New-York tribune., 1909-11-19

RICHARD WATSON GLIDER
Who died last evening.
spirited citizen as we'll His most conspicU-
Gus service in that capacity and perhaps
most substantial achievement. vas as pres
idsnt Of the Tenement House Commission
OF 1924 That body under his leadership.
practically revoutionized the method OF
dealing with the problem. After eight
months OF investigation, bills based on the
result were presented 10 the Legislature
and made laws. They established the right
and duty OF the city 20 compel the destruc-
tion of incurably bad tenement houses. 20
cause the needed changes TO be made when
practicable. and % regulate the construc-
tiOn of tenement houses IN the future
Through the efforts OF Mr.. Gilders COM
mission also was obtained ruling from
Justice Peckham. Ot the court Of Appeals.
that the city had the right 10 enforce ade-
quate provisions IN the tenement houses.
Mulberry Bend Park and other local
breathing places likewise owed their ex-
istence in a great measure 10 this move
ment.
EARLY Er FORTS AS WRITER.
Mr. elders father W. n. Glider, also
writer, was by profession a Methodist
clergyman. stationed at Bordentown, y. J..
at the time of the sons birth in 1874 His
grandfather. John Glider was a substantial
citizen OF Philadelphia, member of the
Legislature and chairman Of the building
committee Of Girard College.
Richard was preparing TO be a lawyer,
when the outbreak Of the Civil War made
him soldier With the dawn Of peace he
became a railroad man, but soon dropped
that occupation TO follow his earliest bent
journalistic inclination had been displayed
at the age OF twelve years. Being one of a
family Of eight. in limited circumstances.
his education had been confined 70 a course
in the seminary founded by his father
soon after the boys birth. at Flushing.
Long Island. When only twelve years old
he began publishing The st. Thomas Reg
ister," for which he did all the work him
self including the typesetting Four years
later he took up with two partners the
publication OF a campaign paper. cham
pioning Bell and Everett for President and
Vice-President Of the United States
Then came his brief law course in Phila-
delpha. interrupted when he joined Ian
dIs's Philadelphia battery in the emergency
campaign OF 1853 10 check Lees march on
Gettysburg. He took up the law again the
next year when his fathers death threw
time he became a paymaster on the Cam
den & AmbOy Railroad
GOES INTO JOURNALISM
All this varied experience was making an
excellent training for the profession OF
journalism and I'm 1866 he took IL Up in
earnest as reporter and legislative corre-
spoudent OF The Newark N. - Adver-
tiser" OF which he later became managing
,a
paper Of his own. and soon. feeling that his
preliminary education was complete. with
Newton Crane, later consul at Manchester
England he started The Newark Morning
Register a daily paper In addition he
took up the editOrship OF Hours AZ Home"
. New York monthly. and worked nearly
twenty hours a day IN, an attempt % put
his own paper on its feet. Every member
OF the family, including his sister. Jean
nette L. Glider editor Of The Critic
wrote for the new Journal but il lost
money So fast that tho young men we're
Obliged 10 sell out.
In the mean time Hours at Home was
bought by the Scribners. and absorbed by
the new ''Scrioner's Monthly" later The
Century" with Or. J. E. Holland as It's
editor The latter made Mr.. Glider his
managing editor That was in 1870. In
1881 "Scribners Monthly" became The
Century" and Mr.. Glider succeeded Dr.
Holland as its editor
Not long after that Mr. Glider brought
out serially "Naulahka. the collaboration
of Rudysrd Kipling and Walcott BalestieT.
lie saw promise In both those authors. then
comparatively unknown. and was instru-
mental IN introducing much of Kipung's
work to- the American public.
lie vas an intimate friend Of Grover
tleveIaud Their acquaintance began when
Mr. Cleveland was President II was said
that the President chose Buzzsrd's Bay for
tine size Of his summer home on account
u the pleasant visits he enjoyed al Mr..
elders home near there
IIs PUBLISHED WORKS.
Mr.. Glider had published six books az
his own verse, among which are sonnets
and lyrics which have found place IN
American anthology AM have received
high rating among critics. OF them the
late Edmund Clarence Stednan once said.
Each a cluster of fawless poems. His
aim Is choice and high. as should be that
OF one who decides ON the claims OF
Others" Among his works are The CeIes-
tiaI Passion Lyrics. Two Worlds -
.--he Great Remembrance. I'm Psles-
tine" Poems and Inscriptions" A Christ
mas Wreath" and a Book OF Music"
Mr.. Glider married In ls74 Helena. daugh-
ter of Commodore George de Kay.
Mr.. Glider was president of the Public
Art League OF the United states. member
ot the Council OF the National civil Service
Reform League of the National Institute
OF Arts and Letters. the Authors club and
the society of American Artists.
Fanizer ~ the International Copyright
League. first president of the New York
Kindergarten Association. and yice-presi-
Gent aud acting president of the city club.
tie held honorary degrees from Harvard.
Yale Princeton. Wesleyan and Dickinson
one critic said ui ~ Glider
Nj Glider has been so long shc poet 1f
ratriotic occasion aud OF humanitarian
causes, ne Is 20 familiar 20 the public eye