The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-05
EUGENE FIELD PASSES AWAY.
DEATH THE RESULT OF 4 CLOT OF
BLOOD IN THE HEART.


LYLE sat Up Till a Late Hour |
Chatting with Newspaper
Friend-His SON Heard Him GrOan-
ing in His sleep and Summoned the |
FamiIy-AII Over When They |
Reached His Bedside.
Chicago, Nov. 4.-Eugene Field, poet,
journalist and story writer. died at his
home at Buena Park early this morning,
as the result of heart failure. For some I
DAYS Mr.. Field has been ailing, but 1t
was supposed he was suffering from his
usual stomach troubles, and no serious
turn was anticipated.
Dr. Frank Reilly. who was summoned
this morning, pronounced the death to
have been caused by the formation of a
cIot of blood in the heart.
Although yesterday Mr.. Field was
feeling so i'll that he tele-
graphed to Kansas City, cancel
ling an engagement which he had
there for tonight, he sat up until a late
hour chatting with Mr.. Yenowine of the
Milwaukee illustrated News. Mr.. Yeno-
wine was to have accompanied Mr.. Field
to Kansas City and had come from Mil
waukee for that purpose. The deceased
was cheerful, and the two sat up until
q lal6 nouF ulSCuSSlllS future pans. SuOIL-
~ before midnight Mr. Field had a tele-
gram sent to Kansas City, saying that
he would be able TO come later in the
week.
Upon going to bed Mr. Field did not COM
plain. but during the night Fred Field.
the fourteen year old son of the deceased,
heard his father groaning in his sleep.
The lad thought nothing of this until near
morning, when the sleeping man groaned
more heavily than before and then became
perfectly still and quiet. Reused by an in
tuitive dread that something was amiss
Fred, or Daisy" as the family calls him,
crept out of bed and awakened his mother
and aunts. He then went to the room of
Mr.. HenOWine, who was sleeping in the
house, and aroused him. When the family
reached the bedside they found that Mr..
Field was no more. His body was lying in
an easy, natural position. The heat of life
had not yet died out and n tranquil peace
full expression on his face gave him the ap-
pearance of having dropped into a gentle
slumDer. All eHorts 10 arouse him failed
and DR.. Hedges, who was Immediately
summoned, attributed the death to heart
failure.
MIR. Field first took to his bed last Thurs
day. Up to yesterday he had expected
to keep his engagement at Kansas City
this evening, but last night he told his
brother, Roswell NJ. Field to telegraph
his inability to make the trip and that
he would be unable to give the promised
reading in the Kansas City auditorium.
Mr.. Field leaves a widow and five chill
dren-two daughters ana three sons-the
eldest child is Miss Mary French Field
10 years of age, and the youngest is
scarcely u months old.
Among the early callers at the house
this morning were Melville f. Stone
Victor f. Lawson and II. II. Kohlsaat.s
These gentlemen were given general
charge of the funeral arrangements, but
the obsequies viii be under the direction
of the Fellowship Club. The funeral viii
take place Wednesday, and the inter
ment will be at Graceiand.
funeral r. fa1d will
take place at the Fourth Presbyterian
church, corner of Rush and Superior
streets, on Wednesday afternoon at
O'Clock. The Rev. DIR. Frank w. Cum
saulus win oficiate, assisted by the Rev.
Frank NJ; Bristol and appropriate adj
Minis. W '' ''' '''''- --''i-'i'
The following named gentlemen have
been selected as active pail bearers: Hart
Taylor, +. d. Winslow, Charles NJ. Faye,
Collins Shackleford, c. a. Macdonald and
j. w. Hiltman.
The following gentlemen have been Sc
lected as honorary pail bearers: Victor
Z, Lawson, II. II. Kohlsaat, f. II. Head,
H. G.-Selfridge, r. a. Waller, Milward
Adams, F. Willis Rice, H. n. Higgin-
botham, f. j. v Skiff, NJ. p. Handy II.
c. Chatfield Taylor and NJ. E. Stone.
New York, Nov. AT a meeting of the
New York Press Club, held tonight, the
following telegram was sent to the widow
of Eugene Field, by Joseph Howard, Jr.,
the president: The members of the New
York Press Club desire to express their
heartfelt sorrow at the sudden death of
Eugene Field, and to tender their condo
lence to his afflicted family. His work will
be an enduring monument to his fame"
Eugene Field, poet and Journalist was
born in St. Louis, Mo, of New England
aneestTt, in 1850. His father Roswell NJ
Field, a distinguished lawyer, was one of
the counsel fer bred Scott in the celebrat-
ed slave case. His mother died when he
was quite young, and he spent his child
hood under the care of an aunt in New
England. He was educated at Williams
college at Amherst. Mass, at Knox col
lege at Galesburg, H., and at the Uni
Versfty of the state of Missouri His first
work IN journalism was in st. Louis as a
reporter on the Evening Journal which
was begun after he had spent some time
in Europe. In 1876 he went to ST. Joseph
where he was connected with the Ca
zette. In 1880 he was in St Louis again
as an editorial writer on the Times-JOur-
nal. From that paper he went to Kansas
City, where he took the post of manag-
lng editor of the Times. He resided in
Denver for a time. and it was while liv-
ing there that his droll humor and ex-
quisite poems attracted widespread at
tention. In 1888 he went to Chicago with
the News and Record, which has since
been split into two papers, under the same
management, the News being the morn
ing edition and the Record the afternoon
edition. Mr.. Field has for the last two or
three years been chiefly identified with
the Record. He had a special column on
the editorial page, which was invaria blv
filled with the brightest comment on Cur
rent events, and dainty verse. Several vol
umes OF his poems have been published
Besides his strictly original work he is
the author of a metrical translation of
Horace. Mr.. Field enjoyed a wide literary
acquaintance in both this country and Eu-