Show fAMOUS AMOUS NOVELIST PASSES AWAY IN ITALY 4 S y c I F. C CRAWFORD I I Special Cable Craw Craw- P-F. P 1 MarIon Marlon APril Sorrento tonight as a result re- re t ford Cord time the novelist attack brought ht on b by an brou stilt sult ot of illness bedside bill of With hint him at were hi his hili entire family lied hod been p n suffering For lor some time and lie ho pleurisy which had front from bronchitis greatly tl lIe lIe- woal weakened en ll his night tl VII oil FAMOUS NOVELIST PASSES AWAY IN ITALY from One Ine rum I gently he contracted a severe So cold collI and notwithstanding notwithstanding- the efforts of ot the best specialists In these ailments aliments his physical physical cal condition was such that the complication complication complication cation of diseases r resulted fatally fatally HI was conscious until within a few hours ours of oC his death but apparently l I knew new that tho the end was near r. Alluding to tho approach I of ot Good Friday he said I die lic with Christ I Ills His last words were I enter serenely into eternity NO Xu Loved eil Italy New York April 9 It It was not marvelous marvelous mar mar- clous that Mr 11 Crawford loved Ital Italy It was his native e land O or Of American parentage parent e. e he first saw the light of da day at Ra Bagel nl dl Lucca on August Aug 1 21 1 1854 1554 Ills His father Thomas Crawford was molts sculptor of note noto and anti some somo of his works arc said to adorn tho the Vatican Rut But the future futuro novelist spent little of his boyhood in Italy Italy 1 When hen ho was as old enough to II atto school he was taken to Concord N. N II where he ho was wasa a n. pupil in ln St SL Pauls Paul's school lie He had bon been tl n ht English as well as Italian and as a a. small lad spoke both lan lan- After Atler finishing his course a aSU at SU St Pauls Paul's ho he was sent to Trinity college col col- col- col lege e Cambridge At and Bombay Bombay Domba Bom Dom ba bay he ht continued his studies Afterward Afterward After Arter- ward ho traveled travel d extensively cl and minia mini made madea a stud study of at the time Oriental tongues He lie continued his study stull of or Oriental languages lan lan- cs while acting actins- as a newspaper correspondent t later inter Ho Ito was WoR still a youth when his par par- slits MUS again took him to Italy and he pursued a course courso of study at Rome nome which greatly delighted him Then ho spent some years carR of or country lIr life and It was waR in 1882 1582 when ho was wa 28 years old that he found himself again h In Rome A year ear later he lie went to constanti to view tho city and there me met methis methis his fate rate In an American girl Miss lIss Elizabeth C C. Berdan Ilau daughter of General General General Gen Gen- eral Hiram Berdan De The They were married married married mar mar- ried In Constantinople and H 1 t year ear thereafter the they spent a a. peaceful existence ex- ex In India whore where Mr 11 Crawford was editor of the thc Indian Herald Firl 1 Void Novel 11 It was while ho he was still in Rome Romo in 1882 that he lie published his first novel Mr 11 Isaacs rater Later ho wrote Dr Claudius To Leeward A lOA Tale Tl of a Lonel Lonely Parish An American Politician and others Ills His recent works Include In the Palace of or the King Bing Ing Arethus und timid the Little City of ot Hope Many Ian of his works have been translated to othor other languages lans The novelist had mon many times said that If Ir he ho could n write one pIa play he be would be perfectly happy happ His Palace of or the King was dramatized and proved ell a success but It Il was a J. J surprise eve even to to ir his friends ids when the o-n- o ono one pl play from his pen Francesca FrancesCo da do film Rimini In I which he had written express expressly for Sara Bernhardt was produced In the Sara Bernhardt theater in Paris in fn 1902 It developed that the play pIa was wa produced b by the authors author's dramatizing his its partly completed novel The Harvest lIar lIar- vest est of or the Sword upon which he was wasat wasat at work when Mme Bornhardt Bernhardt made mado her lor request Instead of or a n novel no he 11 lt a play and achieved tho the ambition am- am of or his life lite As a mark of ot recognition of ot his writings writ writ- ings on current topics tho the Monbrun 1 prize and a 3 gold medal was bestowed upon him b by the French academy |