[text appears at the top of a folder] FEINBERG/WHITMAN DIARIES, etc. Diaries Commonplace Book, Vol 2 (DCN53) Box 2 Folder 1 May 31, 1889-Dec. 2, 1891 Taken from bottom of page with heading "Aug: Camden August 1889" 749 1889-91 COMMONPLACE BOOK; May 31, 1889---Dec. 2, 1891. A.MS. (60p. 28 x 22 cm.) Bound in half leather, lettered on cover Walt Whitman. Written in ink, with few exceptions. Only 60 pages of the book were used, the remaining two thirds of the leaves are blank. The form of entries is generally the same as in the preceding Commonplace Book, using the right side of the pages for daily entries, the verso for addresses, accounts, pasted and pinned clippings, bills, receipts, advertisements, etc. tax and water bills for 1889 laid in. Two pages at the end of the book contain records of payments. The first entry was obviously written upon receipt of the book March 22, 1887: "This Memorandum book was a present from my dear young friend Clayton Wesley Peirson." Next to it a pencilled remark "What has become of him?" Whitman began to use this book regularly on his 70th birthday. Reminiscing on events & accomplishments of the previous year he wrote on May 31, 1889: "To-day finishes the 70th year of my life . . . I am yet with my head above water . . . The public dinner is to come off at & after 5 p m. . . . The old memorandum book being now fill'd, I henceforth write in this. --- June 1: The most pervading & dreadful news this mn'g is of the strange cataclysm at Johnstown . . . curious that at this very hour we were having the dinner festivities &c---unawares. --- June 2: the dinner, speeches &c: all get good 53A praise... for a Quaker racket ( as some one has call'd it) ... the most suc- cessful of the kind ever known. -The project now is to make a little 72 page book... printing nicely the whole affair, speeches &c, edited by Horace Traubel-(I endorse the project) ----July 6: Went over in a carriage to Gutekunst's Philadelphia & had photo sittings...---- Aug 24: The prin- cipal tax on my shanty---25.28: (then there were 7 or 8 others) -in Italy & Greece they have a dis-illegal banditti- here we have a regular legal one, & numerous & remorseless---- Aug 30: Rec'd the photo's (from Gutekunst) ... good pict's- Sent Death's Valley to Alden Harper's Monthly. . . ac- cepted & paid for---- Dec 11: Jefferson Davis buried at New Orleans. ---- Dec 13: Robert Browning died---- Dec 24: Have been out in a cab & open wagon to Harleigh Cemetery- . . . have selected & designed my cemetery lot 20 x 30 feet in area on a wooded knoll. ---- 1890, Apr. 15: Even'g went over in carriage to Phila. . . to Art Gallery Broad St. & deliver'd the Death of Lincoln piece- all went well- this must be the 13th time & is probably the last ---- Apr. 21: Horace T. comes with the item (f'm a letter seen by Frank Williams Phila) of Tennyson's criticism on L of G ---- May 1: Proofs of Queen Victoria's Birthday and On, on the same ye yocund twain to Gilder Century- 20- rejected ---- May 31: Saturday Evn'g Complimentary Birth- day Supper p m 30 to 35 at table- Ingersoll's grand speech, never to be for- gotten by me ---- June 13: Sent pocket book ed'n to Col Ingersoll, NY ---- July 10: Wyoming admitted to-day- with Idaho now there are 44 states in the US ---- July 11: Visit f'm J. E. Reinhalter & Ralph Moore (Monu- mental manufacturers) ab't vault for cemetery---Oct 9: The Ingersoll lecture Liberty in Literature preparing to be given Evn'g Oct 21 Horticultural Hall, Phila.---Oct 22: Well the Ingersoll lecture came off last evn'g . . .(Proceeds to me $869.45) . . . A splendid success for Ingersoll (& me too)---Oct 25: Signed and gave the contract for the burial house in Harleigh Cemetary with Reinhalter Bros.---Nov 8: Sent over by express 300 first sheets (autographs) to Oldach, bookbinder. . .---Dec 30: Sent MS of Some Personal Memoranda and poemet Sail out for good Eidolon Yacht to Stoddart Lippincotts--$50 and 30 numbers mag. (50 paid me)---1891, Feb 19: Getting Good-Bye my Fancy pp 3 to 42 inclusive to Ferguson, printer (by Horace)---May 16: Weak as death--strange depress'd day---May 17: O'Donovan, the sculptor here making preparations-finishing the proofs Good-Bye 66 pp---May 20: Paid Reinhalter $500 toward the tomb---May 18: Sent formal application for copyright for Good Bye to Librarian of Congress ($1 enc'd)---May 28: Horace Traubel married---July 10: Call f'm Reinhalter and Ralph Moore--paid Reinhalter $1000--wh' makes altogether 1500 paid cash (500 May 12)." The last page of the book gives inclusive dates at head: "Oct: Nov & Dec: 1891: Walt Whitman's last four entries quoted in full: ---Nov. 29: Depress'd condition bad all thru Nov. cold spell--Nov. 30: The Two Reinhalters here--letters from Dr. J & J W W---Dec 1: sent Wm Lloyd 563d East st: N Y big book by mail $3 paid 3.40 due-clear cool---Dec 2 * 4th x 2d, 3d day & night g'd suffering" {53} Walt Whitman for Johnstown good to be mark'd Care J V Patton, Sup't R&O Johnstown Penn: send to pier 12 north wharves, Phila: Camden Oct 19th 1889 Mr. W Whitman To Wm H. Johnson Dr To Mecanical Labor $ 24.00 To 2 Bus Simc 25 .50 To 200 Hard Brick $1.20 2.40 To 1 Chimney Top 3.00 To Mason Lime 3.50 $ 33.40 Oct. 12 By Cash Cr 20.00 $ 13.40 Rec'd Payment. Wm H. Johnson Camden Post June 27 '89 THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1889 Walt Whitman The Testimonial Committee Conclude Their Labors. THEY CALL UPON THE POET And Hand Him the Balance of the Fund Derived from the Big Demonstration. The Grand Old Man and His Work. The committee, consisting of Messrs. H.L. Bonsall, chairman, Geoffrey Buck- waiter, secretary, Wilbur F. Rose, treasurer, T.B. Harned, Hon. A.G. Cattell, Judge E.A. Armstrong, Louis T. Derouse and Cyrus H.K. Curtis, who had in charge the dinner to Walt Whitman, have settled up their accounts and completed their labors. Yesterday afternoon, the secretary, treasurer and others of the committee, called upon the poet and handed him in coin the balance, $125.45, after all the expenses of the testimonial were paid. To this should be added the rolling chair, costing $30.00, which was paid for from the proceeds. The net result being $155.45. But it must not be inferred that the poet is in needy circumstances. He is far from being rich, but his books, although they are not advertised, and can scarcely be said to be on the market, bring him in a small income; and he has many warm friends who will not permit him to suffer, even should the steadily growing sale of his books by any possibility cease. The dinner was given to him as a tribute, and the poet and his fellow townsmen must, and do feel gratified that it was such a success. It was quite spontaneous in its character. It was not till a short time before his birth day that it was thought possible that Mr. Whitman would be able to leave his room, and many of his distant friends had too short a notice to arrange for coming, as the numerous letters received before and since testify. Mr. Whitman said yesterday that his physician had given him directions not to remain at the dinner over half or three-fourths of an hour, but he was there two hours and felt no worse but really better for it. Speaking of the speeches and of Gilder's and Gilchrist's in particular, and complimenting Judge Armstrong on his off-hand response, he remarked that one of his lady friends, who had kept track of the affair, said it was "the best Quaker racket" she had ever known. "She," said the poet, "as well as myself, comes of partly Quaker stock." The secretary did not hand over the purse-simply a new canvas bag in which the treasurer, Mr. Bose, had placed the hard coin of the realm-until the committee were about leaving. The poet was surprised, as he had sometime ago expressed his doubts whether the committee would come out whole. "Why," he said, "this is like a play. The fellow receiving the purse ought to go off into some flourishes. But, (waving his hand) we'll omit them." Mr. Whitman has been improving of late. Yesterday, however, was one of his bad days. Still, the committee found him quite chatty and composed. He was sitting in his big chair in his second story front room-his "den," as he calls it- surrounded by his few books, but his considerable collection of packages and papers, the impedimenta of a literary man. These occupy the floor, tables and chairs of the room in that orderly, disorderly style that every writer knows, and which is the despair of a prim housekeeper who makes the rag-bag and office the receptacle for odds and ends till she can get entirely rid of them. This "den" is his literary workshop, library, sleeping room and now, as he cannot move about without help, his reception room. Here his last and sixth stroke of war paralysis has pretty closely confined him for nearly a year. But he has not been idle during that time. He has prepared for the press the edition, on large paper, of his complete prose and poetical works, limited to 600 autographic and numbered volumes, as well as November Boughs, issued late last fall. He is a Greek come down to us with Bohemian proclivities. His Bohemian, however, is his disregard for the conventional, his love for the natural and direct. It is not the man's clothes, or his house or his furniture, or his bank account that he wishes to come into contact with, but the man himself-his life, his thoughts, his real inner distinguishing self. It has always seemed to me that the one great thing about Whitman was not that he has done the impossible, that he has lifted himself entirely out of his environments, that he has given us an inimitable and original form in poetry and has projected for the muse a newer and broader field-for his best and most endearing forms will be found to disprove his earlier theories- but that in this money-making world, busy with trifles, where the little shuts out the great, where the temporal and earthly shuts out the spiritual and the heavenly, there should have come among us one who by word and deed and life should not only preach but so live as to make manifest that the immaterial is greater than the material, that the unseen is greater than the seen, that the spiritual is greater than the physical, and that even the body is more than raiment. One of his theories he has carried out, and that is one upon which I do not recall seeing or hearing any comment. He has lived, he has made his life a perfect poem. And, as the greatest good a hero leaves is simply "his having been a hero," so Whitman's boon to posterity and to ourselves is not his books, but the man himself, his unfaltering adherences to his ideals, the life he has lead, "Unshaken to the last, Endurance resolution to the last." B. THE CAMDEN POST LACTATED FOOD Possesses many Important Advantages over other prepared Foods. BABIES CRY FOR IT. INVALIDS RELISH IT Makes Plump, Laughing, Healthy Babies Regulates the Stomach and Bowels Sold by Druggists. 25c., 50c., $1.00. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., BURLINGTON, VT. Baby Portraits. A Portfolio of beautiful baby, protraits, prints on fine plate paper by patent photo process, s[?] free to Mother wants these pictures; send at on[?] Give Baby's name and age. WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Props., Burlington, VT. 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August 9 1890 The Critic Map Of The Vicinity Of [?] From the New York Evening Sun of July 1, 1890 This Map Shows The Situation Of Harrington, New Jersey The following description of Harrington, New Jersey is copied from the guide book "Suburban Homes," published by the West Shore Railroad Company: "This station is the centre of a farming vicinage and the nucleus of a villa community which has, if natural advantages are properly accounted in its favor, a future prospect as bright aas any point in the Hackensack Valley. Two pretty willow-girt streams, fed by pure springs, meet the Hackensack near Harrington, coming down from the near-by hills as untainted as they bubble from the Earth. Upon every hand fine rolling lands, partly wooded, meet the eye. The soil is largely sand and clay, underlaid with gravel, thus forming the most healthful of building lands. In the immediate vicinity of Harington there are probably eight or nine hundreds of acres available for suburban homes. At Closter, one mile distant, there are three churches, Dutch Reformed, Congregationalist, and German Lutheran; and at Demarest, two miles distant, there is a Baptist church. Cottages are beginning to dot the landscape at this point. Among those who have land for sale are: W.T. La Roche (adjoining the station), Geo. Ward* (also next to the station). WM. Herring, John Herring, J.A. Van Sann, Demarest Bros., C. Friend, R. Blauvelt, J. Blauvelt, and A. Ackermann." *Mr. Ward's property has been purchased by S. Carman Harriot, Jr. --- See advertisement on first page of cover STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT Philadelphia, 7/24/1891 M Walt Whitman To Ferguson Bros. & Co. Dr. Successors to S. A. GEORGE & CO. PRINTERS, ELECTROTYPERS, AND STEROTYPERS, ESTABLISHED 1844. No.15 North Seventh Street. 1891 May 15 "Good By My Fancy" 59 1/4 pp Long P. 48x27=1296 @ 1.30 77 02 6 3/4 pp Drev. 57x33=1881 @ 1.69 11.41 [abt. + ??] @ .50 11 00 14 x Eled. pp. @ .39 5 46 2 Dover @ .75 1.50 106.39 May 29 Nov. Boughs qf 16.00 Paper [fado.?] 29.00 43 00 May 15 1000 GoodBy My Fancy 4f+2pp. 14.00 [? ?] 5 5/40 R 80th [@27 cents?] 29.40 43 40 19279 Ferguson- 192.79 Bullstein Profides Tomb McCollin 7.50 40 2.50 --------- 203.19 George S. Ferguson, Co Established 1844 Printers & Electrotypers Robt. H. Brown General Manager 15 N. 7th Street Philadelphia R'cd Phila July 25, 1891 of Mr. Walt Whitman One Hundred + ninety two 19/100 Dolls in full of svc rendered. Ferguson Bros + Co #192 74/100 [located on the left side of document]: Billstein & Son, Printers. 41 N. TENTH STREET. [end of text] Philadelphia, July 27 1891 Received of Horace L. Traulel Seven and 90/100 Dollars, in full for a/c of Walt Whitman. BILLSTEIN & SON, [signature]: Mendenhall $7.90 Agents for Morgan's Albumenized Papers. Terms: Net Cash in Funds at par in Philadelphia and New York. Claims for deductions from this bill must be made within FIVE days from receipt of Goods. NO ALLOWANCE FOR BREAKAGE IN TRANSPORTATION Philadelphia, 7 mo. 21 1891 Mr Walt Whitman Bought of THOS. H. Mc.COLLIN & CO. MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES, PHOTO. ENLARGEMENTS BY ELECTRIC LIGHT IN PLATINUM. Goods sent by mail are at the risk of purchaser. 635 Arch Street. Sales 35798 Forwarded by Manufacturers of Draughtsmen's Sensitive Papers Silver Wastes Refined. 20 Photographs of Tomb. @1.50 2.50 Record Payment Thos. H. McCollin +Co S.S. Walt Whitman Camden N J CWP is located (July 24 '90) at 3819 Lancaster Ave, Real Estate office, Phila This Memorandum Book was a present from my dear young friend, Clayton Wesley Peirson [*What has become of him?*] bro't to me by him Evn'g of March 22, 1887 May 31, 1889. Write the ab't 11 am in my big ratan chair in Mickle Street Camden. Have just had a wash & bath - a newspaper reporter (News Camden) has call'd, but I am tired & head-sore & thick & I cut the interview short. It is cloudy & looks like rain. The "public dinner" is to come off at & after 5 pm. To-day finishes the 70th year of my life. Have had a bad year past, nearly all the time imprison'd in this room. But here I am yet with my head above water. Big time marks (and some gloomy enough) the late ones. My dear friend William O'Connor is dead & buried. My big book "complete works" is printed: the best ed'n "Leaves of Grass" (pocket book binding) with "Sands" and "Backward Glance" included, 422 pages is out. I shall try to get around & show myself & speak a short word to my dear friends at the dinner to-night. The event itself, & what is done & said, will show what [it] all amounts to. The old memorandum book being now fill'd, I henceforth write in this. sent pocket bk. edn's L of G to Sarrazin France Dowden, Ireland, 2 copies rec'd Lou rec'd Judge Armstrong rec'd (both) Clifford rec'd Horace 2 copies R W Gilder rec'd John Burroughs rec'd JB Harned rec'd Frank Williams rec'd Herbert Gilchrist rec'd Sylvester Baxter rec'd Mrs. Stafford (Glendale) Dr. Bucke (three) W S Kennedy Phillips Stewart Mr. Banecroft (Wash'n) Edward W. Searing, Counselor At Law, 25 Chambers Street, Notary. New York. Camden Mickle Street June 1889 June 1 The most pervading & dreadful news this mrn'g is of the strange cataclysm at Johnstown & adjoining Cambria County, Penn: by wh- many thousands of people are overwhelm'd, kill'd by drowning in water, burnt by fire, &c. &c.-- all our hearts, the papers & the public interest, are fill'd with it-- --the most signal & wide-spread horror of the kind ever known in this country.-- curious that at this very hour, we were having the dinner festivities &c. --unaware 2--the dinner, speeches &c: all get good praise-- --certainly for a Quaker racket (as some one has call'd it) --and for Camden, and for a genuine & quiet affair, the most successful of the kind ever Known, --The project now is to make a little 72 page book, pub'd by Dave McKay, Phila: (50 cts) printing nicely the whole affair, speeches, &c: edited by Horace Traubel -- (I endorse the project)-- 4 Tuesday--just pm-- Nothing special--I write with no special purpose- -a cloudy, warmish, still day--half-ill (even for these times) to-day. --O this dreadful horror around Johnstown! 5 rec'd from the p o the £10 and $4.99...Lou here last evening 7 "A Voice from Death" my poem on the Conemaugh Cataclysm 1/3d of a column printed in N.Y World this mn'g [(*25 pay rec'd *] sent Nov: B to EW Searing paid $2 Sent 6 L of G --& 6 Nov: B. to Judge Garrison [*paid $19.50*] Am sitting in the old 2d story room in Mickle st. -Every thing smooth & prosperous enough --Have just envelop'd for mailing to Europe and to Dr. B the "Voice" (correctly printed in to-day's NY World)-- At present my physical botherations are this catarrhal, and (to some extent) the bladder trouble-- weather sunny, coolish, pleasant. (W'd this heavy disagreeable feeling, head, be remedied by more abstinence & care in eating?) (Cavalry soldier in War 5th reg't - I call'd him I sent the letter to Dr B) MC Reed 222 So: Clark wrote him a card [?] June Chicago Ill: [anniversary?] 615 north 2d st Phil 412 Cooper st R.S Nickerson June 25 '89 NICKE Phillips Stewart 112 College street Toronto Canada Ledger June 12 '89 ORIGIN OF THE "ARABIAN NIGHTS." - The origin of "The Ten Thousand and One Nights" is almost as difficult to trace as that of the "Iliad" or the "Pentateuch." These are all not products of single minds, but masses of literature, shaped anew from generation to generation; the beginning of them wrapped in obscurity because there was no one to chronicle the first silent growths. -The Atlantic Clayton W. Peirson and Howard P. Gore, trading as the West Philadelphia Real Es- tate Agency, have dissolved partnership. Mr. Peirson, having purchased the interest of Mr. Gore, continues the business under the old firm name at 3819 Lancaster avenue. Phil Ledger July 3 '89 Boston Christian Register Aug: 22 '89 BRASS BEDSTEADS AND FINE BEDDING. PUTNAM & CO., 8 & 10 Beach St., Invite your inspection of a very attractive dis- play of Brass and Iron Bedsteads, Imperial Couches, and Fine Bedding. Our Spring Upholstered Cot is just the thing for summer use. Mattresses renovated and remade in the most thorough manner. During July and August a special discount of 10%. PUTNAM & CO., 8 & 10 Beach St., BOSTON. Camden June 1889 9th - Sunday - warm, quiet - sit here in my 2d story room in Mickle St: wrote poemet "My 71st year" yesterday - (Ed. Harry, Warren, & Martin) sent "My 71st year" to Gilder (Century NY) $12 accepted paid - the champagne & ice (from Tom Har[ned]'s) - am sweating freely - warm temperature have written to Donaldson for Irving's cheque " " " Dr B & to TBH for the wine 10 hot spell day & night 11 sent "Bravo Paris Exhibition!" to Herald returned [?]10 sent to World June 13. - Lou here - bro't my new blue gown - hot still cloudy day - John Burroughs new book sent pocket bk edn: to John Burroughs & RW Gilder both with the [?] slips 12th & 13th - pleasanter cooler half rainy 18 sent L of G to the D 3444 3d Av. NY p'd +1.50 the 72 pp: pamphlet att dinner speeches [Ve] is being prepared by Horace [Trumbil?] - to be paid by [?] 20 sent the big book (complete W) to Rudolph Schmidt rec'd 26 Buckwalter EA Armstrong. Mr Derosse call'd paid me abt +125 (in gold) the surplus of the dinner the wheel chair ([?]30) paid by "dinner money" - NY World paid me 25 - for the poemet Mrs: Davis goes on a three days visit to Asbury Pa: Mrs: Mayer here 27 Deposited 261.45 10 to WHD Sylvester Barter here 28 bad depress'd/physical condition these times - 2 or 3 days weather warm, oppressive, bad upon me 2 days sent Sarrarin's book "poesie Anglaise" by Horace to Morris, Phila: to have the article al't me [English'd?] [?] book return'd 29 bad spell continued - hot oppressive weather continued 31 hot weather - bad spell yet - Phillips Stewart [?] Toronto Canada here - +7 in purse to Mrs. M. - 5 to Mrs. D for Mrs. M's mother's dress [?] 4 for [?] Horace's piece ab't OConnor in "Unity" Edward Bertz litterateur [of Deutsche Presse]" Holzmarkt Str 18 Potsdam Prussia Prof: Dowden Winstead Temple Road Rathmimes Dublin Ireland Thos: Donaldson 326 north 39th [40th] st Phila: Ruth Goldy Guthrie Ind. Terr: p o box [91]466 Topeka Kansas Charles W Eldridge Internal Revenue agent room 11 Appraiser's Building San Francisco Cal Sidney Morse 374 E Division st Chicago Ill: July '90 Established 1850 William Wiler Manufacturer of stair-rods, step-plates, brass bedsteads and cribs, fender, fire sets, and andirons, hand and foot rails, fire screens, Foot-stools, etc. 223 and 225 south fifth street, Philadelphia Send for Catalogue. Salter's handsome mirrors, Everybody should see them. Beautiful new designs; superior workmanship. New style Picture Frames. Over 100 new patterns. Everyone can be suited, Prices moderate. Grand Display---Bridal Gifts. Goods imported direct for fall trade. Prices away below high-priced stores. Salter's, 911 Market Street. Geo C Newman's Art Store 800 Market street Mirrors, Etchings, Frames &c largest stock Rudolf Schmidt Blaagaardsgade 16 B Copenhagen N Camden July 1889 July 2 Sent Edw'd Bertz Germany the big book -rec'd $12 (7 in purse. $5 for her mother's dress &c) to Mrs M 3 Paid $4.56 for gas bill- still cloudy, half rainy 4th day slightly easier of the bad spell- sent miscel: to E Bertz [*rec'd*] 5 McKay pays $75 (the bill was 92. balance due on big books Mc had- but the deduction was made for bills against me right-) 7 sent Edw'd Bertz, Potsdam, DrBucke's book [*rec'd*] 8 Monday hot weather spell -a week now- -ill feelings head and abdominal- sit here in Mickle street- hot, uncomfortable ill- - breath short- Harry poorly in health- July at present quiet- I write this at noon 19 cloudy-a shade better this forenoon- stopt taking the "tonic" yesterday- Chas Eldridge at San Francisco Internal agent again (his old place) -John Burroughs temporarily at Hobart NY - no sale worth mentioning of my books by myself McKay off west drumming--I go down to foot of Cooper st to river side in the wheel chair at sunset (propelled by Ed)- enjoy it quietly -Horace T comes regularly 20th Big book ("complete works") safely rec'd by Rudolf Schmidt 23d sent big book to J W Wassall 208 Dearborn ave: Chicago by Express [*paid $6*] 30th still warm- plenty of rain- Death of Pandeer 10 days ago I stick it out here in Mickle street so far (p o to Blackwood to know who to send the cheque for Ed's board) [*for Ed's board*] [*paid $45.50 Aug.1'90*] C F Currie Sup't Asylum. Blackwood New Jersey paid $45.50 Aug. 2, '89 for Ed's board Aug. Sept. & Oct. '89 paid $45.50 for Feb. M & A. '90. Billstein Billstein & son : plate printers 925 Filbert St. Phila : LW Ingram Molalla Corners Clackamas Co. Oregon Wm Melligan Asbury Station Hunterdon Co : New Jersey Walt Whitman Reynolds, Jones & Co's Mills 45 Broome St New York City coffee one third Mocha - two thirds Java H M Alden (Sept '89 p o Box 959 New York City John Foord same Charles W. Eldridge, Internal Revenue Agent In charge of Division embracing the States of California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and the Territory of Utah. Station Address San Francisco Office Room 11, Appraiser's Building King's Book Exchange novels bought, sold and exchanged Office of Charles J. Cohen Envelope Manufacturer Wholesale Stationer and Importer of Fancy Goods, No. 617 Market Street. Great Chair Depot. Over 800 styles of rattan, leather, antique, plush, fancy chairs. Exquisitely upholstered, etc. Our business is Chairs exclusively and our stock is entirely new. I.H. Wisler & Son 223-225 North Sixth this '89-'90 Congress is the 51st - [-when the new four western states come in the Union there will be 42 states Forty Two States] My address will be Care Charles E. Legg, 146 Devonshire St. Boston, Mass. Clement H. Moore Manufacturer of Blank Books Albums and Envelopes, 835 Market Street Moore's Best Falcon Pens, 35c gross Moore's Best School Pens, 35c gross Overland Mail Note Paper, $1 per Ream 120 Sheets of First-Class Note Paper, 10c. Good No. 6 White Envelopes, $1 per 1000. Clement H. Moore 835 Market Street Camden August 1889 July 31 -Wednesday - early pm - rainy, rainy. these days - hard pours last night & this forenoon -(marked perturbations in the weather for a year. I believe both here & the old continent)- -Am feeling fairly well to-day - continue to eat & sleep middling fairly (not markedly ill) wh- is a great blessing - fair bowel action this forenoon. -very quiet as I sit here alone in my room Mickle Street - the "forecast" gives us clear skies &c: this evening - so to morrow begins the last hot summer month - have stood it all pretty well here in my den so far - wonder if I am going to pull thro' it all? -I could migrate to some mountain or sea; coast quarters of course (I have money enough) -but I am used to my den, locale, a hundred little personal adjustment & am doubless best without change & here as things are (the heat & stale air worst) considering all. Aug 2 sent Dr Bucke two copies (rec'd) little Morocco b'd L of G Paid C F Currie Sup't Blackwood, [*rec'd*] $45.50 for Ed's board for covering Aug., Sept., & Oct. paid $13 [to] for "process" pict [*rec'd*] laughing philosopher 4 pleasant, quiet Sunday - good long letter from Edward Bertz, Potsdam, Germany 6 went over in a carriage to Gutekunsts Philadelphia & had photo sitting's (Mr. Buckwalter and Ed Wilkins with me - got along very well) 13th Mr G. sent specimens - big heads ("panel" size) - a big half-length sitting no hat (big pict but less than "panel") this 2d one I like - & a number of others. J E Kingsley. Continental Hotel. Phila. Charles L Webster & Co: 3 East 14th St: New York Adrian M Jones. News newspaper office [?] Galveston Texas Mrs Mary E Maples, eare Frank J Ingram Downs Osborne Co: Kansas Horace L Traumbel Farmers & Mechanics Bank 427 Chestnut Tom [Harred?]can telephone "Every Man to his Trade" Trade Mark F. Dodd & Co. F. Dodd of Alfred the Great Lodge No. 25. Fred W. Dodd of Peabody Lodge No. 71, Order, Sons of St. George Fashionable Hatters 126 N. Ninth St. Philadelphia A kind invitation to me of the Order cordially extend "The Nineteenth Century," 1 Paternoster Square, London, E.C. Camden August 1889 Aug: 8 Superb weather now 3 days & nights 11 Sunday- a delightful quiet sunny soothing day wrote to H and lent a little money 14 sentover photo to G[?] - ask'd 12 16 paid $3.15 for insurance for 300 on stock at 1213 Filbert St. wh is continued on to Feb. 8 '90 sent one copy big book to McKay 17 sent big book by Express to Sara McGee Adams Hotel Washington st. Boston - paid $5 (also address 112 College Av: Toronto Canada - Phillips Stewart also there) sent big book to JH Clifford, Farmington, Maine by Express (for Dr OW Jrue) JHC is to bring me 4 & paid 4 fine weather, 16th, 17th, 18th 23 sent over to Gutekursts for 6 more [?] sent over the 6 to be "[?]" [?] have had a bad week - one of the worst. [that sometimes it might be the close) but am a little easier to-day - 21st & 22d hot 24 the principal tax on my shanty - $25.28! ([?] there and 7 or 8 others) - in Italy & Greece they have a [?] - illegal landette - here we have a regular legal one & numerous & [?] 