Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-01
SONG writer DIES
INSANE AND BLIND
Dolly Gray Made Paul Barnes
Famous on Broadway.
Later Forgotten
ENDS LIFE IN POVERTY

New York, June THAT the Paul
Barnes who died in Manhattan State
Hospital. Wards Island. on May 3,
insane. blind and paupcr. was the
author of Good. by. Dolly Gray the
battle chant of American soldiers and
sailors in the war against Spain, be-
came known today.
Remember the words?
J hare come 10 SAP goodbp. Dolly Gray:
MS no use to ask me rhp. Dolly Gray.
There's mRrmur in the air.
lou c1n hear il crcrvrhcrc--
II is time TO do and dare. Dolly Cray.
Don't you hear the tramp Of feet, Dolly
Gray!
Sounding through the village street.
Dolly cray
'Tis the tramp Of soldiers true.
In their uniforms OF blue:
must say goodby 10 you, Dolly Gray.
Goodby. Dolly. ! must learc you.
Though il breaks my heart TO %.
tells me- I nm needed
Al the front to foht the foe.
Sec the boys in b'uc nrc marching.
And I ran no longer stay.
Hark! I hear the Juglc calling
Goodby. Dollv Gray.
Barnes was also the author of many
other songs one" popular. Among some
fifty arc Josephine. My joe" Down
by the Riverside. " Dreaming" "ven.
etian Moon" and NANNY Jenny s
Lullaby.'
"Y0u Won't DO"
One day in the nineties he met Dan
DAILY. famous variety actor, on Broad
way. DAILY said he was in desperate
need Of a catchy song. Several com
poscrs. he said. had offered their scrv-
ices. but he had dismissed each Of them
with You wont do
Barnes told DAILY to walk on with
ou, speaking In the walk from
Twenty sixth street to Fourteenth
street he composed song that DAILY
made famous. and its name was "You
Won't Do" But none Of his songs,
with their Autographed title pages that
look 50 fusty today. Ind the success Of
Good by, Nellie Gray
Barnes was q singer and a pianist.
too He is remembered in the big
time" act. the Mimic Four, more than
twenty years ago. His songs and his
stage returns made him a wealthy man.
In 1902 he had a town house. n coun-
try place. a rctinue of servants and a
gittering name on Broadway. People
said, There goes Paul Barnes"-and
everybody looked.
His fortune vanished with the crash
of n music publishing house. SO that.
late in 1920. he was able to contribute
only S1I n week toward the support
of his first wife. Adelaide Russell, n
well known actress. The court found
him unable (" give more.
Forgotten on Broadway
There was dashing hurles1uc
souhrottc. Phyllis Ruffel. In SHIN:
mcring tights and red. white and
blue 6odic" she kept MP interest in
Good. by. Dolly Gray long after the
war. Broadway recalled Yesterday tho
jump that naughty Phyllis put into the
song. lHut broadway doesn't want It's
names mentioned. because poor Paul
Jicd prnnilrss. you see. and 1t docsn t
look right for people to remember him
after he is living in potters field,'
Paul fell in love with Phyllis. She
became tho ntroduccr Of hts songs.
They wcr" married.
The last appearance Of Paul Barnes
was in English music halls just AZ the
outbreak of the war. When he and his
wife, who worked with him. returned to
broadway. they found themselves for
got on and soon, through worry, Rarne,
became Insane.
He had been in the hospital about two
years when he died. The Masonic Order
and vaudeville friends had been paying
small sums to give him all the comforts
nossiblo 10 ono in his condition.