The evening world., 1913-10-03
Toronto Friend, Who ldenti-
fled Body, Only Mourner
at Funeral To-Day.
MOTHER ILL IN CANADA.
Self-Slain Man Not Financial
", but Mentally and Spirit.
ually Down and Out.


Ons for his suicide at Manhattan Beach
Ssant iast Sunday. was buried this
osrnIng In Evergreen Cemetery. Brook.
~. =. J. Smith Of No. Ia Delaware
evsnus. Toronto. Cansda. viii be the
sas mourpsr present. Bakers mother.
NO lives at No. Church street. Moa.
ersal. SslnS too fss6ls to come.
Mr.. emitih VINO arrived in New York
Yesterday. ana u staying at the Grand
Onion Hotel made positive identinca-
Assn q tAs body at the Brooklyn morgus.
he hsld Aimssif TO the formalities Of the
Nv. and would not b led into any
discussioa Of Bakers life He described
Amsslf - . friend Of the Baker family.
SUICIDE WAS AN ARTHUR STIR.
LIMO IN REAL LIFE.
The diary which Baker sent to b.
Russell Hsrts. contributing editor Of the
International Magazine. the night before
his death. shows him to have been an
Arthur Stirring In real life. The parallel
In made striking by the fact that Baker
sent his diary to the editor Of the Inter.
national because Of an article II con-
talned on Upton Sinclair. who wrote
/ The Journal Of Arthur Stirling" and
>tn 1902 spun the fiction of "Stirling's''
suicide In order that he Nigh, find q
publisher.
Baker was In Havana, working ~ a
clerk for $22N . week. when he wrote
In his diary. under date Of June Is,
1912:
III my health permits. the necessity
OF making q living will cause me to
write for money to certain extent.
but with a bare living income think
Of the great desire. because look on
II AZ an art. not . business.
However, IL my health continues as
II Is. or gets worse. l will not sacrifice
what little life I have left on the altar
OF tho modern God-money. shall
write In blood the agony that has been
eating into my heart and brain. and give
Il TO the world II It will take II for
what IL Is worth.
Before doing 30. however. intend
90 see that ! do not. out OF self-pity,
fall INTO the error outlined In the De-
cenber. 1911. issue OF the International
Upton Sinclair's Delusion.'"
Walter Lppmann was the author o!
this article. and in It he said
SPIRITUALLY AND MENTALLY
DOWN AND OUT.
so great 10 his (Sinclairs) belief thai
ne 10 . poet haunted BY . Philistins
world that he has actually written q
book which pretends to be the diary Of
. poet driven to su.cide-'Ths Journal Of
Arthur Stirling 10 Mr.. Sinclair indulg
Ing In his favorite role. that Of thu
h young. luminous Shelley driven by pow
Orty and humiliation to suicide"
Three months after Appletons pub.
Iished The Journal Of Arthur Stirling
sinclair, In an article IN the Independ'
MY one dsalss was 70 raise . sensa'
don" he saA. "Urst 70 sell the book
OF course; second. 70 give me standing
ground from which to basin the asita'
ton Of my eause."
Nr. Asets coaosAsd . similarity b.
tween the oAsss Of arthur Stirling" and
Baker yesterday. but he added:
1T 10 only, however. the finding OF I
thing In real life that had been pictured
.n Action. have been deeply touched
BY this Baker tragedy. What . worl
could be done by some society organised
10 solve, ar help In solving. such prob
lsms % his. He was not down and on
Ansapialiy, for he was able to earn q
much - a2.6O . week. but sptrituall!
and mentally he was completely dow
and out
An hours sympathetic talk Nigh
have changed all that and saved mir
for Q life worth whila would be yla6
20 give time and money alike to such |
cause a. this II It might be got unde
way"