The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-27

| WALT WHITMAN. y
| ton ceased. although his heart heat for
ten minutes attcrward. Artist Aiken will
| make plaster cast OF Whitman's face to-mor-
| row. and Drs McAllistcr and Loncacrc will
consult about holding . post-mortem. Whit
| man will DO buried in Harleigh Cemetery. Cam
| den. where he superntendcd the erection OF his
| tomb several years ago. IIe died poor man.
| his only possessions being his house. library.
and copyrights. Whitman disposed OF these
by will three months ago. leaving his property
to those who nursed him in his last illness.
Few literary men. while yet living, have been
| the subject of such lively controversy as Walt
Whitman. Browning was dciiled while stiil
alive. Whitman has hcen deincd. and again
denounced and ridcued rs false god. Those
who dciiieG him worshirp.d him in all truth
as great American poet: those who did not
yield to him looked on him honestly as
charlatan. Admirers and contemncrs alike
We're sincere.
Walter. or Walt. Whitman was born Mt Yves.
Hills. Long Island. May 81. 1910. His father.
whose name hc bore. was a farmer: and tho
boy. the eldest OF the family. was brought up
with slight knowledge Of even the few re-
fncmeutS obtainabo in tho country sixty
years ago. He was strong and sturdy. good
rider and swimmer fond OF out door exercise.
book education he had he received in the pub
lie schools OF this city and Brooklyn. 1t was
not much. for when only IL he was back in the
country. teaching others and learning from
them rather than from books.
After year or so Of teaching he became q
carpenter for II time; then he learned print
ing. working at the case in this cit and Brook
lyn aud editing papers in New Orleans and in
Huntington. Long Island. In 1918 with his
brother Jefferson Whitman. he went on long
pedestrian tour Of the country. working his
way along by doing carpenters jobs. tramp
ing it. one might almost say. For two years
the brothers wandered about. down the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers. in Louisiana and Texas
during the Mexican war; along the lakes. into
Canada. md down the Hudson back to Long
Island where Walt Whitman betook himself
once more to the printers ;nse.
lr 10 800 ne ma been Known. so iar as ne
no especial steadiness. In 1855. however.
appeared bis first and most famous boob;
poems always without rhyme. generally
without rhythm. dealing especially with the
eress Of the time. Tie BOOK called forth a
great amount N, OF praise and stu greater
for Whitman: nothing. however secret con
,ynsntionalism made it,. but was revealed.
Those who ala not object to the nudity Of the
form in which they We're cast: and some wcro
rst q Il the GodG oeWS
las been REVISING and adSing to tls book.
wounded at Fredcrcksbu n s IN isia. and ths
M the the to the s s"se a d the
SSa1Ss b"f $Ssa M Hs %S,;
sen~sSti@nn Doom NH IS in Drum GAP.
tain. My CYptain:,' IN memory Of Lincoln;
for time his work as nurse. because OF u
eyer caught ra in tn. 1T hGiamns aW9nHE the
never recovered fully. though hs rcturned to
"A, A. ;ne close Of the var hs obtaiGed a clerk,
no was dismissed when his superior Officer
q ia rass Y He os tfs uso serS q
ship in, the Attorney Generals 9iiice. however.
This he Kept until as74 In Fsnrnary ls95
his fever Of 1854 and tRe sxposnres of his
army !iie, and went to CamdcH M. He was
S Gry When IN May hs sa.
Any work i2T many months. On his r;eeqyery
den. where no resided tile rest Of his life.
BsiG. tnis whio i" WashaEGton h. PHI
Not 70 cre"ts only, ms7 i ' As Strong BED led
fsS"yf fni ISL s.? So ysp sa
Boston. to the sale OF which the Massach useus
Ally In iss} Whitman %l i putisIsi speeiman
bays and Collect; to- IL 1855 y. "Noy.mber
In tho latter year he had another stroke Of
on his 10th birthday his friends, gave to him a
Sn 5ve tnG
not enjoy his carriage long. however. for his
increasing inlrmity made Il unsuitahle to him.
else in a wheeled chair. His nilrmity was
physical. not mental. however. and with
farewell volume, Of poems. "Good-By, Ny
Fancy wherein no mentioned with pnthetis,
bitterness that magazine writer's had refused
hard--amost his only admission OF poverty |
OF late years the bitter attacks on Whitman
s Loot anf s" f IN %
approved OF tho BOOK. and slice tion.
%a as s tfnsahak srs the
poems In 1868. and Walter scott has published |
two further selections while Edward Dowden !
and George Eliot have Tanke Whitman high |
spaksa srateiuiIy 4 tic %iris@pdiy Iaouthsd'
iorted him in his troubles,
Of Ms books, ana while never rIsh. Of lats
refused to accept charity. however
Ho was attacked with dlpktheria about Dec.
Words isa 70 ssf the e Trs ig
latter. On Dec. ~ the, disease took turn
for tho worse, and though, after that there was
was hut temporary. and tho death of the aged |
poet Was exnected at any time:
Whitman was Ieseribed Py the admirer. who
knSwn thai 81 t6s sood gray po TAX
and stalwart, his face ROSY. and scanned with |
kindly Wrinkles: with heavy -iidded. firm blue