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Show ! H'O'E'j NEW YORK H O M I S W HAU NTS tion ami of I mrnsi-il ngouy of mind regarding her health. Ifl Scpli mber he wrote James Kuss.-U l.O'.vcll that In- was "playing hermit Mini s 1 11 c a living soul outside of my family." Id November Virginia 1 1 .1 t a spell, listing much longer than the lapses Into unc'ii-.- ! 1 -i m--- that had begun to alarm l'oe oven In Phil . i 1 "' It l. . and li was under 1 1 1 pressure cf I lilt uw terror. r this ag-gravntlou ag-gravntlou of on I'M tenor, ta.n ho -.imposed evenl of the most Impressive stnn;:as of "The 'bivn." II'" f f 1 1 mi. ki-.-nlv Mi" 'iirij.ii of h.i;in.' he had laid ill-runs his own .!i"ii!iliTs by Mi treatment of Virginia during fli" greater part of t h'-!r 1 1 1 .1 f r I 1 ... ills temper. tem-per. hU melancholy. Ills r;i sr 1 n -t and Ms ilrunkr-uno-s-. Some sense of the enormity of hi- offending hot nrl-oti In Mm mind two i-nvs 1 1. f. ami It was w 1 1 i ! tv:i ti hing nvor r In :t fainting iM I diirbig tin- w mri-r of IS-ll! Mult In- -on. olvod ill itllii" ..f II, -. ..i.'l.M I'm', dirge, portions of whVh In- rf.nl I'lilimb !;h'.i j.air-n.illus. j.air-n.illus. anion; Mo m 'olii:n-I I m i. who !t. l'-'i w:i -i a Now York writer I'ul it v.;k while his much across Klngshrldge road ' :i n t placed In the public grounds-j.,. most unfortunately, roncoas. As fur t ;--k ,-is Mr. Cury. Mx-n In control of iir premises. ..tiered It gratis to Now York. Inn his suggestion sug-gestion win not' acceptable On t hf day of th... dedication dedi-cation of the Grant rnau-olo inn Mr. Chauvet. to whom control had passed, got a o-ruilt to mnvr It seventeen f"i vt h n-1; from where It stood In IVh-'h know ledge, fur the widening .if the Klngshridgo roinl would hae doiif aw iv v.lih th" structure. This necessitate,! .-i parUv if-w foiind.it Ion ncl gives II otiage. If ln- j.i-.i,-d froin tin- north - 1 - . an effect "f greater height thiui it li.i (J oi iginally . '1 hero Is :iNo a small, ' ; 1 1 1 1 r I y c xtoiisiou In th" rear I hat may l.f of later d.iti- than I'oc's iseupa noy. It does net show in several sev-eral ;:lnt:iL h.v liii)-hmfn who iiiadi- th" i-otlati-l!i"lr v. 1 1 1 , ) ;.- !n Hi,- l:ii" slMlos With thoso r of i ioiim. Mi- -inn;! a, alter of 1 w.it-r !roiii:li alon' 1 he ; I' ll r--if, Mir- luinditi-.' iitoki at It )oo..-d t.i I'uf. Hi- ,')d not -i-f, o i inirH", i)if shi'i-t Iron hil. two ;"""t !y 'in In- Ins. f.-KiiMu-d hflwc-i-n two di in linn ivc ..-T 0--'. - y.1 k ' f I'M r '1 i Gra Poe Has Come Into the Acknowl edgment So Long Denied to Him The Poc Cottage as It Is To-Day. " ' I ' ' . '. - .. - , . Kv ' v - . 1 . - k LLKy tv-l "v - v"'-".. iV; rVw " .;tJV:;' l-r v -I - - ': .Vttt: r" r 1 Site of the Old Brcnnan Hous: in Bloom- 'i -'-' v,t'y. l . ' V inp;dal; Here He Finished "The Raven." V"- ' . . Fordham College There Is a cherry sdiituii still Isllih.1 ami vinf.s i lam-In-r upon It. and th,.y ceni (o In t r 1 1 1 to do what they, run to hide tin? dfiital snrpTy fIjtii thai h-.nis aualnt the trunk and to protest iti their leafy way iiiralnst thf aTront to one who talkul and wrote of 'tin III t li' people of nature." l'rohnhly the woaihrr hoaton poii h shows n; MiinU a pe rr-piiti u-e of ihniij.'o as any oilier part of (In- cut-l.neo. cut-l.neo. Alone: Its brief oath the poet p-n eil o and fro ly nlpht often the entire nk'hl In Iif etnlier, IMH. That wax lh way he -pent tlirNtin.ns r-re. It 1 lin-pofisiiiie lin-pofisiiiie to sean this portion of the house without u mronc stlrtinc of emotion. As It Is Now. Fifty feet or more h.-o-k of the mitac was a ledve of rooky proiinrl. euvrrnl as late as 'M with jdne and ecitar. upon whi' h hN vision rested In e-stnllc nn-ments. nn-ments. It was a imok to whioh he and Vlrijinhi wont at eventide to snve at the rh h lands- ae. in the midst of which was St John's College, now I-'ordham Fnl-vcr.