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Show JOHN BURROUGHS, NATURALIST, DEAD DEAN OF AMERICAN ESSAYISTS SUDDENLY EXPIRES ON JOURNEY Naturalist, on Way to Celebrate His 84th Anniversary, Taken 111 on Train UTICA, N. Y. March 1 John Burroughs, naturalist, died an a New Verb Central train near Klnosvlll. Ohio, en hi way bam fram California at 2 e'aleck thla e-erning. Ha had bean vary Ml far ia weak with an abaaaaa an tha het and heart and with kidney aamelieatien. Ha wa a ear ta gat heme that tha lenf Jew. J nay waa undertaken with the bee that ha eeuid survivs. Th and tarn 'suddenly, a few minute after he had asked i J -Maw near heme art war ' Hie eecretary. Or. Clara Bscrusi hia granddaughter. Uruaula Burrougha, 'and the Miaaaa Eleanor and Harriet I Burrougha, Mcempanied him an the r-l i 1 "V JOHN ? . 1 I Q UMIO WHS ' U -t: NKW YOIIK. March I tllv t'nltA l"ri - lr. Waller tlray Crump today received a telegram alatlna that John IturroiiKha. th fnntou niiiuralint. bad died on a tram near lliiffalo, X. T. II waa en rout to hia home near l"oiihkepai from I'aaadena, where h pent th winter. Itnrroiiaha would have been It yeare old on April I. Th telegram waa dlnpatrhed to Itur rnuah'a aecreiary. Ir. t'lara Iturrea. Ir. Ilnrrua haa been with llurrouaha for aeven yeara aa hla aerreiarv. Hhe hua written aeveral widely read hooka I on hla work. ! DISPOSITION OF BODY. Iir. Crump aald th tmdy would lie brought on .to I'niighkeepai Immediately. Imme-diately. Iturrougha' home, where he lived fur years, la on t he nfipoaii aid of tin-Jludaon. a abort diatance fnim I'oiigliKtepale. rYlenda and relatlvea will meet the ImiiIv ut l'oughkepal. Ir. Crutnp'a Information waa that IturroiiKha, who ant the winter In I'uandetia, Cal . became ill after hla' train left Chicago on the raatward Journey. A teli-arain waa pent to lr. Crump hy lr. Itarrus reijueating him to tnei-t Itiirrouitha ut I'liugllkeepale. When I r. Clump was making preparations prep-arations tu atari fur I'oilghkrepaie. the aecorid message arrived, advlaing him that the naturalist was deud. Ilurrouglia had planned tn celebrate his eighty-fourth birthday with Henry Hen-ry Fnrd. II. K Klreainn and Thomas A. lOdlaon on April S and waa returning return-ing .from tli roast with thia Idea In mind. I NATIONAL FIGURE. Iturroiifi-hit' d a i h renin va from American life Ita Iwtat beloved natural i Ihi and oVe of Ita rnoat prominent aaviHla and rllh IliirrooKha wait a rloa friend of Thtotb.re IbMmevelt ii D.I the two oftn enJo ed irampH IhroiiKh th wood. tudliiK hird mid imlmal life. IhirltiK the tatt few yeara he had upon! moot of b, Hiiiniiira iinn(.lra with Thuma A. i;di-i n und ilern ;-'rd. THE KTURE FAKER8. In ISMM h made hla famoua iHUuk on I'.ni ft He ton I'hompon ami ol her naturallKlN. crttUlnttiir pitatemenl tn their work und referrlnir to them un "nature fakeia." lie wua lairn on April 3. 1H.T7. of Kn-Kllfh Kn-Kllfh and lrlh aiock. In H xbury. N. Y. II apent hla eurly youth at aluriy both In th country achool nnd field himI wtMU. At the nu1 of M l.e le-Kan writing r-vtaya and ut lit wa a conti Ibuior to the Atantli Monthly. After graduallng from Cooperaii it hennnury be taught hoo for eight or nine yeara. la 1 a. J llurruugha w aa uppitltitwd to, th m-uMury department, flint aa keeper keep-er of the vault and luter ua chief uf an orgunixatlon bureau In Iho diviKlon of national bank. II left the department depart-ment In 1H71. I purchased a amall farm near KhoImhim. on th went bank of the Hudan, the following year, where he devoted hi wlntem i literary lit-erary work. SERIES OF WORKS. Ruin Walt Whitman and Matthew! Arnold cxrclned nirong lufluencea (Continued on page 1) 1 QEAN OF AMERICAN K'ontlnurd from par I llxhrd In l7. aa "Mall Whitman aa riMt and lran " Hinr Ihrn h had writl.n noiiK-rou maaaalnc arllrlra and th following tnokn: "Wak llohln." "Wlntfr Hunahln." "Illrda and fort a." ,lciila and WlM ll'iny," ivparlon," "rh Tl.la." "Huna and Hfaaona." "Sharp Kv." "Iiidiwr Hindi.' "luvrly." "A fitudv." 'Th l.lilht of Iav." "ftiiulrrpla and Othr Kiir llrr." "I.llnrary Valua." "f'ur and Nrar." "Way. of Natirr," "lllrd and Hough." "Camplna and Tianiiln Whh Mnnarvrll," "laf and Trndrll,'- 'Tinw and I'liana" and "Th Hummll of lh Vara." Th latter aa arittrn In I 1 |