The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-26
BY BURTON T. BEACH.

BY BURTON T. BEACH.
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r DGAR ALLAN TOES principal homes and
haunts In New York city of which
well within the unbrokcu knowledge of per
l. sons now living in Fordham have a new in
terest In the light Of the bcated confession of
his countrymcn that he is entitled to of the
proudest pedestaS In the American HILL OF Fame
None of his three white stones Of exIstcnce-birth
marriage and death'-waS quarricd craven in the
region that echoed and rc-echoed with the foot
falls of Governor Peter Suyvesaut 1t was In Bos
ton, January 10 1909 that he first the light
that to go for his material nature October
T. 1S40 in the hospital Baltimore. 1t In Rich
mond that he welded, in 1880, Virginia GLENN. only
daughter of his fathers sister child frail she
fair. and fair chat her face would have de6cd
the genius OF n Cnnova. they say to initiate,
He lived Mt time another In West Point
Philadelphia London and also Paris and st Peters
burg according 10 his version of his travels during
the Poe legendary years, when he trying to lose
track Of himself in Quixotc adventure; and thus it
out since glory Is his Mt last no less than great
ness. that cities claim a share in his renown
than the which claimed Homer dead through
which the living Homer begged his bread The claim
of New York is the best
Whether he appeared in New York In 1891 the date
of the New York publication of Poems" the second
appeal he made no public favor as author. Is an
open question, though a plausible argument can be
offered In support OF the theory that he did Nowhere
however is there any clew to his movements socially
to his habltation.
But in January 1891 he arrived In New York from
Philadelphia to arrange for the publication Of The
Narrative OF Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket" the
opening cbapter of which had been printed in the
Southern Literary Messenger, He completed the
No II clry
ber he put 1t, recalling the fact that nt the Uni
yersty OF Virginia he bad No. 13, West Range In the
dormltory Harper brought out the tale In 1888, The
Carmne street house was the west Side just above
Narlck.
SIX years elapsed He had published The Murders
In the Rue Alorgue" which had been served liz the
leading French literary periodicals. and his reputation
expanding. In March, 1914, accompanied by Nlr-
ginn ho reached New York from Philadelphia, travel
ling by rail Amboy and thence by boaG. In letter
to Mrs GLENN describing his first boarding place he
said:-
ut Is on Greenwich street just before YOU get TO
Cedar the west side going up the left hand side,
having brown stone steps and porch with brown
plllars with qhe Morrison the door and the
house IS old and looks buggy"
Next day however. he wrote that they had veal
outlet elegant and eggs and nice bread and but
ter for breakfast Many persons remember the
shabby structure in the shadows of which he
posed 'Dreamlaud" and pcrpctrated the newspaper
hoax In the Sun Of April Is, 1914, regarding west
ward passage OF the Atlantic by the diriglbc alrshp
Victoria in seventy FIVE hours from land 10 land, BY
such effective eccentric. methods he sIgnollzed his
return TO the metropolis
His first regular duties In New York journalism
performed rs special art and literature
for the Evening Mirror conducted by n Z. Wills
and George Morris. at Ann and Nassau streets
he oil for SIX m his he
January 1915, to GO with the Broadway Journal. pub
lshed on the site now covered by Temple Court, In
Beekman street The publication lasted about
year and Poe meanwhile obtained control Of IL
During his struggle TO make success of a journal
that Ike logo. nothing If not critical, Poe
shifted his residence repeatedly. In January Richard
Henry Stoddard, who sought an interview concerning
the non-nppearonce OF Poe's "Odc a Grecian Flute
found the poet the third floor of No. l9J East
Broadway. where stands the spacious building Of the
Educational Alliance Stoddard saw Virginia lying
on A bed. She flushed with the hectic OF CON
sumption and gaspLg. Poe seemed TO be suffering
sXcuciatlDg torture"
The Raven"
In East Broadway he was living on January 90,
1915. the memorable day the publication OF 'Thc
Raven" In the Evening Mirror from advance sheets
pf the American Wing Review. with an Introduction
oy Wills, who said
"Gn opinion II Is tho effective single exam
pie Of fugitive verse published In this country
and unsurpassed in English poetry FOR subtle conccp
on mnsterly ingenuity OF yers6catlon and consistent
sustaining of imaginative Tilt"
There wos brief residence In Sixth avenue, near