-liy. Part of the hslpo wa.s eut nwiiy when Ilrips ( v v-" '. Edgar " V- j .wV Aiiap :.y : -yG Poo 'f y y-hi v Waverley place, (he I'oos sharing a Uuor wltU WUllani fiowans, a Nassau suvei horde dealer. vho bought every tome he oouhl ami kept If as lout; as he could. It wni then that "Ic'ela," a Joint reininiseoii'o of Vltcrlnla and Mrs. rioinni. and 'The Fall of the Hons? of Fshor," the lales I'oo tlaHiulit the I'mest two, were 1 written. From 'he aulitnin of IM.'i to the lale prlii of lSlii Foe made his home at No. SI Amity street. It was w hile there that he won tin- llhel ai tlon npalnst ICn.--lish. pnhlislior of the Fretilin: Mirror, and pit in (laniap-s, an amount that enabled him to furnish the I ' last retreat fr my poor Virginia.1' II was while Ihere nlso that he met. when both were quests in a Waver-ley Waver-ley place mansion. Murpirct Fuller, ere she had be- come (tssiill, atla ked her i riihiie of a recent work, overwhelmed her with polite ridicule and provoked the whispenil comment of Ids hostess. "The Kaven has perched on the coiffure of Fallas and U pulling out the feathers." I Vet none of these places Is the centre of such charm nihn ry y l':-:-a$& h;M -y-yr -yiri-s .fsy IV: t v ;; .z'ryyl 'y ::yy':y:' J: ): V.yi-v;ity m-- Doorway of Greenwich Street House p;"-v'y - -..T a-iiV'-lv----Where Poc First Boarded on His Second Vyyyy":. i :-'S v 'Xpi V .' . Arrival in New York f : -'::'-':-iUyiMy '' . . V' ' "-'.-f; ifC-Spy y - Remains of Rock Ledge in Rear of Poe Cottage; A Favorite Retreat at Eventide for Virginia and Himself. (J-- -F'-rSv-dr- yy'':yy:;':y-.-' yxyyy-y- - - :yy-y ,ri -i'f v;':- .'.-.v . i't'.'Vr:-'. rcv-,--.'-".- ; . ..---t- Mount Tom. Near the Brennan House, ffi- 'A fV-'- '7--.. Down the Slope Irom Which Poc Went Y; V M Z;;;- - :. Regularly to Swim. Y V :1 : ' ' tT--: ' -: BY BURTON T. BEACH. iCopxrlcht. l'Jlu. It llio Now York IKtoM Co. All nsbl rcpn-J.l B nCAI ALLAN Fi:S principal homes nu.l B haunts In New York city, some of which are well within the unbroken knowledge of per- I - sons now llvlnq lu I'ordhani, have a new Interest In-terest In the ll,ht of the belated confession of his countrymen that he Is cut II led to ue of the proudest ideslals In the American ll'tll of Fame None of his "Ihree white stones of existence birth, mnrrlatre nnd deatb" was quarried or graven In the retrion that once echoed and re-echoed with the footfalls foot-falls of fJovernor I'eter Slnyvenut. It w;is In I'.os-ton, I'.os-ton, on January )'.. -f., that he first saw the llpht that won to ko out for hi.s material nature on October 7, 1S40, lu the hospital at l'.altlmore. It was In Richmond Rich-mond that he wedded, in 1.V, Virginia C'lemm, only dauRhter of hl.s father's t-istcr, a child as frail as she was fair, and so fair that her face would have defied the p-nlns of n Canova. they say, to Imitate. He lived at one time or another In A est Point. Philadelphia, Imdon, and also Paris and t. pcters-burjr. pcters-burjr. according to his version of bis travels during the Poe legendary years, when he was trying to lose track of himself In Oulxotlc adventure; and thus It turns out, simv plory Is his nt last no less than greatness, great-ness, that more llh-s Halm n shire In his renown than the seven which claimed Homer dciul through which the living Homier begged his broad. The claim of New York is the best Whether he npircarod In New York In 3,1, the date of the New York publication of ' Poems, " thfc second appeal he made "to public- favor as an author. Is an open question, though a plausible argument can be I offered Id supi-ort of the theory that he did. Nowhere, however. Is there any clew to his 'movements socially I or to his habitation. Put in January, IS.j'7, he arrived in New York from i Philadelphia to arrange for the' publication of "The j Nnrratlve of Arthur Cordon Pyni, of Nantm ki t." the opening chapter of which had been printed In the Southern Literary Mes.