New Britain herald., 1924-08-04
JOSEPH CONRAD Of
 FICTION FAME DIES
Was Famous Writer ol Stories
 ol lle Sea

BlsAepheuFne, England, Aus E." I.o,sn of lIsrstlFs today noufnsa the pssslng Of Joseph Conrad sn' lnent author oi sea tales, Nhe dle1 al hlS nome here yesterday 70 hs sun war. uratA came suddenly, AL Conrad vas apparently m normal b.atth Saturday mofnlng, Al noon LoAs,sr, hs Nae seized Alh an al' tack of aslhma, Ahieh eNeiopsd Nlh such rspldliy that his physician al' ,ised The use Of oxygen, The hoNsl' ist suffered much pain ana grew worse during the night Al sssV o'clock in the morning shlie fvsllhs m A chair. he suddenly expired hS heart being unable to withstand me slrain oi the asthmstle attack
 Joseph Conrad, by nativity Fese' h, choice an F.ngllshnlsn, sailor ana sea captain. did mol speak hisllsh A. 20, but lived 10 write A large nhih' Der of superb novels in supple anu masterly English which enriched me literature Of the people Of his adop' ton. This stupendous fact, the great ness Of hts achievement, marked mn ss a man apart, His death takes one of England's greatesI, ahd from |" ,phere where Thomas Hardy nov ,iands alone. In temperament no was definitely slayonie, as noNelis' ne owed something to the great lths' sians. and he contributed hls all 10 the English tongue. In spite or me fact that in youth he had iraNe'leI widely, as a sailor and officer or ships, he never had touchen ths shore, of North America until he visited this country last year.
 A Life Of Adventure.
 Al, the age Of 9, Joseph Conrad Korzenioyski, on looking at a map or Africa, pointed his finger to the mysterious heart of the dark con- tinent and declared: When l gro" up shall go there.' And 20 years later he stood at Stanley Falls. AS lad he dreamed Of the sea ana lonSed to be sailor. Al seventeen he made the first of his voyages. thus starting the first phase of his career that Of the sea rover, "hlch tooh him to mysterious climes, man! ..range oceans, and led him through myriad dangers afost and ashore. For twenty years he sailed in all manner of si1lps to all manner or places, working his way upward m inc English merchant marine through all the grades until he held his mas tors certificate and took chief com- mand. Tn the fierce and undisciplined fa.tnesses, on the edge of the world, he saw natures raw materials, her ,n,penetrable secrets, primitive peo- pies, and found her inexoraole laws a, work undisguised.
 His companions on these ventures were the ships, the sun, the winds the great sea, and the unforgetable men who tossing aloft in darkness hsted believing canvas while they gave back yell for yell to frightful west eriy. He was one of them when they missed death by foot as they drove past q submerging iceberg in tse nisht, when they abandoned purn- ing steamer in the Indian Ocean, when he paced the paralyzed form or inc baruue Otago becalnned in the Gulf of Siam, all of the ere" stricken with fever. During these seventeen 6avs of horror on the Otago he crossed the shadowline Of youth. Many died He lived to make bril- liant passages as commander. In 1894 he left the sea for good, having suffered much from the effects ot jungle fever. He carried ashore with him manuscript, the only on he had ever written, which revised and edited became his first book, "Almayers Folly"
 Born Tn Poland.
 Conrad was born in Poland in 1857, grew to boyhood in Craeow where lis father, a man Of distinguished family and much learning, sent him to the best preparatory school and uttered him at home. In boyhood he head Hugo and other writers in French, and fathers Polish transIa- tons of Shakespeare. He read many other books, including Dickens, Scott Thackeray, history and voyages.
 Three years he spent with his father and mother in exile, his elders sut- fering for their longing to see Po- land free Of it's cppressors. When he was fl his father and mother died Of despair and disease, incident to their Imprisonment. He then ii,ed with an uncle until he departed for the life of a sailor
 Retired In 1898.
 When the effects Of tropical fever had so undermined is strength that he had to leave the sea, he retired toa modest home in Kent. There he lived for tNenty-eight years telling in books what he had seen and felt as youth. giving his vision of the mean- ing of the unknowable, depicting the struggle of man against the forces Of nature without and within him. He created enthrallins stories Of the seven seas and the etrange lands to he found by voyaging across them. Much of his African adventuring he presented in "Heart Darkness, a Erastly tale. In "Almayas s FolleS he revised in ina sination a certain