"FUN DOCTOR" PASSES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 8

"FUN DOCTOR" PASSES

DEATH OF MR, E. W..COLE. The death of Mr. E.'W. Cole, proprie- : tor of Cole's Book Arcade, was announced a few days ago. E. W. Cole was the. best-known bookseller in Melbourne, and his Book Arcade had an individuality which expressed the rather peculiar ideas of its proprietor. Ho came eat at an early age in a Over forty years ago he began business in -a little shop up on the Bourke'Street Hill. Later on he came down to. nis present position, and comparatively recently added departments which brought the Arcade through from Bourke to Collins Street. He was a man of considerable religious feeling, and ran his business, to a certain extent, as a hobby. His band was an extraordinary affair, which in the afternoon used to discourse religious music of the "Sweet Bye-and-Bye" order.' His stock of 1,000,000 books was composed of all kinds. Cheek by jowl with Haeckel's rationalism would be found works of simple piety t/ such as ' Sankey -.and Moody's hymn's. In the' Bourke Street end of the Arcade was a large loom full of monkeys.