-engor. He completed the work at No lFi'j tannine street nn unlucky number, num-ber, as be put It, recalling the fact that at the Fni-verx'rty Fni-verx'rty of Virginia he had No. 13, West I'.ange, lu the dormitory, Hnrper brought out the tale In ISIS. The Carmine street house was on the west side-, Just olmve Ynrlck. Six years elapsed lie had published "The Murders In the Itue Morgue," which had been served up hi the leading French literary periodicals, and his n-puuttion was expanding. In March, 1SI4, accompanied by Virginia, Vir-ginia, ho reached New York from Philadelphia, travelling travel-ling by rail to Amlioy and thence by boat, in a Utter to Mrn. C'lemui describing his first boarding place ho nal.l: "It Is on Greenwich street, just before you get to Cedar, on llio west side, going up the left hand side, having brown stone steps and a jmuvIi with brow u pillars, with lbe name 'Morrison' on the door, anil the bouse, is old and looks buggy." Next day, however, he wrote that they had "veal cutlet, elegant ham and eges and nl e bread and butter'' but-ter'' for breakfast. Many pcrioiis remember the shabby siruilure In the shadows of which ho composed com-posed "Iu-caiiilaud" nnd perpetrated the newspaper hoax In the Sun of April 13, 1S-14, regarding a westward west-ward passage of the Atlantic by the dirigible airship Victoria In seventy-five hours from land to land. P.y uoq effective. If eccentric, methods be signalized bis return to the inotroiiolla His first regular duties In New York Journalism were performed as special writer on art and literature for the Kvenlng Mirror, conducted by N V. Willis nnd George Morris, nt Ann and Nassau streets. There be tolled for nit months, resigning the Hst in January, ISI.1, to go with the Itroad way Journal, published pub-lished on the xlie now covered by Temple Court, In Itcekinan street. The publication la Med about a year, and T'oe meanwhile obtained coutrol of It. Lurlng his Mruggle to make a success of a Journal that, like I ago, was "nothing If not critical." Poe tdilfted his residence repeatedly. In January Kichard Henry Stoddard, who sought an Interview concerning the non-iippe.irom e of 1'oe's "tide to a Grecian Flute," found the poet on tbe third tloor of No. 1'.i.j Fast Itroaduay, where Man,., n,e spacious building of the Kducatlonal Alliance. Strsldard saw Virginia lying rm a bed. She was flushed with the hectic of mil-sumption mil-sumption and gasping. I'm- seemed to be "suffering fXciuclatlDg torture." "The Raven In i:a-t P.roadway he was living on January 20, tbe memorable day of the publication of "The Itaveu" In tbe Livening Mlrrur from advance sheets f the American Whig Ueview, with an Introduetlou Dy WU1U, who said: "In our opinion It is the most effective single example exam-ple of fuglilve verse ever publlshi-d In this country. !and un-surpawd in Fngll-di H,enry for mi bile conception, concep-tion, masterly lugeuulty of e rxidcutlon and consLstent -ustalnlng of Imaginative lilt." Xbertj ui a brief rvaUlcnxtf lu sjii'h, ycuue. licur four I'ai.e windows btneuth the gablt ou the street end of tin house, announcing, under the figure of a ii.ili-ly drawn racu perched on a three pronged ti-'. - Fdcar Allan Poe itap-, lS-ltl Vp." . Nor did In- see, as his bust lu the park, a few feet oiV. niitrht ee. were it to come to life at the caress of an idioiri-r, ns Galatea did at Pygmalion , the den-tUl's den-tUl's advertising many times