27 easier & better (a little, but perceptible) after 8 or 9 days quite ill 28 very perceptibly cooler paid the water tax bill $8.40 (Ed p'd't - City Hall) Dick Flynn here 30 rec'd the photo's - twelve - big seated 3/4 length no hat - head of cane in right hand - good pict's - one sent to Dr Burke by Dick Flynn (rec'd) feel pretty easy comparatively - superb weather sent "Death's Valley" to Alden Harper's Monthly Sept: 1 "Death's Valley" accepted & paid for ($25) also rec'd the proof - I have rec'd proof "My 71st year" & sent back to "Century" sent to Mr & Mrs [?] - drank a bottle of champagne young Walt Whitman Reynolds here f'm NY to see me SUN FIRE OFFICE OF LONDON. UNITED STATES BRANCH. No. 33862 $300 Expires Feb 8 90 Philadelphia. August 10 1889 Received of Walt Whitman the sum of Three and 15/100 dollars, being the premium on $300.00 insured under Policy No. 5721807 which is hereby continued in force for six month from August 8 1889 to February 8th 1890 at noon, on Stock situated at 1213/1215 Filbert Street Not valid unless countersigned by the duly authorized Agent of the Society at Philadelphia. Wagner + Taylor Agent M. S. Gilbert Manager. GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY, WAGNER & TAYLOR, 138 SO. 4TH ST., PHILADELPHIA Tax money Office of the Receiver of Taxes --- City Hall Office hours from 9 AM to 3 PM Bring this bill with you. Paid (by Ed) Sept. 17 1889 Paid Paid Sept 17 '89 Mr Walt Whitman To the City of Camden, Dr. 1889 Folio 147 3 Ward Bills will be ready for delivery August 20th of each year. William A. Husted, Receiver of Taxes. House No. Location of Property 328 Mickle 20 x 100 Value of real estate. 800 Value of personal property 100 State poll tax. 1 School tax. 1 Amount of taxes. 20.83 4.45 Total Rate, $2.45 1889. 25.28 1.26 24.02 Received the above Tax in full, Mr. A Husted Treasurer Receiver of Taxes Taxes will be received at the Receiver of Taxes' Office, City Hall, from September 1st to 30th, up to which time a discount of five per cent for prompt payment will be allowed. From October 1st to the 20th the net tax will be collected. From October 20th, interest at the rate of 7 per cent annum will be added, also a cost of 36 cents on each and every property. The Receiver's Office will be open in the evening from September 27th to 30th, from 7.3o P.M. to 9 P.M. West Jersey Press Print. ALL CHECKS MUST BE CERTIFIED TO BY THE BANK UPON WHICH THEY ARE DRAWN; OTHERWISE THEY WILL BE REFUSED. Camden September 1889 2d Monday- middling fair- good weather enough -Rush call'd - look'd well - was very thankful eulogistic full hearted - is just out of prison is just off to his parents in the country 3d J B. and Frank Harved and Horace Traubel & Herbert Gil here evening 5, 6, 7 Depress'd - ill - Evng's easier 8 -Sunday - a shade better - J B H and Mr Green a young English Unitarian minister here big photo to J B H - I sit all day in 2d story room 9 furnish'd McKay with one big book (he now owes me for two copies) big photo to J B H. 10 Tuesday -- cloudy, rainy, cooler - sitting here stupidly in 2d story room - Mickle street - noon 11 12 bad storm - New Jersey coast devastated Atlantic city specially 13 Sir Edwin Arnold here 17 paid Tax Bill (by Ed) $24.02 ($25.28, 5 percent deducted) rec'd note from J Donaldson - Irving sent 50 to Bram Stoker 25 wh' TD (who has been badly hurt & laid up) will soon bring over to me cloudy & moist continued - hard rain last night 18 sent "Bravo! Paris Exposition" to Harpers Weekly $10 & 40 papers [*accepted paid*] 19 sent proof (revise) "Death's Valley" to H M Alden p o box 959 New York City markedly cooler broken uneasy nights 21 sent the big book to Addington Symonds Davos, Switzerland 23 two young women visited me - bo't 3 Nov. Boughs 28 John Burroughs here 29 Sunday - sitting here in my "den" in Mickle Street - main physical botherations head (catarrhal) & the bladder - dull enough- Oct 1 sent photo to Lounger Critic rec'd 75 fr'm Thos. Donaldson: vis: (50 fr'm Irving 25 fr'm Bram Stoker) All Bills For Water Rent Are Payable At The Clerk's Office Of This Department Only Department for Supplying the City with Water Office, City Hall, Haddon Avenue Office Hours- From 9 A.M. until 3 P.M. March 1, 1889 M. Walter Whitman To The City of Camden, Dr. Water Rent For The Year 1889, On The Following Premises Ward 3 Page 41 Line 13 328 Mickel St. 8.00 dollars 40 cents Total $8.40 Received Payment, W B Doyle Clerk Please Bring This Bill With You. REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES:-Extracts From Ordinance Regulating The Department of Water- Sec. On the first of July, five per cent, will be added on all unpaid rents; on the first of September, ten per cent. Sec. 174. That hereafter when any water rent for water furnished on any premises in the city of Camden, or in the town of Pavonia, shall remain unpaid on the first day of September of any year, it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer of the water works to cease the supply thereof to such premises to be stopped until such water rent and the sum of fifty cents for costs and expenses for turning off and on said water are paid. Sec. 169. That all persons who shall intend to discontinue the use of water, shall give notice to the Clerk of the Water Department on or before the thirtieth day of November in any year, and on their failure to do so, shall be chargeable with and pay the whole rent for the next year ensuing. SEC. 23. The owner or owners of all Private Buildings shall pay the following rates per annum for water rent, viz: Hydrants in yard or kitchen or both $5 00 Baths each 3 00 Water Closet, self-acting and Hopper " 3 00 " " pan valve or reservoir 2 00 Urinals 2 00 Biddets or Hot Baths 1 00 Stationary Wash Stands 1 00 " Wash Tubs each 1 00 Wash Paves, 40 feet or under 3 00 " " over 40 feet 5 00 A Screw Nozzle on the Hydrant (unless a pave wash is charged to the premises) 3 00 Stores and Offices not connected with dwelling, Hydrant or Basin each 5 00 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Hydrants each $6 00 Wash Basins or Sinks " 6 00 Water Closets, self acting " 6 00 " " reservoir " 6 00 Urinals " 4 00 HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. Hydrants for family use $6 00 Hotel Bars, with water 10 00 " " without water 5 00 Wash Basins each 3 00 Slop Sinks " 5 00 Bath for use of 10 boarders or under " 5 00 Water Closets, self-acting each $6 00 " " pan valve or reservoir " 3 00 Stationery Wash Tubs " 6 00 Kitchen, according to the capacity of each building, from $5 00 to 50 00 Horse Troughs each 6 00 Urinals 4 00 Public Baths each tub 9 00 BAKERIES AND ICE CREAM SALOONS. In addition to charge for dwelling $5 00 Large establishments, according to capacity each 10 00 Barber Shops " 10 00 Drug Stores " 5 00 Counter Fountains " 5 00 STABLE. Stalls for horses and cows each $1 00 Washing Carriages each $1 00 STEAM ENGINES. Per Horse Power $1 00 BUTCHERING ESTABLISHMENTS. According to capacity, from $5 00 to $50 00 Oyster Saloons--Bar with water 10 00 --without water 5 00 Laundries, from $5 00 to 50 00 Bottling establishments, from $5 00 to 50 00 Water rates not specified, for any other purposes, to be fixed by the Water Commissioners. No water rate to be less than $5 00 per annum. moneys paid subsequent to Oct '89 $2.20 50 12 6 13 5 13 86 20 13.40 10 EMOC 2 5 2 2.50 28 15.25 7.14 2 Camden October '89 3 sent pictures to Johnny Wroth Jesus Maria Chihuahua Mexico reached him safely Mrs. Mapes and Glenny gone to Kansas arrived safe Sat night got in a cord of oak wood - $8 paid have a fire principal physical troubles head (catarrhal I suppose) and bladder - health 2/3ds off- paid Oldach binder $50 photo mounts $12 7 sent pocket-bk edn L of G to WH Bustin Jr (pd) PO box 3096 Boston, Mass: & Charles Louis Palmer (pd) 713 Cambridge st. Cambridge Mass: 8 paid $13 for stuff for house repairs & work letter fm CLH Hannah very ill jaundice - next day letter "much better" - sent $6 9 David McKay paid me $88.56 for royalty fee Harry Stafford here 11 Deposited $282.71 (seven cheques) in bank 12 paid $20 to Wm H Johnson the carpenter 17 drew $80 for self from bank 18 sent Old age's voices to HM Alder. 100 (sent back to me) rejected 19 sent pk't-b'd L of G ($5) by Express cod to WH Raymenton 38 Front St Worcester Mass: paid paid WH Johnson [seams & front] $13.40 - $33.40 altogether 15 for lumber 21 Monday - Ed has left me - gone back to Canada I sent Dr B a big parcel of portraits big book supplied to McKay he now owes me for 3 paid all 22 Warren F now my nurse & helper (good massages) 23 sent pk: bk L of G to Edmund B Delabarre 14 Trowbridge Place Cambridge Mass: paid Office Physicians Cor: 13th + Locust headquarters male nurses Ed. Wilkins [556 Hamilton Road] 137 King Street London Ont Col. John A Cockerell H Buxton Forman, 46 Marlborough Hill, St John's Wood London NW The grand jury has handed in indictments against Joseph Pulitzer, John H. Cockerell, Julius Chambers and James F. Graham, of the New York World, for criminal libel, on complain to ex-Judge Hilton Frank R. Stockton Convent Station New Jersey Send a 2.00 copy L of G - Autographed book sent Nov 8 Sidney H. Morse, Sculptor 374 E. Division Street Chicago Camden Oct. and November '89 26 had the old tree cut down - it was dead + no sap, no leaves - "why cumbereth it the ground?" (how long before I go too?) - it stood in the front of my old ranch in Mickle St. must have been 40 or 50 yr's old - Jo Jackson (color'd man, Centreville) cut it down this forenoon smooth'd the ground + paved the walk over wtih bricks + placed the white stone carriage step (with WW on, a present f'm R Pearsall Smith) in better middle position - $2.50 - gave Jo a good glass of sherry wine - (rather moderate temperature - cloudy - looks like rain) - am feeling so-so - might be worse - + probably shall be - head + bladder trouble - W F nursing + helping me now - Ed in Canada Sent p'd-b'k L of G. to Walter Delaplaine Scull, 2 Langland Gardens, Frogual, Finckley Road, London NW England paid $6 Alys Smith here - good sunshiny visit 28 paid $2.50 for cutting +c. the old tree in front cloudy, dark, damp, rainy, three days 31 Rec'd $25 f'm R Pearsall Smith f'm England sister Han has had a bad spell illness - jaundice is now easier Dr Hawley here - bo't two big books extra bad feeling in head (catarrhal?) Nov 1: Friday evn'g - "My 71st Year" in Century - slips sent - pictures _ note sent to RP Smith London - rec'd letter f'm Dr B - Ed arrived in London, Canada 3 sent "Old Age Echoes" to 19th Century four pieces intended to make a page 20 pounds + 20 slips sent back to me (rejected) 8 sent L of G. (author's ed'n - green bdg) to FR Stockton Convent Station NJ. paid $2 cloudy, half rainy - feeling fairly - snivelling letters continued (apparently endlessly) f'm the miserable whelp CLH (he knows I can't help myself - I never answer them I feel as if I could crush him out like an offensive bed bug wh' he is)- Horace T. here this evn'g - Read a letter f'm FB Sanborn abt the scurrilous Note in Edwd Emerson's book "RWE was habitually looking at a matter f'm many sides or points of view - + this might have been one - but it was not the one" - +c. +c. 13 visit f'm Mrs EM O'Connor gave her $10 or of the very centre of the red ray in the solar spectrum. The imperfections in rubies, as in all corundums, consist largely of clouds, milky spots and cracks. A perfect ruby is rarely met with, and a stone possessing brilliancy and the true color, even if slightly defective, is considered more valuable than an absolutely perfect ruby of an inferior color. Where rubies and sapphires are met with it is said that gold is almost sure to be present. --- Cutting and Polishing. Although a finely developed diamond, ruby or other crystal is sometimes found and used for jewelry, the beauty of a precious stone generally remains hidden within a rough and unsightly exterior until the lapidary's art reveals the gem. According to well-known rules, there is one kind of cutting or faceting for the diamond or colorless gems and another for colored gems. The brilliant cuts, figures 5 and 6, consists of an arrangement of fifty-six facets, exclusive of the table culet. This cut is sometimes improved by the addition of eight star facets around the culet, which brings the number of facets up to sixty-four. The following are the proportions of a well-cut diamond or colorless gem: 1/3 above the girdle, figure 6, A. 2/3 below the girdle, figure 6, B. The table 2-5 of the breadth of the stone, figure 6, C. The culet 1-6 of the size of the table, figure 6, D. --- These proportions do not refer to colored gems, which are cut thick or shallow to deepen or diminish the color of the stone. The step cut, figure 7, now principally used for emeralds, can be advantageously used for other colored stones. The crowned rose cut, figure 8, is applied to small diamonds, and occasionally to colored gems. This cut consists of twenty-four facets, and a well-proportioned rose is one-half its diameter in thickness. --- To the smaller and more common roses only twelve facets are given. Besides the above-mentioned forms, there are the: Huitpan, or single cut. 16-facet, or double cut. 24-facet, or single brilliant. Cabochon, or carbuncle Star cut, figure 9. Degree, or rose cut, figure 10. The last two beautiful forms of cutting are frequently given to fine paste or imitation diamonds. Of late years nearly all gems have been cut quite round, and in many instances with a sacrifice of size and brilliancy. --- Ruby spinels, garnets, hyacinths, red quartz, burnt Brazilian or rose topaz are sometimes passed off for the ruby. The true ruby will scratch all of these stones readily. The blue corundum or sapphire, ranging in color from the lightest blue to deep blue and black, is the same stone as the ruby, the only difference being color, of which the choicest shade is the soft velvety blue. --- Pearl. Although an organic product, the pearl is always ranked amongst the most precious gems, and is distinguished by being the only gem that does not require the lapidary's touch to bring out its beauties. Pearls have sometimes been found where the outer layer, or skin, as it is technically called, has been discolored or otherwise injured, and when this top skin has been carefully removed the result was a somewhat smaller but perfect pearl. In color the pure white, slightly transparent, is the most highly prized, while in India and China the bright yellow colors are sought after. Decided colors, however, such as black, pink and golden yellow, bring a high price, and, in fact, black pearls, if perfect in color and shape, are at present more valuable than any other kind. Mrs. Middl (Reproduced from in them that is seductive or insidious, only what would at once disgust and repel. Nevertheless all literatures have some of this taint. How, then, shall they be studied? They must be studied, like all things else, by selection. Where so little time can be given to any particular author, there is no reason why he should not be viewed on his best side, instead of his worst; no reason why he should bring into prominence the lines which "dying he might wish to blot." We must also assume that young people of decent training will gladly admit or ignore, with a little assist- ance, all that is polluting; and that such persons will indeed be spared many repre- hensible allusions simply by ignorance of their meaning. Without the aid of all these resources it is plain that Shakspeare club would be impossible; and if youths and maidens read and act Shakspeare together all over the country, it is simple absurd to say that they can not study Plato and Virgil together, or even Anacreon and Horace. Of the wife of a celebrated New Yorker Frank Lesile's Illustrated Weekly says: Mrs. Depew is a New Yorker by birth. She was the daughter of the late Mr. William A. Ogden Hegeman, and her family is one of the oldest and most considered in the city. She is a devout and conscientious churchwoman, and both she and her hus- band are faithful attendants at St. Barthol- omew's Church, which has one of the largest and richest congregations in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Depew have one little son, a lad of 12, the very image of his father person- ally, and already giving evidence of having inherited his ability in marked degree. He speaks French and German with fluency, and his studies, which he shares with two little orphan cousins who live with Mrs. Depew, are carefully supervised by his mother. While Mrs. Depew has of late years been constantly shut out by mourning from the society she is so fitted to adorn, she is one of the busiest women imaginable. All of her husband's social and personal correspond- ence is conducted by her, and when it is re- membered that his invitations alone average ABOUT PRECIOUS STONES. A Hand-book of Useful Information Concerning Gems. PECULIAR COLORS AND CUTTING. How the Lapidary Shapes and Polishes the Diamond--Rubies, Sapphires and Spinals--The Story of the Pearl. Hand-book of Precious Stones" (New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons), is the title of a little book in which M. D. Rothschild conveys to the merchant, workman and the amateur, in a condensed and accurate form, an abundance of information concerning the various properties of gems. He makes it his broadest definition that the mineral to which the term "precious stone" is applied must be adaptable for jewelry or ornamental purposes, and must posses beauty, hardness and rarity. The following is a partial list of the colors of precious stones: Shades of white - Quartz, opal, chalcedony. Shades of gray - Labrador, smoky topaz, chalcedony, zircon. Black - Obsidian, tourmaline, jet. Shades of blue - Lapis-lazuli, amethyst, chalcedony, spinel, zircon, sapphire, cyanite, tourmaline, turquois, odontolite, fluor spar. Shades of green--Amazon stone, turquoise, prase, beryl, bloodstone, epidote, emerald, malachite, chrysoprase, chrysolite, idocras, olivine, garnet, chrysoberyl. Shades of yellow--Opal, amber, topaz, beryl, jasper. Shades of red--Garnet, carnelian, chalcedony, rose quartz, corundum, tourmaline, spinal, ruby. Shades of brown - Zircon, garnet, smoky topaz, axinite, jasper. Colorless--Diamond, sapphire, spinel, zircon, topaz, rock crystal, moonstone. Hardness. One of the most important and distinguishing qualities of a gem stone is the property of enduring, resisting wear, in short, hardness. To test the hardness of precious stones that have not been cut or polished, the following scale of ten minerals has been devised by Mob, a German mineralogist: No. 1. Talc. Very soft; is easily broken or scratched with the finger-nail. No. 2. Rock salt. Soft; scratched with difficulty with finger-nail; readily cut with a knife. No. 3. Calcite. Low degree of hardness; not to be scratched with finger-nail; easily scratched with a knife. No. 4. Fluor spar. Fairly Hard; is slightly scratched by a knife, but easily attacked with a file. No. 5. Apatite. Medium hardness; does not scratch glass, or only faintly; does not give out sparks against steel; easily attacked with a file. No. 6. Felspar. Easily scratches glass; is attacked by a file, and gives some sparks against steel. No. 7. Quartz. Quite hard; is only slightly attacked by file; gives sparks readily against steel. No. 8. Topaz. Very hard; is not attacked by a file. No. 9. Sapphire. Hardest of all minerals but the diamond; attacks all other minerals. No. 10. Diamond. Attacks all minerals; is not attacked by any. To find the hardness of a stone, begin to test with the softest mineral, so that when the number is reached which will scratch the stone there has been no injury to the specimen under examination. Half numbers are determined by the ease or difficulty with which a stone is scratched. For example, a stone which will resist No. 7 (quartz) and which is only faintly attacked by No. 8 (topaz) may be safely put down as 7.5, while a stone which resisted No. 7 and yielded easily to No. 8 is to be classed as 7 in hardness. Corundum This many-colored mineral, composed of nearly pure alumina, produces gems which in some cases are more valuable often than diamonds. The ruby, sapphire, Oriental emerald, Oriental topaz, Oriental amethyst, Oriental aquamarine, Oriental chrysolite, Oriental hygeinth, star ruby, star sapphire, star topaz, and ruby and sapphire [?] are all corundums of different colors. The ruby is a red sapphire, and the Oriental topaz a yellow sapphire, while the Oriental emerald is a green sapphire, etc. In hardness corundum ranks next to the diamond, ranking No. 9 in Moh's scale. Corundum is unaffected by chemicals, and is infusible alone, but in combination with a flur it melts with difficulty into a clear glass. The red sapphire or ruby is the most valuable of the corundum family, and when found of a good color, pure and brilliant, and in sizes of one carat and larger it is much more valuable than a fine diamond of the same size. Find rubies larger than one and one-half to two carats are very rare, and when a fine stone from three to five carats is offered for sale the price mounts into the thousands. The color varies from the lightest rose tint to the deepest carmine; that color, however, which has the greatest value is known in commerce as pigeon's blood, and is the color of arterial blood several hundred a week, it is easily seen that her self-imposed task is no sinecure. Then there is the management of her spacious and handsome home, which is among the most elegant in New York, with its domed ceilings, its stained-glass windows, its massive oak carvings, and its broad walls covered with gold-embossed satin. Then, too, Mrs. Depew, who is a pianist of phenomenal power and polish, practices faithfully each day. Not many idle moments are left in such a well-filled life, and yet Mrs. Depew is as fresh, as unfagged, and has more a pose of manner than a dozen mere butterflies of fashion. Personally, Mrs. Depew is a woman marked attractiveness. Her slender, graceful figure is very girlish, and her dark brown hair and eyes accentuate the lake-clear brilliancy of her complexion. Her eyes are perhaps her most striking feature: large, dark and expressive, now sparkling with merriment, now softly sympathetic. She is a charming conversationalist, very bright herself at bon mots and repartee, and quickly appreciative of it in others. While Mrs. Depew is still in deep mourning, her dress is marked by an elegance as rich as it is simple. She has some beautiful and costly jewels, of which her favorites are some very fine pearls–but above and beyond all her "jewels rich and rare," she very justly values her wonderful husband and their clever little son. Woman's everlasting befrilled, bedizened and bedraggled style of dress is to-day doing more harm to children unborn, born and dying than all other causes that command public attention, says Frances E. Willard. With ligatured lungs and liver as our past inheritance and present slavery, the wonder is that such small heads can carry all we know! Catch Edison and constrict him inside a wasp-waistcoat, and be sure you'll get no more inventions; hind a bustle upon Bismarck, and farewell to German unity; enforce Robert Browning into corsets, and you'll have no more epics; put Parnell into petticoats, and home rule is a lost cause; treat Powderly in the same fashion, and the powder mine of failure will blow up the labor movement. Niggardly waists and niggardly brains go together. The emancipation of one will always keep pace with the other; a ligature around the vital organs at the smallest diameter of the womanly figure means an impoverished blood supply in the brain and may explain why women scream when they see a mouse, and why they are so afraid of a term which should be their glory as it is that of their brothers, viz.: strong minded. The Burmese women are great personages and play a great part in their households. They choose their own husbands and divorce them when they like, retaining their own property and all that they have earned they are at liberty to marry again. Whether as widows or as divorcees. Mr. Bernard told me that when the last census came in his thought the number of women who said they could read and write was small, so he made inquiries, and from all parts of the country young ladies replied that they did not like to say they could read, lest young gentlemen, learning the fact, should write to them ETON BURRILL In "Once A Week." The accompanying portrait of Mrs. Middleton Burrill is from Once a Week. Mrs. Burrill is one of the New York society leaders. She possesses wit, wisdom, beauty, a bag of gold heavier than she could lift if she A Gem for every Month JANUARY . GARNET. FEBRUARY . AMETHYST. MARCH . BLOODSTONE. APRIL . DIAMOND. MAY . EMERALD. JUNE . AGATE. JULY . RUBY. AUGUST . SARDONYX. SEPTEMBER SAPPHIRE. OCTOBER . OPAL. NOVEMBER . TOPAZ. DECEMBER. . TURQUOISE. SUNDAY.....YELLOW STONES AND GOLD. MONDAY....PEARLS AND ALL WHITE STONES EXCEPT DIAMONDS. TUESDAY.... RUBIES. WEDNESDAY. SAPPHIRES, TURQUOISE AND ALL BLUE STONES. THURSDAY...GARNETS AND ALL RED STONES. FRIDAY.....EMERALDS AND ALL GREEN STONES. SATURDAY...DIAMONDS. FINE JEWELS A HINT ON BUYING THEM. Diamonds vary in intrinsic worth, from twenty, to a thousand dollars per carat. Just the exact value, can only be determined by an expert. The average buyer then, is at the mercy of the dealer to a great degree. If he is honest and fair in his methods, you may depend upon his statements. Otherwise, you may pay excessive and unfair prices. Our fifty years of continuous business, with an untarnished reputation for strictest integrity, should weigh with you when selecting a house from whom to purchase JEWELS. Dec. 9 - London Eng: Nineteenth Century has (I sent to 'em) "Old Age Echoes" (?Voices) 3 or 4 sonats poemets [*rejected - sold to Lippincott paid $60*] "To the Sunset Breeze" to be pub'd Nov '90 Harper's Monthly has my MS a poemet illustrating "the Valley" of the Shadow of Death" picture by Innes - paid $25 Century has "Old Age's Ship & Crafty Death's" 8-line poemet [*pub'd*] [*paid $10 - pub'd Feb '90*] S S McClure has "A Christmas Greeting f'm a Northern Star: group to a Southern" [*pub'd copied largely in Europe*] [*pub'd*] paid $11 From BIllstein & Son, [*plate & other*] Printers. Nos. 925 and 927 Filbert Street. Philadelphia. [*good*] Camden Nov: & Dec: 1889 18 Monday - Warren F. my friend & nurse (the massager) -Mrs: O'C she probably returns to Wash'n (f'm quite a long [visit] in New Eng: & three days here) today --- - rainy & dark to-day - am sitting here penn'd up, as now for [nine]eighteen months (since 1st of June 88) -do I not feel a shade better, stronger, lately? -letters continued from the miserable whelp CLH -he is the worst nuisance & worriment of my illness - keeps me back (his damnable letters) ab't the worst factor of all time -always whining & squeezing me for more money - damn him -he ought to be crush'd out as you w'd a bed-bug -sent morocco L of G. to Harrison S Morris 19 sent big book by Express to R F Wormwood Fryeburg, Maine - paid $5 - rec'd (& the $7 p'd) dark rainy day - feeling tolerable - good massages sent the little poemet welcoming the Brazil republic "A North Star to a South" to John Foord, "Harper's Weekly" - $10 $ [*ten papers returned rejected*] 25 Monday - dark, rainy - feeling so-so - word rec'd f'm Ellen O'C. Ed W & Mrs. Mapes - poor day - Dec: 4 sent "A Christmas Greeting f'm a Norther Star Groups to a Southern" to SS McClure NY. [*accepted $11 -paid-*] Death of poor old Mrs: Curtz 45. (cold and sunny weather) 9 am sending out a few adv: circulars of the 3 issues sent pocket b'd L of G to Grace Johnston N.Y. 11 D McKay sends $12 for the three copies "Complete Works" pays for all these had by him up to date. Jefferson Davis buried at New Orleans 13 Robert Browning died 14 laid in a fresh cord of cut wood 16 composing "Old Poets - (and other things)" 19 sent big book (complete works) to Mrs. EC Waters Sag Harbor by p o. (stamp'd 40 cts) -[*paid 6.40 by p o order*] [*rec'd*] -Sunny day sent HLH Burlington Vt 10 (5 for C) [*all rec'd*] also to Mary, Greenport 10 [*rec'd*] Mrs: William Patterson 167 N Mercer Street NewCastle Pa: Thos. Donaldson 326 n 29 cor: Baring Rudolf Schmidt Blaagaardsgade 16. B. Kjebenhavn, N. Bernard O'Dowd Supreme Court Library Melbourne Victoria via San Francisco Walt Whitman was out in the sun shine riding yesterday. He went to Harleigh Cemetery to see the lay of the ground and to pick out a burial lot. He resolutely passed by all the show parts and lawns, and chose a place back on a woody side hill, where he is to have a plot 20x30 feet, and where a solid gray stone monumental vault will be con- structed. Camden Post, Dec 26 '89 rec'd the deed April 29 '90 Camden NY 328 Mickle St: Dec: -89 and Jan '90 Dec: 24 3 pm - Have been out in a cab & open wagon to Harleigh Cemetery - all around & back through roads &c: and to the Cooper's creek north bound - have selected and designated my cemetery lot 20x30 feet in area, on a wooded knoll 25 sent a big envelope with the 6 or 8 portraits to J A Symonds Davos Plats Switzerland 26 sent morocco b'd L of G to Alma Johnston NY. [*paid 5*] 27 a little cold - four days now of fine sunshine - out in the wheel-chair every afternoon - call'd at Mr Traubel's & saw the pictures 31 sent to CLH $2 letter to Ed Wilkins 1890 1890 Jan: 1 Am writing this - 9 pm in my room Mickle street - pretty feeble & gradually failing to all appearance (& fine inherent feeling)-- - grow weaker in my legs - dull and weighty in head - eyes dimmer - almost deaf at times 2 paid $15.25 Billstein & Co: plate printers 925 Filbert St " 7.14 to Camden Gas Office " 2 to CLH 8 sent "A Death Bouquet" to Franklin File Sun office NY. (1205 Broadway too) [*publish'd*] paid $10 26 sent "Osceola" to Melville Philips "Press" [*paid off $10*] [*pub'd Munyon's Ill: World April*] 27 sent big book (mail) to J V Blake 21 Laflin st Chicago [*paid $6.40*] 29 visit f'm Mr. Munyon on Melville Phillips & the two photographers - the latter "took me" in any room (bo't two big books) Mrs. William Patterson 167 N Mercer Street New Castle Pa. Thos. Donaldson 326 N 39 '89 ?: Baring recd the deed April 29 '90 Rudoff Schmidt, Blaagaardsgade 16. B. Kjebenhavn, N. Bernard O'Dowd Supreme Court Library Melbourne Victoria via San Francisco BALTIMORE & OHIO ? Depot 24th and Chestnut sts. All trains run via Washington. Schedule in effect Nov, 10 1889. Chicago, 8:15 a m and 6:05 p m daily. Pittsburg, 8:15 a m and 4:40 p m daily. Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, 11 a m and 7:40 p m daily. For Baltimore and Washington, 4:40, 8:15. (Three Hours to Washington) 11 a m, 1:35, 4:40, 6:05, 7:40 p m. Sundays at 4 (8:15, 3 hours to Washington), 11:10 a m, (4 6:05 and 7:40 p. m. Express for Baltimore and principal way points 3:40 p m daily. Camden NJ 328 Mickle St: Dec: '89 and Jan: '90 Dec: 3 pm - Have been out in a cab & open wagon to 24 Harleigh Cemetery - all around & back through roads se: and to the Cooper's creek north bound -- have selected & designated my cemetery lot 29 X 30 feet in area on wooded knoll 25 sent a big envelope with the 6 or 8 portraits to J A Symonds Davos Platz Switzerland 26 sent moroco bid L of Q to Alma Johnston NY. / ? 27 a little cold - four days now of fine sunshine -- out in the wheel-chair every afternoon -- call'd at Mr Traubel's & saw the pictures 31 sent to CLH #2 - letter to Ed Wilkins 1890 1890 Jan: 1 Am writing this - 9 pm in my room Mickle street - pretty feeble & gradually failing to all appearance (& fine inherent feeling) --- -- grow weaker in my legs -- dull and weighty in head -- eyes dimmer --- almost deaf at times 925 2 paid 15.25 Bellstein & Co: plate printer Filbert St. " 7.14 to Camden Gas Office " 2 to CLH 8 sent "A Death-Bouquet" to Franklin File Sun Office NY. (1205 Broadway too) paid +10. published 26 sent "Osceola" to Melville Philips, "Press" paid off +10 27 sent big book (mail) to JV Blake 21 Laflin st Chicago paid $6.40 29 visit from Mr Muny on Melville Phillips & the two photographers - the latter "took me" in my room (for two big books) THE THREE AMERICAS. ----- Central and South America embrace an area a little greater than twice the extent of county in the United States and Territo- ries, and a population of about fifty millions, or about one-sixth smaller than the popula- tion of the republic. Mexico covers an area just about equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River, exclusive of the States of Louisiana and Mississippi and has ten mil- lion inhabitants. The five Central American republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicara- gua and Salvador cover an extent of country about the size of the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois, and have a population equal to both New York and Indiana. Brazil's area is somewhat greater than that of the United States, exclusive of Alas- ka, and her population is about that of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Argentine Republic, with about half the area of the United States, has a popula- tion not quite as large as Pennsylvania. Columbia is nearly equal in extent to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, with a population probably a little less than that of New York State. Bolivia's territory is somewhat greater than that of the Atlantic States, Pennsylva- nia, Ohio and Michigan, and her population is about Indiana's figure. Peru is a little larger than the Atlantic States, Pennsylvania, and her popula- tion is about that of Illinois. Venezuela is larger than Peru by about as much territory as is embraced in New Jer- sey, and her population is about equal to Indiana's. Ecuador could contain Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois, but her population is not quite up to that of Michigan alone. Chili's domain cut up would make States as extensive as Ohio, Pennsylvania and In- diana; her population is somewhat greater than that of Indiana. Paraguay is big enough to include Ohio and New York within her borders, but her entire population scarcely exceeds that of Cleveland. Uruguay is not quite as large as Ohio and Indiana combined, and has just about the same number of inhabitants as Brooklyn, N. Y. The Guianas are English, French and Dutch colonies. British Guiana, twice as large as Ohio, has just about the population of Cleveland. French Guiana, somewhat larger than Ohio, has about as many inhab- itants as Toledo. Dutch Guiana, nearly as large as Pennsylvania, has not more inhab- itants than Columbus, (Cleveland Plain Dealer.) Camden Jan : & February 1890 Feb : 3 sent "the Commonplace" poemet and "the Voice" prose & ¶ (abt common school teachers) [*$20 due me*] sent "complement" book to Ed: Wilkins [*rec'd*] sent pk't b'd L of G to. Bancroft Wash'n (rec'd) 6 sent big book to Prof: John W. Cook Normal, Ill: bill [*paid*] (6.40) to Mr Hawley Smith, Peoria, Ill [*pay rec'd*] postal to Dr. Hawley 308 Warren St. Syracuse NY. sent request to James Knowles Nineteenth Century [*MS return'd*] 10 Rec'd letter fm Leonard Morgan Brown, Eng: [5£ not enc:*] sent $45.50 to Mr. Currie Blackwood, for Ed's board 2 to Han - 2 to Mrs. Mapes 26 poemet "A Twilight Song" accepted by Century [*paid $25*] bo't new cord oak wood March 11 -sent answers to "Illustrated American" NY 20 the piece by young Mr Cate in "Morning News" I sent copies to many friends April 3 paid the gas bill $7 (7.36, 36 off) presented Dr. Brinton with big book 4 ab't 3 pm have sent copies of Dr. Brinton's Bruno to Symond, Tenyson, Sarrazin, Rolleston, Dr. Bucke, Wm Rossetti -Have had a very bad week, night & day, probably the grip - two or three days ab't as sick & dismal as I have ever been -- this afternoon better, even pretty - sweated freely the last 30 hours new togs (coat, vest, trousers) of the Canada gray cloth sent me by [?] grey cloth f'm (a store) by young Harry Twoes 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 -grip continued till May 1 - bad nightmare fit night 11th Tom Donaldson here evn'g 11th (Warry was over there to his house. cor: 39th and Baring - 13th) s.w. cor: [14] 13 easier but bad enough yet - told H T. I sh'd try to deliver the Lincoln Death Piece in Phila; Tuesday night (may break down tho') was out in wheel chair 40 minutes 14 continue better - ate 4 raw oysters for breakfast, Melville Phillips and Mr. Munyon here - took the two big books - paid $10 David McKay here pays me $58:15 Royalty (Ser statement this date) 15 Even'g went over in carriage (Mrs. D and Warren with me) to Phila., to Art Gallery Broad St. & deliver'd the "Death of Lincoln" piece - all went well - this might be the 13th time & is probably the last J M Stoddart Lippincotts Phila: 715 Market Critic 52 Lafayette Place New York Ariv'd my many buffets Camden 1890 April 16 April Letter & proposition (offer, request) from Dodd, Mead & Co. 753 Broadway, New York, to write book (60,000 words) ab't Abr'm Lincoln - pay to be to me 10cts - 10 per cent - on the books sold - or $500 in lump- rec'd letter f'm ( & answer'd [sent pictures in big envelope]) Bernard O'Dowd, Supreme Court Library [*sent paper with picts in*] Melbourne, Victoria 18 Three bad deadly=feeling days - 19, 20, 21 same 22 to 27 21 Stoddart comes inviting me to write for Lippincott's magazine Horace T. comes with the item (f'm a letter seen by Frank Williams Phila.) of Tennyson's criticism on L of G. 22 the piece "WW's last public" in Post f'm the Boston Transcript (I send off copies) same piece printed in London Eng: Pall Mall Gaz: May 24 [Many] quite a number of offers f'm publishers, magazine editors, & heads of newspaper syndicates these times 24 sent "Old Age Echoes" (4 pieces "[Signs from] sounds of winter" "the unexpress'd," "to the sunset breeze" and "after the argument") - to Stoddart, Lippincott's to make a full page - $60 & 12 copies- [*paid rec'd*] the third warm day 27 sent MS "O Captain! My Captain!" to Horace Furness 28 rec'd Deed for Cemetery Lot - (Harleigh C) note f'm J M Stoddart, asking leave to print the four poemets separate - ans'd yes [*paid $60*] the American (Phila. April 26) with Tennyson's criticism 29 100 from Dr S Weir Mitchell & Horace Furness May 1 sent complete works (big book) - the MS of "O Captain" - & an envelope with portraits to Dr Mitchell 1524 Walnut st: Phila the May Century publishes "A Twilight Song" Herbert calls May 10 ['90] This address will find me for year & a half from the 10th of May 1890. 1890 Herbert H. Gilchrist: The Moses Jarvis Farm. (Centre Port Cove) Centre Port Suffolk County. [Long Island] New York H. calls it "paradise" it is a stone throw from LI Sound David L. Lezinsky box 211 Berkeley Cal [*(left May 18*] [1607 Post May 13 1890] Edw[ard]in R. Stead 2226 Jefferson St Phila: CH Luttgens Hammonton New Jersey D.G. Johnston & Co. Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and Silver Ware 17 Union Square Cor. Broadway & 15th St. Fine Printings Bronzes and Porcelains New York. Aldine, Decatur Street, First House from Beach, Cape May City, N.J. Camden 1890 May May 1 fine sunny day, good temperature a sort of let up to-day - but my head (physical brain no doubt) a little sore and achy. 10 proofs of "Queen Victoria's Birthday" & read "On on the same, ye jocund twain!" from Curtz Fred: Vaughan here 12 sent "On' on the same, yet jocund twain" to Gilder Century - 20 [*rejected*] sent $2 to H - out in wheelchair 13 David L. Lezinsky (a short drive in the hansom) Mary D gone to Doylestown Dr Burke here ("Aldine" Cape May) 14 went out in the hansom (Ed: Stead) [*driving*] to Westmont to the toll gate (Clive's) - call'd at the Cemetery - how beautiful it all looks! a long drive on the Haddon road - I enjoyed it - the longest "outing" for two years, nearly - -warm day - slight west breeze - feeling pretty well 17 a good long ride in hansom to Pea Ridge Shore the imminent accident (dangerous) at Market St: wharf deposited $160 in bank. 18 paid Oldach & Co $44.41 in full to date Sunday - bright sunny Dr B's piece "L of G. & Modern Science" in "Conservator" 19 Monday - drive to Gloucester - warm - gave Two Riv: to Ed the fourth day of feeling fairly Edwin R [Pease] Stead 2226 Jefferson St Phila: 22 sent H. Buxton Forman, London a package by express - books & pictures [*rec'd*] - paid for by him 26 rec'd letter f'm Edw'd Carpenter $203 65/100 f'm him Myles Ford Wm Thompson & Mr & Mrs Roberts letter f'm J Johnston & JW Wallace Anderston, near Chorley, Lancashire 31 Saturday Evng - Complimentary Birthday Supper in Phila: 5th St: Reisser's restaurant - 7 to 10 pm- 30 to 35 at table - Ingersoll's grand speech, never to be forgotten by me David L Lewinsky care OK Lerris Hotel Butte City Montanta Camden June 1890 & July June 1 Sunday - To day I commence my 72d year. Dr Bucke left here for Danbury Conn: He is due in home London on Wednesday next June 3d I am feeling stupid and very sluggish but no particular pain or physical bother - eat my meals heartily 3 sent books by Express to Mrs J M Sears, Southborough Menu: [*paid rec'd paid*] 4 sent by express books to David L Lewinsky [*also letter*] care OK Lerris Hotel Butte City Montana [*rec'd paid*] great heat to-day - three hot days 4th 5th & 6th & 7th Dr B arrived safe home in Canada 8th Sunday - pleasantly cool - out in wheel chair two hours 11 sent letter to "City Surveyor" ab't wrong number next door hot day - thunder shower at night 12 sent MS "O Captain" and portraits to Chs Aldrich Des Moines Iowa [*rec'd paid me $5*] 13 sent pocket book ed'n to Col. Ingersoll NY. RGJ sent me the beautiful "prose/poems" book 18 paid water bill for 1890 - $8 18, 19, & 20th fine days, sunny, cool enough 21 sent morocco L of G. to E S Marsh, Brandon Vt. [*paid*] some hot weather - go out at sunset in wheel chair 30 sent pocket b'k ed'n L of G to Peter Eckler 35 Fulton St NY City July 1 sent the big book & morocco b'd pocket bk form L of G. to Miss Drewry 143 King Henry's Road South Hampstead, London, Eng. [*rec'd paid £2 8s*] 3 paid gas bill $4.10 for April, May & June 1890 hot, hot weather (good rain yesterday & last night) - lots of black berries 8 hot-hot-hot.-- send 5 to H and 5 to Mrs M [*rec'd*] rec'd honey f'm Lüttgens, Hammonton go out sunset time wheel chair 10 Wyoming admitted to-day - with Idaho now there are 44 states in the US 11 Sent Dr Bucke's WW to O'Dowd, Melbourne Vict: [*rec'd*] Visit f'm J E Reinhalter & Ralph Moore ab't vault for cemetery - design of JER --sent letters to BO'D July 12 "WW's quaker traits" by K in "Conservator" Philadelphia Inquirer. [PHILID]ELPHIA, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 1, 1890.—TWELVE PAGES. ute, repeats that interests is the [e]n allowing," es generally s, our case [t]o expect any im- e will aside tian HONORS TO THE POET Walt Whitman's Friends Help Him Celebrate His Birthday. COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERSOLL MAKES AN ELOQUENT ADDRESS. A Pleasant Discussion of the Peculiar Religious Tenets Held by the Great Orator—The Author of "Leaves of Grass" States His Views on Immortality. Walt Whitman, the author of "Leaves of Grass," "Drum Taps" and other volumes of poems, entered yesterday upon his 72d year. His Philadelphia admirers thought the occasion a most favorable one to testify their respect for the venerable poet, and followed up the recent demonstration in his honor in the city of his residence with a birthday banquet, to grace which they seculed the presence of Colonel Robert G. honors of the evening. The entertainment took place at Reisser's Restaurant, Fifth street, above Chestnut, Dr. Daniel G. Brinton presided, and the company congratulated themselves on having with them, as some of them said, the "greatest poet and the greatest orator in America." Colonel Ingersoll made the first speech, congratulating Walt Whitman—nobody called the poet by any other name—on being the first true poet of democracy and showing to the American people the poetry that is in common things, in every-day employments, in the common people. He was the modern American Homer, inasmuch as his poems were a perfect mirror of the times in which he lived. "If," said the colonel, "an antiquarian a thousand years hence should desire to know what America was between 1860 and the centennial days and should by chance come upon 'Leaves of Grass,' he would find there every interest and every occupation of the period fully depicted, from the forests of Maine to the turpentine woods of North Carolina. THE ORATOR'S WORD PICTURES. "Whitman had taught the American people the dignity of manhood and womanhood. He had written years beyond his time. We wanted somebody to talk about the things of every day and to make them poetic. There is not a man in the world who ever painted a beautiful picture of a palace. It can't be done: there are too many straight lines. When we want the picturesque we paint a cottage, and as you look at that cottage you don't think there's a mortgage on it, but you admire its vineclad beauty and think of the happy fireside within. No man ever painted a beautiful picture of a queen in her robes; the woman is lost in drapery. Let me give you a picture: An old blacksmith and his wife have gone to see their white-robed, flower-crowned daughter made Queen of May, and as they look at her with wonder in her fresh young loveliness, they ask themselves how ever did it come to pass that we are the parents of such a beautiful child? And so may you take the children of the average man's brain and dress them in words—not beyond recognition, but so that what you write will look beautiful to him. That is what the great poet does, that is what the great orator does. Nothing more, nothing less. "In every country somebody, from the earliest times to these, has been cringing before somebody else. Even here in America there is a tendency to bow down before the President, the servant of the people; hired at so much a day—and the people; by the way, are usually very glad to pay him off and discharge him when his time is out. But there is that tendency to cringe, and it needed somebody to teach the nation that man and woman are the highest titles—plain man and plain woman, and that you, Walt Whitman, have done and I thank you for it." He congratulated the poet on having outlived detraction, and on having lived long enough to prove the intellectual inferiority of his detractors, and to find himself cordially appreciated. THE COLONEL'S RELIGION. Colonel Ingersoll took occasion to ventilate his peculiar theological views, but with gentleness and courtesy, avoiding any offensive slurs upon that faith in immortality which Whitman is known to cherish. He hoped, he said, that everybody would find his wishes realized, provided those wishes were good; and those who hoped for immortality might attain it. He did not deny the possibility of a future life; indeed, for aught he knew, there might be one. "I believe," said he, "as firmly as I believe that I am, that all men do as they must, and that that is the only possible justification for the human race. There may come a time—there may be another world, when we shall be great enough to look back upon this and see why all things, vices and virtues, could not have been otherwise than as they were." These remarks were chiefly interesting because after the other speeches they led to a discussion, Walt Whitman having evidently been turning the subject over in his mind. Colonel Ingersoll was followed by Dr. Buck, of Canada, and he by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who said that the first he knew of "Leaves of Grass" was receiving the book as a present from a friend. While he was looking over it his little son, then aged 6, sat on his knee, and he read to the child the poem, describing the battle between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard, upon which the little fellow delivered this criticism: "Papa, the man who wrote that must be a buster." Speeches were also made by Frank Williams, Hon. H. C. Harned, Harrison Morris, Horace Traubel and Dr. Brinton. THE POET'S FEELING WORDS. After the speaking Mr. Whitman reverted to Colonel Ingersoll's tribute to his poems, pronouncing it the culmination of all commendation that he had ever received. Then, his mind still dwelling upon the colonel's doubts, he went on to say that what he had in his mind when he wrote "Leaves of Grass" was not only to depict American life, as it existed, and to show the triumphs of science and the poetry in common things, but also to show that there was behind it all something which rounded and completed it. "For "what," he asked, "would this life be without immortality and the infinite? It would be but as a locomotive, the greatest triumph of modern science, with no train to draw. If the spiritual is not behind the material, to what purpose is the material? What is this world without a Divine purpose in it all?" Colonel Ingersoll repeated his former argument in reply, taking the opportunity to pitch orthodoxy. Among those present were: Cornelius Stevenson, Mrs. Baldwin, Professor Felix E. Shelling, Mr. and Mrs. Talcott Williams, John J. Boyle, the sculptor; Wm. Henry Walsh, Carl Edelheim, Wilson Eyre, Lewis C. Smith, Mrs. Balch, Judge Boyle and others. IN STATE POLITICS Colonel Bayne Has a Walkove[r] in Allegheny County. MIXED RESULTS IN S[E] THE COUN[TY] Hasting Ca Dauphi an[d] COL[ONEL] The THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER—SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 1. 1890 [[???]]S TIGHTENING [[???]] WHO WILL HAVE [[???]]GE AND JURY. Which Will Force [[???]]liar Methods Syndicate. while the [[???]]holders for NO AID FOR FARMERS Carlisle Sharply Criticises the Warehouse Banking Bill. RAPID PROGRESS ON THE TARIFF The Senate Finance Committee Has Nearly Disposed of Schedules A, B and C With But Few Changes—An Early Report Probable. [WAS]HINGTON, May 31.—To B. F. How[[???]] [Tus]kegee, Ala., Senator Carlisle has [[???] leng]thy letter in response to Mr. [[???]] for the Senator's views [[???]]al sub-treasury proposi[tion] [[???]]lls before Congress to [[???] wa]rehouses for farm [[???]]ry to be oper[???] [[???]] to issue its [[???]]. Mr. [[???]] be THE PRESIDENT AT PITTSBURG. ENTHUSIASTICALLY RECEIVED BY THE SCOTCH-IRISH CONGRESS. Ringing Speeches by Governor Campbell, of Ohio, and Rev. Dr. John Hall, of New York, on the Ulsterman. PITTSBURG, May 31.—President Harrison and party arrived in this city at 7 o'clock this morning. They were received by the Mayor, a brass band, and a military company, and were driven to their hotel. President Harrison held a reception at Mechanical Hall, Exposition building, at 9 o'clock. Three thousand people shook hands with him. He was the guest of the Scotch-Irish Congress. After the reception the meeting was addressed by Governor Campbell, of Ohio. The reception at the hall lasted half an hour, and at its conclusion three cheers were given and the Presidential party returned to Union Station. A large crowd gathered to see him leave. He held an informal reception among the [[???] su]perintendent Pitcairn ac[???] THE BELMONT RACES. St. Elmo and Allen Maid Win the Two Events. The most successful trotting and pacing meeting held in this vicinity in years was brought to a close at Belmont Course yesterday. The weather was delightful, and the track in fine condition. There were only two events on the programme, but it took six heats to finish one of them. A feature of the afternoon's sport was trial against time by William Disston's double team Beaconsfield and Plowboy. The mile was trotted without a skip in 2.24, beating the best previous time made by the team by 3 seconds. The quarters were made as follows: Quarter, .36½; half, 1.11½; three-quarters, 1.49; mile, 2.24. The first race called was the 2.20 class, with Maud Muller, St. Elmo and Seymour Belle as the starters. At the second scoring the trio was sent off to a good start. St. Elmo broke at the first turn, dropping back several lengths, Maud Muller sped along to the head of the stretch, when St. Elmo came up, and all three had fine race to the wire, Maud Muller winning by a short neck. In the second heat the horses went to the back stretch bunched, Maud leading slightly. Just before reaching the half-mile post St. Elmo made a skip, and fell back a few lengths. On the upper turn Seymour Belle collared the leader, and when Maud broke Seymour Belle came on and won. In the third heat Belle led nearly to the half-mile post, where she broke, nearly coming to a standstill. St. Elmo took the lead and was not headed thereafter, winning in 2.23. In the fourth hear Seymour Belle broke at the turn, but overtook St. Elmo on the stretch, and won in 2.24. The great race of the day was in the fifth heat. Seymour Belle and St. Elmo trotted to the half like a double team. Then the Belle broke and St. Elmo forged ahead. When Seymour Belle settled down she was sent along at a terrific pace. There was a driving finish, St. Elmo winning by a short head in 2.21¼. Maud Muller was drawn before the sixth heat, and St. Elmo and Seymour Belle went off at the first attempt. They [] went like a double team to the half-mile post, when the Belle broke and St. Elmo forged ahead and won the heat and race, nearly distancing Seymour Belle, in 2.21¼. Allen Maid, Black York and Elva Medium started in the 2.17 pacing race. Allen Maid was too fast for the field and won in straight heats. In the second heat Elva Medium made a bad break at the start and ran to the quarter post before settling. She showed a remarkable burst of speed on the back-stretch, but again broke at the three-quarter post. She managed to save her distance by running. In the third heat Alien Maid broke at the quarter post and Elva Medium led to the back turn, where she broke. Black York lead to the head of the stretch, where Allen Maid passed him, and won the heat and race handily in 2.17¼. Summary: 2.20 CLASS—PURSE, $500. Oriole Stable's b. g. St. Elmo (Hentschel)................... 2 2 1 2 1 1 John E. Turner's b. m. Seymour Belle (Turner)......... 3 1 2 1 2 2 A. B. DeHart's ch. m. Maud Muller (De Hart)............ 1 3 3 3 3 dr Time—2.21¾, 2.21, 2.23, 2.24, 2.21¼, 2.21¼. 2.17 CLASS (PACINO)—PURSE, $500. John Trout's blk. m. Allen Maid (Trout)................................. 1 1 1 John Keenan's blk. g.Black York(Koster) ..................................... 2 2 2 A. A. Wright's b. m. Elva Medium (Wright)............................... 3 3 3 Time—2.18½, 2.21½, 2.17¾. THE LATONIA RACES. Three Out of Five Favorites Win the Races. CINCINNATI, May 31.—A dark sky lowered on Latonia this afternoon but no rain fell and the track was in excellent condition. Three favorites won in the five races, but considerable money was lost on Longshore in the third, and Georgetown was somewhat of a surprise in the last race. First Race.—Selling purse for 3-year-olds and upwards; one and one-sixteenth mile. Starters: Pluto, Hopeful, Alto, Castaway, Silver King, Silver Lake. Hopeful won, Silver King second, Castaway third. Time, 1.51½. Second—Purse for 2-year-old maiden fillies. Four furlongs. Starters: Laura Agnes, Mattie Parks, Sister Linda, Vienna, Park Ridge, Miss Hawkins, Marmora Caprice, Canto, Anne Elizabeth, Ina B., Mary MacGowan, Anne Elizabeth won by a head, Miss Hawkins second, Sister Linda third. Time, 50½. Third—Sweepstakes for 3-year-olds and upwards, mile and seventy yards. Starters: Ed Hopper, Longshore, Bettina, Lillian Lindsay, Ballyhoo, Cecil B., San Ardo. Cecil B. won, Longshore second, Ed Hopper third. Time, 1.47¾. Fourth.—Purse race for 3-year-old fillies; one mile. Starters: Rainbow, Mary H., Mary Mac. Camilla, Daisy F., Meadowbrook, Princess Glenn, Ban Amy, Julia Magee, Sister Geneva, Wildflower, Lottie S. Daisy F. won, Julia Magee second, Camilla third. Time. 1.43. Fifth.—The Harold Stakes for 2-year-olds; five furlongs. Starters: Carroll Reid, Labold, Tom Rogers, Harry Smith, Woodford, Gascon, King Solomon, Palestine, Bowen, Allan Bane, Georgetown, Bramblebush. Georgetown won by a neck, Gascon second, Allan Bane, third. Time, 1.02¾. MONDAY'S PROGRAMME. First Race.—One mile and seventy yards; selling. Ballyhoo, 107 pounds; Tom, 104; Eli, 103; Brookful, 106; Lucy P., 106; Bro Duke, 108; Bonaletta, 109. Second.—For 3-year-olds; one mile. Little Prince, 106 pounds; Rogers, 110; Crawfish, 110; Milldale, 110; Ja-Ja, 114; Hy Dy, 114; Outlook, 114; Uncle Bob, 117; Prince Fonso, 122. Third.—Handicap; one mile and a sixteenth. Osborne, 90; Remini, 95; Benson, 97; Nettie Johnson, 100; Ed Hopper, 100; Marehma, 103; Josie M., 103; Gymnast, 104; Gunshot, 105; Climax, 105; Birthday, 105; Hypocrite, 105; Catalpa, 108; Laura Davidson, 110. Fourth.—Merchants' Stakes; one mile and an eighth. Cecil B., 97; Heron, 112; Elyton, 121; King Regent, 107; Brandolette, 107; Teuton, 122; Rosemont, 97; Mount Lebanon, 101; Princess Bowling, 107; English Lady, 109; Ban Chief, 102; Mora, 92; Lillian Lindsay, 92; Newcastle, 117; Glockner, 122. Fifth.—Five furlongs; selling. Tenibirland, 98; Jeannette, 103; Emma Fields, 103; War Plot, 112. To-morrow's Brighton Entries. SPECIAL TO THE INQUIRER. BRIGHTON BEACH, May 31.—The entries for Monday's races are as follows: First Race.—Seven furlongs; selling. Student, 113 pounds; Vindex, 112; Wilfred Jay, 103; Savage, 100; Adonis, 100; Dave S., 103; Troy, 106; Pocatelo, 109; The Doctor, 110; Little Addie, 11; Pommery See, 101; Eugene Brodie, 100; Blondin, 93; Wah-ta-wah gelding, 96. Second.—Seven furlongs; selling. Long Branch, 124 pounds. Rudolph, 115; Lancaster, 112; Supervisor, 109; Bonanza, 109; Harwood, 109;Tramp, 109; Mulligan, 109; Bessie K., 106; Hairspring, 110; Stumber, 104; Raveller, 103; Souvenir, 98; Frank Wheeler, 101. Third.—Half a mile; selling. Terence, 118 pounds; Zenobia, 115; Maggie O, filly, 115; King Iro, 108; Cascade, 108; Tourist, 108; Repent, 105; Leonavid, 104; Francis S., 103; Kate Clark, 105; Planette filly, 101; John M., 100; Volo, 98; O, I. C., 98; Fleetfoot, 98; Mary H., 95; Contessa filly, 95. Fourth.—Five furlongs, Coldstream, 114 pounds; Red Elm, 114; Fitzroy, 114; Brian Boru, 114; Lighthouse, 114; Gounod, 114; Burton, 114; King Arthur, 114; Bertelle, 96; Faustina, 96; Ban Lassie, 96; Little Jake, 112; Little Moore, 112; Prince Edward, 112; Japhet, 112; Osceola, 109; America, 107; Cotillion, 107; Ratalpa, 101; Sam Morse, 101; Franco, 101; Volette, 101. Fifth.—Three-quarters of a mile. Jack Rose, 122 pounds; Prince Howard, 122; Ratalpa, 122; John Atwood, 107; Centaur, 107; Warlike, 107: Hemet, 107: Gratitude, 107; Sam Love, 107; Volette, 107; Insignia colt, 107; Spendall, 107; Urbana, 102. Sixth.—One mile. Cotillion, 105 pounds; Prodigal, 105; Gardner, 105; Beck, 105; King Crab, 105; Brian Boru, 105; Glory, 105; Juggler, 105; Reclare, 105. Seventh.—One mile and an eighth; selling. Zephyrus, 112 pounds; Jittle Jim, 106; Maia, 103; John Arkins, 102; Subaltern, 96; Pocatello, 96[;] General Gordon, 96; Minuet[, [????]] RACING AT WILM[INGTON] Brewery Boy, Minnie [[???]] Pitcher [[???]] SPECIAL TO TH[[???]] WILMINGTON, Ma[y [??].—[???]]nee races of the se[[???]] Wilmington fair gr[[???]] despite the thres[[???] [???]]sons witnessed th[[???]] The first race [[???]] easily by John[[???] [???]]evr Boy in [[???]] Coy, Wil[mington] second, P[[???] [???]]ing Ha[[???]] The [[???]] Iron [[???]] strai[[???]] Wi[[???]] thi[[???]] [[???]] at[[???]] W[[???]] se[[???]] st[[???]] 2.[[???]] Camden Post June 2 1890 INGERSOLL'S SPEECH. He Attends the Celebration of Walt Whitman's Seventy-second Birthday. Walt Whitman is now in his seventy -second year. His younger friends, literary and personal, men and women, gave him a complimentary supper last Saturday night, to note the close of his seventy-first year, and the late curious and unquestionable "boom" of the old man's wide-spreading popularity and that of his "Leaves of Grass." There were fifty or sixty in the room, mostly young, but some old or beginning to be. The great feature was Ingersoll's utterance. It was probably, in its way, the most admirable specimen of modern oratory hitherto delivered in the English language, immense as such praise may sound. It was 40 minutes long, in a good voice, low enough and not too low, style easy, altogether without mannerism, rather colloquial (over and over again saying "you" to Whitman who sat opposite,) sometimes impassioned, once or twice humorous, amid his whole speech, from interior tires and volition, pulsating and swaying like a first-class Andalusian dancer. And such a critical dissection, and flattering summary! The Whitman-ites for the first time in their lives were fully satisfied; and that is saying a good deal. for they have not put their claims low, by a long shot. Indeed it was a tremendous talk. Physically and mentally Ingersoll (he had been working all day in New York, talking in court and in his office,) is now at his best like mellowed wine or a just ripe apple; to the artist-sense, too looks at his best, not merely like a bequeathed Roman bust or find smooth marble Cicero-head, or even Greek Plato; for he is modern and vital and veined and American, and (for more than the age knows,) justifies us all. We cannot give a full report of this most remarkable supper (which was curiously conversational and Greek-like) but must add the following significant bit of it. After the speaking and just before the close, Mr. Whitman reverted to Colonel Ingersoll's tribute to his poems, pronouncing it the culmination of all commendation that he had ever received. Then, his mind still dwelling upon the colonel's religious doubts, he went on to say that what he himself had in his mind when he wrote "Leaves of Grass" was not only to depict American life, as it existed, and to show the triumphs of science and the poetry in common things, and the full of an individual humanity, for the aggregate, but also to show that there was behind all something which rounded and completed it. "For "what" he asked, "would this life be without immortality? It would be as a locomotive the greatest triumph of modern science, with no train to draw. If the spiritual is not behind the material? What is this world without a further Divine purpose in it all? Colonel Ingersoll repeated his former argument in reply. can do, under be to wait until their time comes. There is no doubt that, in this matter, somebody's head is bound to fall on the block. The public is too much interested in the improvement of our present wretched water supply to allow any move in the game to pass unwatched, and every man who takes any part in conducting the affair will be marked by thousands of taxpayers and voters for future reward or punishment. THE AMERICAN Bank & Insurance Guarantee Co. Home Office-750 and 752 Broad St. Corner Clinton..............NEWARK, N.J. EDW. SCHICKHAUS, President. WM. SCHEERER, Treasurer. HENRY J. YATES, Vice President. JAMES F. CONNELLY, Manager. George G Felton, Second and Federal Sts. Camden, N.J. THE AMERICAN BANK AND INSURANCE GUARANTEE COMPANY issues certificates guaranteeing depositors against loss through failures of National, State or Saving Banks or Trust Companies. Cash Assets, $100.000.00. EDW. KANOUSE, President Merchants' National Bank, Newark, N.J. HENRY J. YATES, Wharton & Co., Hat Manufacturers, ex-Mayor, Newark, N.J. HENRY LANG, Patent Leather Manufacturer, ex-Mayor, Newark, N.J. JAMES SMITH, JR., Halsey & Smith, Patent Leather Manufacturers, Newark, N.J. GOTTFRIED KRUEGER, President German Savings bank, Newark, N.J. EDWARD SCHICKHAUS, President State Banking Company, Newark, N.J. S.S. SARGEANT, Sargeant Manufacturing Company, President Y.M.C.A., Newark, N.J. DR. WARREN A. JAMES, Physician, New York. LOUIS BEER, Merchant, New York. ALBERY FISHEL, General Agent U.S. Credit System Company, Chicago, Ill. JULIUS STAPFF, Treasurer Fidelity Title and Deposit Company, Newark, N.J. JAMES F. CONNELLY, Comptroller City of Newark, N.J. L. MAYBAUM, Actuary U.S. Credit System Company, Newark, N.J. WILLIAM SCHEERER, State Banking Co., Newark, N.J. DR. H.C.H. HEROLD, Physician, Newark, N.J. ANNUAL RATES OF PREMIUM. $1.00 guarantees Deposits not exceeding $300. $2.50 guarantees Deposits not exceeding $500. $1.50 guarantees Deposits not exceeding $1,000 $2.50 charged for each additional $1,000. CAMDEN GRAIN CO., Dealers In Flour, Grain, Feed, Seeds, Hay Straw, Salt, Truck Baskets, and Berry Boxes, 21 Market St. Camden, N.J NEW SERIES Merchantvile Building and Loan Association, MERCHANTVILLE, N.J. Subscriptions to stock in the Ninth series' will be received by DAVID S. STETSON, Presient, 114 Walnut St., Phila. M. Horner, Treas., 47 S. Second Street, Phila. I.S. Nekervis. 216 Market Street, Phila. TENANTS WILL PLEASE FORWARD TO LANDLORDS. STATEMENT AMOUNT, VALUATION AND DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY. For which W Whitman is assessed in the 3 Ward of the City of Camden, for the year 1890. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY 328 Miekle 1 H. 20X100 VALUE OF REAL ESTATE 800 VALUE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. TOTAL VALUE OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY You are hereby notified that a tax is assessed upon you for the year 1890, in the City of Camden, by reason or respect of the property mentioned in the foregoing statement. The Commissioners of Appeal of said City, will meet at THE CITY HALL, in said City, on the Second Monday in JULY, NEXT, and every day thereafter for one week, at 10 o'clock in the morning, and remain in session until 8 o'clock in the evening. JOHN CORBITT, 915 S. Fifth Street, J. O. NICHUALS, 901 N. Second Street, WM. J. THOMPSON, 402 Jackson Street, D. B. MURPHY, 326 N. Second Street, THOS. P. CURLEY, 552 Federal Street, City Assessors. J. F. NEWTON, Clerk, City Hall, Dated Camden, N. J., 1890. PLEASE BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU. Bills Must be Paid at the Office of the Gas Company. DISCOUNT OF FIVE PER CENT, on bills of $1.00 and upwards for Gas paid at the Office of the Company, 432 Federal Street, between the hours of 8 A. M. and 4 P. M. WITHIN FIVE DAYS after presentation. Reg. 15335 W Whitman Premises, 398 [?] To the CAMDEN GAS LIGHT COMPANY, Dr. For Gas consumed from April 1st to July 1st, 1890 State of Meter at this Date, 440 00 Less do. at last Settlement, 413 00 Consumption 24 00 at 1.60 per 1,000 feet, $4.32 Less 5 per cent, discount for prompt payment, Bill presented July 1st, $22 No discount allowed after July 6th, Received Payment, $4.10 SERVICE BILL. [?] Treasurer. 2. Gas will be supplied by the meter, and should the meters be found defective, they will be immediately changed. And in case of their ceasing to register the quantity of Gas consumed, the account will be made by the average of another meter, or by the amount charged during the previous corresponding period, at the discretion of the Company. SEC. 9.--The Company's Inspector, and other authorized agents, shall, at all times, have the right of free access into the premises lighted with Gas, for the purpose of examining the whole Gas apparatus, or for the removal of the meter and service pipe. SEC. 10.--The tenant of any premises using Gas shall give at least three days' notice at the office of the Company whenever he is about to remove, that the Gas may be stopped, or he will remain liable for any Gas that may pass through the meter until such notice be given. SEC. 12.-IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT FOR GAS CONSUMED, OR SERVIE PIPE LAID WITHIN TEN DAYS after a bill is rendered, or in case of a leak, or injury done to the meter or pipes within the premises of any consumer, THE FLOW OF GAS MAY BE STOPPED UNTIL THE BILL IS PAID, or the necessary repairs are made. POST PRINT. ALL BILLS FOR WATER RENT ARE PAYABLE AT THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THIS DEPARTMENT ONLY. Department for Supplying the City with Water. OFFICE, CITY HALL, HADDON AVENUE. OFFICE HOURS--From 9 A. M. until 3 P. M. MARCH 1, 1890. Mr. Walter Whitman To the CITY OF CAMDEN, Ar. WATER RENT FOR THE YEAR 1890, ON THE FOLLOWING PREMISES: WARD. | PAGE. | LINE. | From January 1, 1890, to January 1, 1891. | AM'T RENT. Dollars. Cts. | PENALTY. 5 ct. 10 ct. | Cost of turning off and on water. Dollars. Cts. | TOTAL. Dollars. Cts. | 3 | 44 | 17 | 328 Miekle Dr | 8 00 | | | 8 00 | [stamp] WATER DEPARTMENT, PAID JUN 18 1890 CAMDEN, N. J. [/stamp] Received payment, W. B. [?] Clerk. PLEASE BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU. REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES: - EXTRACTS FROM ORDINANACE REGULATING THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER.-SEC. 164. On the first of July, five per cent. will be added on all unpaid rents; on the first of September, ten per cent. SEC. 174. That hereafter when any water rent for water furnished on any premises in the City of Camden, or in the town of Pavonia, shall remain unpaid on the first day of September of any year, it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer of the Water Works to cause the supply thereof to such premises to be stopped until such water rent and the sum of fifty cents for costs and expenses for turning off and on said water are paid. SEC. 169. That all persons who shall intend to discontinue the use of water, shall give notice to the Clerk of the Water Department on or before the thirtieth day of November in any year, and on their failure to do so, shall be chargeable with and pay the whole rent for the next year ensuing. Sec. 23. The owner or owners of all Private Buildings shall pay the following rates per annum for water rents, viz: Hydrants in yard or kitchen, or both..................................$5.00 Baths.............................................................................each 3.00 Water Closet, self-acting and Hopper ..................... " 3.00 " " pan valve or reservoir................................... 2.00 Urinals.................................................................................... 2.00 Bidets or Hot Baths ............................................................. 1.00 Stationery Wash Stands...................................................... 1.00 " Wash Tubs.................................................each 1.00 Wash paves, 40 feet or under...............................................3.00 " " over 40 feet.....................................................5.00 A Screw Nozzle on the Hydrant (unless a pave wash is charged to the premises....................................... .3.00 Stores and Offices not connected with dwell- ing, Hydrant or Basin.................................................each 5.00 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Hydrants......................................................................each $6.00 Wash Basins or Sinks................................................ " 6.00 Water Closets, self acting........................................ " 6.00 " " reservoir........................................ " 3.00 Urinals...................................................................... " 4.00 HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. Hydrants for family use......................................................$6.00 Hotel Bars, with water........................................................10.00 " " without water.................................................. 5.00 Wash Basins...............................................................each 3.00 Slop Sinks..............................................................................5.00 Bath for use of 10 borders or under.................................5.00 Beer Pumps...............................................................$5.00 to $20.00 Water Closet, self-acting.......................................... each $6.00 " " pan valve or reservoir............................." 3.00 Stationery Wash Tubs...........................................................6.00 Kitchen, according to the capacity of each building, from.........................................................$5.00 to $50.00 Horse Troughs...........................................................each 6.00 Urinals...................................................................................4.00 Public Baths...............................................................each tub 9.00 BAKERIES AND ICE CREAM SALOONS. In addition to charge for dwelling..................................$5.00 Large establishments, according to capacity........each 10.00 Barber Shops............................................................." 10.00 Drug Stores............................................................... " 5.00 Counter Fountains................................................... " 5.00 STABLE. Stalls for horses and cows...................................... each $1.00 Washing Carriages...................................................each 1.00 STEAM ENGINES. Per Horse Power..................................................................$1.00 BUTCHERING ESTABLISHMENTS. According to capacity, from.......................................$5.00 to $50.00 Oyster Saloons - Bar with water.........................................10.00 -without water......................................5.00 Laundries, from..........................................................$5.00 to $50.00 Bottling establishments, from...................................$5.00 to $50.00 Water rates not specified, for any other purposes, to be fixed by the Water Commissioners. No water rate to be less than $5.00 per annum. City Hall Water Department (money enclosed) Water bill 1890-91 paid June 18, 1890 call'd early in July '90 & left the plan of vault P. Reinhalter & Co. Monumental Manufacturers, Office 18 South Broad Street, Quarries and Works at West Quincy, Mass. PHILADELPHIA, PA. P. REINHALTER. J.F. REINHALTER. R. F. REINHARDT DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER AND BOOKSELLER, No. 23 S. Ninth St., PHILADELPHIA. OLD BOOKS BOUGHT AND SOLD. (Immanuel God - with - us) J Johnston 26 Manchester Road, Bolton. J. W. Wallace Anderton M Charley Dr J here July 15 '90 return'd safely to Eng ROME BROTHERS, PRINTERS, 76 MYRTLE AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N.Y. --It may be just as well to mention that Uncle Sam's dominion extends a little more than half way around the globe. Therefore, when any of Her Majesty's subjects get off that chestnut about the sun never settling on the British dominions, we can brag of the same thing too. The distance from the easternmost point in Maine to the westernmost island in Behring Sea, is a little more than 195 degrees of longitude, so that it is full sun up in Maine before it is sundown in Behring Sea. [Springfield Republican. Mrs. Margarete L Avery 185 Sterling Place Brooklyn New York charge of the New Jersey department of the Philadelphia Press. Julius Chambers, who is now editor of the Sunday edition of the World, and has been managing editor of the Herald and of the World, was formerly city editor of the Philadelphia Times, W. C. Reick, city editor of the Herald, graduated from the city staff of the Philadelphia Bulletin, Arnold Place, assistant city editor of the Herald, was once city editor of the Philadelphia News. A. H. Hoeckley, city editor of the Journal, was formerly city editor of the Philadelphia Press. Ex-assistant city editor of the Press W. A. Hoy is now on the city staff of the New... Dr. Hepworth's Vacation. Rev. Dr. Hepworth, the editor of the New York Herald, under James Gordon Bennett, has started away on the first vacation he has taken since he assumed the home management. His vacation is unlimited, that is, he may stay away as long as he chooses, and meanwhile Mr. John Russell Young becomes responsible to Mr. Bennett for the management of the paper during Dr. Hepworth's absence. HOLLAND. The same paper produced W. Harding Davis, of the Evening Sun. L. N. Megargee, a syndicate writer, and H. L. Stoddard, once of the ill-fated Graphic, are graduates of the Philadelphia Press. This is not a complete list, by any means, though a representative one, of the Philadelphia Journalists who have made their mark in New York newspaper offices. The appointment this week E. O. Chamberlain as city editor of the World suggests to a friend of mine, who is an ex-Philadelphia Journalist, the interesting fact that a remarkably large number of prominent New York newspaper men received their professional training in Philadelphia newspaper offices. Mr. Chamberlain was formerly in... JOHN H. JOHNSTON. ALBERT EDW. JOHNSTON. J. H. JOHNSTON & CO., DIAMOND MERCHANTS AND JEWELERS. 17 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK. COR. BROADWAY & 15TH ST. ESTABLISHED, 1844. CHARLES L. WEBSTER & CO. PUBLISHERS, Library of American Literature, Personal Memoirs of [?] Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan Mark Twain's Books And other Standard Works, THREE EAST FOURTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK, CITY. [*C.M. WILLIAMS, MANAGER.