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Responding TO n can from Memphis, the Rev
Ioui. n. schuyler Fails - Victim 10 the Fe-
Yer amer Only Week In the stricke EN- city.
The Rev. Louis s. Schuyler, the assistant
clergyman Of the Episcopal Church Of tho Holy
1nnocents in IIobokcn. died In Memphis yester-
day morning Of yellow fever contracted while
ministering TO tho sick Tho tidinRs OF his
death were telegraphed to his friend the Rev.
DIR. Houghton Of the Little Church Around the
Corner. by the Rev. Mr. Dalzc OF Shreveport.
La, who Is at Memphis. He said that no was
conscious and resigned when he died.
Mr. Schuyler's call to tho fever-strlcken city
was very sudden. On tho 9th inst. while he
was visiting Peckskill. the Sisters OF st. Mary
in that place got a telegram that tho Rev.
Charles c. Parsons and the Rev. Mr. Harris Of
the Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis were down
with the fevor. and that other clcrgymen were
needed to tako their places. He was shown
It. and at once volunteered his services
through DR.. Houghton. He wanted to
start that night. but was persuaded to wait
until reply was received from Memphis. His
brother. MI NJ. Kooscyelt Schuyler, who IL
member Of the Union Club. opposed his going.
on inst. he determined 70 start for St. Louis.
from Memphis. The answer clmc TO him and
he arrived in Memphis on sunday. the sih
inst. Ho Assisted II the Cathedral for, a
orphanagc. which had hcen under the caro- Of
the Sisters Of st. Mary unit all but one OF them
caught the tcNcr. Tho orphnnagc sheltered the
children OF poor people who had died from
the plague Twenty -eight children were at
many of the cases proved fatal. II was while
nursing and caring for them that Mr.. Schuyler
took the discnsc on Friday last
Tho Rev John Sword OF the Church OF tho
Holy lnnOcenis, In Hobokcn. said last evening
that when MI Schuyler left few Of his friends
about "a years OF age. He was OF lovabo
disposition. and was liked by those who came
Mr. Schuyler was son Of the Row. DR.. Mont
gomery SCHUYLER. an Eplsc9pal rector in st.
lies u this state his mother being n Roosevelt.
tor IL tho WorH is his cousin. He entered tho
iime he was an assist9nt under Bishop
Bo"RR s % A"n Sna wds we'll WIZ rS dsyO'Ga
theology. In the winter Of 1877 he
went % England and secluded himself from the
world for several months in the Episcopal re-
treat OF ST. John the Evangelist ut Cowley OK
ford, He led very asccti' llc while there, and
on his return in the following spring. broken
his "maclntcd appearance that he insisted on
his changing his abstemlous meals for club
~ was call cl soon after his return to assist in
the Church II the Holy lnnocenls. but his health
was So bad that he had To- delay going there. on
tho lst Of July he took charge Of the House Of
win the rector lie entered on his dutiee nj the
Church Of the Holy lnnoecnts ON the first Of
this month. hut was only there four days before
the call came that took him t., Memphis.
Tho congregation Of the church are mostly
all persons in moderate circumstances living in
tenemcnts. and in the four days that he was
among them ne So cndcarcd himself 10 them by
Mr.. Sword, u few days ago. that they should
present him with suitable testimonial on his
The Rev Mr.. Parsons. whom he went to Mem
pms To relieve. was pastor OF the church
Harris. his assistant. has recovered: but OF the