The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08
DEATH OF |. J. WALKER
WE'LL KNOWN ALABAMA NEWS
 PAPER MAN EXPIRES.
Served Two Terms Abroad as Con sul for the United States Under Appointments By Presi-
 dent Cleveland.

Birmingham. May T.-(Special)- Hon. Lucien Julien Walker one of the best known newspaper men of Ala bama- died this morning at o'clock at a hospital. The health of MT. Walker had been on the decline for several years and on more than one occasion during the past few months he has been very i'll. For several weeks his condition had been serious and he recently entered the hospital for treat ment He was given every possible attention, but he grew steadily worse and Wednesday he lapsed into un- consciousness, Last night early his condition became very alarming and the end came shortly after the mid night hour.
 During the last hours of life Mir. Walker was attended by Rev. Frank Jacob, o. s. B., and by Rev. P A. O'Riley, the last rites of the Catholic Church being administrated by the latter.
 The remains are being held at the hospital pending arrangements for the funeral, which are now in progress.
 A meeting of the Birmingham Press Club was called by President B. c. Bull ger for 33o o'clock this afternoon in the Commercial Club rooms for the purpose of taking action upon the death of Mir. Walker. who was val ued and highly esteemed member of the organization.
 Hon. Lucien Julien Walker was a na- tive of Lowndes county. Ala,
 His first newspaper work was done on The Greenville Advocate. In the early sos he went to The Selma Times which at that period was one of the important dailies of Alabama. MT. Walkers next newspaper employment was on The Eufaula Times, where he was associated with Governor w. D. Jelks. Froh Eufaula. he went to Washington as the private secretary of Congressman W. C. Oates. and be- gan writing letters to The Montgom- cry Advertiser, his work attracting wide attention and bringing him into the notice of the people of Alabama MT. Walker returned to Alabama and took up local work on The Advertiser In 1885, he was appointed consul to Dunfermline. Scotland, by President Cleveland few months after the in auguration of the latter. He served for four years. returning to the Unit ed States in 1889. when he accepted position with The Birmingham Age Herald. first as a special writer and afterwards as city editor. On the retirement from that paper of Chap pell Cory, who had filled the position of managing editor Mir Walker was made managing editor and held this position in 1893. when Mir Cleveland again sent him abroad as a United States consul. this time to the impor- tant post of Queenstown and Cork, Ireland. He remained in this position for four years. retiring when President Mckinley came into office.
 Upon returning to America this time MT. Walker again took up newspaper work in this city. He was engaged as a special writer on The Age Herald and later went to Washington as the Wash ington correspondent of that paper Two years ago he again became Wash tngton correspondent of The Mont gomery Advertiser and also filled the position of private secretary to Con gressman J. H. Bankhead. of the Sixth district.
 MT Walker returned to Birmingham after the adjournment of the Congress in March. 1903. and has been in this city the greater part of the time since then. Early last year he contributed an article to The Birmingham News on the Maybrick case. and his personal recollections of the famous trial, which attracted wide attention. At the time of his death he was preparing to issue a weekly paper, The Murmur of the World"
 MT. Walker was one of the best known newspaper writers in Alabama, and no man in the State had a wider acquaintance among public men. As a writer his style was peculiarly his own-fowery and pleasing. In the days of his greatest newspaper activ- ity his many special productions at tracted much notice. Personally Mir. Walker was a man of most pleasing address. He possessed a gentle. op- timistic nature and jovial tempera- ment. which made friends for him wherever he went. Having travelled widely and having had a varied expe- rience, these things with his own per- sonal qualities combined to make him a most interesting and attractive com panion. He held no malice against any man and it is doubtful if any felt other than kindly towards him. As a speaker Mir. Walker displayed the same easy grace which characterized his writings As friend he was constant and loyal. standing ever ready to serve his friends no matter how great might be the effort required
 few years ago he connected him. self with the Catholic Church and was