Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-05
NEWS Dy lel6gfdpn
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
THE Sage OF GREYSTONE
Passes Away Suddenly At
His Home.
CONGRESS STILL AT WORK
Hoping The End Will Come
To-Day.
A SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT.
Seven Lives Lost At A
Picnic.
A SAD DROWNING ACCIDENT.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN DEAD,

| SURPRISE.
| New York, Aug. 4.-The Hon. Samuel J.
| Tilden died at his home in Greystone Yon-
| kers, at S:45 this morning. Mr.. Tilden had
been in very feeble health for some time, yet
| his sudden demise this morning was unex-
pected The end was peaceful and quiet.
| The immediate cause of Mr.. Tilden's death
| was the failure to the heart following an
acute attack of diarrhea and nausea. There
| were present at the time Mr.. Til den s niece,
Miss Gould, and Drs. Charles E. Simmons
and Samuel Swift.
For the past four months Mr.. T ilden has
been in unusually good health and in bright
spirits. He used his yacht and his carriages
daily and with evident pleasure and profit.
This sign of returning health and vigor was
exceedingly gratifying to him. Sunday
morning, however, a change was noticed.
Soon after Mr.. Tilden arose he
was stricken with severe attack of
diarrhoea and nausea. This lasted for sever
al hours, but finally succumbed to DR.. Sim
mons; treatment. It left Mr.. Tilden very
weak, however, and he was compelled to
remain within doors all day Monday and
Tuesday. Yesterday there was recurrence
tressed him DIR. Simmons worked until ten
o'clock and again restored his patient to COM
fort. An attempt was then made to remove
Mr.. Tilden to his room from the sitting room,
in which the attack of the morning had come
upon him. DR.. Simmons and the faithful
valet attempted to carry him, but Mr.. Til
den preferred to walk. The two men
walked by his side and assisted him at the
first landing, the great staircase. He was
compelled to stop there and DIR. Simmons
then noticed the failure of the heart. Mr..
Tilden could scarcely breathe. After short
rest, during which the stricken man was in
great distress, he was carried to his room
and put to bed. He obtained no relief from
the heart trouble, however, and large ply
sician's chair was prepared in his bed cham
Der for him. He was removed to this during
the night and with bis head slightly raised
upon a pillow he able to breathe.
DR.. Simmons not relieved, how
ever, by this and at o'clock he dispatched |
a messenger for DR.. Swift, who at once came |
to Greystone. AS DR.. Swift opened the |
door the patient raised his eyes with an in
telligent appealing look to the well known |
face of the physician. "Thst look was pc
culiar," said DR.. Swift to-day, speaking of |
the occurrence; ''as soon as I saw his eyes !
and the eager appeal they showed knew he |
was dying man." consultation was |
held, but nothing could be- done. No word |
was spoken by Mr. Tilden~ after Dr. swift's |
arrival. He remained breathing with some |
difficulty until am. AS the hand of the |
clock approached difference was
noticed in the wan and wrinkled face, |
his eyes slowly closed and his muscles re-
Taxed. He was dead. During the past few |
days Mr. Tilden had been in the best |
health possible for one who for years has |
been lowering over the grave. The present |
summer has been one of especial comfort to |
him, and he had fairly regained what he had |
L =
Since that time his weight, which had de- |
creased to 100 pounds, had increased to 1853, |
and with his daily drives and fire. |
quent trips in his steam yacht his |
friends had hoped that many years |
of life were yet in store for him. His |
death was caused by what is known fail |
ure of the heart, and was the direct result of |
a cold which he had contracted last Satur- |
day evening while enjoying an hour in his |
invalid chair on his cool piazza At that |
time he was taken with slight chill and was |
removed to his room, where his wants were |
attended to by his physician. An attack /
which resembled cholera morbus set in, how |
ever, and he never recovered. The gases |
generated by his disease caused a constant |
pressure upon the heart until this morning |
when death came.
