Arizona republican., 1914-06-25
CLAIMS
 .WM.bUCK|NGHAM
He Had Been Known, Ad- mired and Loved by Hun dreds of Arizonians for More Than a Score of Years

Many citizens of Phoenix and
 hundreds throughout Arizona and
 Southern California have learned
 with deep regret of the death of
 William Buckingham, for twenty
 years the representative of Fair
 banks, Morse & Co. in the southwest
 and in Sonora. The death of MT.
 Buckingham of heart failure occurred
 at Clifton at the home of General
 Manager Norman Carmichael, of the
 Arizona Copper company.
 He was a native of Ohio. born at
 Gambler, the seat of Kenyon college
 an institution of the Episcopal
 church, of which his father was a
 minister
 M., Buckingham was man of
 fine education. Few men out of pub
 lie life were so familiar with the
 life he was an earnest student in a
 wide and varied field. The persis-
 tence with which he followed a sub
 ject was illustrated in his study of
 Spanish, of which he acquired
 critical knowledge.
 In the course of his study he en-
 countered the eccentricities of the
 Spanish subjunctive. He was not
 satisfied with the treatment of it by
 the standard grammars of that lan-
 guage, and when he talked with edu-
 cated Spaniards on the subject he learned that they had taken it for
 granted and know no more of it than he did. A correspondence with the minister of Chile and the am bassador of Mexico to the United States, though prolonged, served to About that time Mir Buckingham learned through a reporter for The Republican that the unfortunate Marathon NJ. Ramsey was in the city. Ramsey at that time was in the depths. He was a drug fiend of the | most hopeless type. He had been l lately arrested frequently for the theft of bicycle lamps. anything which he could sell to buy more opium. He was at length recognized by Sheriff Carl Hayden, who had known him as assistant professor Of spanish at Stanford university. He had been educated at the Academia Ge Sevilla, Spain. and the Cole gio Gregoriano. Rome He had been | professor of the Romance langua ges at Columbian. was a membe.r of the American Pathological association and the Modern Language Association of lrN1n nrin uern Spanish language was believed by many authorities to be the best | that had then been written. His ele mentary Spanish reader: his Prog ressive Exercises in Spanish Prose Composition; To Esencal del Len guaJe Castellano, and his larger spanish grammar, issued ten yea.'s ago, were in worldwide use He was a contributor to Johnson's Uni l versal Encyclopedia of articles on Spanish and Spanish American lit erature.
 At the request of MT Bucking- nam. Ramsey was found by the po- nee, in a low dive in the southern part of the city. and of all the habitues of the place. no other looked so dis:eputable as he He was taken tc the room of Mir Buckingham at , the Hotel Adams. In an hour he had solved the mystery of the Span ish subjunctive. When he had pro- ceeded well on the way. his rags dirt and squalor were forgotten. It was no longer observable that he had not shaved tor week. His slouch had disappeared His shoul- ders were thrown back. He was again maste.
 Mir. Buckingham paid lberallv for 1 that hours instruction-more than Ramsey ever had earned for the 1 same period at Stanford. Johns Hop kns or Columbian. and more than 1 he had received as chief translator for the International American Con | ference. Mir. Buckingham would l have been glad 10 believe that the
 fee would not be spent for opium or | cocaine
 Mir. Buckingham's home was in l Los Angeles though the greater part of his time was spent in Arizona
 He was a man of singularly fine l presence large of body, but his heart | fit it.