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JUDGE WAITE.
The Chief Justice Of the Su-
preme Court Dies Sudden
ly at Washington.
His Death Surprise to Those Who
Did Not Believe His Illness
Serious.

ChleL justice waite, OF the United States
Supreme Court, died at his home In WASH
ington, on the morning Of Friday, the 2Sd
Of March, OF pneumonia, after q brief
illness. His death was wholly unexpected,
as nothing like fatal result was appre-
hended of the severe cold he contracted
last Saturday evening. His last appear
ance officially was on Monday, The 10th,
when he was present in the court room to
present the decision in the telephone case.
which he had prepared, but was not feel
ing we'll enough to read the opin on, JUS
tice Blatchford performing that Office for
him. Following are the particulars of the
distinguished jurists sudden demise, as
telegraphed from Washington:
He was not considered dangerously ILL., and
no one was in the room with him but hired
nurse when he breathed his last. Mrs. Waite
left Washington about ten days ago to spend
the spring months in California. telegram
has been sent announcing the death OF
Judge Waite attended, the reception given
to the authors by Mrs. Senator
atmosphere and searching wind. During
the reception his coachman was stricken with
apoplexy, and fell of the box. There was
constd cradle excitement, and Judge Waite ex-
posed himself by leaving the heated parlors
and going bareheaded and In his evening suit
into the open air to give orders about the
treatment OF his servant and the disposition
of his horses, and after the reception was over
he walked home. Several Of his friends Of
fered their carriages. but no was an unusually
robust man for one OF his years, and pre- ferred
to walk. His shoes were thin, and together
with the exposure in the earlier part Of the
evening. gave him severe cold. Monday
morning his cold was so much worse that he
was induced to remain at homo, but 1t was not
until Wednesday that he had a physician, and
then then only incidentally He Consq qlted Dr.
OF the family who happened 20 call at
the house. DIR. Ruth gave him some
simple remedy Wednesday morning. but
whom he called again the same day
told Miss Waite that her father was threatened
with pneumonia, and recommended that the
family physician, DIR. f. A. Gardner, be sent
for Thursday morning DIR. Gardner would
not permit Judge Waite to leave his bed, and
sent professional nurse to take care OF him:
Thur day afternoon young Mr.. Waite arrived
from Cincinnati. The son and daughter sat up
with him until after midnight. and then retired
without without feeling ceiling the slightest apprehension lon
Waite was awakened by hearing groens from
his fathers chamber, and found that he was
breathing heavily and seemed to be suffering In
his sleep. He assisted the nurse to turn him
over when he seemed to rest more comfortably
and the groaning ceased. Shortly before 8
O'Clock q. M, when the nurse went to give to
him his medicine Judge Waite was found to be
almost pulseless. The son and daughter were
awakened, and the doctor sent for, but before
he came tho venerable man had ceased to
breathe.
The following official notice Of the death Of
Chief Justice Waite was issued by the Depart
ment of State:
"To the People of the United stltes: The
painful duty deyolves upon the PIe Iesident to
announce the death at an early hour this morn
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exalted position he had filled since March 4,
1878. with honor to himself and high usefulness
to bis country.
@In testimony of respect to the memory Of
the honored dead it is ordered tn at the execu.
fFvn iV1N aahf ha aad kba a
of the funeral and be draped in mourning for
thirty days. and that the national flag be dis
played at half-mast on the buildings and on all
the national vessels on the day Of the funeral.
by the President. L; +. BAYARD,
Secretary of State"
Both houses OF Congress- upon assembling
passed resolutions eulogistic Of tho deceased,
and Immediately adjourned. The announce
ment Of Justice Waite's death produced q pro-
whom he was on terms Of warm personal friend
ship.
Morrison Remick Waite received his ap-
pointment as Chief Justice of the United States
January 81, 1874, and was the successor Of Chief
] Justice Chase. He was the seventh in the line
of distinguished jurists who have held the Chief
Justiceship of the United States. In tho rural
town of Lyme, Conn the old house in which
no was born November 20, 1916, still stands.