*] Harrison 227 So 4" Street S Morris Philada Aug 11/90 Erastus Brainerd Press newspaper Seattle Wash'n Camden July & August 1890 July 11 pleasant - not hot - J E Reinhalter & Ralph Moore call - the cemetery mauseloum design feeling pretty well these days 15 Dr. Johnston here - hot, hot day 17 still hot - Dr. Johnston left this afternoon for Brooklyn [*return'd to Eng: safely*] (Andrew Rome's) not at Dr. B's 20 sent $5 to H Burlington Vt, [*rec'd*] 19th, 20th two fine cool days 20th, 1st, 2'd, 3d, 4th very pleasant cool enough 25 the Dr. Bucke WW book came back f'm PO & I put 9ct more postage (21cts altogether) - to go to Bernard O'Dowd, Melbourne -(went thro safe rec'd at last) 28 sent big book to Wm Payne Woodleigh, the Thicket Southsea, Portsmouth Eng: paid 1.11£s diet - bread & honey (good); potatoes, onions & green beans, stew'd mutton & rice, moderate supply of meat, pie &c Aug: 1 paid Ed's board at Blackwood $45.50 to Mr. Currie two fearfully hot days 4 sent "an old man's rejoinder" to Critic ($10 & 20 slips) letter to WSK proof [*rec'd Aug 12*] [*($10 rec'd all paid)*] due me $20 fr'm Munyon's Weekly Phil for "the unexpress'd" & "the voice" & $6 for Morning Journal [*paid*] NY, 162 Nassau St NY 5 the baby Ethel Colkitt call'd 8 drew p o money orders $24.24 12 rec'd $58.80 for R Pearall Smith (thro A L Smith [3045] Chestnut St 1305 Arch St. Phila) for twelve copies pocket b'k b'd L of G. 13 sent big book to D McKay. (he has now two) 17 (Sunday) - "An Old Man's Rejoinder" in yesterday's Critic - instigated by the essay "Democratic Art" in J A Symonds's new vols nothing very new - my old points reiterated (hot day) James J. McK. Cattell Morton, Del Co. Pa. DAVID McKAY, PUBLISHER AND BOOKSELLER, No. 23 S, Ninth St., PHILADELPHIA. David L Lezinsky box [63] 211 Berkeley. Cal: ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. GREAT EASTERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS FORWARDEES. No. 180. [NOT NEGOTIABLE.] Camden, N. J. Aug 19 1890 RECEIVED of W Whitman One [?] Value 90 00 For which this Company charges Marked R P [?] London Eng Which it is mutually agreed to be forwarded to our Agency nearest or most convenient to destination only, and there delivered to other parties to complete the transportation. It is part of the consideration of this contract, and it is agreed, that the said Express Company ARE FORWARDERS ONLY, and are not to be held liable or responsible for any loss or damage to said property while being conveyed by the CARRIERS to whom the same may be by said Express Company entrusted, or arising from the dangers of Railroads, Ocean or River Navigation, Stream, Fire in Stores, Depots or in Transit, Leakage, Breakage, or from any cause whatever unless, in every case, the same be proved to have occurred from the fraud or gross negligence Camden August Sept : 1890 Aug 19 McKay sends over to know the price of fifty copies in sheets complete Works, plates, &c I send word $3 each ($150 the lot, paid) [*27th order the 50*] sent off by Express the parcel directed to R P Smith, 44 Grosvenor Road, the Embankment, London Eng - 14 pkt b'd L of G [*all rec'd*] books paid 2 complete wks for Edw'd Carpenter " " " " RPS sent letter (answer) to Symonds - (see envelope [*2d one from Symonds rec'd*] busy at 2d annex. 20 sent $5 to H (rainy yesterday last night & to-day) Ed Stead here - young Cady - good impression - widow 27 rec'd order f'm D McKay for 50 copies in sheets complete works ($150[*one*]) - wh' I sent to Oldach binder 1215 Filbert St : to make up [*packages made all sent away*] 28 sent pocket - bk L of G. to J W Wallace Eng [paid*] 29 sent the Hollandisk mems to WSK Sept: 1 - paid the City Taxes, $24.02 ("labor day", fine day, sunny cool) 8 sent pk't b'k L of G. to Geo: Horton, Chicago [*rec'd*] care Herald newspaper 9 sent Horton's little poem in press to various addresses 11 sent p't b'k ed'n L of G. to J W Wallace [*paid*] also pc cooler - wet & cloudy Mrs. D started for Downs, Kansas 13 wrote to Dr Bucke, Dr Johnston & J A Symonds 14th (Sunday) champagne & oyster dinner at Harned's 14 Mary in Kansas [*sent $5 16th*] - Harry and Becky married (15th) 15 -16th I sent "Poet Lore" with the Shakspere bit to several Symonds, Kennedy & Bucke 16 -Mrs: Doughty and Maggy here rainy spell - 4 days little poemet "to Walt Whitman" Geo Horton - Chicago Herald 19 Lou & Jessie here talk ab't Burlington visit letter f'm Mary Davis Kansas sent pk't b'k L of G. to Dr Johnston Bolton [*paid*] 21 composing (finishing) Preface to O'Connor's posthumous cool day my letter with $5 to Kansas [*rec'd safely*] [*Crooks*] 23 deposited $63.80 in bank (sent by Warry) fine sunny day, cool enough ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY GREAT EASTERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS FORWARDERS. No. 180 [NOT NEGOTIABLE.] Camden, N.J. Aug 19, 1890 Received of W Whitman One (?) Value 90.00 For which this Company charges Marked RP Smith London Eng Which it is mutually agreed is to be forwarded to our Agency nearest or most convenient to destination only, and there delivered to other parties to complete the transportation. It is part of the consideration of this contract, and it is agreed, that the said Express Company ARE FORWARDERS ONLY, and are not to be held liable or responsible for any loss or damage to said property while being conveyed by the CARRIERS to whom the same may be by said Express Company entrusted, or arising from the dangers of Railroads, Ocean or River Navigation, Steam, Fire in Stores, Depots, or in Transit, Leakage, Breakage, or from any cause whatever, unless in every case, the same beyond the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS, at which the article forwarded is hereby valued, unless otherwise herein expressed, or unless specially insured by them, and so specified in this receipt, which insurance shall constitute the limit of the liability of The Adams Express Company. And if the same is entrusted or delivered to any other Express Company, or Agent, (which said Adams Express Company are hereby authorized to do), such Company or person so selected shall be regarded exclusively as the agent of the shipper or owner, and as such, alone liable, and the Adams Express Company shall not be, in any event, responsible for the negligence or non-performance of any such Company or person; and the shipper and owner hereby severally agree that all the stipulations and conditions in this receipt contained, shall extend to and inure to the benefit of each and every Company or person to whom the Adams Express Company may entrust or deliver the above described property for transportation, and shall define and limit the liability therefor of such other Company or person. In no event shall The Adams Express Company be liable for any loss or damage unless the claim therefor shall be presented to them, in writing, at this office, within thirty days after this date, in a statement to which this receipt shall be annexed. All the articles of GLASS, or contained in glass, or any of a fragile nature, will be taken at Shipper's risk only, and the Shipper agrees that the Company shall not be held responsible for any injury, by breakage or otherwise, nor for damage to goods not properly packed and secured for transportation. It is further agreed that said Company shall not, in any event, be liable for any loss, damage or detention, caused by the acts of God, Civil or Military authority, or by Rebellion, Piracy, Insurrection, or Riot, or the dangers incident to a time of war, or by any riotous or armed assemblage. If any sum of money, besides the charge for transportation, is to be collected from the consignee on delivery of the above described property, and the same is not paid within thirty days from the date hereof, the Shipper agrees that this Company may return said property to him at the expiration of that time, subject to the conditions of this receipt, and that he will pay the charges for transportation both ways, and that the liability of this Company for such property while in its possession for the purpose of making such collection, shall be that of Warehousemen only. For the Company, Freight, C Daily Berlin & Jones Envelope Co., N. Y. BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU. Office of the Receiver of Taxes --- City Hall. OFFICE HOURS FROM 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. Paid Sept 1 '90 Mr WALT WHITMAN To The City of Camden, Dr. 1890. Folio 146 3 ward. BILLS WILL BE READY FOR DELIVERY AUGUST 20TH OF EACH YEAR WILLIAM A. HUSTED, Receiver of Taxes House No. LOCATION OF PROPERTY. Lot No. Value of real estate. Value of personal property. 328 Muckle 26 20x100 850 150 Total of real and personal State poll tax School tax Amount of taxes Total RATE, $2.451890. / / 2083 2528 445 126 24.02 City Appropriations. Police...........................53,800.00 Lighting.........................50,000.00 Salaries.................................28,000.00 Streets....................................35,000.00 Water.......................................45,000.00 To liquidate indebtedness.......10,000.00 Building Commission...................300.00 Fire.................................................52,000.00 Culverts...........................................17,000.00 Property.............................................4,500.00 Elections..............................................4,500.00 District Court.......................................3.650.00 Printing.................................................5,000.00 Contingent..............................................3,500.00 Board of health......................................1,000.000 Sanitary Committe.................................2,4000.00 Poor.........................................................1,800.00 Decoratipon G.A.R....................................100.00 Sidewalks.....................................................500.00 Total............318,050.00 Recieved the above Tax in full. Mr. A Husted Reciver of taxes Taxes will be reieved at the reciever of Taxes' Office, City Hall from Septemcer 1st to 30th, up to which time a discount of five per cent. for prompt payment will be allowed. From October 1st to the 20th the net tax will be collected. From October 20th intrest at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum will be added, also a cost of 36 cents on each and every property. The Reciever's Office will be open in the evening from September 27th to 30th from 7.30 P.M. to 9 P.M. ALL CHECKS MUST BE CERTIFIED TO BY THE BANK UPON WHICH THEY ARE DRAWN; OTHERWISE THEY WILL BE REFUSED. M. Gabriel Sarrizin 10 Rue Troyon Paris France magistrat Hotel Carame 153 Boulevard St Germain Noumea Nouvelle Caledonie (Colonies Françaises) letter f'm GS f'm Noumea dated July 3 1890 M Gabriel Sarrazin care M Leon Sarrazin a Saint Front-la-riviere par Saint Pourdoux (Dordogne) call'd on me Sept 9 John Harrison Manager Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict 832 Chestnut Street Philadelphia Oldach & Co. BOOKBINDERS 1215 Filbert Street, Philadelphia visited Camden Sept: '91 - goes to Providence RI Mrs: E M O'Connor 112 M St NW Washington DC Sept: '90 Dr L M Bingham 110 College street Burlington Vermont Mrs: Church CATALOGUE OF MINERAL CURIOSITIES TO BE FOUND ON THIS SOUVENIR 1. Gold Ore 11. Astrohyllite 2. Silver Ore 12. Agate 3. Lead Ore 13. Barite 4. Dendrite 14. Petrified Cedarwood 5. Iron Pyrites 15. Satin Spar 6. Malachite 16. Smoky Quartz 7. Finor Spar 17. Quartz Crystal 8. Chrysocolla 18. Sphalerite 9. Wood Jasper 19. Alabaster 10. Azurite 20. Amazon Stone Parties wishing to purchase these souvenirs will please address J.C. HIESTAND MANITOU, COLO. Curtz 104 South 2d cor Bridge av Poet-Lore 1602 Chestnut Phil: Charlotte Porter Helen A Clarke Camden Sept: & Oct: 1890 Sept: 28 Supper at TB Harned's - John Burroughs 29 letter f'm Mrs: O'Connor cold spell 30 sent the p'k't b'k L of G. to Wallace Eng: for the friend the talk of Ingersoll's address Phila: [*paid*] Oct: 1 rode out to Haleigh Cemetery (Ralph Moore's rig) to see the beginning of the burial tomb building - two men were at it digging - it is to be set back 15 or 20 feet from the lane - saw the architects there - - told them to have nothing artificial or ornamental must be consistent with the plain natural place, the turf the simple trees bank. fallen leaves, (death & burial) &c: - perfect sunny day - rode on some two miles - - enjoy'd all - Rall very kind - good company - 3 sent copies of the big book, Dr B's WW. & JB's Notes (with portraits WW in envelope) to Col: Ingersoll NY. rec'd good letter f'm BO'D Melbourne (sent letter to him) 6 sent the big book to Edw'd Browne 7 Norland place Holland Park London W. Eng - [*paid*] p'k't b'k L of G. to R K Greenhalgh, Bauk of Bolton, Bolton, Lancashire, Eng: [*paid*] 9 rec'd $44.80 for royalty f'm D McKay cooler sunny the Ingersoll lecture [Literature and] "Liberty in Literature" preparing to be given Evn'g Oct: 21, Horticultural Hall, Phila: (RGJ & all behave splendidly) I send 1: letter & suggestion sent off "Old Poets" to NA Review - NY. WH Rideing [*paid $75 & 25 slips*] 13 sent p'k't b'k L of G to J.W. Smith care WH Crossman 77 Broad St NY. $5 due [*paid rec'd*] visit f'm Margarette Avery - also Capt: Nowell 17 bo't & got in a cord of saw'd wood $8 fine sunny day cool enough 18 rec'd, read, & sent back proof of "Old Poets" to NA Rev: 20 last night somehow a very bad night with me - no sleep - dull & poorly to-day -- - the prospect, for the Ingersoll meeting to-morrow-night looks well - Horace has work'd like a beaver - Dr B is here - I feel in the midst of my best staunchest friends Camden October 1890 Oct: 20 sent pk't - b'k L of G. to Edward J Baidlie, Woodbine Upton Park, Chester Eng: [*paid*] 21 furnished D McKays (order) 50 (fifty) full sets in sheets of complete book ($3 a copy) -in addition to the 50 furn'd Aug: 27: sent McKay also a copy big book he now owes me for 3 ($12) 22 Well the Ingersoll lecture came off last evn'g in the Horticultural Hall, Broad St., Phila: -a noble, (very eulogistic to WW & L of G) eloquent speech, well responded to by the audience There were 1600 to 2000 people (choice persons) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45) I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my ratan chair, and at the last, spoke a very few words-- -A splendid success for Ingersoll, (& me too.) Ing had it written & read with considerable fire, but perfect ease. Warren & Mrs. D with me. Fine weather. 23 Dr B and Horace leave Phila: by RR for Canada Deposited $930.65 in Nat: St : Bank Camden cloudy rainy day have rec'd (& been reading all through) the well printed complete essay of RG Ingersoll "Liberty and Literature" & it permeates & satisfies, & explains itself splendidly to me, brain & heart - --(after all, I went to leisurely read & dwell on any profound or first rate piece - one thing is, my hecoring, is not to day real good. & another thing probably is I am rather slow any how) 25 signed & gave the contract for the burial house in Harleigh Cemetery with Reinhalter Bros: 18 South Broad st: Phila. Ralph Moore to be my representative & have charge & control. Ralph Moore here. Fine sunny forenoon - Horace in Canada. EC Stedman 137 West 78th St New York Nov. 1890 Logan Pearsall Smith, 13 Museum Terrace Oxford Eng: 44 States now "W.S." - The new States are North and South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Their capitals are, respectively, Bismarck, Pierre, Olympia, Helena. As the State Governments of Wyoming and Idaho have not yet been formed, their capitals have not been chosen. Mme. Alboni celebrated the completion of her seventy-fourth year last week at her house in the Cours la Reine, Paris. Notwithstanding her years, Mme. Alboni; it is said, sang the air from "The Prophet" with a powerful dramatic sentiment and a superb voice that recalled the brilliant triumphs of this incomparable Fides. Mrs. Mapes now Mrs. ME Stanley 717 M Street Atchison Kansas Jessie 2437 2d Carondelet Ave: St Louis The new States are North and South Dakota, Montana. Washington, Idaho and Wyoming. (Arthur Stedman 137 West 78th St New York City Moncure D Conway, 230 West 59th St: NY city Camden Oct and November 1890 Oct: 28 sent 4 big book by Express (with letter by mail) directed Mr Adams bookseller Fall River Mass cloudy & cool $16 [due] paid heavy congested, stupid & dull to-day sent letter to David L Lezinsky, p o box 63 Berkley, Cal: with paper RG Ingersoll's address "Liberty and Literature" is pub'd entire in "Truth-Seeker" weekly paper 28 Lafayette Place, New York City, Nov. 1, 1890 - got 30 of them either fr'm Bernard O'Dowd - letter to hire f'm me Nov 4 Gleeson White fr'm London, Eng. here 5 rec'd $16 from Rob't Adams, Fall River; May for 4 big book, sent rec't & letter & note to Miss Fenner big book sent to F Townsend Southwick 31 W 55th St NY City - by express - b'k paid for - I p'd expressage sunny cool weather - a persistent belly-ache night & day 6 deposited $97.40 7 sent off "Natural Literature" to WHR North American Review, $75 & 30 slips. a long fine wheel-chair jaunt to-day to Cooper's Point Warry down to Blackwood to see Ed yesterday 8 sent over by express 300 first sheets (autographs) to Oldach, book binder 1215 Filbert St. with order to bind up 100, & fold & tie up the rest (194 I believe) in sets, folded complete rec'd 30 Truth Seekers with Ingersoll's: lect: complete another fine day - Indian summer-like - bad grip & bladder trouble continued belly-ache 9 18 sent "W W's Thanksgiving" to J C "World" NY [*8paid $10*] 22 sent off (for two pp: Arena) Old Chants [Sailor] On on he same ye jocund Twain - sail out for good, Eidolon yacht - L of G's purport - my task - & for us two, reader dear (six poemets) $100 - 25 slips - I reserve future printing to J N Baker 45 Wall St NY. [*rejected sent back to me*] 23 D McKay sent two copies Nov: Boughs to Library Congress, Washington DC to secure the copyright the NY World (Julius Chambers) send pays $10 for the Thanksgiving poemet R Pearsall Smith 44 Grosvenor Road westminster embankment London S W Horace Tarr 86 Liberty st New York city * IF NOT CALLED FOR IN FIVE DAYS RETURN TO * * The Engineering & Building Record * * P. O. Bok 3037. No. 277 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. Philadelphia May 19 1890 Received FROM Mr Walt Whitman [???ty four 41/100 Dollars in full to date 610 Oldach & Co Camden Nov. and December 1890 Nov: 24 Sunny, dry, cold - belly ache - bad head - bad digestion 25 My brother Jeff died at St Louis, Mo: typhoid pneumonia heart attack at last in his 58th year - born July 18 1833 Geo: went on to St: L - Jessie who was in NJ. got there the 2d day after the death 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 cold, cold 29 sent p'kt b'd L of G. to Rev'd T B Johnstone 116 Chorley New Road, Bolton, Lanc, Eng, [*paid rec'd*] 30 Long letter f'm David Lezinsky Berkeley, Cal: ans'd Sunday noon - sun out cool -Warry gone to Doylestown -am feeling poorly enough - bladder trouble, grip, & (probably) catarrh of bowels (out in chair George here just ret'd f'm St Louis [*Harry F*] wrote to Jessie St L. [capsules f'm Dr. Mitchell fr bladder trouble] sunset feeling easier Dec: 1 letter to H. ($2) sent big book to D Mc'Kay -this makes the 4th one unacc'ted (unpaid) for but one of the four may have been for the sheets sent to Eng: (gastric uneasyness) 4 sent portraits (three big) in large envelope to Mrs; R G Ingersoll New York [*rec'd*] gloomy days - death of Jeff - 5 proof type writing "Off-hand talk between WW & RW Ingersoll" Talcott Williams "grip" - bladder-trouble - catarrah of bowels, h'd ache 8 Horace T. back from NY - f'm seeing Ingersoll and J H Johnston 9 sent big book (paid $6) to J H Johnston NY fr' Agnes Schilling snow on ground-have not been out for four days - sunny to-day 11 sent Phil: Press of Dec. with item ab't "Good-Bye My Fancy" to various foreign (& home) names 12 paid Oldach bookbinder $22 in full by Horace 13 sent photo of Jeff: to Horace Tarr NY for print 17 sent 4 poemets (Old Chants Great is the Seen Death dogs my steps & two lines) to Sribner's NY price $100 and 20 copies [*rejected sent back Jan: 23 '91*] dark wind gales, raining cold (but hardly freezing) Mr Sheppard (friend of Frank Harned) call'd - bot 2 books The snivelling sickening letters of The meanest cuss Nature ever spawn'd - C L H. Burlington Vermont - still continued- now over a year - [?] Dec. 15th, 1890 Received of Walt Whitman Twenty two dollars in Full to date $22.00 Oldach & Co S. ELMER WRIGHT. WITH E.H. PARRY, HATTER, S. E. DOR. TENTH & MARKET STS. PHILADELPHIA Camden December '90 and Jan: '91 18 send word f'm WHR. N.A Rev: that Nat lit will not be in Jan: number 20 got in cord of split oak wood 21 finishing "some personal memoranda" for Stoddart Lippincott's 22 resolutions & memorial speech in honor of Jeff f'm St Louis Engineers' club Dec: 17 1890 sent $10 to Han reed - $10 to Mary 23 sent big book to SR Henderson, box 838 Los Angeles, Cal paid wrote to JN Johnson, Ala: 24 rec'd $300 fm David McKay for the 100 sets of books sheets - sent to England a big book sent to McKAy now 5th [?] (but one of them may have gone in the sheets) sent pkt-b'k L of G to Fred Wild Bolton Eng: paid 25 sent sixth big book to David McKay 27 sent four big books & some pictures to Bernard O'Dowd [?] Melbourne Victoria by Express, paid $7.50 30 sent MS of "some personal memoranda" and poemet "sail out for good Eidolon yacht" (to fill out page) to Stoddart Lippincott - $50 and 30 numbers mag: ($50 paid me) Elmer Wright f'm Parry's hat store cor. 10th & Market Phil. came to see abt the hat gave him the [?] hat rec'd [?] dimensions, Ve: to be done in abt a week - price abt $5 31 deposits $321 1 '91 glum and dark & wet & foggy * middling cold the grip (cold & [?] in head) - bladder trouble 1/4 after 4 - have eaten a hearty good meal, turkey ve: half light [?] 3 sent little [?] L of G to Gen. [?] Whitehall glum physique & spirits need ackn'gd 4 Sent "the pallid wreath" to critic - $5 & 10 slips accepted & printed - paid 5 paid the gas bill $8.52 (for Oct. Nov &Dec. '90) Lou here Harry Stafford here [?] at Elwood on Atl RR line 6 proofs sent the page of poemets to Stoddart Lippincotts & "pallid wreath" to critic $50 rec'd f'm Lippincotts - cold, sunny day 7 cold, sunny * 1 1/2 pm - seems to me as I come f'm the wash-room I am perceptually stronger more than for two years (may be but an accidental [?] whiff, or imaginary) but it comes to me Philadelphia 5/ M Walt Whitman DR to FERGUSON BROS. & CO. Successors to S.A. George & CO. Printers Electrotypers and Stereotypers No. 15 North Seventh Street May 15 Good Bye 59 1/4 pp. L.P. 48x27 130 7702 6 3/4 ["] [Baeg] 57x33 169 11 [ ] Aexenation & @ 22 hrs 50 [???] 14 Elechno pp. 39 3x6 2 Boxes 5 5.010639 Printing Good Bye 1000 Copies Paper 14 Paper 29 40 43 40 May 29 November [ ] 16 400 copies 27 43 Paper 19279 ALL BILLS FOR WATER RENT ARE PAYABLE AT THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THIS DEPARTMENT ONLY. Department for Supplying the City with Water. OFFICE: CITY HALL, HADDON AVENUE. OFFICE HOURS: FROM 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M. Mr. Walter Whitman March 1, 1891. To the CITY OF CAMDEN, Water Rent for the Year 1891 on the Following Premises: Cost of turning off Ward Page Line From January 1, 1891, to January 1, 1892. Am't Rent. Penalty and on water. TOTAL 3 43 17 328 Mickle Street 8.00 8.00 WATER DEPARTMENT PAID JUNE 30, 1891 CAMDEN, N.J. Received Payment W. B. Doyle PLEASE BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU. REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES: EXTRACTS FROM ORDINANCE REGULATING THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER - SEC. 164. On the first of July, five per cent will be added on all unpaid rents: on the first of September, ten per cent. SEC. 174. That hereafter when any water rent for water furnished on any premises in the City of Camden, or in the Town of Pavonia, shall remain unpaid on the First Day of September of any year, it shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer of the Water Works to cause the supply thereof to such premises to be stopped until such water rent, and the sum of fifty cents for costs and expenses for turning off and on said water, are paid. SEC. 169. That all persons who shall intend to discontinue the use of water, shall give notice to the Clerk of the Water Department on or before the Thirtieth Day of November in any year, and to their failure to do so, shall be chargeable with and pay the whole rent of the next year ensuing. Sec. 23. The owner or owners of all Private Buildings shall pay the following rates per annum for water rents, viz: Hydrants in yard or kitchen, or both $5 00 Baths each 3 00 Water Closet, self-acting and Hopper " 3 00 " " pan valve or reservoir " 2 00 Urinals 2 00 Biddets or Hot Baths 1 00 Stationary Wash Stands 1 00 " Wash Tubs each 1 00 Wash Paves, 40 feet or under 3 00 " " over 40 feet 5 00 A Screw Nozzle on the Hydrant (unless a pave wash is charged to the premises) 3 00 Stores and Offices not connected with dwelling Hydrant or Basin each 5 00 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Hydrants each $6 00 Wash Basins or Sinks " 6 00 Water Closets, self-acting " 6 00 " " reservoir " 3 00 Urinals " 4 00 HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES. Hydrants for family use $6 00 Hotel Bars, with water 10 00 " " without water 5 00 Wash Basins each 3 00 Slop Sinks 5 00 Bath for use of 10 boarders or under 5 00 Beer Pumps $5 00 to $20 00 Water Closet, self-acting each $6 00 " " pan valve or reservoir " 3 00 Stationary Wash Tubs 6 00 Kitchen, according to the capacity of each building, from $5 00 to $50 00 Horse Troughs each 6 00 Urinals 4 00 Public Baths each tub 9 00 BAKERIES AND ICE CREAM SALOONS. In addition to charge for dwelling $5 00 Large establishments, according to capacity each 10 00 Barber shops " 10 00 Drug Stores " 5 00 Counter Fountains " 5 00 STABLE. Stalls for Horses and Cows each $1 00 Washing Carriages " 1 00 STEAM ENGINES. Per Horse Power $1 00 BUTCHERING ESTABLISHMENTS. According to capacity, from $5 00 to $50 00 Oyster Saloons, Bar with water 10 00 " " without water 5 00 Laundries, from $5 00 to $50 00 Bottling Establishments, from $5 00 to $50 00 Water rates not specified, for any other purposes, to be fixed by the Water Commissioners. No water rate to be less than $5 00 per annum. Agents for Morgan Albumenized Papers Claims for deductions from this bill must be made within FIVE day from receipt of Goods. NO ALLOWANCE FOR BREAKING IN TRASPORTATION Philadelphia, 1 mo. 21 1891 Walt Whitman Bought of THOS. H. McCOLLIN & CO. MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES, PHOTO. ENLARGEMENTS BY ELECTRIC LIGHT IN PLATINUM. ...........Forwarded by......... Goods sent by mail at the risk of purchaser 635 ARCH STREET Manufactures of Draughtsman's Sensitive Papers SLIVER WASTES REFINED. 