The New York herald., 1876-12-30
AMY FAwsITT's FUNERAL.
DEATH AND BURIAL OF DISTINGUISHED
ACTREss-soRRow, LONELINESS AND NEG

DEATH AND BURIAL OF 4 DISTINGUISHED
AcTREss-soBRow, LONELINESS AND NEG
LEcr.
The ostentatious funeral which the dramatic pro-
fcssion accorded few weeks ago 10 the two young
actors who lost their lives in the burning OF the
Brooklyn Theatre had It's counterpart In the "Lttle
Church Around the Corner yesterday morning. when
the Rev. DR.. Houghton rccited the simple service OF
the Episcopal Church tho remains OF Miss Amy
Fawsit an actress who recently came TO this country
so reap the bitterness OF lie and OF death. In
cheaply furnished In tenement house Eighth
avenue, approached from Twenty-eghsh street by
dark Railways and narrow staircases, this young
artistic, but latoy reigning iavore OF the London
stage, aud engaged At the beginning Of the present
season the leading lady at the Fifth Avenue Thea
trc breathed her last without friend to comfort her
in her dying hours to close her eyes in death. Miss
Fawstt had played Lady reazlo than 400 times in
London, and Lady Gay Spanker in "London
Assurance" half as often These triumphs
IN her country ought to have secured her
patient hearing on tho Nsw YORK stage; ous fortune
pearancc "Liien only the prelude TO her death.
Tho story Of her short soourn here was drama in
ltsclf-sad, s0rrowiul, sombrc. Her griofs and ner
errors were alike sacred but in all her troubles,
whcshcr they affected her business relations or her
own birthstone, she good woman snned against,
because the law affords adequate protection against
the crimes which have their Inception IN vice. Had
she been her country she would have been
rounded by sympa,hizing friends counsel and pro.
tcct her Here she met only the Jealousies OF
her profession and tho cold hand OF incif-
ference. When her domestic Affections
wheming her business misfortune followed only too
quickly She was compelled TO cancel her engagement,
and without means--wllhout even the salary which
due ner--she retired 10 the wrctchcd room in
Eighth avenue where she died. She was naturally secre
tve and she did not mlart the full measure Of her
distress even TO the person among her country
who. hearing OF her misfortune. visited her in
her out OF the way apartment Her illness was known
to no one outside OF tho poor and simple people who
afforded her home aud the mlnlsralons Of charity
ana mercy. The physician who was attending her
remedy In his pharmacopia Tor maady such as hers
Disease and grief did their work. and IN her last days
she sent 10 Mr. H. }. Montague of Wallacks, who did
Tor her what lay in his 10 her sufcrinss
and smooth her rugged pathway out OF the world For
weeks she could retain food, and the last words
which heard to pass her lips were 81 am hun
gry" She died IN the silence OF her chamber aione
and unattended while the mem Of family with
whom she resided absent preparing somc sus-
tenance for which she had expressed desire. One Of
the of her last moments was an invitation
she had received from Miss Adelaide Lennox, formerly
Of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, who had known her in
London to share with her her Christmas dinner and
renew In strange country the Christmas associations
OF their land. In almost inarticuiafe speeches
she referred to this invitation in her dying moments
and with tho tenacity to life which all mortality
hbs she spoke OF the illness which prevented
ceptancc, but looked forward 10 other Merry Christ
showing in death the hectic tints OF lie, only and
smo oothcd the hair which strangers had drawn
back from ron. her forehead Only one wo.
to anoint her for her burial In painful
contrast TO sacred the presence OF three
OF her sex, whom she had not known while she
lived, who came TO bend her with morbid GU
riosity her body about to be removed from tho
room where she died 10 the church. where the last
sad rites TO be paid to her memory BY her bier
sat only H. J. Montague, Harry Beckett and G. A.
Stevenson, OF Wallacks Theatre and these, with
two others, were the only mourners the church
or at the place OF temporary seputure IN Second
avenue, where her remains are TO await removal to
England II Is indeed painful that out Of profession
comprising many members who had acted with her in
this city and in London only one actress and three
should think 1t worth while stand by her bier
and testify by their presence the whcfo
expired their sympathy and respect for distinguished
artistic who came to this country few months ago
flushed with hope and trust only to die IN
prvation and want