The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-07
WELL KNOWN MAN
 HAS PASSED AWAY Lucien Julien Walker Dies at
 St. Vlncent'S
WAS A BRILLIANT WRITER
One of the Most Widely Known News paper Men In Alabama-Seryed for Many Years as
 U. s. Consul.

Lucien Julien Walker died of heart failure at St. vincent's hospital at quarter to one o'clock this morning, after a short illness.
 Mir. Walker had been in poor health for several months past but his condi- ton did not become alarming until Tues day, when he was taken to the hospital Since Wednesday there seemed to be lit- tie or no chance for his recovering. He was unconscious from the time he was received at St. Vincent's until he passed away. On Thursday night the Rev. Fa- ther O'Reilly administered the last rites of the church to the dying man and last night the Rev. Frank Jacob. o. s. B.. was with him when he expired.
 Few men in Alabama were so widely known, personally or by reputation, as Lucien Julien Walker. He was a news paper writer of varied and brilliant att ta,nnlents and for years his short essays entitled The Murmur of the World" were read and discussed in every sec- tion of the state.
 Early Career.
 MT. Walker vas about 45 years of age. He was born in Lowndes county, but removed to Greenville, In Butler county, at an early age. and while yet a youth worked on the editorial staff of the Green Ville Advocate. Later he was associated with Governor w. D. Jelks on the Eu- fala Times, and from Eufala he removed to Birmingham, where he engaged in newspaper work
 U. 6. Consul.
 Early In the eighties MT. Walker secured a department clerkship in Washington, and in 1885 MT. Cleveland appointed him consul to Dunfermline, in Scotland He filled the office with high credit for nearly five years, and in 1893 MT. Cleveland sent him a consul to Cork. He remained there about year after MT. Cleveland retired frcm the presidency He felt great pride in his consular duties and his record was exceptionally good throughout his almost ten years of service.
 Resumes Newspaper Work.
 On retiring to private life MT Walker returned to Birmingham and resumed hi: newspaper work. He was on the staff oi the Age-Herald until he resigned about two years ago to accept the position oi private secretary to Congressman J. II Bankhead While he was with Colone Bankhead he also acted as Washington correspondent of the Montgomery Adver tiser. About six months ago he gave III his position as private secretary and be- gan to make arrangements for establish | ing a paper of his own in Birmingham He was progressing well with this enter | prise when he fell i'll early in the year As a Writer. | As a writer MT. Walkers style wa. marked by grace and singular power o expression. His English was of the pures and many of his 'Murmur of the World series in the Age-Herald were regarded as prose poems of the highest class while some of his essay work was caustic greater part was tender and poetic. The deceased had a multitude of friends In Birmingham and throughout the stat, who will lament his untimely end ant who will cherish his memory long ant fondly.
 He leaves one brother, N. B. Wake of this city.
 The arrangements for the funeral vii | be made today