bigger than the memorial slab, that is suspended between the two Km or w ludow's. What I'oe found the home in w hh h were passed the last ihree years of tin t lierVj spirit civl- !i.!illi ii produced in the nineteenth century was a iymmmf i ym$jyy avenue was opened, but uon uli. Sjiuc of tbe rock remains re-mains to satisfy Ibe hero worshipper, and the crest of ttecs silll llngerJ lu j precious fragment. Purely did a day go by, particularly after lii wife' deiilh. without a visit to the college. It would bi paid In the afternoon, when the faculty was at h-Kur to feci he him. Ho had the inn of the library at Invaluable privilege, and in the winter of l.Ms-'.i lo passed the n i ti t frequently at the peaceful old seal of learning, discussing until the small hours bh lie-lues with Father lloiicet, I he mi -nmplishcd JesiiU, their cunt orsal Ions usually being In French.' His inorulng (llei-yoii was a stroll to High Pridge, ami lo enjoy it perfictly he would rise at four, if. Indeed, In-deed, he had gone to bed at all. He would walk out on Me' M rue tu re. along the turfed and grassy mound I hen Used by foot passengers only, lo a Kint 'commanding 'com-manding the high, rocky shores at the western end. Sealed at his w riling table between the windows on the porch side, ho could see the it ii Colt farm house on the other side of Klngbi hlge road a few hundred feet oil'. It Is Ihere now or was there on the his; day of o. lober and is merely changed for j he worse: Mrs. 'lcmm and Virginia often called upon lis occupants lu IM'I. and l'oe himself went wlih I hem at least once. This iieghvlcd shack became be-came the property of Mr. Prlgg-i, still living near it aud ready to talk of (he I'm.-s. From (his iiut-of lhe-way hamlet in West Farms lowiishlp l'oe wrote in George Fveh-ih In January, 1S-S I am constitutionally sensitive, nervous to an unusual degree. I became insane, Willi long ulU-burs ulU-burs Is u horrible sanity I lining the Ills of absolute unconsciousness 1 drank God only knows how ofien and how much. As a matter of course my cm nil", referred the insanity to the drink Kit her than i be dilnk to the Insanity." Four stanzas of "The I'.ells" were written at Fonl-haui, Fonl-haui, the oilier lu- Powell, Mass. "Annal-.-l Fee' was composed In part on the rocky ledge, after hi.-rupturc hi.-rupturc with Sarah Helen Whitman, with whom he fell In love when Virginia's iiiiluem-e had ceased to to guld" him and who broke ulY relations with him l-cause l-cause of representations made by a friend of llora.c Greeley, who wrote: " I know widows of a doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a while man. but (his seems II terrible engagement." As I siond near the bust of the 'sct III Foe Park on the last afternoon lu OcIoIht and cotiicmplaicd the 'coitago, a kitten from the garden adjoining walked slowly to the upper stop of the two leading In the pon h tliMir and re.siid on lis haunches, as if gnyilng at the monument. The creaiiue was dark ami lustrous as anthracite. A droll notion possessed rue. ' Kiilen." said I. "are you kith or kin of the tortoise shell cat l hat lay that fatal night on I lie bosom of Virginia Foe, helping lo warm her, while a mother 'vliafeil In-r hands and a husband her feet? , "Or. possibly, by some transmigration of ibe feline 'soul you re-einboil v Ftuto, who was a 'beautiful animal, ani-mal, enllrely bl.o k and sagacious to an ustonlshing d"L-iee.' Could it In- that you lime a mini ,.( an-eesir.il an-eesir.il contact with the 'hideou beast' that wasf wnliod lip in the toinbV Tell mo truly. I implore. " j Ye! Il.e Ma. k thill- give ' '"kill. ll"t I III a bliljk. bill liwrcilknj Mild wt Kl"l I'ulU.lOJ IliurW. Van Cott House on Kingsbridge Road Opposite Fordham Cottage, Where the Pocs Often Vts-ted. . to the present geutruMou as each of two others. Poo's lii;lng for the country Impelled him northward north-ward In the late spring of 1M1 he applied for board and bulging for himself, his wife and Mrs. (. leinin at the residence of Mrs. Mary Pi eiiii.m. In Ploomliigdale. 