings from the works of Whitman ond Traubel. Services for Camden Poet In Holmes Park Avenue Church The body of Horace Traubel. poet and biographer of Walt Whitman, is in New York today on its way from Echo, Ont.. where he died, to Camdeu. where he will be buried. 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