The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-19

The funeral of Richard Watson Gill
der, poet, lecturer and editor-in-chief
of the Century Magazine, who died last
night after an illness of two weeks.
will be held in the Church of the AS
c~ension, Tenth street and Fifth ave-
nue., New York. The burial will be in
Bordentown, Mr.. elders birthplace.
Messages of coincidence from men
prominent in public life and In the lit
erary world were received today in
large number by the family. Definite
announcement of the funeral
would be deferred until late this after
noon.
Mr. Glider was at one time a meiYl-
Der of the literary colony which in the
late sixties and early seventies was a
feature of Newark social lire. He was
born in BoTdentown, in this State, in
1874, and at the death OF his father, a
Methodist minister, vas thrown upoa
his own resources at the age of Is.
After casting about for employment he
secured a position as a sort of as
sistant paymaster on the old Camden
and Ainboy railroad, and while work.
ing there began his literary work. :
He was no., at that time, connected
with a ape or periodical. His work
consisted of sending items to various
papers throughout the State. A friend
of his, who saw hat he mad ability in
the work of writing, spoke. to Thomas
T. Kinney, then owner of the Newark
Daily Advertiser. and in 1868 Glider was
given a minor position on the staff of
the paper.
Not long after he commenced to write
for a living his tastes began to turn
towards poetry. He did more or Less
work in this line for several years,
during which time his family came to
live in Newark. Before they had been
here long Mr.. elders sister, Jeanette
Glider, afterwards editor Of The Critic,
also came to the Advertiser as a re-
porter.
During his residence in Newark Mr..
Glider was constantly interested in diff
ferent writer's in New Jersey. Mrs.
Mary Mapes Dodge was then living in
what is now the Weequahic Park Sec
ton of the city, and a strong friend
ship sprang up between the two, which
afterwards served Mr.. Glider well.
b. G. Stedman was another of the
literary persons who lived in Newark
and with whom MI. Glider formed q
close acquaintance.
At the end of five years Mr.. Glider
felt that his training on the Advertiser
had qualified him to run a paper
Of his own. He preached the subject
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two started the Newark Morning Reg
ister. The venture was not "a success,
however, and after a year the paper
went out Of existence.
1t was then hat Mrs. Dodge came
to his aid. She was editing a maya
zine herself, and through her influence
Glider was given a position on the
Hours at Home, a New York .periodi-
cal. Later, when through consolidation
the magazine went out of existence, he
went as an associate editor of Scrib-
ner $ Magazine, which resulted from the
r orger, and Mrs. Dodge became editor
of st. Nicholas. A few years later the
present Century Magazine was formed,
with DR.. J.. G, Holland as editor-in-
chief, and Glider as associate editor.
At DIR. Hollands death Glider took his
place.
1t was while doing editorial work for
~Scribner's that he met Miss Helena De
Kay, at that time an art student, who
afterwards became his wife. He Is sur
yived by her and their five children,
Rodman, Dorothea, George, Francesca
and Rosamond.
Others of Mr.. elders family were
nearly as we'll known as he. Besides
his sister, Jeanette, his brother, Joseph
L.. Glider, became prominent in liter
airy circles. Another brother, William
II. Glider. did some polar exploration
and made at one time a famous trip
across Siberia. Miss Jeanette Glider,
Mrs. Martina a.. Pouron, Of Omaha, an
other sister, and robert r. and Joseph
Glider, also survive him.
Mr.. Glider was taken Ill while de-
livering a lecture at the Orange Y. M.
c. A. on the life of his old friend, the
late President Grover Cleveland. His
malady was pronounced angina pee
toris. He was overcome in the ferry
house on his way home, but next day
was able to- go to his Office. Last
Monday, as repairs were being made
ON his house at "a Gramercy Park, he
and Mrs. Glider went'to stay with Mrs
Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, at 8 West
Tenth street. JIe. vas AIKEN with a
violent seizure and died shortly after
ward
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