Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1921-03-29
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/ "A, Associated Preas'
NEW YORK, March 2s.-John
pnrronehs, famous naturalist, died
:, o'clock this morning on a New
yort Central train at kingsville.
obo according to word received
hare by New York Central officials.
ia was returning east after spend
mo the winter in Pasadena, Cali
hrna where he wss reported to
have been slightly i'll with Affections
Incident to old age.
rohn Burroughs was the venerable
aaap Of nature-writers in the United
states Through a score of books
no shared with countless readers
bs life long intimacy with birds,
hoes flowers and the whole out of
doors. His highly developed powers
II observation and the charm of his
interpretations were the marvel of
bis critics.
He learned to love nature when
10 drove cows at his borthplace
t-m, Roxbury, among the Catskills,
n New York state, but anything like
. literary composition was a bug
bear to him as a youth The story
told of how when he was IA, in
0mmon with the members of his
fass at school, he was required to
sdte u lines of original compost
ion. He copied something out of a
nnic almanac. His theft was de-
eeted, Again in desperation upon
ls second trial he paid Jay Gould,
Il elassmate, 50 cents for a l2-line
lHse which he handed in as his
srn.
He was born IN 1887. In 1863 he
rsat to Washington with something
H an inclination to enlist In the
Taon army, but he decided to seek
. government office. 1t is related
,ast with only a few of his poems
n credentials he walked into the
treasury department and asked for
/ fob. 1t was agreed that his vernal
gerses really smelt of the woods,
ind smaoked of sincerity He would
Be a safe man to watch the treasury
uuts. He agreed to take the place,
Al little desk, facing the huge
HOa vault where he kept tabs on
those who went to handle the $780,
|a0.000 stored there, he began writ
ag Of the birds to relieve his home
sickness. The result was his first
book, Wake Robin"
Some years later, after work as
|ugasury clerk and a national bank
examiner had netted him some saw
ngs, he bought a few acres at West
Park on the Hudson, where among
the loaded trellises of a vineyard he
wound more pleasure than in the
closets of greenbacks." There he
renewed his emotional intercourse
With nature, building a real house
|aerlooking the river, When rural
civilization pressed a little close
about him. he built his "Slabsides'
cabin a mile or two back in the
moods.
He did not go at his studies with
ne set determination of an herballst,
et took life easily, and wrote breez-
ly when the spirit moved him of the
secrets Of nature He never made
much Of the discovery of new spe-
ees, and nothing OF cataloguing them
Out delighted in finding for himself
and revealing 10 others the charms
q close contact with the birds,
bees and flowers. The essence OF
Us philosophy was always bright, in
agreement with Browning. that "Alfs
well with the world"
RiVerby and SlabsIdes, Burroughs
FFeats on the Hudson, became
'aFlnes for his many admirers, and
nose who made pilgrimages there
'eFe invariably received in the most
emoeratic fashion by the celebrated
aturalist.
on his seventy fifth birthday he
ad Growing old is a kind Of
s'uns 90 The morning has its de
sals and It's enticements. the noon
= It's triumps and satisfactions. but
esFe are charm and tranquility
'e a spiritual uplift about the close
the day that belong to neither
II
y A.sasia,ed Fremal
SlsES PARK. Colo. March 20
ales ! Mnh, in his home at Long
VI Inn when informed b. tbs
'sos0atel Press Of the death o.
Nfoughs said America and th'
's.A lost one of It's greatest nat
My personal loss In th'
~ oi dear friend ia oyershadow
q The loss 10 humanity said
e Who i himself one u the mos
4eiH known naturalists in America