50 ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY, GREAT EASTERN, WESTERN AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS FORWARDERS No. 180. [NOT NEGOTIABLE.] Camden, N. J. Dec 27 1890 Received of [One Ba?] Value 25.00 For which this Company charges Marked B G [? ? ?] Which it is mutually agreed is to be forwarded to out Agency nearest or most convenient to destination only and there delivered to other parties to complete the transportation It is part of the consideration of this contract, and it is agreed, that the said Express Company ARE FORWARDERS ONLY, and are not to be held liable or responsible for any loss or damage to said property while being conveyed by the CARRIERS to whom the same may be by said Express Company entrusted or arising from the dangers of Railroads, Ocean or River Navigation, Steam, Fire in Stores, Depors, or in Transit, Leakage, Breakage, or from any cause whatever, unless, in every case, the same be proved to have occurred from the fraud or gross negligence of said Express Company, or their servants; nor, in any event, shall the holder hereof demand beyond the sum of FIFTY DOLLARS, at which the article forwarded is hereby valued, unless otherwise herein expressed, or unless specially insured by them, and so specified in this receipt, which insurance shall constitute the limit of the liability of The Adams Express Company. And of the same is entrusted or delivered to any other Express Company, or Agent, (which said Adams Express Comany are hereby authorized to do), such Company or person so selected shall be regarded exclusively as the agent of the shipper or owner, and as such, alone liable, and the Adams Express Company shall not be, in any event, responsible for the negligence or non-performance of any such Company or person; and the shipper and owner hereby severally agree that all the stipulations and conditions in this receipt contained, shall extend to and inure to the benefit of each and every Company or person to whom The Adams Express Company may entrust or deliver the above described property for transportation, and shall define and limit the liability therefor of such other Company or person. In no event shall The Adams Express Company be liable for any loss or damage unless the claim therefor shall be presented to them, in writing, at this office, within thirty days after this date, in a statement to which this receipt shall be annexed. All articles of GLASS, or contained in glass, or any of a fragile nature, will be taken at Shipper's risk only, and the Shipper agrees that the Company shall not be held responsible for any injury, by breakage or otherwise nor for damage to goods not properly packed and secured for transportation. It is further agreed that said Company shall not, in any event, be liable for any loss, damage or detention, caused by the acts of God, Civil or Military authority, or by Rebellion Piracy, Insurrection, or Riot, or the dangers incident to a time of war, or by any riotous or armed assemblage. If any sum of money, besides the charge for transportation, is to be collected from the consignee on delivery of the above described property, and the same is not paid within thirty days from the date hereof, the Shipper agrees that this Company may return said property to him at the expiration of that time, subject to the conditions of this receipt, and that he will pay the changes for transportation both ways, and that the liability of this Company for such property while in its possession for the purpose of making such collection, shall be that or Warehousemen only. DISCOUNT OF FIVE PER CENT. on bills of $1.00 and upwards for Gas paid at the Office of the Company, 432 Federal Street, between the hours of 8 A.M and 4 P.M WITHIN FIVE DAYS after presentation. Reg 15335 W Whitman Premises, 328 Mickel To the CAMDEN GAS LIGHT COMPANY, Dr. FOR Gas consumed from October 1st to January 1st 1891 State of meter at this date, 522.00 Less do at last settlement, 466.00 consumption 56.00 at 1.60 per 1,000 feet, $8.96 Less 5 per cent. discount for prompt payment, $45 Bill presented January 1st No discount allowed after January 7th, Received Payment, $851 SERVICE BILL. 1/5791 ____ Treasurer 2. Gas will be supplied by the meter, and should the meters be found defective, they will be immediately changed. And in case of their ceasing to register the quantity of Gas consumed, the account will be made by the average of another meter, or by the amount charged during a previous corresponding period, at the discretion of the Company. Sec 9. - The Company's Inspector, and other authorized agents, shall, at all times, have the right of free access into the premises lighted with Gas, for the purpose of examining the whole Gas apparatus, or for the removal of the meter and service pipe. Sec. 10 - The tenant of any premises using the Gas shall pass through the meter until such notice be given. Sec. 12 - IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT FOR GAS CONSUMED, OR SERVICE PIPE LAID WITHIN TEN DAYS after a bill is rendered, or in case of a leak, or injury done to the meter or pipes within the premises of any consumer, THE FLOW OF GAS MAY BE STOPPED UNTIL THE BILL IS PAID, or the necessary repairs are made. PLEASE BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU Bill must be paid at the office of the gas company. $2.75 & $3.00 WINDOW, AWNINGS. We will make and put up complete a large Window Awning for $2.75 and $3.00, also Window Shades, very best goods, for $1.00 each, best spring roller. Wm. Bernard & Co. 1511 Race St. Send Postal. Camden January 1891 8 sent "quaker traits" "science & L of G" and personal letter to Stoddart (Lippincott) [*all rejected*] 10 letter to H $2 - pieces to Stoddart (Lippincott) we will see what comes of them all sent pict to Stead, London 11 Sunday - dark, rainy, glum, not very cold - sent $2 to Mrs. D and picture to Mrs. B 12 sent off proof "American National Literature" to NH Review [*paid $5*] a very depress'd bad week days & nights - $10 to Mrs: S - $2 to Aunt Hannah 18 sent $5 to Mr Lay (Mrs. Lay's burial Phila.) 19 rec'd $15 f'm youth's Companion for "Ship Ahoy!" 24 poemet-page rejected "Old Chants" &c: by Scribners and sent back to me. the little Ingersoll lecture - pamphlet, pub'd by NY Truth Seeker, rec'd - well done printing &c: Horace T going to NY this afternoon [*fine sunny day*] Mrs: D gone to Doylestown for the day H T ret'd evn'g 27 sent off the little Ingersoll "Liberty in Literature" book to various persons by mail sent big book by mail to Charles E Barrett Atchison, Kansas (paid) pc to WH Smith, Peoria, Ill. 28 bad physical cond'n --bad constipation long-- -catarrah in head - gastric & bladder cond'n bad sent 4 pictures [*rec'd*] to Dr B--$2 to H--pater to Jessie 29 sent proof Dutch piece to Kennedy - ret'd Feb 2 paid CF Currie, Supt: $45.50 for Ed's board [*rec'd*] 3 sent big book by mail to Wm J Nicolay, Minier, Ill: 4.40 due [*paid*] from Truth Seeker 28 Lafayette Place, NY. 10 got in cord of oak wood $8 paid "Dutch Traits of WW" by Sloane Kennedy 16 bad continued constipated spell the worst yet heavy dizzy dull headache - dark rainy to-day not cold. "the New Spirit" book rec'd f'm Havelock Ellis 19 sent big book to D McKay, the 7th copy [*another one the 8th*] he has now to acc't to me for getting "Good Bye my Fancy" copy ready for printer - easier last evn'g & to-day (or fancy I am) 20 sent letter to Bernard O'Dowd Geo. Ferguson Co: [Bros] Printers 15 north 7th st Phila: Camden February & March 1891 Feb 21 bad way continued - four weeks gastric & bladder dark wet glum weather - finishing touches copy "Good-bye my Fancy" - (goes to printers in two days) send off Ing:'s little book to Sarrazin - looking yet for March Lippincott - the good little "Dutch Traits" by Kennedy out & sent to many 23 sent copy "Good Bye my Fancy" pp: 3 to 42 inclusive to Ferguson, printer. (by Horace). fine sunny day - bo't injection (enema) pipe - fair success - badly constipated nearly four weeks - head glum 27 The March Lippincott & the "Dutch Traits" piece sent out liberally by mail get & take the prescription of Dr B. from Druggist Brown March 2 - sent big books to O J Bailey, Peoria Illinois & Alfred P Burbank care Lotos Club. New York City both paid (12.80) by Wm Hawley Smith Peoria, Ill. (letter sent to him) extra bad condition day & night sharp cold weather 4 NA Rev. paid $75 for "National Literature" 5 sent Two Riv. to John F Burke, law office, Milwaukee Wis. $2.50 [due] [*paid*] fine sunny day cold sent Nat. Lit to several copyright bill pass'd 7 sent the three big books to Jessie St Louis [*rec'd safely*] by express sent big book to Signor Enrico Nencione viale Galileo 9 Firenze Italy 3 portraits 15 finishing [*finished*] (sending off [*sent*]) the poetic, (20 pp.) proofs of "Good-Bye my Fancy" & to-day 12 or 14 pp: of copy for prose part of G.B F. (the fearful constipation continued essentially unbroken) fine sunny day cool sent "Old Chants" to Truth by yn'g J W Stoddart $12 17 deposited 168.60 - cold sunny sent 12 L of G. to Chs F Carter, Waterbury Conn, [*p'd*] Dr. D. Longaker, Office Hours: Until 9 1/2 am 2 to 3 P.M. 7 P.M. 652 North Eight Street, Camden March April 1891 March 19 Dr Longaker 652 N Eighth St. Phila -had a long talk--used the catheter first time my general first impression of Dr L & the affair, good- sent picture &c in a big evelop to Dr Thos C Whitman Brooksville Fla: 22 sent "Old actors" to "Truth" 140 Fifth Ave: NY. +16 (intended for April 2d) [*proof rec'd April 10 returned*] 24 sent big book to Henry S Juke Swanpool, Falmouth, Cornwall, Eng: paid. sort of edging toward bowel action, after nine or ten weeks essential inaction -take Dr L's pills--have taken 14 or 15- good & frequent letters f'm Dr J & J W W. Eng: -am reading the prose proofs "Good Bye" 25 gave D McKay order [*see below*] same for six (6) sets, sheets big book complete works a $3.20 27 sent 2 edn L of G. to Joseph M Pratt Saybrook Conn. [*paid*] 29 sent two big books to care of Miss C Reynolds. Newnham College Cambridge 12.80 due & letter to Miss CR_[*paid*] 31 Six copies big book complete in sheets to McKay a 3.20-owes me $19.20 for them [*(see below*] ab't 190 big books complete in sheets now at Oldach's bindery Apr: 1 sent pk't-book ed'n L of G. to Cushing & Co Booksellers [*Apr 9 2d copy pk't bk L of G rec'd*] 34 W Baltimore St: Baltimore Md: [*paid-stolen en route*] 3 deposited $51 in bank calls f'm D McKay " " W R O'Donovan, NY. sculptor " " Dr Longaker paid gas bill $8.51 the last 3 months 4 statement f'm D McKay paid $127.87 pays up (does it?) to date everything (inc'ng the 6 sets above) 6 reading proof "Good Bye" pass'd the 51st page Herbert Gilchrist here Dr L here Eakins studio O Donovan 1330 Chestnut st M H Spielmann [*sent circ books sent May 2 paid by express*] CHICAGO OFFICES OF SAMUEL B. FOSTER LOCAL ATTORNEY, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BLDG. Camden April May 1891 7 bright sunny day out - spring like - fluctuating grip-gastric - head &c: troubles continued bad now, five or six months - nearly all that time cribb'd in this room & chair- 14 sent p'k't b'k ed'n L of G. to Mary R Cabot Brattleboro Vermont [*paid*] $2 to HLH *sweating - warm 15 got out a short jaunt out door in wheel chair - eyes blinded 16 weak as death - strange, depress'd day 17 warm the last three days & nights ODonovan, the sculptor, here making preparations - finishing the proofs Good Bye 66 pp: 20 sent "Two Riv:" (gift) to W H Healy, 503 Avery av: Syracuse N Y. [*rec'd*] The big Presidential trip South & West in Galveston, Texas, yesterday 24 the hand sculping Warren gone to Doylestown 27 sent mor -- b'd L of G. to J W. Wallace, Anderton near Chorley, Lans. Eng. piece for Wentworth Dixon May 2 - sent a bundle, two big books, one '76 L of G. and one Dr B's WW. & also photo WW 1890, 4 books & photo, by express, to Saml B Foster attorney. Chamber of Commerce Bldng, Chicago: [*paid*] big book by mail to J G Dempsey Md 65 Dalymont Philsboro Dublin Ireland 6 big book to F H Herrick, Adelbert College Cleveland, Ohio, $6.49 [due] [*paid*] 12 Paid Reinhalter $500 toward the tomb [16] sent unb'd "Good Bye" to Symonds, Dr Johnston Tennyson, Sarrazin Kennedy, Melville Phillips 17 sent previously to Dr. B - Dr L here yesterday 18 sent formal application for copyright for Good Bye to Librarian Congress ($1 enc'd) [*rec'd & copyright Entered*] " big book to D McKay Sheets Good-Bye (66 pp.) printed-presswork, paper &c. good [*vertical text*] [*PLEASE BRING THIS BILL WITH YOU. Bills Must be Paid at the Office of the Gas Company*] DISCOUNT OF FIVE PER CENT. on bills of $1.00 and upwards for Gas paid at the Office of the Company, 432 Federal Street, between the hours of 8 A. M. and 4 P. M. WITHIN FIVE DAYS after presentation. Reg 15335 W Whitman Premises, 328 Mickle To THE CAMDEN GAS LIGHT COMPANY, [*Gas bill for third May & June '91 paid*] For Gas consumed from April 1st to July 1st, 1891 State of Meter at this Date, 608 00 Less do. at last Settlement 578 00 Consumption 30 00 at 1.60 per 1,000 feet $ 4.80 Less 5 per cent. discount for prompt payment, Bill presented July 1st, $ 24 No discount allowed after July 7th, Received Payment $ 456 SERVICE BILL 7/3/91 [?] Treasurer. 2. Gas will be supplied by the meter, and should the meters be found defective, they will be immediately changed. And in case of their ceasing to register the quantity of Gas consumed, the account will be made by the average of another meter, or by the amount charged during a previous corresponding period, at the discretion of the Company. SEC. 9 - The Company's Inspector, and other authorized agents, shall, at all times, have the right of free access into the premises lighted with Gas, for the purpose of examining the whole Gas apparatus, for the removal of the meter and service pipe. SEC. 10. - The tenant of any premises using Gas shall give at least three days' notice at the office of the Company whenever his about to remove, that the Gas may be stopped, or he will remain liable for any Gas that may pass through the meter until such notice be given, SEC. 12. - IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT FOR GAS CONSUMED, OR SERVICE PIPES LAID WITHING TEN DAYS after a bill is rendered, or in the case of a leak, or injury done to the meter or pipes within the premises of any consumer, THE FLOW OF GAS MAY BE STOPPED UNTIL THE BILL IS PAID, or the necessary repairs are made. Wm H Taylor 321 High st. Newark NY Reeves & Turner publishers Fleet street London Eng. "A.J.W." - (1) The United States flag after July 4 of this year will have forty-four stars. There will be four rows of seven stars and two rows of eight stars each, the letter in the upper and lower rows. (2) There are now forty-four States in the Union Miss Isabella O Ford Adel Grange, Leeds, Eng; Camden May June 1891 21 sent "On, on ye jocund twain" & "unseen birds" to Melville Phillips for Nugent Robinson "Once a Week" rec'd pay ($10) f'm Melville Philips [*$10*] 27 sent big book to G & C Merriam & Co: Springfield Mass: masks to Spielmann 28 Horace Traubel married 29 Dr Bucke here rec'd big International Dictionary (Merriam & Co.) 30 went out to Harleigh 31 evn'g birth day party good success June 2 sent big book to Dr. Fletcher for my Medical Museum Wash'n DC. by express [*paid*] Dr B back to Canada - Horace & Annie with him sent many papers Post (birth day spree acct) 7 sent "Good-Bye" to J W Wallace Horace T. in Canada easier (negative) to day poor Han sick at Burlington, Vermont (bad) Horace and Annie ret'd all safe 15 sent big book to J Francis Shephard 12 rue Pergolese Paris France hot weather - cooler spell - then heat again 26 Dr. Bucke starts for Eng: leaves NY July 8 in the Britannic [*rec'd*] the fine facsimiles of my letter to Dr J of June 1 -- hot dry weather ink & stands f'm Carter, Dinsmore, & Co: 438 Pearl st. NY Ch's W Eldridge here 30 Paid Water Rent $8 City Hall bro: Geo: here -- Hannah better I have head-ache all the time Aug 8. 181 copies of big book complete works 175 " pocket-b'k edition 710 copies since in sheets, big book to D McK Camden July & Aug: 1891 July 9 sent morocco L of G. to Dr D J Doherty 143 North av: Chicago, Ill; by mail: $5 due sent $50 to DR Bingham Burlington 40 for Hannah 10 call f'm Reinhalter and Ralph Moore paid Reinhalter $1000 - wh' makes together $1500 paid each (500 May 12) 14 Deposited $219.43 in bank 15 hot wave - now 3d day - am beginning to feel it badly - hot 16th, 17th, 18, 19, 20, 21, '3, '4, '5 17 Dr B arrived in Eng: Cable this morning f'm Dr J. f'm Bolton (B there) 21 to McKay (to Oldach & Co.) six copies complete works (big book) in sheets [*now owes me for 7*] 23 sent pict of tomb & others to Dr Johnston 28 Dr Bucke in England - letter f'm him at Bolton Aug. 1 a big vol to McKay - he now owes me for 2 b'd & 6 unbound copies. 8 altogether paid C F Currie $45.50 for Ed's board 4 big book to D McK - now the 9th he owes me for 3 bound & 6 unb'd copies 25 after 10 days & nights of depressing heat to-day is quite tolerable even pleasant - my eyes growing dimmer Aug 30 - Mrs. O'Connor here- Dr Bucke & JWW at sea, en route to America - cooler weather set in after a hot Aug: I am half blind & deaf Mrs. O'C goes back to Wash'n Dr B and (5 days afterward) JWW here Sept 11 they are now in Canada - all well pleasantly cool weather - feel comfortable am getting the new printed pp: &c for the really completed L of G. (438 pp) 16 Talcott Williams & Dr Schweinitz oculist MD 1401 Locust st: here - my eyes not seriously diseased not threaten'd with blindness (accd'g to Dr S) Ernest Rhys Sept. '91 Geinen Hir Llangollen N Wales Frank Williams 333 Drexel Bldg Phila English publishers John W. Lovell, Publishers 120 WORTH Street, New York. Mr Heinemann Wolcott Balestier John W. Lovell 2 Deans Yard, Westmi[ster]nster Abbey London England ------------- Oct: '91 new address Edw'd Carpenter, Millthorpe. Holmesfield. near Sheffield. Eng: ------------- Wolcott Balestier, who has collaborated with Rudyard Kipling in the new novel which the Century will begin publishing in November, is a young American now living in London. He is a writer and a business man as well, being a member of the recently organized firm of Heinemann & Balestier, of Leipsic, which is publishing a series of copyrighted English and American novels on the continent of Europe in the fashion of the Tauchnitz editions. He was formerly the editor of the New York humorous weekly, Time. Sept. Camden Sept: & Oct: 1891 22 supplied D McKay ten (10) copies comp. works b'd @ 3.50 $35 26 recd $8 f'm D McKay for books (p'd up to date) 28 sent H. B. Forman complete works Burrough's Notes paper Dem Vistas As a Strong Bird " German Grashelme "Good Bye" sheets 2 paid City Tax Bill $24.47 Oct. 1 Rheinhalter Bro's here - Cool change D McKay's big books &c: up to date supplied McKay with big book [*paid $4*] 5 paid the gas bill $2.57 (Discount 13 cts) another big book to D McKay -- the 2d one 10 to 13 J W Wallace in Brooklyn & West Hills letters f'm him -- Andrew & Tom Rome -- the Jarvis & Place people &c at WH -- Charles Velsor -- -- Herbert Gilchrist 14 J W Wallace & Andrew Rome here -- talk ab't Brooklyn, West Hills, folks, places, changes, fortunes &c -- the good lunch of Chesapeake oysters and Rhine wine -- & J and Warry -- 16 JWW here- 17 sent the big book to Charles Velsor 18 sent H B Forman, 46 Marlborough St. St John's Wood. London, Eng: letter empowering him to bargain with Heinemann } pubr's Wolcott Balestier } J W Lovell } 2 Dean's Yard. Westminster Abbey to pub. my books - enc'd Gilder's letter 19 2d (supplementary) letter - three vols: suggested 20 $96.71 f'm D McKay for royalty 21 Deposited $203.21 in bank (sunny day) 24 Jeannette L Gilder here JWW down at Glendale 27 sent [*by express*] big book to Arthur Joburus, Leisenring Fayette Co: Penn - order of Funk & Wagnalls 18 Astor Place NY. $4 due f'm them [*4 paid*] "Whose steps are those? Who comes so late?" "Let me come in - the door unlock," " 'Tis midnight now; my lonely gate I open to no stranger's knock. "Who art thou? Speak!" "Men call me Fame. To immortality I lead." "Pass, idle phantom of a name." "Listen, again, and now take heed. " 'Twas false. My names are Song, Love, Art. My poet, now unbar the door." "Art's dead, Song cannot touch my heart, My once Love's name I chant no more." "Open then, now - for see, I stand, Riches my name, with endless gold - Gold and your wish in either hand." "Too late - my youth you still withhold." "Then, if it must be, since the door Stands shut, my true last name to know. [Men call me] Death. Delay no more; I bring the cure of every woe." The door flies wide. "Ah guest so wan, Forgive the poor place where I dwell - An ice cold hearth, a heart-sick man, Stand here to welcome thee full well." [*June find*] (67 big books Warry's count Nov: 17 (Oldach has 81 copies in sheets Nov. 19 '91 lo:cale (lo-kal) marhal har a tee Mrs O'Connor 34 Benefit St Providence RI Camden Oct: & Nov & Dec: 1891 Oct. 27 JWW ret'd f'm Glendale (matters as usual there) Nov. 2 Sir Edwin Arnold, John Russel young & Major Pond here 3 sent big books to Dr Bingham [*rec'd*] & Prof. Hale Care Hamlin Garland, Roxbury, Mass: 16 sold to D McKay 50 sets big book sheets at $3 - ($150) 29 depress'd condition bad all thro Nov: 30 the two Reinhalters here cold spell letters f'm Dr J & JWW Dec 1 sent J W Lloyd 563 East St: NY. big book by mail $3 paid 340 due clear cool 2 *4th * 2d, 3d day & night g't suffering Aug: 28 '89 - paid Water Tax. $8.40 (by Ed: Wilkins) Sept 17 '89 - paid Tax Bill 24.02 (by Ed: W) Oct: '89 paid WH Johnson carpenter repairs house $48.40 Jan 2 '90 - paid Billstein & co: $15.25 Camden Gas office - 7.14 CLH 2 Feb 10 '90 paid $45.50 to Mr. Currie for Ed's board 3 mo's April 3 '90 Gas Bill $1.36 paid May 18 '90 paid Oldach binder $44.41 June 18 '90 paid Water Bill $8 July 24th '91 - paid (thro' Horace) Ferguson. printer }203.19 Billstein & Co: 925 Filbert st: & McCollum & Co: 685 Arch July 3 '90 - paid gas bill $4.10 Aug 3 '90: paid Ed's board $45.50 (3 mo's) to Mr Currie, Blackwood Aug 20 '90 sent $5 to H. Burlington Vt Sept 1 '90 paid the city tax bill $24.02 Dec. 12 '90 paid Oldach binder $22 (by Horace) Dec 22 '90 sent $10 to H. Burl'n Vt " " " " $10 to Mary Jan 5 ‘91 paid the gas bill $8.52 Feb 2 ‘91 paid Currie $45.50 for Ed's board Apr 3 ‘91 paid gas bill $8.51 May 12 ‘91 paid Reinhalter 500: on the tomb June 30 ‘91 paid water rent $8 July 9 '91 sent Dr Bingham Burl'n $50 (40 for H. $10 for himself) July 10 '91 paid Reinhalter $1000 more on tomb ($1500 paid altogether) paid Ed's board Blackwood $45.50 to C F Currie Aug 8 paid $4 to Wm Longhead plumber 1890 July 8 - sent $5 to H. Bl'ton " " " 5 to Mrs M Kunsces[?] " 18 "$5 to Mrs Colkitt " 20 " $5 to Han B'l't'n Sent the (three books) Circular printed Dec: '89 R D Smith London W M Rossetti Josiah Child Sloane Kennedy Alys Smith one to Maurice Stoddart Sag Harbor LI 4 to Dr Bucke 3 To Edw'd Carpenter H Buxton Forman C W Eldridge Robt Adams bookseller Fall River Mrs O'Connor 6 to Horace Traubel (No. 6001-DOMESTIC.) NOTICE.-This form takes the place of old Form No. 1, Domestic APPLICATION FOR MONEY ORDER. No._________ No._________ No._________ Amount $_________ Amount $_________ Amount $_________ Numbers and amounts here to be filled by Post-Master (To be filled up by the Applicant, or by some person for him, who is not connected with the Post Office) POSTMASTERS ARE PROHIBITED FROM FILLING UP THIS BLANK. Date, 188 For the sum of Ten Dollars and cents Payable at Burlington, State of Vermont Payable to Mrs: Hannah L Heyde Residence or place of business No. 21 Pearl Street Town or City, Burlington State of Vermont Sent by Walt Whitman Residence or Place of business No. 328 Mickle Street, Town or City, Camden, State of New Jersey Entered in Register: Postmaster Note.-The issue to a single applicant, in one day, of more than three orders, payable at the same office and to the same payee is positively forbidden. The applicant must, in all cases, write his own given name and surname in full. When the given name of he payee is known, it should also be stated in full; otherwise, initials may be used. The given names of married women must be stated and not those of their husbands. For example: Mrs. Mary Brown must be described as Mrs. William Brown. Names of parties, places, and streets, as well as numbers and amounts, should be written in full and in the plainest manner possible. A money order must not be made payable to more than one person or firm. As there are several post offices of the same name in the United States, an applicant for an order payable at one of such offices must be careful to indicate clearly which one of them he means; and the Postmaster will satisfy himself, before writing out the order, that the office indicated is the one intended. (See over.) Sent the (three books) Circular printed Dec: '89 R D Smith London W M Rossetti Josiah Chile Sloane Kennedy Alys Smith One to Maurise Stoddart Sah Harbor LI 4 to Dr Bucke 3 to Edw'd Carpenter H Buxton Forman C W Eldridge Robt Adams bookseller Fall River Mrs O'Connor 6 to Horace Traubel RATES OF COMMISSION Charged for Money Orders. For sums not exceeding $5....................................................................5 cents. Over $5 and not exceeding $10............................................................ 8 cents. Over $10 and not exceeding $15.........................................................10 cents. Over $15 and not exceeding $30..........................................................15 cents. Over $30 and not exceeding $40..........................................................20 cents. Over $40 and not exceeding $50..........................................................25 cents. Over $50 and not exceeding $60..........................................................30 cents. Over $60 and not exceeding $70......................................................... 