The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-08
KILDARE, WRITER,
 DEAD OF PARESIS
''The Kipling of the Bow cry" Passes Away at the State Hospital, Wards
 Island.

Island.
 The body of Owen Kildare, once a Bowery bartender and later a self-ed- ucated author whom critics called mated Monday afternoon at Fresh Pond. L. I. There were present a little group of friends of the former writer, chief among them Mrs. Chas. S. Adams, who was his wife before she married when he was a patient in the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards Island.
 Kildare died in the hospital on Sat urday night of paresis. He had ap- parently been in his usual condition all day. Shortly before 10:30 a nurse heard a groan from his room and hurrying in, found him in convulsions. He died in two or three minutes after the first seizure.
 Kildare had been at the Manhat- tan State Hospital since December, 190S,. previous to which time he had been in Bellevue and the Blooming dale Asylum for a short period. His collapse was sudden, and. was ascrib- ed to various causes, among them the failure of his play, 'The Regenera- tion," which was written from the book which told his life story, My Mamie Rose" He was born in 1864 on the top floor of a typical east side tenement, in New York, and his pa rents were poor.
 Late last year his wife, known be- fore their marriage to magazine read CTS as Leita Russell. but whose full name was Leita Russell Bogartus, went to the town in Massachusetts where they had been married and ob- ta1ned an annulment. She then mar ried Lieut.. Commander Charles S. Adams. U. S. N., retired. Mrs. Adams h rnrair afrafv I, II, ic interest in the author and visited him many times at the State Hospital, som metimes taking with her their baby girl. She gave orders that she was to be calIeld whenever his condition became worse or he expressed a wish to see her, or their child.
 Mrs. Adams was at the hospital the day before Kildare died. As usual, they took a long walk along the paths about the hospital. He went as far as the ferry, with her when she left and bid her goodbye.
 Kildare took an interest in many of the patients. To some who were without family or friends to visit them, he was the only source Of cheer. He often spoke of writing stories while he was on Wards Island, and would start for his room, as if seized per. He did write sometimes in a desultory fashion, the doctors say, but the work was confused and fragmen- tary.
 Few men have had stranger lives. He once said: eff a life may be measured by progress, mine may have some interest for you. When a man at 30 cannot read the simplest sen tence and eight years later is able to earn his living by his pen, his story may be worth the telling
 A bare list of his occupations throws some light on his remarkable careeer. At the age of z he began as a newsboy in the gang led by the late Little Tim" Sullivan. Then the scale of his progress runs as follows. ty Flynn, bartender in Steve Bro- dies resort, manager of sporting ven lures. dock laborer and freight hand Ter, social betterment worker in his own district, At this period he came under the influence, as he said, l owe my regeneration" This was a school teacher named Marie Rose Deering, whom he saved from insult at the hands of a gang of Bowery toughs one day when she was pass ing through the streets. She start sented to marry him in 1900. A week before the ceremony was to have taken place she died. Her death crazed him, and when he recovered rom an Illness ne was disposed to re- join the army of the park benches
 One day he saw an offer in a news paper of . prize for the best love story. He wrote his own on sheets of brown wrapping paper and saw his name in print for the first time. In preparing the storp he consulted Miss Bogartus. Their acquaintance was brief, for in short time they were married. Then he came out as an author. He wrote for many maga- zines and published four books, My Mamie Rose" ..The Good of the Wicked" The Wisdom of the Sim ple," and My Old Bailiwick"
 Kildare served in the Brazilian Rev olution as Captain of Marines and as Sergeant of the Legion des Etran- geres in Venezuela against President Castro was captured and sentenced to be hanged. He cheated his would-be executioners, however, by escaping. He took great interest in the News boys National Association and was trustee and Director of it, besides be- ing a member of many movements for social betterment in the Bowery.