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END OF A BUSY LIFE.
Death of Thurlow Weed. the Nestor of
y 81 American Journalism.

Death of Thurlow Weed, the Nestor of |
= - American Journalism.
New YORK, Nov. 22-Surrounded by his !
weeping children, grandchildren, physi-
clans, nurses and the attaches of his house
hold, Hon. Thurlow Weed, the veteran
journalist and statesman, breathed his last
at 8.55 this morning. His daughter, Miss
Harriet Weed, who had devoted her life to
her father, was 20 overcome that she had to
be supported. The grief of the other chill
dren was none the less poignant. Just se-
fore passing away Mr.. Weed CROPPED with
his right hand around the bed as though he
sought his children's hands. His grand
daughter took the extended hand and felt
soft pressure, and the next moment he
was dead.
At sunrise there will be ten pail bearers
who have not yet been selected. Aprivate
service will be held at $50 Friday for the
family in the house; public services in the
church adjoining at 10; at 5 the remains
will be taken on the steamer Drew to Al
bany, and buried in the Rural cemetery
Saturday. Many kilograms of coincidence
were received tonight, among them the
regrets of Hamilton Fish and w. 81. Sew
ard.
The not unanticipated death of Thurlow
Weed, took place at his residence in New
York city. at S:55 yesterday morning, as
| announced in our dispatches.
Mr.. Weeds protracted connection with
American journalism, made him marked
and noted man. From 1880 until the
breaking out of the war, when he, with
Horace Greeley, VIM. II. Seward, BENZ.
F. Wade, j. r. Giddings, and many others,
were obliged, from want of adaptability to
the new crisis, to give way to new genera
ton of men, who had the genius to build
up party, as these distinguished men
had had in the political warfare against
slavery, the forceful vigor to tear one
down. The disappearance of these men
from useful public activities at that point
of time was due to their incapacity to
tack ship, when a new policy was re-
quired.
Mr.. Weed was born at Cairo, New York,
Nov. Is, 1897, and so at his death had
passed his eighty-ffth birthday. At the
age of ten years he became a cabin boy
upon Hudson river sloop, and two years
later he entered the Office of the Herkimer
american, as printers apprentice
In 1917 he became editor of the Nor
wick IN. w. Journal. Shortly afterward
he established paper named the Repub-
Il
Witt Clinton. A little later he edited an
anti-Masonic paper at Rochester, and in
1925 was elected to the legislature and
served two terms. It was at this time he
made the acquaintance of Vim. II. Seward
In 1880 he became editor of the Albany
Evening Journal, and held the position un-
til 1862, when he retired from that paper
and with the exception of a few months in
1866, when he became editor of the Com
merciol Advertiser at New York city, his
editorial labors ceased.
Mr.. Weed developed ability as a news
paper man and consummate tact as politi-
cal manager, and VIM. II. Seward owed
more to Mr.. Weeds skilful sagacity than
to all other causes for his prominence in
public life. Mr.. Seward was elected gov.
ernor in 1888, and in 1910 Mr.. Weed be.
came public printer for the state of New
York, and managed to hold the position
for many years, in the course of these
years accommodating respectable com.
potency. The Journal under Mr.. Weeds
management was remarkable political
factor, and James Gordon Bennett, elder
bestowed upon Weed the title of State
Barber. Weed except the State'' for Cover.
nor Seward, and the office-seekers of the
period looked upon him as the real power
behind the throne, and he made and un-
made men, as, perhaps: few politi-
cal editors have ever done.
He was member of the
celebrated political firm of Seward, Weed
and Greeley, Fl which Greeley dissolved
in 1854, after the trio had together con-
trolled the fortunes and created the sue
cesses of the Wing party for twenty years.
Greeley was, as Weed was not, am
bilious for Office, and his dis
appointment at not receiving it, filled him
with bitterness toward both his associates,
though more particularly toward
Seward, whom he did much, possibly
all, to defeat for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination at Chicago in 1860.
With the death of Mr.. Weed the old line
of political editors in New York and in the
country entirely disappears, though Hugh
Hastings, who still remains, is sometimes.
but not properly, classed with
Bennett, Greeley, Raymond and Weed,
who were in their day the
greatest journalists this country has
ever seen, or ever will. During the period
from 1880 to 1860. Mr.. Weed welded
great power, but with the defeat of Seward
at Chicago in the latter year for the Re-
publican presidential nomination, his
work seemed to have been done. In 1861
he visited Europe, and in 1862 retired from
the Ereming Journal and removed from
Albany. In 1866 he published letters
from England and the West Indies,
and in 1870 furnished series
of Renaissance papers to the Atlantic
Monthly. He also contributed political
articles to public journals chiefly, how
ever, to the New York Tribune, and to his
remotest stage of consciousness retained
| vivid interest in political affairs, and an
| ardent desire for the success of the Repub
lican party. Mr.. Weed was genial man,
| full of anecdotes with a homelv ruroI