Salt Lake Times | 1890-07-17 | Page 3 | Will Carleton, the Farm Poet

Will Carleton, tho Farm Toer. New York, Ju.J. It isn't every aan, or woman either for that matter, lvho can get from $2o0 to 350 for a wm. Will Carleton is orie'of these.' I ee him 0f ten -m Brooklyn, where he :ves on Greene avenue, and he is as trech unlike a poet in appearance as one r'i)uld imagine. In years he is getting "ell along toward the. fifties. His hair ecms to be prematurely gray. He is -bout medium height, and his figure is ' ; tout ami robust, which leads to the be-Jefthathois be-Jefthathois something of an athlete. carries himself with a soldierly bear-niv bear-niv His head is well shaped and is !isel gracefully on a pair of broad 'Mulders. His face is clean shaven, ex-pfc ex-pfc for a small gray mustache. t In fact :s has a jaunty air. He seems to have OMe of the notions about dress and mannerisms man-nerisms that poets are usually supposed ;o have. r. Carleton is a busy man. His work is always in demand, and orders !or -nis poems increase so rapidly that he a enabled to charge the figures I have jputed above. He lives in a plain old iuoned house of brown stone, similar respects to hundreds cf others in 4s immediate vicinity. His library and rbhop is a curious place. There is w r,pou row cf fooofcg; no ends of pict-and pict-and desks and tables littered with . sorts of papers, magazines and writes writ-es utensils. He has no particular hour '-.j Tvors' Ho Sets up tolerably early, t fter breakfast goes at once to his here he remains busily at work JJKil midday. Eis afternoons he de-Jfs de-Jfs to visiting bis publishers, walking, yltil?, driving or visiting. He knows value of good health and spends a alTr s!lare of his time in making brawn. addition to hia literary work Mr. wrleton is well known on the lecture Mtform. He is a thorough Yankee in "e matter of money, and is one of the 'ost practical business men that you d. And thus it comes that his n account ia large and is constantly added to, . . Fosteb Couks.