'The house stood on a rocky eminence, commanding a good view of the Hudson from the upper windows, and only a few hundred feet from what are imw the corners of West Plghty -fourth street ami Broadway. For forty-seven years Mis P.ieiiiian occupied (he place, which, lu Its day, had sheltered Washington. Old residents of New York recall It distinctly and describe It ns a plain, old fashh d frame dwelling, two storb-s high with eight windows on each side and one at each gable. It survived the Inroads of the rock blaster and street cutters as late us 1!7". Here the poet remained until the year was drawing draw-ing lo a close, mid here he finished "The Paveu." For-three For-three decades his admirers repaired to the historic edifice to gaze upon the little room, the "li:inn I(iiiiii),'1 as they fondly named It. In which the tleot.. trio sissed the day, Mrs. Clemm retiring at night to a "tiny nook, scarcely large enough for a col." down Malrs. l-'rom bis window Px- could ee the river, and be weut regularly for a swim to a point down tbe slope from "Mount Tom," In Klversldo Park, us It Is known to-day. This was bLs favorite dlvemlon while at Mrs. Itrennan's. and he was n capital Bwlmnier. Virginia, sitting In a clump of trees on tbe tiunk burd by, would watch blm and applaud his aquatic prowess by clapping clap-ping her hands ' Transportation between the City Hall Furl; section nnd the hamlets of i,, niingdale and Manhattanvl'lo In 1S11 was by omnibus or ferryboat. Poe preferred the former, but Virginia, liked '.he latter, and they made two trips at bast together by water. Put his iilovLuiiudjJo c-kjjericnett iLn one vt dc-cocukut Isold- abused darling lay apparently dead at I'.loomii.gdalc that "The Pdco" received the iouch of deathless lu-uplratiou. lu-uplratiou. The Fordham Cottage. v In tin- last days of spring, lsp;. moved lo the cottage ...u the hill at Fordham. the "l'oe .Cottage" of liJternallon.il renown, standing now on the east side of llnj.brldge road, near the corm r of Fast r.''d s-ir.-et, and a few feel back from r,,. original site. Here some of his most enduring work, pm iry nnd pros... as done, arid ben-, lu January, is 7, his wife died. The liiipressloii under wlil.-h many well Informed In-formed persons rest Ihat as a r.-suli .f ii,,. labors f the New York Shakespeare Society, the agitation f the Prolix Society of Arts and S. Icm and lh" appropriation ap-propriation in s; is of fjoti.tx i by . ,.. v,.r' Fog-KLuLurw Fog-KLuLurw tur liiu I'iMi 1'jU'k thi- cuixaui u-jw earTi-.! fair specltueu of the dlgultted Utt le suburban houses of the peri'.id. shliigied Instead of clapboarded. with a twenty foot porch, a general lliug .oom on the ground floor, with two windows and a ibs.r opening mi the porch, aud olTel leg a cheerful view of orchard nnd garden The oilier two rooms., small as they arc, M-enied to htm, doillilIcs, almost spacious compared with some he had lemiuleil. In the smaller, upstairs under the sloping riof. he was de-llinsl to see the passing of her for whom his b,'ve was u rapturous adoration of the l.eau;iful. As ho saw It. the collage was buried in fruit tret"-,, and iie.ii the window he liked best was an old cherry tin- lijl.il with nesis of favorite birds. The- Irunk was' visible Hi the eight les. c.. end with nasi m i in ills w li.o ae.' cs., , sprang from s.-isl the t planted that .irt viiinin. s when ho matted the ground ai'.iiud It with HU'f :ioJ lilul.letl ungUi .lu liiil twUoLrouu |