Samuel ]. Tilden was born in New Leba- |
non, Columbia county, N. Y, in 1914, and |
was the youngest of the three sons of Elan |
Tilden, whose father, John Tilden, who set |
tied in New Lebanon in 1870, direct |
descendant of Nathaniel Tilden, one of the |
consignors, or merchant adventures" as |
they were called, of the Mayfower. Elan /
Tilden was farmer, and was the intimate |
friend of such as Martin Van Buren,,
William l.. Marcy, the Livingstons, Silas |
Wright, Michael Hoffman and Azariah Q. |
Flagg, by whose visits constant opportunities |
were afforded the younger son for obtaining |
an insight into the political questions of the |
day, as well as knowledge of the ways of |
the world outside the haunts Of his neigh |
borhood. In 1882, when he was eighteen
years old, Samuel j. Tilden took what was
probably his first step public man. In
that year the hopes of the Democratic party
in the opinion of the leaders depended upon
demolishing the alliance between their legiti
mate opponents and the anti-Mason party. |
At the suggestion of an uncle Sam
uel carefully studied all the questions |
involved in that political contest and |
wrote an elaborate paper showing the |
inconsistency and absurdity of the coali- |
ton. The paper was shown to his father, who /
in turn showed it to Mr.. Van Buren,. Van /
Buren, was surprised by the strength and fin /
ish of the document, which he thought SO |
able and clear an analysis of the political /
SITUATION" that he procured it's publication |
in the Albany Argus October 9, 1882, al that |
time the organ of the Albany regency. In |
print the paper proved SO telling that it was |
subsequently issued as a campaign document, |
and drew the attention of prominent men in /
all parties, the public paying to young Til |
den the compliment of suspecting Mr.. Van
Buren, of its authorship, suspecting SO posi- |
lively, indeed, that Mr.. Van Buren finally |
had to make public denial
As yet Samuel Tilden had not left his |
home. Two years later he was ready for col |
lege, and as is a common choice with farm |
ers' sons, had so prolonged his preparatory |
studies as to skip the freshman year. AS
sophomore he entered the class of 1887 at |
Yale, having for classmates William M. Ey-
arts, Chief Justice Waite, Judge Edwards |
Pierrepont and Professor Benjamin Silliman. |
He was prevented by i'll health from gradu- |
ating with this remarkable class and COM |
pleted his undergraduate studies at the Uni |
versity of New York under Chancellor Mat
thews. He continued the study of the law |
and practiced with eminent success
at the New York bar. In 1S46
he was elected to the State legislature.
In 1866 Mr.. Tilden succeeded Dean Rich
mond as chairman of the New York Demo- |
cratic State Central committee; IN loea ne
was a member of the New York constitu-
tional convention and in 1879 of the New
York assembly. Three years before, early
in 1869, Mr.. Tilden had gone out OF his way
to denounce in the United States Circuit
court Judge Barna1ds celebrated Fisk
orders against the Pacific railroad company,
and in December of the same year signed the
call for the meeting of members of the New
York bar, at which early in 1879 the bar as
ISOLATION was formed. Mr.. Tilden in a
speech before taas 0o sI.;nst AZ 1ts
peace or truce with corruption in
bench or bar Mr. Tilden went with
committee of the Union League club at AL
bany to protest against the passage, of the
Tweed charter bill and made speech before
the Senate committee denouncing the bill.
The bill passed and the. Tweed ring went at
| its work Mr. Tilden's tactics lay in so con-
shutting the Assembly and Senate delega-
lions from New York city as to make the re-
scinding of the charter a necessity. On this
he staked his political existence, and to force
| it he organized a revolt against the ring
| ticket for the fall of 1871. His consulta-
tions with Governor Seymour, Francis
Herman and Charles O'Conor led to
and that the State had case against
the ring. With Mr.. OConor he afterward
l argued the latter point at Albany and car