The San Francisco call., 1898-05-23
BELLAMY, THE
 AUTHOR, HAS
 PASSED AWAY Vital Energies Slapped
 by OverWork. HIS WRITINGS WORLD FAMOUS. LEAVES LOOKING BACKWARD"
 AS A MONUMENT. His Health Had Been Rapidly Fail ing Since He Finished His
 Equality Some Eight Months Ago.
HIS WRITINGS WORLD FAMOUS.
LEAVES HOOKING BACKWARD"
 AS A MONUMENT.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May 22.-Ed- ward Bellamy, author and humanitar- ian. died early this morning at his home in Chicopee Falls, in the forty ninth year of his age. MT. BelIamy had been in feeble health ever since he fin ished his Equality" some eight months ago. Indeed long before it was completed he had the most significant warnings that his vital energies were being undermined, although it was not till August that his physicians defi- .nitelytold him that one of his lungs was affected. At the earnest solicitations of his physicians and family he resolved to try the effect of the Colorado eli mate, and early in September last re- moved with his family to Denver, where he was welcomed by a host of his friends. He received, however lit- tie or no benefit from the change and since January has been rapidly failing. When he recognized that recovery was impossible he became very anxious to get back to his old family homestead at Chicopee Falls, Mass, where he was born, and where he had lived his en- tire life. His brother went to Denver to help him realize this wish. and on April 26 brought him back, very weak but very peaceful, to his old home.
 Edward Bellamy was born at Chico pee Falls on March 26, 1S50 and was the third son of Rev. R. K. Bellamy, for thirty-five years the pastor of the Baptist Church at Chicopee Falls. After finishing a course at Union Col lege he completed his education by year of European travel and study. By the study of law he was, at 21 years of age, admitted to the bar of Hampden County, Mass. From the legal profes- sion he went into Journalism, and for several years was assistant editor of the Springfield Union, from which newspaper he went to New York City to accept position as editorial writer on the New York Evening Post, where he was engaged for about one year, when he returned to Springfield and in partnership with his brother, c. J. Bellamy, started the Springfield Daily News.
 Meanwhile he ~'lblished "Six to One" "A Nantucket Idyl, ''Dr. Heidenhoff's Process" Miss Ludington's Sister" and other books. It was in 1888 that his famous book, Looking Backward was published. the sale. of which, up to the present time is over 450, 900 copies in America, and probably over half million copies have been sold in Eng land and other foreign countries. Looking Backward" has been trans lated into German, French, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Bulgarian and several other languages. It is stated that Elm peror William purchased 1000 copies of "Loking Backward" which he distrib- uted among the students and working classes of Germany. His reason for so doing, if this is really true, is apparent to those conversant with German pol itics.
 On the 30th day of December, 1891, Mir Bellamy, being convinced that it was his duty to supplement his efforts in Looking Backward by educating the people toward reforming govern ment, issued the first number of The New NatiDn,' a paper destined to be- come the most quoted and influential political or revolutionary journal in the world. An idea of it's influence may be judged from the fact that since The New Nation was started over $500 pa pers devoted to nationalism have been launched in the Tinted States, Canada and Mexico and thousands of papers, through the direct inspiration of The New Nation, have started departments devoted to political reform, which are conducted and edited from the writings of MT Bellamy in The New Nation and Looking Backward"
 He leaves a widow and two children, besides two brothers, Charles J. Bel lamy editor of the Springfield Daily News, and Frederick Bellamy of Brook lyn, N. Y. His funeral will take place at his home in Chicopee Falls. and by his special request will be of the sim plest possible character.