Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-25
PHILLIPS EXPIRES
FROM EFFECTS OF
BULLET WOUNDS
Author, Victim of Assassin,
Makes Courageous but Losing
Fight with Death.
SENATOR BEVERIDGE IN
CHARGE OF FUNERAL PLANS
Services Will Be Held in the
Little Church Around
the Corner"

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-The body Of
David Graham Phillips, the slain
novelist, probably will be laid to rest
in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Be.
yond this no announcement was forth>
coming during this forenoon from the
little group of the lead writer's friends
and relatives entrusted with the mis-
sion of arranging his funeral.
Mrs Caroline Frevert, who stood at
her brothers bedside as he breathed
his last, shortly before midnight, and
Senator Albert j. Beverage, Phillips
close friend, visited the cemetery this
morning with the intention of selecting
the spot for the grave. The body was
taken from Bellevue Hospital to an
undertaker's establishment on Fourth
avenue and will be transferred later TO
the National Arts Club, the writer's
former home.
Funeral TO He Privatef
George Horace Lorimer, editor of the
Saturday Evening Post, and Samuel G..
Blythe, associates of Phillips during his
lifetime, are assisting Senator Bever-
idge in arranging for the funeral The
time and place of holding services was
expected to be announced this after
noon. From what could be learned Of
the ideas of the dead writer's friends
and relatives on the matter it seemed
probable that a private funeral would
be decided upon and that the first idea
of holding public church services might
be abandoned.
Friends Hear of Death.
Mr.. P%hillips's death came so late in
the night that many of his colleagues
in literature and business did not hear
of 1t until this morning. AS the news
reached them their personal regret was
increased by their feeling, expressed
almost unanimously in the brief state
ments which they rave out, that he had
been killed at the beginning of a career
that meant much for American letters.
They dWelt particularly on the promise
that he had shown and h certainty
that he was likely to give expression
more and more to the ideals of the men
among whom he lived.
Career just Opening.
Robert w. Chambers, who had been
perhaps his closest associate in New
York city, said: He was one of the
best of men. He was high-minded and
true, one of the finest of American writ
ers. His best work seemed yet to come
he was just finding himself and had
struck a vein that promised richly for
the future"
Miss Hildegard Hawthorne. speaking
of her personal acquaintance with MT.
Phillips, said: 1.-THE desire to work out
the ideas of his country and his age
WAS always uppermost in his ambition,
and he was growing SO rapidly toward
his ideal in this direction that his
friends had already allotted him a lofty
place in letters. We believed him des-
tined to lasting fame, as the exponent
of American life and the problems that
beset it,"
G%oldsborough's uncle, r. H.. Powers
Farr, of this city, said today:
"Fitzhugh had all the eccentricities
of genius. The entire family is musical,
and the development of music seemed
to have been strongest in the boy. He
was far from being practical.
Brooded Over Treatment of Characters.
He was most courtley in his ideas
about women, and we are of the opinion
that he became incensed with Mr.. Phil
lips because of his treatment of some
of his women characters in his Looks.
We think he .brooded over this until
iO D1boAA W .AVpNN aPoh NhAs = ~ iAH' "R
an enemy and decided to Kill him. We
can explain his mad action II no ether
way"
Phillips died game, sustained by his
splendid will Jow er TO the list. lie
knew that the cpd yas near, yet buoyed
his courage with the ~oft-repodted dec
lsration that he would not die. AS the
INA moment APPROACHED. however. no
realized that lean was at Eani.
IT could tlglt t.vo wounds. but not
six. 1 fear that the odds d-s ITO .reat
against me- were his last wcids, wis
pered TO DR.. Eugene Fuller.
Murdercr's Body Borne Home.
It was a curious coincidence that
while Mr.. Phillips was breathing his
last in his hospital room, a silent pro-
session from n nearby undertaker's