Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-12-27
HENRY w. GRADY DEAD.
The Great Editor and Orator JOINS tn,
Great Majority.

Great Majority.
| ATLANTA, Ga, December 23.-HenIy
w. Grady, editor-in-chief of the Atlantis
Constitution, died of pneumonia at 3:4(
this morning.
Henry w. Grady, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution, whose condition since his
return from the recent Boston banquet, at
which he was a principal speaker, has
been precarious, grew worse yesterday,
and late last night his physicians reported
his condition as serious. DR.. F. P. Orme,
in attendance, who had been in consuta-
tion with DR.. Everett, of Denver, Colora-
do, said that their distinguished patient
was as sick as man could be and live,
and that the next few hours would decide
the case. At 1890 p. NJ, his respiration
was forty, temperature one hundred and
five, pulse one hundred and twenty to
one hundred and thirty. ... A.
Henry Wooden Grady was born in this
State in 1851. With perhaps a single ex-
ception. he was the best known editor in
all the Southern States. He stood in the
front rank of American journalists, and
the prospect of none was brighter
His father was Colonel in the Confed-
crate army, and lost his life in battle
when his son was only fourteen years old.
Young Grady was educated at the Uni
versity of Georgia, in his native city,
where he graduated at the head of his
class, and his studies were afterwards
continued at the University of Virginia
From the first Mr. Grady was strongly
attached TO journalism, and leaving col
lege, lad of nineteen, he started a daily
paper on his own account at Rome, Ga,
which failed of support. He moved to
Atlanta and issued the Atlanta Herald,
and afterwards the Atlanta Courier, both
OF which ventures proved unsuccessful.
His ready pen, however, found plenty of
employment. He wrote for the Atlanta
Constitution, the Louisville Courier
Journal, and other papers; and James
Gordon Bennett, the elder, appointed him
Georgia correspondent of the New York
Herdld, lost which he held for six
years. A fortunate speculation, it is said,
in railroad stock yielded him $50, 1000,
which he very wisely invested in a
quarter interest in the Atlanta Coastitu-
ho". This interest, now enormously en-
hanced he still owned when he died.
In the December following the Charles
ton earthquake catastrophe, Mr. Grady
delivered an address in New York, at the
annual dinner of the New England Socie-
tv, on the New South" That speech
was, and still Is, applauded all over the
country, South as well as North and
helped to make its author famous in re-
mote localities where his name had not
hitherto been known.
Mr. