The evening world., 1889-12-23


won those who heard him in his great effort
at the merchants banquet, Boston, is dead.
He passed away at 3. 40 this morning.
On his return to this city from his North
ern trip last week he was met at the railroad
station by thousands of people who had
assembled to give him greeting; but he
went from the Pullman coach on the arm Of
his physician, too i'll to respond to the con-
gratulAtions of his friends.
The scenes at his home during his last
hours we're most pathetic
1t was shortly after IL O'Clock that DR..
Everett announced that Mr.. Grady was
sinking rapidly. and that the end WAS near.
Theu it was that all them members of the
family and relatives gathered about the sick
bed. hoping against hope, yet praying that
the cup might pass from them.
Friends who had. at the doctors sugges-
ton, left the house a few hours before were
hastily summoned again.
On Saturday it was kno Wn that Mr.. Grady
was very i'll, but it was not until yesterday
morning that the people in general began to
realize hat his illness might prove fatal.
All day long friends of the family called ct
the home from time to time to inquire anx-
iously after the sick mans condition.
Among the very many who came, DR..
Willis Westmoreland, sr., q lifelong friend
of Mr.. Grady, was one of the earliest, and
he and DR.. Orme talked long over the
patients condition.
There was deep sorrow all over the city
when it was learned that there was little
hope OF Mr.. Grady's recovery, for this sad
fact was made known ~ the day advanced.
As the news spread the brightness of the
day seemed, to be shut out az il by q pail,
and in the peacefulness Of Sunday Atlanta
seemed in truth a city Of mourning.
II was O fitting. q prophetic answer which
the venerable mother of the then dying
man gave TO DR.. r. d. Spalding yesterday:
IL cannot believe that Mr.. Grady will
die. said the doctor. HE has work yet to
do"
Perhaps his work is finished. " said the
mother, as she bowed her head.
With perhaps o single exception Henry
Wooden GRADY is the best known editor
in all the Southern States. He stands in the
front rank Of American Journalists. and the
prospect Of none was brighter. He had
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within his easy reach. but be always turned
prefer, he once said, Ito have my chill
build q city than to have them able to say
their father sat in the council Of the nation,
OF lived in the Executive Mansion OF his
Editor Grady has in his veins some blood
o. ne race q SnTrA3 and O'GSnpell' but ne
w, Sns = co1one u \, III ths fnrfejnr dasri a
and lost his life in battle whom his son was
only fourteen years old. Young Grady was
Ris native city S.S where he SrSduStSS a. the
head Of his class, and his studies were after
wards continued at the University Of Vir-
From the first Mr., Grady was strongly at
lege, q lad OF nineteen, he started a daily
town Was then both small and poor. and the
boy editor could not but fail in his impossi-
bic task. No whit discouraged he moved TO
Issued tho Atlanta Herald, in opposition to
the Constitution. the established Journal Of
the Georgian metropolis. This bold ven-
t~erpriso and brilil1ncy we're acclaimed on all
hands. and the Constitution was severely
pressed by its competition. ,Bnt there was
pGpeEs, and the Heraids literary merit could
not avert financial failure.
Yet one more attempt did Mr.. Grady
Again he failed OF success, and he then
abandoned the idea of establishing Q paper
Of his own. His ready pen, however, found
Atlanta COnsttnfiOi, the Louisville Courier
youTttai, and other papers; and James Cor
don Bennett. the elder. appointed him
Herald, a post which he held for siX. years.
fortunate SPECULATION, II IL sald. n rail-
road stock yielded him so, 600, which he
the ConStttUtiOn. This interest, nov enor-
died.
AR. Grady became prominent as a jour
nalist through the South before the great
earthquAke shocks Of August and Sep
liant work then. published In 1HE WoRLD