35 cents. Over $70 and not exceeding $ 80.........................................................40 cents. Over $80 and not exceeding $100.......................................................45 cents. A single Money Order may include any amount from One Cent to One Hundred Dollars, inclusive, but must not contain a fractional part of a cent. The Post VOL. 14, NUMBER 185. CAMDEN, N. J., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889. Camden Honors Him. ------ Poet Whitman's Seventieth Birthday. ------ HOW IT WAS CELEBRATED. ------- Distinguished Citizens from Home and Abroad Revering the Good Old Man in Speech, Poetry and Song Last Evening at Morgan's Hall. The Testimonial given to WALT WHITMAN last evening, in Morgan's Hall, was the greatest event in the history of Camden's literary and social life. Nearly 200 gentlemen gathered to congratulate the poet on reaching his seventieth birthday. They came from many quarters-- east, west, north and south being alike represented. Mr. Whitman found more than "seven cities" anxious to do him honor through their most distinguished sons whose names are known in literature, art, science, law and commerce. The guests began arriving shortly after four o'clock, and by 5:30 the spacious ante-rooms were packed and a minute later they moved to the banqueting hall. The scene there was worth of the occasion. The long tables were lit with wax tapers, which cast a softened halo over the bounty that was spread beneath them. Tropical plants and flowers graved the tables and the stage, on which Caries' Orchestra discoursed enlivening strains. Rev. J. Leonard Cording invoked the Divine blessing and the menu published in yesterday's POST was then discussed. While the banquet was in progress, Mr. Whitman entered in his wheeled chair pushed by his faithful nurse, Edward Wilkins. As he passed the portal, a colored waitress rushed up to him exclaiming: "I must shake hands wid dat man," and true to his democracy, the emancipator gave her hand a warm clasp. The arrival of the poet was the signal for tremendous applause. While he was lovingly escorted by the committee of arrangements to his place at the head of the table the entire company stood in respectful silence. Our "Grand Old Man," whose verse has moved two continents to lay their tribute of admiration at his feet, sat enthroned among his friends like a Viking king, his long white hair and beard falling like finely drawn silver over his shoulders and breast. Never was a scene more impressive. Every man there felt, when he looked upon his face and form, that he was in the presence of a master mind. To Mr. Whitman's most ardent admirers the scene came home with all the force of a great triumph, and an acknowledgement of their nestor's worth and genius. After the feast of reason, Samuel H. Grey rose and, thanking the committee for the honor conferred upon him by asking him to preside at so great a demonstration, welcomed the guests in fitting terms. He said that those present were honored in the highest degree by the presence of their venerable guest who was the most distinguished citizen not only of his city but also his state. All the manly qualities, vigor, merit, modesty, and towering ability were centered in him. His townsmen of all conditions united in doing him honor. As a poet, his verse rose above others as the mountain rose above the plain. Mr. Gray then announced the toast "Our Guest," to which Mr. Whitman responded as follows: "My friends: Though announced to give an address, there is no such intention. Feeling the impulse of the spirit-- for I am at least half Quaker stock--I have obeyed the command to come and look at you for a minute, to show myself face to face, which is probably the best I can do, but I have felt no command to make a speech, and shall not therefore attempt any. All I have felt the imperative conviction to say I have already printed in my books of poems as well as prose, which any one who will may read. And so, hail and farewell! Deeply acknowledging this compliment with my best respects and love to you all personally, to Camden, to New Jersey and to all represented here, you must excuse me from any word further." Mr. Grey announced Thos. B. Harned as respondent to the toast "Our Distinguished Guest." Mr. Harned said: In the year 1873, Walt Whitman came to the City of Camden, poor and paralyzed. He had no thought then that his life would be lengthened to seventy years. He had devoted his best years to the sacred duty of nursing the sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals. No tongue can tell the extent of that ministry. With untiring devotion, vigilance and fidelity, without fee or reward, he served his country in the hour of her greatest need. The history of the war presents no instance of nobler duty or sublimer sacrifice. But the stalwart and majestic physique had to succumb to the terrible strain. The man we honor came among us to spend his last days with those who were near and dear to him. It is not my purpose to speak of his books or his place in literature. In that respect he has puzzled all known classifications of prose or poetry. Every epithet of rancor and opprobrium has been heaped upon his books and yet no man ever had truer friends. The controversy which he has unconsciously provoked in the literary world is probably without a parallel. Only now are we beginning to awaken to the importance of his life work, and the grandeur of the man. The man "Walt Whitman," is greater than his book or any book. He is made of that heroic stuff which creates such books. He, himself is the great "epic of the senses, passions, and attributes of the body and soul." Dear as he is to America and her democracy, yet he belongs to the whole world. How like to speak of his gentleness, his charity, his wisdom, and his simplicity. His majestic figure cast in an antique mould, his ruddy countenance, his cheery voice, and strong and classic face. We have seen him on our streets, or frequenting the ferry boats, or driving over the neighboring roads. His companions have been from every walk of life--and more especially the poor and humble. He has taken a personal interest in the welfare of many of our mechanics, deck-hands, or car drivers. No person was beneath his attention. Roughs, criminals, the neglected and the forgotten. In nothing does he show his simplicity as he does in his love for children-- they all know him. There is that about him which binds men to him. He is visited by persons of prominence from all over the world. This city to-day is known to thousands of persons in distant lands merely because it is the home of Walt Whitman. Our citizenship will be raised because in our city lives the author of "Leaves of Grass." I desire to emphasize with great clearness the fact that every moment of his l life tallies with the teachings proclaimed throughout his books. He is eminently consistent. He does not bend the knee to wealth or power. To him the ragged urching is as dear as the learned scholar. But I cannot linger in any detailed analysis of his character. It is a familiar story to many of you here. For the past year we have heard and known how his life has hung in the balance. Little did we think that he would withstand his latest sickness and be here with us today. How can I hope to utter what our hearts are full of. We all say we have known him. Have any of us known him? Does not such a life baffle our understanding? We have come here to-day to honor him, to look upon his radiant, serene face and thank him for the lesson which he has taught us, and which he will continue to teach to the coming race. His life work is finished. He awaits the end with complacency. The consecration is complete. We crown him-- poet, prophet, philosopher--the incarnation of modern humanity. Camden will be best known and honored because it has known and honored Walt Whitman. Succeeding generations will do him reverance, and the little frame house on Mickie street, will be a shrine towards, which pilgrims of the future will travel in their adoration of one of the world's immortals. Herbert H. Gilchrist, the English artist, in responding to the toast, "Friends Across the Sea," said that he carried a message of respect and love from both the masses and intellect of Great Britain. The voice of the poet had been heard in the thatched cottage, in the hall and in the college, and the hearts of the people had been stirred and gladdened. Walt Whitman was one whose work bound the people of two great nations in a closer bond of literature. He said Mr. Whitman's poetry had sweetened and strengthened the lives of the people, had moved the aristocrat, whose soul had expanded unto the influence of his great heart. In conclusion Mr. Gilchrist said that in behalf of and from the faithful sons and daughters of the British Isles and the friends across the seas, he wished Walt Whitman, who sat honored and surrounded with troops of friends, many happy returns of the day. John H. Clifford responded to the toast "Prophet and Bard." Prophet, he said, meant a voice of human nature, passionate and true, and Walt Whitman embraced this. His words were known the world over. He was the transcender of transcendentalism. the speaker deemed is not extravagant to say that Carlyle's praise of the Book of Job might well be given to Whitman. Bard of the cosmic life, he gave new ideas to the earth. "Lesser bards," he said, "have waited their centuries to be known, and he can wait, if the centuries can wait for him." Cast forth thy word into the ever-living, ever-working universal. It is a sea grave that cannot die. Unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing for a thousand years." Judge Charles G. Garrison most ably responded to the toast: "Law--natural and conventional." He said: That the quality of myriad-mindedness had been accorded the honored guest. It was the peculiar promise of genius to see where the great fundamental law lies. It was doubtful whether genius could in any sense be called lawless. Who could tell what the mind of genius saw where to others there was nothing but vacant air? This was the sense in which Whitman's words must be judged when he spoke of law. When conflicting notions beset the man he should look in Whitman for the great immutable law of truth. Whitman taught that man has within him the element of the divine which made him the practical criterion and test of internal reliance. That element was capable of indefinite growth and expansion. It might be summed up in the lines of that other myriad-minded genius, Shakespeare, "To thin own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." Mr. Grey stated that he regretted that he was compelled to announce that ex-Governor Leon Abbott could not be present to respond to the toast, "State of New Jersey." He then introduced Judge E. Ambler Armstrong, who referred to the formation of the first Whitman Society in the world, and spoke words of greeting to the guest of the evening. He thought New Jersey was the appropriate residence of the poet. She had been slurred and jibed and sneered at, but she went on her way serenely proud of her position. Walt Whitman, notwithstanding the censure heaped upon him, had never returned an unkind word. The people of New Jersey loved him, and he loved the people. This closed the list of formal toasts Richard Wilson Gilder, of The Century, who was called upon for an impromptu response, said he thought the people were not interested in literature outside of Camden for the time being. Although he had been given a hint to speak on American literature, he thought he would please his hearers by positively declining. The people of Camden honored themselves in paying such a tribute to a poet. What he admired in poetry was form, and this characteristic was remarkable. "Do you say so?" asked the aged poet. "I do," said Mr. Gilder. "It is remarkable, it is inapproachable. I say no one can imitate it successfully, though many have tried." The masses had not yet reached the beauty of Whitman's poetry, but time would make it understood. Put Walt Whitman's poetry into the corner stone of this nation, and then let some convulsion of nature cover it. After years let it be found and Whitman's poetry would bring up a picture of the times and the surroundings in which we live as could not be surpassed for strength and accuracy. Julian Hawthorne was then introduced and was accorded an ovation. He said that praise of Whitman was praise of humanity, for vanity was as alien to Walt Whitman as Mount Washington to the Mississippi. "Surely," said he at the close, "the man whose friendship could extend from the greatest in the land to the lowest outcast is worthy of all the honor we can give him." The following telegram from Robert G. Ingersoll, dated New York, addressed to Mr. Horace L. Traubet, was read: "I am confined to my house by illness. I regret that I cannot be with your today. Give my more than regards to Walt Whitman, who has won such a victory over the granitic pudding heads of the world. He is a genuine Continental American." At this juncture Whitman signified his wish to withdraw from the scene of the festivities. After Auld Lang Syne had been sung, three rousing cheers were given him as he passed out of the hall. When order had been restored Professor Geoffrey Buckwalter read the following letters of regret: Wm. Sloane Kennedy, writes: BELMONT, Mass, May 26. The celebration of our revered friend's 70th birthday, is first of all a tribute of personal affection. But in the large point of view Walt Whitman is precious to humanity for the general principles he presents and represents, for his superb sketch of a moral life is based on deepest scientific philosophy. He is the evangelist of the human heart, and the prototype of the brain and body of the future. The office of such men, in the world economy, is to break up stereotyped thought and institutions, and set free the creative force again; and the hammer that smites and the narrow that flee, and the hand that wields, are not tools of the deity, but are deity itself at work. I think this liberative influence of his words is spreading far and wide. Every week brings evidence. He is studied and magazined at Rome, Paris, London, Edinburg and St. Petersburg. From Zurich we have recently received a volume of excellent translations out of "Leaves of Grass;" in Paris M. Sarrazin has brought out in book form one of the best estimates of Whitman yet published, while from all parts of Great Britain, he ever and anon receives letters of heart felt acknowledgement. Doubtless the rapidity and extent of this circulation of "Leaves of Grass" in Great Britain are partly due to the appearance there of clipped editions Whitman's revolutionary doctrine of the body would otherwise have made the diffussion of his works nearly as slow there as here. In a recent story in Harper's Monthly, an American writer represents one of her English characters quoting from Walt Whitman in conversation, and adds with stinging satire, "No American present recognized the quotation." Yet it is unnecessary to say that in the higher literary circle and the manly circles of America, Whitman is ardently loved. Here in the eastern section of the country, one notes in the representative people, the stiff and severe pharisaism of the Puritan type--English cast in religion and grasping greed in business, strike hands with the haughty intellectual pride of Harvard college conservatism and scowl upon any brave foray out of the ranks of conventionalism. In his New York Inauguration address even our genial New Englander, James Russell Lowell, says: (on the general theme of American literature) "It would be more profitable to think that we have as yet no literature in the highest sense, than to insist that what we have showed be judged by other than admitted standards merely because it is ours." Sure, there spoke the very spirit of Cambridge scholasticism. Imagine the wise dons of Michael Angelo's times shaking their heads and saying, "These sculptures won't do; they are not approved by the admitted standard." So the French thought Shakespere's incomparable creations the wildest rant, because not judgable by the admitted standards." And similar criticisms were bestowed at first upon the poems of Hugo, the paintings of Turner and the musical dramas of Wagner. Let the dons keep within their walls. Their atmosphere is fatal in genius. Science is a good thing, but it is not poetry and it is the antithesis of art. The study of Greek and Roman life especially is strangely productive of haughty aristocratic pride. To this class of the intellectual aristocrats Walt Whitman might say in the words of Browning's jolly Arestophanus: "Away pretence to some exclusive sphere Cloud nourishing a sole selected few Fume-fed with self-superiority! I stand up for the common course as clay existence. * * * * * Make haste from your unreal eminence And measure lengths with me upon that ground." ---------------------- From John Burroughs: "Dear Friends—I am with you in spirit on this occasion, if not in body. I should be with you in body also, but my body, these late years, is that of a farmer, reluctant to move, unused to festive halls and festive occasions, and mortgaged to a very exacting bit of land. But my heart is with you, and it is full of love for the glorious old poet whose seventieth birthday you have met to celebrate. There is no disguising the solicitude we have all felt about the state of his health the past year, and in view of this fact I think I may frankly congratulate you that you have came together to praise Caesar, and not to bury him. "It is a source of great joy to me that he has reached this mountain top of human year, not without weariness and a broken, falter step the past decade, but with no abatement of his serenity, his hope, and the helpful cheer and courage of his spirit. Old age may be a valley leading down and down, as it had been so often depicted, but I always think of Walt Whitman as on the heights, and when I make my annual or semi-annual pilgrimage to visit him, I always find him on the heights-at least never in the valley of doubt or despond or of spiritual decrepetidue- always tonic and uplifting. Does he look like a man of valleys and shadows? Does he not rather look like a man of the broad high tablelands, where his spirit has always travelled, or of the shore where the primordial ocean has breathed upon him and moulded him? * * * * * "It is now twenty-five years since I first made the personal acquaintance of our poet and over twenty years since I first used my pen in his behalf. The memory of those years, those years in Washington during the latter half of the war and later, I think will be the last to leave me. My life since then has been poor and thin in comparison. Those walks and talks, the great events that filled the air, Whitman in the pride and power of his manhood, the eloquent and chivalrous spirit of William D O'Connor, so lately passed away, and whose presence among you to-day, as I knew him then, would be like music and banners, my own eager youth and enthusiasm—all combined to make those years the most memorable of my life. But they are gone; a quarter of a century has passed, O'Connor is no more; our good gray poet, whom he so gallantly defended, has reached his seventieth year, and I am sequestered here, on the banks of the Hudson, delving in the soil and trying to give the roots of my life a fresh start, looking wistfully to the past, hungering for the old friends of the old days, and regretting many things, among others, regretting that I am not with you and sharing your festivities on this occasion." ---------------------- Gov. Green wrote: GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE, ELIZABETH, N. J., May 30, 1889. Dear Sir:—I very much regret that it will not be possible for me to attend the Whitman testimonial on Friday evening Jerseymen of culture will, every one, send greeting to Mr. Whitman on his birthday, and express the hope that the poetic genius which has charmed the English speaking people of two continents will lose none of its startling quaintness and rugged beauty as the years bearing him nearer to that time when song must cease. Yours truly, ROBT. S. GREEN. To G. Buckwaiter, E q. ---------------------- From George William Curtis : "I am very sorry that I shall be unable to attend the dinner in honor of Mr. Whitman's completion of his seventieth year, but I wish to join in the tribute to a man who has bravely and quietly walked by his inner light and who has never quitted his belief, whenever it was his belief, as Emerson says, 'that a popgun is a pop gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.'" --------------------- Prof. Felix Adler, New York: "It is altogether lamentable that I must miss the dinner. I am sure you know and Walt Whitman will appreciate what a sacrifice it is for me to stay away, and how much and how affectionately I am in harmony with those who will sit around the festive board." ----------------- From John Habberton, New York Herald. Writes from Fortress Monroe: "I greatly regret that absolute necessity of being in New York, Friday p. m., will prevent me joining personally in the testimonial to good old Walt, but I certainly will try to put my heart on paper, to best of my ability, in the old man's honor." --------------- William D. Howells writes: BOSTON, May 21st. My dear Sir:--I am too far away to be able to dine with you in the celebration of the 70th birthday of the great poet whom you share with the whole English speaking world. But I am not too far to wish him, through you, health and larger and larger life. It will be a long life here in the memories of all who know how to value a liberator in any kind. Yours truly, W. D. HOWELLS. --------------- from John A. Cockrill, of the New York World: "I regret that my duties prevent my being with you to your proposed tribute to the Poet Whitman on his seventieth birthday. America owes much to the strong, rugged virile pen of the lover of man and nature. Every line that he has written pulsates with manhood, and is sentient with the touch of broad humanity. It is gratifying to know that his work is growing in the esteem of all true friends of literature, and that his great thoughts will live when the jingling rhymes of some of our sweet-voiced poets are forgotten." --------------- Dr. R. M. Bucke writes: LONDON, Ontario, May 22d. The friend whom we to-day seek to honor is no ordinary man, and it is well that all of us who have some appreciation of what he is, how great and beneficient his life has been, it is well, I say that we should, on all suitable occasions, manifest our appreciation and reverence. Walt Whitman has (as I believe) lived the highest life yet. That life will be more and more studied and emulated; will sink deeper and deeper into the heart of the race, until the social, human world, through his aid, will reach a level hitherto unattained--even looked for--this new life so far undreamed, buried in the vast womb of the future, has not yet become, to the world at large, an object even of aspiration. But the spark has been set to the prepared fuel, the living glow has crept deeply into the dormant mass, even now tongues of flame begin to shoot forth. Within no long time the fire will burst out and be seen by all. Thirty-four years ago Walt Whitman wrote "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it." The proof in his case is even now being given. The absorption has begun and will go on-- nothing can arrest it. Within fifty years our great poet (far better known than to his closest friends at present) will stand out before all eyes the typical American--that is to say, the typical modern, the source and centre of a new spiritual aspiration saner and manlier than any heretofore. --------------- Edmund Clarence Stedman writes: "All I can do is to give my heartiest love to Whitman, with congratulations upon his entering with Lowell the decade of life which Whittler and Holmes have so lustily rounded." For him, too, in his own fine phrase from noon to starry night: May the omens be propitious! Long may it be ere we are called upon to say to Walt Whitman: "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." ------------ Jeanette L. Gilder, of the Critic, New York, writes: In reply to yours of the 26th, I can only say that Mr. Whitman has always had my best wishes and they are his for many years to come, I hope. "When you drink his health, take two sips from your glass and let one be for me to his long life and every happiness." ----------- Wm. M. Salter, Chicago, writes: "I have my first chance this morning to think of your kind invitation, and feel it an honor to be asked to say a word on so important an occasion. The few moments I was privileged to see Whitman, through your friendliness, will remain with me as a rare collection. Such simplicity and such dignity, all the more touching because of physical weariness, one does not often see blended in this fast rushing time. I seemed to be transported to the times of the old patriarchs, and the large utterance of the early gods." Not anything he said, but his way of saying it, and the figure of the man will never be forgotten by me." ---------- John G. Whittier writes: AMERSBURY, May 24th. Dear Friend:--I have received thy kind letter and invitation to the proposed observance of W. Whitman's 70th birthday. At my age and in my state of health, I can only enclose a slight token of good will, with the wish that he may have occasion to thank God for renewed health and many more birth days and for the consolation which must come from the recollection of generous services rendered to the sick and suffering Union soldiers in the hospitals of Washington during the Civil War. Thy friend, JOHN G. WHITTIER. ---------- George H. Boker writes: May 28th, 1889. I have a great regard for Whitman, both as a poet and as a noble example of manhood, and I shall always be ready to do anything that may tend to his comfort or his relief. Please to express to him my regret at not being able to meet him at the proposed dinner, from which hard necessity forces me to be absent. ---------- Dr. J. F. Garrison, Camden, writes: "Please convey to the committee having charge of the reception to be given Mr. Whitman my thanks for their courtesy in inviting me to be one of their guests. And with