New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-09
JOHN ERICSSONS DEATH.
! SKETCH or THE FAMOUS OLD INVENTOR,

OCCUPIED HIS LAST ACTIVE HUNS
Before a miners cottnge in the Swedish village
81 Ianghansiyttan in the PROVINCE OF Wermiand--
but for this unknown TO fame-stanas pam
granite shaft eighteen feet high bearing this
record, In letters Of gold
JOHN ERICSSON
WAS BORN HERE IN 1902
In Bcach-st New-york, at No SO, one Of q
raw OF dwellings which al suggest Bleak House,
John Ericsson died at 1880 yesterday morning
An inhabitsnt OF three countries, each IN Turn
benefited by his genius none OF them too lavish
IN It's rewards--thoug his native hnd did bestow
on him over dozen tides OF honor-fricsson IN
his eighty-six years OF Ire was tremendous
factor in human progress and his Importance can
.rIv no rropsrly estimated when the evolutionary
800 ~ The rounded nineteenth, century come
~ b. weighed and compared. Notwithstanding
ar. Exicssons age. the news Of his death was
everywhere received with great surprise lie
lived the life Of recluse and was abstcmious
s]most 90 asceticisn. The regularity OF has
habits preserved his vital functions after nc
bsd arrived ut his prime almost unimpalred
ous Of his friends who had known him Tor
twenty years said that he had been unable to
discern any change in Mr. Ericsson's appearance
during all that time His few intimate friends
seldom has q famous man had fewer-grew old
around him
CHANGES ALL AROUND HIM.
His house at No. SO Beach-st. saw its COM
panions de populated of their first and fashionable
tenants, and filed successfully with classes
degenerating in social standing. Big ugly ware
houses reared themselves before Ericsson's win
dows, Rum-shops invaded the street corners,
and the neighborhood became squaiid. Snh,
within, the furniture of every room was that nrst
crowded for it, arranged in the same precise
way which first secured for Ann Cassidy, VINO mas
kept house for him for forty years her masters
approval, and the master himself, clad, apparently,
in the Same old English frock coat, the same oie
yellow buff vest, the same loose tie, the same
trousers--not the most graceful that could be
imacined-and, with his black hair unsiivered
ana his black WHISPERS trimmed as they were
when he raced his locomotive, The Novelty.
against George Stephenson's Rocket presensed
to the two or three people who saw him day AFTER
day the appearance Of q man who has s'ohn 1ne
secret of Time, and set it at defiance.
CAPTAIN Ericsson was, bike bis Monitor, built
for power and not for elegance. BE was short
Of stature. stout but not fiesby; compact ana
muscular His features were rugged, his hands
kpotted and heavy. He had o voice OF great
volume. by no means musical, but clear as q
clarion. On his eighty-sixth birthday, July 81
: last--whieh was celebrated By the Swedes Oh
New-York with a screnade-he looked ike a man
OF about forty-1ve years, and good for forty-fye
years more He fought against his deadly ALI
rnent--a complication of kidney Eoubes-for
about month"; and would not admit to his friends
that be was III, but kept up his routine OF work
snd exercise until fortnight ago
DIVISIONS OF HIS DAY.
Captain Ericsson's carefully divided day lasted
Il. s<l~s1
Twelve hours of the seventeen were devoted TO
labor His chief exercise was walking and after
nightfall. he was accustomed to tramp long
distances To Central Park and back was
favorite round His meals were plain, and he
carefully selected the most strengthening food.
eating, for instance, oaly a certain kind OF
bread, which was specially prepared for him BY
the same baker for many years Fourteen days
AFRO his strength beean 20 nil hin. DE9enfly
persuadt5f by his private secfetary, q W. Ieysors
who had held his position fcr over twenty-five
wears, Captain Ericsson took 70 his bed DR..
J. c. Boulee and DR.. Markoe were called in,
but Mr.. Ericsson's procrastination had cost him
his life. 1t was too late. The physicians eouid
do little or nothing, and no died Dir. Iayior,
who during al the fourteen days had not had
his clothes off. was with him at the last So
WIS his engineer. v. w. Lassce, another old
ssSoeiate 10 these two the great inventor COM
mitted his diving wish IL was thnt his mouse
night 3 spt ;o Is Il y sopss the new caOr
engine on which he was engagea wnsn ,,,,Sch he
by Sickness: bot for the perfecting OF wmcn nc
left whht he considered 10 pe ins'1uesonS 'No"e-
III n e impossibie Le,e to give more than mere
sketch OF a life 50 long and 50 pasy YIN u ms ms
Moenphy IS written and published, u VIII be ono
~ ~ most complete ever given 70 the world
for. from his early mannood Sspssiu s,itv and
KEEP. diary P p rile an nm n the old Besch-st
house He was the son Of q miner, and while
mere boy developed extraordinary mechanisai ana
ma hsa,s ss also attained great distinction
and his nephews in Sweden have made regulations
there As rncpber OF tne S ne army W.T. John
g,s.uson made his mark but his first notable
accemujishnent was achieved after ne nad seede s
n In eland where he went in ls26, ana where nls
n N tie celebrated trial beat Stephen
sor,s for speed and gained for him tns nignSest
nrajses Of . The London Times" anu the oeher
principal newspapers oil the Day
THE FAMOUS PROPELLER.
His invention OF the propeller followed this
feat. snd. gave him to America, Tor the members
OF the British Admiralty Board chsracterisucany
scosfe) NJ the invention, which they were glad
ana,,a IN adopt after its usefulness had been
manifested In America, and they made themselves
lxuuhiua-stoclxs 70 succeeding generations by de-
Glazing that they couldn't see how ship could pe
uyopelled at the stern and at the
mme time steeredi In America 1T Is
,be Mcnitoc that viii make Ericssons
name forever famous in the historic annals Oh
- e.s,ntrv. This new irciclad. perhaps, turned
the whole tide OF the civil war it certainly gained
for the North the supremacy by sea- ana did more
In ir the defeat OF the Merrmac the necessity Tor
s'shaarn Of marine construction WIS recognized
81 All The nations, and the naval ornament OF
he world was reyolutiorized. a Few years ago
(spxnfn Ericsson invented another terror OF the
scsxa the Destrcyes the model OF new torpedo
beet -,
But Eficsson's inventsonr for peace are no less
rrnassusd tian those for war. His house ts
f,IlSof n1odeis. His sreaG solar motor is believed
10 be complete, though jt las mover been put
locomotive are to be found rcrested in locomotives
"a Fir {l.~k rorfa a