Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-19
DEATH OF R.-W GLIDER
Poet and Editor-in-Chief OF
Century Magazine.
KEPT FROM AGONY BY DRUG
Health Apparently Better When
Fatal Relapse Occurs.
HIS VERSE HIGHLY PRAISED
Interested Also in Politics and Civic
Movements-Saw Service
in War.
lis VERSE HIGHLY PRAISED

NEW YORK, November 1?.-Richard
Watson Glider, poet, lecturer and editor
in-chief of the Century Magazine. died
shortly before 6 o'clock last night in
the home of Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensse-
laer, No. West 10th street, where he
and Mrs. Glider had been staying since
last Monday.
The death. which was unexpected. was
due to angina pectoris. from Which he
! had been suffering internationally for
about two weeks.
Funeral services will be held in the
Church of the Ascension, at 10th street
and 9Th avenue. Burial will be at Bor-
dentown, n. j.
While delivering a lecture on Tennyson
before the Y. M. C.. A. in Orange. n. D.,
November IL, Mr.. Glider was seized with
the malady. He finished his lecture. bur
on the way home alone was overcome In
a ferryhouse in Jersey City.
A telephone message was sent to MS
home. at No. "a Gramercy Park. His son
Rodman and DIR. j. II. Hodgson went 10
Jersey City and brought Mr.. Glider TO
this city.
Next day he was better and he went
to his office. Last Monday, as repairs
were being made to the apartment house
in which he lived, he and Mrs. Glider
went to stay with Mrs. Van Rensselaer,.
Mr. Glider, though rather weak. was
fairly active Wednesday night, and took
dinner with the family.
Wife Did Not Fear Danger.
Yesterday morning he remained in bed.
Mrs Glider. believing her husband was
in no particular danger. left the house
Shortly before 1 o'clock Mr.. Glider had
r. H.
moned Immediately He called DR.. Jo-
seph Collins.
The poet was i'm great pain and it was
necessary to administer morphine. DR..
Thomas Janeway arrived "a few minutes
after Mr. Glider had died
Mrs. Glider had been reached. and she
and four Of the five Glider children-Rod-
man, George, Dorothea and Francesca
were present when Mr.. Glider died
The other daughter. Rosamond. was
operated upon recently for appendlciis
and is with friends. Worry over her III
ness. it is believed. had much TO DO with
her fathers condition.
Richard Watson Glider was born IN
Bordentown. n. j., in 1874, and was one
of eight children, several of whom have
been prominent in literary fields. His
father was a Methodist minister and
managed a private school. Young Gill
der learned to set type before he was
twelve At sixteen he and two other
young men puDilsneo Newspaper HI
Flushing.
Saw Service in War.
Enlisting i'm Lands Philadelphia Bat
terry at the opening of the civil war, the
young man saw military service. Next
he studied law, but that career was cut
short by the death Of his father
Thrown on his own resources he be-
came first a paymaster for a small Jer-
sey railroad and then the editor of the
Newark Morning Register. After that he
was connected with Hours at rome,
Scribner publication.
1t was combined eventually with Serb
ner Magazine and at twenty-six MT Gill
der held high editorial position under
Dr. Holland. Upon the death of the lat
ter there was a reorganization, in the
course of which Scribners changed
ownership. Soon after that Mr.. Glider
became associated with the Century. and
became its editor-in-chief In Lss1.
Published Six BookSo Verse.
Mr.. Glider was possibly best known as
a poet, having published six books of
verse. Several of his poems have been
praised highly by critics. His best known
volumes were 1.-The Celestial Passion"
Lyrics" 1.-Two Worlds 1.-The Great
Remembrance" "In Palestine Poems
and Inscriptions" "A Christmas Wreath
and "A Book of Music" His best known
poem probably was "A Sonnet on Son
net"
Mr.. Glider married Miss Helena de Kay.
Besides his widow and children he leaves
two sisters and two brothers-Miss jean
nette L. Glider, editor of the Critic: Mrs
Martina G. Pouron of Madrid. Robert F..
Glider of Omaha and Joseph 3. Glider of
this city.
Aside from his literary work Mr.. Glider
interested himself from time to time in
politics and I'm civic movements. He did
noteworthy work as chairman of the ten
ement house commission appointed by the
legislature in 1894, and was always at
the forefront of any fight for the better
ment Of the houses of the poor.