Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-31
RICHES At HAND, NOTED
JOURNALIST DIES HUNGRY
Edward R. QuarIeS Meets Death
Alone and Destitute as
Result of Injury

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, May 3O.-Th,
sunset of his life clouded to hlacllnes.
by the pangs of hunger and destitut,
OF all things save undaunted courage
Edward r. Quarles, a talented news
| paper man of the old school, knoWr
| throughout the United States. died II
| this city yesterday as the result of in.
Jurles received through falling from E
| moving street car
Yet, as his final go" came to him
there was, nearly within his grasp. q
| fortune-a gold mine-for which he
could have received $4,000. Perhaps
IN the three long, wearisome days
through which he passed before the
end came he computed that vast
wealth in savOry dishes that would
have eased the suffering and better
prepared him to die. Perhaps he did
not think much about it. But anyway
he told the doctor just before he
closed his eyes that he was hungry
that he had not eaten a morsel for
three days. This chapter of his life
his friends were not permitted to read
as he wrote it, he forced them to wait
until 1t was finished. Then it was too
late.
b A few days before his death he was
granted by the Mexican government
title to a gold mine for which he
had a standing offer of 5000. The
reward for remarkable literary life
spent to good advantage, though not
particularly remunerative, stretched
out to his finger tips and receded
whence it came. The grant on his
death reverted to the Mexican gov
ernment
Mr. Quarles was born in Minden, Pa.
in 1854, and gained his first newspaper
experience in this city, a little from
tier town without railroad connection
Later he worked for the New York
Sun under Charles 4. Dana, the Gin
cinnati Enquirer the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. several Washington, y. c.,
papers and the Nashville, Tenn, Amer
lean. With the latter publication he
was connected for fifteen years in var
iOus capacities.
For a short time he was in the en-
plOy of the federal government. SerV-
ing on various commissions. 1t was
principally due to his efforts that the
Mississippi river commissions adopted
the plan of mattressing the banks of
that river with a view to regulating
its current and bed. Later Mr.. Quarles
held a position in the war department.
but resigned for tho reason that he
did not get work enough for the sal
ary he was drawing. In recent years
he found the struggle for existence a
hard one, principally because he re-
fused to attune himself to the change
which had taken place in journalism.
He would neither write sensational nor
commonplace news.
Mr.. Quarles was versatile and ac-
Travelling for many years
in the Latin Americas he acquired a
knowledge of Spanish and
was generally considered an authority
on all things Mexican. He was we'll
versed in the history and lore of the
Aztecs About three months ago Mr..
Quarles discovered near Mascota. state
Of Jalisco. Mexico, a rock inscription
the characters of which differ totally
from those employed by the Aztecs. A
series of human interest stories en-
titled 1.-THE Casual Casuist' made his
work familiar in many parts of the
United States and abroad, it being
claimed that in their humor and pathos
they equaled the best work of Mark
Twain.