| Show DEATH OF DHD I BELLAMY Famous Author Yields to the Dread Disease Consumption SIrled not as a Lanyor n1 Changed to Literary PuroultsIi Coar 011y l oon M Springfield Mass May 2rdword riellamy author nnd humanltallan died early this morning at his home In Chicopee Tolls In the 4Sth year of his age Mr llQllnmy has been In feeble health ever since he finished his Jqullllly i + me eIght month ago Indeed In-deed long before It was completed he had Ihe most significant NNarningsthat his vital enemies were being undermined under-mined although It was not until August Au-gust that his physicians definitely told him that one of his lungs was affected At the eat nest solicitation uf his Ihy slclins nnd family he resolved to try the effect of the Coloindo climate and early In September out icmoved with his family to Denver where he was welcomed by a host of friends lie received however little or no benefit from the change nnd slnco January has been rapidly falling When h3 recognized that recovery was Imlsl blehe became cry anxious to get back to his old family homestead nt Chicopee Chico-pee F a lie Items ultere he was horn and hOle he had lived his entire lift Ills brother went to Denver to help him re line his wish and on April SCtll brought him back very weak but very peaceful to his old home lie was iMili at Chleopee Falls on March 1C 1610 nod was the third son of Dev It K llcllamy for thlityrive tears the pastor of the Daptlst hutch at Chlcoptc fulls After finishing a couisc nt Union College he completed his education by a yean of European travel nnd study Dy the study of law he was nt 21 > enis of age admitted to the bar ot Hampton county Mass Ttom the legal le-gal profession he went Into Journalism and for several years was assistant editor of the Springfield Union From there he went to New York City to accept ac-cept n position ns editorial writer on the New York evening Ieistwhei he was engaged for about one year when no retuined to Spilnglleld nnd in co paltneishlp with his brother C J Hoi Inmy started the Springfield Dally News Meanwhile he publl iied Six to One a Nantucket Iiljl Dr Ret denhofts Process Miss Ludlngtons Sister and other books It was In ISbS that his famous hook looking Hackward l was published the sale of which up to the pent time Is I over 450000 copies In America and probably over r00000 copies have been snld In Inglolld nl1 > l othr Cor elgn countries looking Backward hns been translated Into German Trench Russian Italian Amble But gnrlan ond several other languages It is I stated IImt meprnr William pur ohn sell 1000 cople oC Iooklng Back ward which Is I distributed among the students and working classes of Germany Ger-many Ills reason for so doIng It this Is I really true Is opparnl to those can versant with German politics On the Oth day of December 1801 Mr nollamy being convinced that It was his duty to supplement his efforts In Ixwlilng nnckwarel by educatlns the people toward refoimlng govern mat Issued the nlSt number oC the New Nation 0 paper destined to ho mm tile mot quolNI mail Influential 1pcIlticol or revolutionary jOllrnnl lu the world An Ide of Its I Influence rally he Judged from the fact that since the New Nation was started many paper devoted tn nollnnllom he been launehl1 In the United Stairs Canada nnl Mexko and thouqnn of papeis through the direct inspiration nC the Nw Nollon have started department devoted to 101111111 reform which are lonllletd And edited from the writings of Mr Bellamy the New Nation and Ixvoklng nnckward lie lcnveq 0 Idow and two children beslles two brothers Charles J Hoi lamy editor ot the Spilnrllcld Dall Nos and rrrderlek Ildlamy nt HroolIyn N Y His funeral will tnk place til his home In Chicopee Falls and bj his special request will be of the simplest possible character |
