Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 253, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1934 — Page 8

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FUNERAL TODAY FOR DAUGHTER OF LONGFELLOW ‘Laughing Ailegra,’ Famed in ‘The Children’s Hour,’ Dies at 78. By United Press % CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Ma ch 2. The Laughing Ailegra” of Longfellow* poem, “The Children's Hour,” was to be buried this afternoon. She was Mrs. Annie Ailegra Longfellow Thorp. 78, last daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and widow of Joseph G. Thorp. She died Wednesday at the family home Crangie House, on Brattle street. A wealth of historic and literary tradition centered about her. Longfellow was 50 and world famous when Annie was bom. When he wrote “The Childrens Hour’ she was 2, Edith was 5 and Alice was 9. Years before he had ended his teaching career at Harvard, where he was known to the students as “Old Pop,” and centered his life and labors in the tsudy of the Craigie House. About this study. “Its three doors left unguarded,” revolved the childhood of the three girls. Laughing Ailegra. Grave Alice and Edith With, Golden Hair. Panic Hurt Longfellow In the panic year of 1857 the Longfellows gave up their dapple grays and rode on the bus. His poetry brought more fame than cash. He received only $25 for “The Wreck of the Hesperus.” Annie and her sisters grew up to swim and skate, sail boats and ride horse back. Like their older brothers Charles and Ernest. They spent the summers at Nahant, boarding with a Mrs. Johnson, "who made wonderful popovers.” The children called the shell-like gems “poetry cakes,” because "there is nothing in them.’’ Annie was 6 the first year of the Civil war. That summer her mother burned to death as she melted sealing wax to wrap up packages of her babies’ curls which they finally prevailed upon her to have cut. Longfellow then became father and mother to his little brood. Attended English College After a few' years in Italy, where Longfellow' was a hero because of his transition of “The Divine Comedy,” Annie and Alice entered New’ham college. England. They returned to Cambridge in time for the launching of a women's college there and enrolled in the first class. But as special students, having already completed a college course. Before the first Radcliffe commencement, Longfellow was dead, at 75. Edith With Golden Hair died in 1915, aged 61, and Grave Alice in 1929, aged 79. Annie was married in 1885. She leaves five daughters, the Misses Anne L. and Alice Thorp and Mrs. Bobert W. Knowles, all of Cambridge; Mrs. Arthur C. Smith, Greenwich. Conn., and Mrs. I. M; De Berry. Minneapolis. PHYSICIANS WILL MEET Negro Doctors Institute Planned for Next Month. An institute for Negro physicians, directed by Dr. L. L. Allen. Milwaukee, will be held April 9 and 10, under the direction of the Spring Health Education committee of the Marion Couoty Tuberculosis Association. Plans for the intsitute completed at a meeting of committee Wednesday in the Lincoln. Other health projects discussed by the committee included indorsement of the proposal of the Indianapolis Flower Mission to construct a hospital for advanced f bcrculosis patients, plans for observance of Negro Health week. Child Health week and Cleanup week. Dr. E. O. Asher is chairman of the committee Seeks Post of Constable Leroy Pickle. 507 Indiana avenue. today announced his candidacy for thp office of constable of Center township on the Republican ticket.

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Fred Hoke, chairman of the Governor's committee on unemployment relief and Indiana director of the national emergency council, will speak on “Some Aspect of the New Deal IJnder NRA” at the dinner meeting of the Indianapolis School Men’s Club at 6 p. m. Monday, in the social rooms of Prather Masonic temple, Forty-second street and College avenue. The program will include remarks by A. Frederick Thomas, instructor in mathematics at j Broad Ripple high school, presi- | dent of tlie club; instrumental j music by George Curtis and Jack Hiser. students of Technical high school, and community singing led by Ralph W. Wright, public schools musical director. Committee on arrangements for the affair includes Mr. Thomas, ,C. C. Shoemaker, M. A. Peoples, M. B. Stump. E. B. Van Dorn and C. L. Lett. Dinner reservations may be made with the committee.

LABORER’S WIFE AND 3 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Fourth Child Critically Burned in N. Y. Tenement Blaze. By United Press NEW YORK. March 2.—While Joseph Galozzi was shoveling snow r yesterday to provide food for his family, his wife Rose, 31. and their three children, Stephen, 9; Joseph Jr.. 6, and Walter, 1 year old, were burned to death in a fire that swept through a five-story Brooklyn tenement. A fourth child, Angelo, 13, is so severely burned that his chances of j recovery are slight, doctors said. DEMOCRAT CLUB ELECTS First Ward NRA Group Names W. J. West President. Members of the First Ward NRA Democratic Club held an election of officers Wednesday night at the clubrooms. Nineteenth and Yandes streets. New officers are W. J. West, president; Lee A. Miles, vice-president; John Gay, secretary; H. Bell, as-sistant-secretary, and A. J. Thomas. treasurer.

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