this my regrets that other arrangements will make it impossible for me to be present with you on the occasion. I am particularly sorry not to be able to join with you in your expressions of respect and admiration for one so widely and deservedly recognized wherever the English language is spoken as a poet and thinker of high rank and place among the noteworthy poets of the time, and who has written many words which the world will not willingly let die; whom also most or perhaps all of us have valued not only as a writer, but in the simple and unostentatious character of the genial and respected friend. But even more than the genius of the poet do I admire and honor Mr. Whitman for traits which I am sure he would himself place higher than any reputation that his writings may have given him. One of these is the unwavering, splendid enthusiasm of his Americanism. He has seen and spoken out and feels to his heart's core what too few of our people fully recognize. The glorious character and high mission for all humanity that in the Providence of God belongs to the American Republic, and that, too, not only in some far off dimly hoped for future, but in the living actual now. The other element of his character which has always seemed to me extremely admirable is his real self in the unflinching bravery and manliness with which, where even his warmest friends may have differed from him, he has always held fast to what he deemed the right thing for him to do and at whatever cost or loss has quietly and with unruffled serenity gone straight on along the path which he felt to be the way marked out for him. Thus both as a writer and a man I feel proud to be able to call myself his friend and shall join most cordially in heart, if not in presence, in the welcome you met to give him." ---------- Horace Howard Furness, writes: WALLINGFORD, Del. Co., Pa. "Please send me a ticket for the Whitman testimonial, for which please find the fee enclosed. I deeply regret that my engagements will not possibly permit me to be rpesent and that I cannot thus testify of my respect and admiration for him whom you will meet to honor. "He has lived to find the stubborn thistles bursting into glossy purples which outredden all voluptuous garden roses." From the hights of a life, invincibly true to the ideals of his youth, unswerving throughout in his honesty, standing "Four-square to all the winds that blew," with a heart instantly sensitive to every impulse of beauty, he must know of a surity that 'Eternal sunshine will settle on his head." With profound respects to him and thanks to you. I remain Very Truly Yours. ---------- John W. Chadwick writes: May 24th, 1899. My Dear Sir:--It would give me great pleasure to assist in doing honor to Walt Whitman on his 70th birthday, but it so happens that on the 31st instant I shall be in Boston fulfilling an engagement made long since. I am very sure that in the crowd who will be there to honor the venerable poet. I shall not be missed, but I do not like to miss the opportunity of meeting one whom I have long held in reverence. We have had plenty of poets, who while imagining themselves lovers of nature have done their best to hide her under pretty words. And we have had plenty of preachers who while imagining that they love God despise his handiwork. I love and honor Whitman for his different way, his glad acceptance of the world and all that it contains. His boundless faith in nature, man, immortality and God. May he enjoy the day and many days to come, ere he goes on without a fear. Yours, very truly, JOHN W. CHADWICK. ----------- Mark Twain writes: HARTFORD, May 24th, 1889. To Walt Whitman:--You have lived just the 70 years which are greatest in the World's History and richest in benefit and advancement to its peoples. These 70 years have done much more to widen the interval between man and the other animals than was accomplished by any five centuries which preceded them. What great births you have witnessed! The steam press, the steamship, the steel ship, the railroad, the perfected cotton gin, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the photograph, photogravure, the electrotype, the gaslight, the electric light, the sewing machine, and the amazing, infinitely varied and innumerable products of coal tar those latest and strangest marvels of a marvelous age--and you have seen even greater births than these; for you have seen the application of anaesthesia to surgery practice whereby the ancient dominion of pain, which began with the first created life, came to an end in this earth forever; you have seen the slave set free, you have seen monarchy banished from France and reduced in England to a machine which makes an imposing show of diligence and attention to business, but isn't connected with the works. Yes, you have indeed seen much--but tarry yet awhile, for the greatest is yet to come. Wait thirty years and then look out over the earth. You shall see marvels upon marvels added to these whose nativity you have witnessed and conspicuous above them you shall see their formidable result--man at almost his full stature at last! and still growing, visibly growing while you look. In that day, who that hath a throne, or a gilded privilege not attainable by his neighbor, let him procure him slippers and get ready to dance, for there is going to be music. Abide and see these things! thirty of us who honor and love you, offer the opportunity. We have among us 600 years, good and sound, left in the bank of life. Take thirty of them--the richest birthday gift ever offered to a poet in this world--and sit down and wait. Wait till you see that great future appear, and catch the far glint of the sun upon his banner, then you may depart satisfied, as knowing you have seen him for whom the earth was made, and that he will proclaim that human wheat is worth more than human tares, and proceed to reorganize human values on that basis. MARK TWAIN. With best wishes for happy issue to a grateful undertaking. S. L. C. Interesting letters were also received from the sculptor, Sidney H. Morse, of Chicago; Frank B. Sanborn, Concord; G. de B. Keim, of Philadelphia; Wm. M. Salter, Chicago; Dr. William Pepper, Judge Dixon, Judge Clements, Secretary Kelsey, of New Jersey and many others. The Guests. Those present were: Richard Watson Gilder, John H. Clifford, Herbert H. Gilchrist, Francis Howard Williams, Julian Hawthorne, Judge Charles G. Garrison, Hamlin Garland, Judge E. Ambler Armstrong, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, ex Senator Alexander g. Catteil, E. C. Knight, Thomas Donaldson, Colonel Samuel Hufty, Waldo M. Claflin, George G. Pierie, U. G. Styrom, ex Judge D. J. Pancoast, Wilson Eyre, F. C. Macauley, George W. Black, Congressman Christopher A. Bergen, H. P. Wilson, J. A. M. Passmore, Lincoln L. Eyre, W. H. Garrison, Lindley M. Garrison, Sinnickson Chew, George A. Vroom, C. C. Coulter, Rev. W. P. C. Strickland, Rev. J. L. Corning, Heulings Lippincott, Albert H. Smith, John C. Garland, Carlton M. Williams, E. Graves, W. N. Bannard, E. H. Coates, J. J. Barleigh, John Foster Kirk, T. B.Hall, D. H. Wright, J. M. Stoddard, Howard Carrow, W. P. Osler, Professor William H. Samuel, P. V. Voorhees, Wilbur F. Rose, R. F. S. Heath, A. W. Dilks, M. Trauble, W. S. Seull, William H. Iszard, M. D., Dowling Benjamin, M. D., Alexander McAllister, M. D., E. L. B. Godfrey, M. D., Benjamin T. Shreeve, Harrison S. Morris, W. H. Fox, Capt. C. S. Magrath, Howard M. Cooper, Frank Burdsall, J. B. Vanseiver, Capt. S. Nowell, S. Nowell, H. P. Anthony, Jos. M. Engard, Edward Furlong, John N. West, W. L. McPherson, J. H. Johnson, Albert E. Johnson, William Ingram, Samuel Logue, Hon. B. F. Lee, F. B. Lee, Frank W. Tussey, Frank P. Harned, J. R. Eastlack, C. C. Reeves, F. A. Howard, H. L. Bonsall, B. L. Bonsall, Isaac C. Martindale, Robert A. Balfour, Thomas B. Harned, Geo. S. West, H. S. Pancoast, Henry M. Jewett, Louis W. Albright, John McMurray, George A. Frey, Charles A. Butts, John D. Courter, E. E. Read, Jr., Upton S. Jefferys, Roger Walsh, W. D. Brown, A. A. Moss, S. Burns Weston, Professor A. P. Brown, F. S. Simmons James M. Scovel, W. A. Davis, M. D., L. T. Derousse, Geoffrey Buckwalter, Albert F. Brown, James M. Fitzgerald, W. H. Getty, George H. Buchanan, A. R. Talman, Charles R. Bacon, W. H. Johnson, Colonel J. H. Lambert, John J. Boyle, K. J. Chandler, ex Judge John W. Wescott, John W. Yeatts, E. L. Suter, General George W. Gile, F. B. Jess, Jno. Campbell, Jr., J. M. Pennell, Thomas Earl White, D. Somers Risley, S. W. Sparks, Samuel Iszard, J. W. Wartman, A. Grossman, Walter K. Thomas and Albert M. Fetter. The testimonial throughout was a pronounced success, and not a little of which was due to Caterer Alexander Rudolph and his force of trained waiters who ministers to the [???????????] THE CAMDEN POST. - SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1889 ====================================== {{far left column is barely cut off and only shows a few paragraphs}} WANAMAKER'S ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Philadelphia Saturday, June 1, 1889 --------------------- Clothing day Mothers' day, too. There are two or three heaped-up tables where $1 to $3 is to be saved on each Boys' Suit -- blouse and vest sightly. Seasonable and sightly. It's like throwing dollars over tables if you have boys to \ clothes. There's unusual money to be saved in other parts of the Clothing Store. There will be while we're getting every corner of the business up to that new mark. Near Thirteenth and Market street corner. Boys' Shirt Waists The toughest, handsomest sorts at what you'd pay for common. Cheviot Plaids and Stripes, 37 1/2 from 75c. 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These special lots you will find dis- ed in centre window. all's Portable Dress Forms. ----------------------------------------------------- ARNEY'S, and 423 Kaighn Ave. ---------------------------------------------------- EADQUARTERS Elegany Line of SATINES 2 and 15 cents FRENCH SATINES, st, styles, 31 cents. ine assortment of CHALLIS Choice styles in GINGHAMS 12 1/2 and 25c THE OLD [ ] Townspeople [a] in Camden [ ] Speakers Distinguish [ ] ary World at the [ ] Celebrate Walt [ ] Seventieth Y [ ] Walt Whitman's poetical [pat] was a study in white and gray [las] as he was wheeled into Morgan's [ ] Camden, and faced the company of [t] people, friends and co-laborers in [liter] fields which was gathered to celebrate [the] seventieth anniversary of his birth and do honor to him on the occasion. Everybody had been seated at the long tables and the excellent menu had been served before the "good, gray poet" was announced. He was brought in at a side door on a rolling chair and wheeled to the center of the table which spread across the upper end of the room, and as his kindly face beamed over the assemblage, the silver candelabra on the feasting boards rattled and clinked under the prolonged hand clapping that greeted him. The poet showed the effects of the illness that has for a year prevented him from getting farther than the front parlor of the little house on Mickle Street. His face was almost the color of the abundance of grayish white silky hair that covered his head and chin but when he had sipped a little from the revivifying glass of champagne that was at once set in front of him, color came into his cheeks and the old time glint and sparkle appeared in his eyes. Mr. Whitman did not indulge in the good food that the citizens of Camden had invited a large number of guests to partake of in his honor, but his appearance was the signal that had been waited for to begin the speech making. There were plenty of speakers present, and not all those who had come prepared to say eloquently kind words about the poet were given a chance to express their sentiments. The toastmaster and president of the occasion was Samuel H. Gray, who welcomed the guest of the evening as not only the most distinguished citizen of Camden, but of the State of New Jersey. Turning to the venerable old man, who sat to his right smiling as happily as a child, he said: "All classes of men come to greet our guest. His wide and benevolent friendship reaches all men. His rugged verse rises above the dead level of ordinary literature as a mountain rises above a plain." CHEERS FOR THE GUEST. The applause that greeted this speech was augmented a hundredfold when Rev. Dr. Corning, of the Camden Unitarian Church, who was sitting at a table facing Mr. Whitman, filled with the enthusiasm of the hour, sprang to his feet and cried, "I feel in my conscience that I must call for three cheers for Walt Whitman," and the three cheers and "tiger" were given with such a force and good earnest, that the big folds of bunting hanging over the windows flapped and flaunted as though a gale of wind had struck the banqueting hall. Mr. Whitman was down at this point on the programme for a reply to the toast, "Our Guest," and when complete silence had been commanded, he leaned forward in his chair, resting his elbows on the table, and talked for a few moments in a clear, strong voice that could be heard in all parts of the hall. He said: "My friends, though announced to give an address, there is no such intention. Following the impulse of the spirit (for I am at least half of Quaker stock), I have obeyed the commend to come and look at you for a minute, and show myself, face to face, which is probably the best I can do. But I have felt no command to make a speech, and shall not, therefore attempt any, All I have felt the imperative conviction to say I have already printed in my books of poems or prose, to which I refer any who may be curious. And so, hail and farewell. Deeply acknowledging this deep compliment with my best respects and love to you personally -- to Camden -- to New Jersey and to all represented here -- you must excuse me from any word further. Seated to the right of Mr. Whitman were Richard Watson Glider, editor of the Century, and Herbert H. Gilchrist, the English artist. On the left, beside Toast Master Gray, were Julian Hawthorne, Judge Charles G. Garrison, of Camden County; Rev. Dr. John H. Clifford, of the Germantown Unitarian Church; Francis Howard Williams and Thomas Harned, of Camden. Mr. Harned was selected to respond to the toast, "Our Fellow Citizens." He referred to Walt Whitman's noble work in the hospitals during the war and said, among other laudatory things: "The history of the great Rebellion presents no sublimer picture of heroism and self-sacrifice than this noble man made. Only now are we beginning to awaken to the importance of his literary work and the grandeur of the man. He is the greatest living optimist. He allows no conventionalism and he knows no hypocrisy. Camden to day is known throughout the world as the home of the poet Walt Whitman." It came Artist Gilchrist's turn then to speak for "Friends Across the Sea." He said: "It is true that I was born and have lived among the courageous handful of undaunted men and women who first greeted Walt Whitman and the publication of 'Leaves of Grass' with a ringing cheer of welcome - a handful that has grown into hundreds - thousands, and which is still spreading under the influence of that heavenly force. The great master's voice has moved to distant continents. 'O waters, I have anger'd every shore with you.' 'That melody of life with its cunning tones' has swept across the Atlantic, entered the thatched cottage and ivy-grown moat-encircled grange--invaded the universities, and within the girdle of those antique and moss-grown walls of Oxford and Cambridge the don and the undergraduate have been stirred by the glow of life. The immortal reverberations floated East, South, West and North, till the waves struck the thoughts of workmen--toilers at Sheffield, Newcastle and Glasgow, including all of Scotland and Ireland. "Our guest can picture in his mind's eye the sagacious, good-natured glance which shines upon him to-day from beneath the soot-begrimed brows and smirched faces of brawny colliers, powerful smiths and mechanics. This poet whose poems have sweetened and strengthened the lives of the people, has moved the aristocrat whose soul has expanded under the influence of that great heart. Thought can not be walled out by caste or the mark of materials, and the sweeping voice of the bard has taken captive ear and heart some of the true men and women throughout the length and breadth of the united kingdom. "In behalf of and for the faithful sons and daughters of the British Isles, and the friends across the sea, I wish Walt Whitman, who sits honored and surrounded with troupe of friends, many happy returns of the day." When Francis Howard Williams rose to speak to the toast "Past and Present," he characterized the poet as the standard bearer in a war equal to that which had been waged against so-called classical poetry. In his defense of "Leaves of Grass" he said: "Why accuse Walt Whitman of being an infidel, yet this man has said that a mouse is enough to stagger a sextillion of scientists." Amid all the vituperation heaped upon him, the poet sat calmly, and said: "I do not trouble to vindicate myself. I see that the elementary laws never apologize.'" Rev. Dr. John H. Clifford eloquently spoke of Whitman as "Poet and Prophet," saying "He is transcendent of transcendentalism, yet he comes down from the clouds to clap the hand, warmly and sympathetically, of true democracy. His God is cosmic, and the daring poet who signs himself Cosmos has not far to find his God." This sentiment was greeted with vigorous applause. Judge Garrison, in speaking to the toast, "law, Natural and Conventional, " said that Walt, the Lawless, was a good name for the poet, if genius ever could be called lawless, but it never could be an denominated. "Walt Whitman's teaching." be [?]. "Is that of that other myriad-minded poet. "To thine own self be true, and thou can't not then be fake to any man." Ex-Governor Abbett, of New Jersey, was absent and the toast to the state was responded to by E. Ambler Armstrong. This [?] the regular toasts, but H. W. Gilder was called on for some impromptu remarks. He was very happy saying that as a boy who was born in New Jersey, he came to welcome the poet. Mr. Whitman leaned back in his chair and laughingly retorted: "I am myself a New Yorker." "In out thoughts to-night," continued Mr. Gilder. "No great literary man is omitted, and foremost among them is Walt Whitman. He is a poet. thank God. I am a great sticker for form, and no poet is so great a master of form as Whitman. "Do you say so?" asked Mr. Whitman quickly, with particular emphasis on the personal pronoun. "I do sir," was the reply. "We have our Tennysons and our toy poets, but none of them is the master of form that you are. It is because he covers the flesh and the spirit that he reaches the loftiest intellect of the day. Julian Hawthorne characterized Whitman as the " Deputy of Nature " Letter were received from Robert G. Ingersoli, John G. Whittier, Mark Twain, Horace Howard Furness, George H. Boker, William Dean Howells, E. C. Stedman, John Burroughs, John A. Cockerill, John Habberton an many others. A list of those present were : John McMurray, George A. Fry, William H. Butts, Charles A. butts, John D. Couiter, E. E. Read, W. A. A. Mass, S. Burns Weston, Professor A. B. Brown, F. S. Simmons, Albert F. Brown, Rev. J. Leonard Corning, Dr. W. A. Davis, Senator A. G. Cattell, Lewis T. Derousse, Geoffrey Buckwaiter, H. M. Jewett, Henry S. Peacock, George S. West, Isaac [RTS.] , N. J. [THE] BEACH. [COMPLETE] IN EVERY [?TMENT.] [?L] THE YEAR. A. B. ROBERTS. [?COS] HOTEL, [Pacific Avenue, ATLANTIC CITY. [and] Appointments First-class. $2.50 to $3.00 per day. complete Winter hotel on the coast. [?e] ocean from every room. Superbly fur- [Four] large sun parlors overlooking the sea. SOLOMON, late of Bingham House, Phila. [THE] CHALFONTE. MOVED TO THE BEACH. UNSURPASSED OCEAN VIEW. Salt Water Baths in the House. Elevator. F. ROBERTS & SONS HOTEL TRAYMORE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. This Popular Hotel, remodeled and enlarged, is NOW OPEN. W. W. GREEN & CO. ON THE BEACH. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. HADDON HALL. EDWIN LIPPINCOTT. THE NEW HOTEL ALDINE. Pacific, near Ohio Ave., Atlantic City, N.J $1.50 to $2.00 per day; $8.00 to [$1?.00] per week. No finer house on the Island at these rates. Send for card with fine cut of hotel. Price-list and full description. H. D. EASTMAN. THE WINDSOR. OCEAN AND ILLINOIS AVENUE. Cuisine and appointments of the best. G. WATERS. THE ISLESWORTH. on the beach end of VIRGINIA AVENUE. Steam heat; electric bells; large sun parlor. BUCK & McCLELLAN. HOTEL DENNIS. Open all the year. Facing the sea, Ocean end of Michigan Avenue. Salt water baths. Elevator. New and improved sanitary appointments. BORTON & MARSHALL. THE WELLINGTON. Ocean End of KENTUCKY AVENUE. A. B. HUNTER. PENNHURST. Michigan Avenue, near the Ocean. New House; Modern Improvements. HOTEL NORMANDIE, ATLANTIC City, now open. Under new management. T.C. GILLETE, Proprietor. (Late of Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia.) THE WAVERLY. Hot sea water baths in house; sun parlors. Waverly coach meets all trains. Open the entire year. MRS. J. L. BRYANT. THE ACME, KENTUCKY AVENUE. Only 100 yards from the beach. All home comforts. MRS. G. W. STODDARD. ELKTON-KENTUCKY AVE., 75 YDS. to beach; renovated and refurnished. Under new management. E. WILE. THE MARGATE. Corner Pacific and Kentucky Avenues. SAMUEL KIRBY, Proprietor. OPEN ALL THE YEAR. HOTEL ROYAL. First-class in every particular. Special rates during May and June/ W. H. REYNOLDS, late Lafayette Hotel, Philadelphia. ST. CHARLES, OCEAN END OF DELaware Avenue, will open June 13. Terms $10 to $16 per week. JONAH WOOTTON, JR. REVERE HOUSE, On PARK PLACE (Opposite the Brighton), WILL OPEN MARCH 9. Telephone No. 70, connecting with Philadelphia. SENATE HOUSE, Pacific Avenue, fronting the ocean, directly opposite Lighthouse. Electric bells. Open all the year. H. B. COOK & SON. THE LELANDE. On the Beach. Massachusetts Avenue. NEAR NEW IRON PIER. SAMUEL. WAGNER. HOTEL ELBERON, Tennessee and Pacific Avenues. Open all the year. All modern Improvements. J. H. KOOPMAN, Proprietor. HOTEL CHETWOODE OPENS JUNE 1. Remodeled; refurnished. MRS. MAY W. GEFROBER THE ARGYLE, SEA END CONNECticut Ave. M.A. Du Commun (Manager). S. W. FERGUSON. RUSCOMBE HOUSE. Pacific, near York Ave. L. R. Warrington. Electric lights. 12 years under present Management. QUEEN ANNE COTTAGES, Opposite the Travmore, Under the management of MRS. J. GRIMM. HOTEL EMERSON, SOUTH CAROlina Ave. Near the ocean. Open Spring and Summer. S.G. YOUNG. GERMANTOWN COTTAGE, Tenn. Ave., first house from boardwalk. Terms $7 to $10 per week. Gas, bath, heat. MRS. M. VANZANDT. MOUNT PLEASANT,SECOND HOUSE from ocean, Virginia Avenue, MRS. A. SMITH. RENOVO HOUSE, Tennessee Avenue, near the beach. Open from March 1 to October 1. W. E. CHEESEMAN. HOTEL RIDGWAY, NORTH CAROlina Ave., near Pacific; enlarged, refurnished; opens June 1. J. A. & A. M. ADAMS. WESTMINSTER. Cor. Pacific and Kentucky Aves. Atlantic City. Open all the year. MRS. M. ROCHE. THE EASTON HOUSE, TENNESSEE Avenue, near the beach. Open all year. MRS. J. G. SEMPLE. HOTEL MT. VERNON, PACIFIC AV., near Ohio; 64 ocean rooms; $1.50 to $2 per day; $8 to $14 per week. JAMES S. MOON. THE ATGLEN, MICHIGAN AVENUE and Pacific. Terms, $7 to $10 per week. MRS.L. W. REED. WETHERILL," KENTUCKY AVE., near the beach. Open March 14 to November 1. M. J. ECKERT. KENTUCKY HOUSE, CORNER KENtucky and Pacific Avenues; good location; terms moderate. E. POLLOCK. SEASIDE HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITY. Always open and well heated. Elevator and every other convenience. Coach meets all trains. CHARLES EVANS. DELAWARE CITY HOUSE, OCEAN end Tennessee Ave. New house; ocean view from all rooms and plazzas. Mrs. S. R. BRADWAY. THE DUDLEY ARMS, PENNSYLVAvia Ave.; desirable location near station and beach. ALFRED KIRK. THE LEHMAN. Ocean end of Pennsylvania Ave.; sun parlor, etc. MRS. F. W. LEHMAN. WOODWARD, OCEAN END CONN. Ave. Unobstructed ocean view. S. J. WOODWARD. OCEAN CITY, N. J. OCEAN CITY, N. J. We presume there are a good many persons that have not heard of this favorite seaside resort for quiet people. Those that have been here need no further invitation. But to those who know nothing of the place, we would like to speak of the health-giving virtues of its climate, its magnificent strand, and the bathing afforded at all hours, without guards or life lines; of its great bay of quiet waters teeming with oysters, clams and fish of all kinds, lying just abreast of the city; of the new and elegant steamers that connect this place with Atlantic City, Somers' Point, Longport, Beasley's Point and Tuckhoe; of its miles of graveled avenues and thousands of feet of board walks; of its beautiful park, its shady nooks and flowers of every hue, and lastly but not least, its moral and temperate principles. Communicate with use, or come by W. J. R. B. Questions cheerfully answered. G. P. MOORE, Mayor, Ocean City. N. J. OCEAN CITY, N. J.-THE BRIGHTON opens Jun 29. For circulars and diagram cl at Sooy's ladies' and gent's dining rooms [???] Chestnut St., Phila. B. R. SOOY. Proprietor. SPRING LAKE, N. J. WILBURTON-BY-THE-SEA. Spring Lake Beach, N. J. Reopens June 1. Directly on the Beach. B. K. LETCHWORTH. HOTEL ALAIRE, SPRING LAKE, N. J. Directly on the beach. Modern improvements. First-class throughout. SPRING LAKE, N. J.-THE RUSKIN. OPENS June 1, enlarged and newly furnished. Ap.to MRS. E. CLABAUGH. 890 8, [1?]th St., Phila. THE BALTIMORE, ONE BLOCK FROM the ocean; reopens Jun1. MRS. L. P. WHEELER. LONG PORT, N. J. THE ABERDEEN, LONG PORT, N. J., will open about June 1st. This Hotel is directly on the Beach, between the Ocean and Bay, only 6 miles down the Beach from Atlantic City. Trains every half hour. Electric bells, hot and cold sea water baths. Fine bathing, sailing, fishing, etc. E. HOOD & E. NEWPORT. SEA ISLE CITY, N. J. SEA ISLE, N. J. HOTELS OPEN; Continental; Tivoli, Surf House, Sea View, Philadelphia, Mansion, and others. Cottage boarding- houses; Floral, [Ho??dale], Ocean View, Magnificent beach, bathing and sea views. Rates moderate; information. C. K. LANDIS, 402 Locust St. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.