The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-24
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~ LIN EILEEN, California, NO
vSfhher 2S4tack London, au-
- thor, kra1eler and lecturer, died
suddenly At his ranch home NEAR here
last night st q quarter to eight d"
Yesterday morning when his ser.
want went u can him 1t SIX O'Clock,
which HasF Ecndon's regular hour for
beginning his days work, he found the
author In his bed unconscious. Efforts
10 fghse him failed and medical help
was immediately summoned. The two
IDEAL d0ct6fS d5lied IN pronounced the
condition Of the young author serious
and a sspeciaiiSt was telsgraphed for
from San Francisco 81 49,.
During tins day, With the three ply
sicians working over him, London's
condition improved, but at no time did
he regain cohsciousness nor recognize
those about him In the evening he
had q relapse and death came shortly
before eight. The direct cause Of death
was Diagnosed as uremia. 4" r." III. ,
Mrs. london, hts sister, Mrs. Eliza
shepard, who Ii the manager Of the
ranch and his eldest daughter, Joan,
were with him when he died.
In Flower Manhood g. -
rsJaek London was forty years old last
January, a native of San Francisco.
His life. was an adventurous one; from
the days of his early boyhood. BY the
time he was eighteen he had known
life as a newsboy, us a longshoreman, a
bay fisherman, an oyster pirate :" and
a seaief. Then, putting aside adven,
I, tire FOR while, he became student
Of sociology ana economies, putting
himself through the, Oakland high
school and entering the University of
California. - ''"''''|
! The lure Of the North drew him
from his university course, however,
and he left his desk to join in the rush
to the Klondike. There, mushing' over
the Chilkoot, Joining In the stampedes
to the creeks and living with the rough
miners Of the placer towns he gathered
the material which he wove into his
earliest best known books, the short
stories and books Of adventure that
started him on the way to literary sue.
cess. IntlS99, be published "The Man
on the Trail,''' following this with other
Arctic tales, which were gathered to-
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/, Of the. North, ~ This volume made q
name for the young genius who only a
few years before had been arrested for
preaching undildted Socialism on the
streets of oakland @''2 F>'|ts I.
At the. outbreak of the Russo. J apa'
nese war, EondoI was sent 70 the Orient
as a war correspondent, sbeing one Of
the few to escape the Japanese vigi'
lance at Toxic and make his way to
some where near the front. For leaving
Toxic without official permission, Lon.
fpfi was withdraM n' from Japan on the
request of the japanese government.
4 HI" jolrneyed through Canada and the
Eastern States, much of the time liy.
ing as tramp with other tramps,, &c.
qquiriAg firsthand knowledge of the
| life fof the human failures, broaden.
| ing this experienced by q trip TO London
where, he likewise lived Id the under,
world. The London experiences NE in
Guided in one of his works, 80 Children
OF the Abyss. I" His tramping adven
lures have appeared in many of biz
shorter stories.stg ~ '"a' "f'F.,
Between 1900 and the present he
wrote and published more than forty
volumes, his works having been trans
lated into q score Of languages. Lon
don was as wen known in Russia as in
Ameriea, while, during the past five OF
six years ne has been looked upon in
England as one Of the world 8 greatest
authors The praise that has been
showered upon him by the, British eri
mes was regarded by London as his
greatest triumph. ,lf@ ~ e.. o.. .' D.
Author Twice Married
In 1900, Jack London was married
! to Miss Bessie Maddern Of Oakland, a
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