The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-11-29
R. ". GILDER,POET
And EDITOR.
Brilliant Career Of a Leader IN
the World Of Letters.
TPEsETTER EARLY N N LIFE.

oecafne ru1iianer 1eFore re was
Twelve Years old-NevsI Experisnes
With an Unkne~n contributor-f5is
Work as Refornsr.
Richard Watson Glider. poet. leetur-
er and editor 10 chief Of the Century
Magazine. who recently died at the
home Of a friend in New York city,
vas born IN B0rtientown. y. J.. on Feb.
.. 1S44 For more than quarter Of
century he was regarded as an au-
th0rify on liternfure
Mr Glider came Of colonial stock and
Inherited scholarly bent. His father.
fhe Rev. William H. Glider Of the
Methodist dissemination. was the
founder Of Bellevue seminary, Borden
town, n J.
Richard browsed about as a boy in
the printing office Of the Long Island
Times in Flushing While be still wore
short trousers he could bold his own
as setter Of type. Perched on an
old soap box. he was wont to set his
own compositions in type and print
them He showed a precoclous lean
ing toward letters in his early youth
and before be was twelve years old
was writing, setting type for and pub
lishing the St Thomas Register at
Flushing. ~ T.. whittier his father had
gone to establish ST. Thomas Hall, an
academy for boys.
n the Artislzvsry Cause.
His education was completed under
his fathers tuition, and when he was
sixteen he was following national is
sues. His ardor for the antisIavery
cause led him at this period to unite
with two young colleagues IN the pro
duction Of newspaper in the support
Of Bell and Everett for presidential
h0nors.
He was always somewhat frail, but
when the civil war broke out be was
anxious to fight. and at the time when
the northern cause seemed threatened.
in the campaign Of 1863, he enlisted in
Lands Philadelphia battery. serving
until Lee was beaten back from Penn
syIvania
Mr. elders first serious editorial
venture on his own responsibility was
the establishment in 1868 Of the New
ark a. j. Morning Register. a daily,
which he founded and edited with
Murray Crane. The Register was not
financial success, and he gave up his
connection with 1t I'm a short time
His literary ability had already re
ceived wide recognition in New York,
which then represented the best
thought Of the country, and at the age
Of twenty-six he was offered the edi-
torship Of Hours at Home. published
by the Scribners When this pubIica-
tion was absorbed in Scribner's Month
~, organized shortly thereafter, he be-
came associate editor under DR.. HoI-
land, retaining that post for eleven
years. When at Dr. Hollands death
the magazine underwent further re
organization and change of ownership.
becoming the Century. Mr.. Glider FOL
lowed it as managing editor. He held
this post from 1881 until his death
During all the period of his editorial
work Mr.. Glider was writing from
time to time verse, which was the ba-
sis Of his widest public appreciation.
His first book Of verse, '.The New
Day" was published in 1885. and
among these and the six volumes
which have followed are included son
nets and lyrics which have found a
setting in the American anthology and
have been rated by critics as sure TO
pass into the heritage Of the language.
Novel Experisnce With Contributor.
Magazine editors are often charged,
perhaps sometimes justly, with show
ing partiality in their acceptance OF
manuscripts. but far more often the
case is the reverse, and manuscripts \
are accepted purely on their merits
without the editor knowing or realiz- I
ing who the author may be. The fol-
lowing experience Of Mr.. Glider while I
editor Of the Century is a case in
point: He was sitting at dinner next 1
to a charming young girl whom he
knew slightly as clever young wo-
man with somewhat decided ideas,
which she spent great deal Of energy
in carrying out
What are you doing now?" he ask
ed interestedly Of his bright neighbor.
Nothing, really nothing in particular
just now" was the reply. except, per-
haps. some verses have been writ
ing"
"Oh. my dear child. don't do thatr'
cried the editor In tone Of horriied
regret. why, do you know, you are
really wasting your time People can't
get 25 cents for 5000 verses today"
Cant theyy7 with sad surprise. Il
can, though" she continued. for re-
ceived $25 for some wrote last
month";
MY goodnesssv exclaimed Mr. CHI
der 10 mild amazement who paid
YOU that
Why. you didr' cried the girl
Mr.. Glider was far from being
recluse. In him the cooperative spirit
was highly developed. He took an ac-
tive interest 10 civic life and performed
valuable services to New York city as
q member of fhe tenement house com
a.. n ~