At the age Of II he entered Yale College, from
which included William NJ. Evarts. Edwards
Pierrepont, Prof. Benjamin Silliman, and
other distinguished men. He began the study
OF law with his father in Lyme, and con
cluded his preparation for the bar in the
offit Of Samuel w. Young, then a prom
inent lawyer in Maumee City, Ohio; He
formed a partnership with Mr.. Young shortly
after being admitted in 1889, and the year
after he took as his life partner a young lady
Of his native town. 1s He % was s. elected to the
the firm OF Young & Waite removed to Toledo,
where they built up very large ana remuner-
%hSh SES hrs ssy ns ar.dsS 1st tS Attention
! Of the whole country that of coun-
sci for the United States in the tribunal OF
| arbitration which met at Geneva in 1912. He
was associated iu this delicate negoti alton
| with Caleb Cushing and William NJ Eyarts.
| Their tact and good judgment largely served
| to terminate the difficulty arising out OF our
civil war between the United states and the
| United Kingdom. The year after his return
| home in 1873 he presided over the constitutions
| Chief Justice Waite had a charm n home in
| Washington at 1415 street. Here Mrs. Waite,
q lady Of refinement that woll fitted her for the
| social tasks imposed upon her by her husband 8
exalted Official station has presided as hostess,
and so far rs her delicate health would permit
has been leader Of society. Mrs, Waite was
the second cousin of the Ch ef Justice, and b or
name before marriage was Amelia Warner.
| She 10 the greatgrandda lighter OF Col. Samuel
Selden, a distinguished officer OF the Revolu-
| tion, and Maria Selden. granddaughter OF this
same Col seiden, was Chief Justice Waite's
mother.
The Waite family is one of the Oldest fam
| a member Of Parliament, signed the death
| warrant OF Charles II and the family moved
| to this country soon after the restoration. II
was about thirty years after the landing OF the
Pilgrims that Thomas Waite settled Mt Lyme,
Conn, and this mans son was one Of the first
Presidential electors after the Of the
| Revolution and cast his vote for George Wash
| ington. Judge Waite g father was chief justice
OF the Supreme Court OF Connecticut, and he
| studied law under Matthew Griswold, one OF
the most noted statesmen OF early days Like
| Judge Waite he was graduate OF Yale and
eminent as a jurist. He left the Supreme
bench, however, at tho age OF 70, and died
Though the distinguished Chief Justice was
] in his I'D year, one who met him in the stree
| even recently would have yenturod the predic-
| tion that he would live many years yet to graoe
| tho bench. He was OF medium height, with
broad shoulders and sturdy figure. Everything
| about his appearance indicated splendid
| physique. He stood straight and was digniied
| In carriage His largo head was crowned with
a thick growth OF iron gray hair. His fore
head was broad and full the eyebrows dark
/ and heavy. The mouth and nose were large
/ and full OF character. He wore a beard about
his face, but his upper lip was cIean-shaven.
/ His figure was q familiar one on the streets,
/ as be almost invariably walked to and from his
house and the Supreme Court chamber in the
Capitol
In the summer OF 1919 Chief Justice Waite
/ was one OF the party with President Arthur,
| Gen. sherman, Gen. sheridan, and others who
| went ON a trip through tho Yellowstone Park.
| On that trip he met with accident tina :
| caused considerable alarm at the time. While
| en- route from the Mammoth hot springs to the
| falls the Chief Justices saddle slipped from
| under him and hs had bad fall. At first he
felt but little pain from the effects OF the tum-
i BILE, but after riding two or three days he was
| obliged 10 stop, and the surgeons who accom-
| panied his party made an examination which
1 elioited from them the opinion that the Chief
Justice had suffered n slight fracture Of the
| ninth and tenth ribs. The Chief Justice was
| obliged to abandon his trip and returned East
| Going TO his old homo at Lyme, Conn, he
soon recovered from the ohects OF the aoci.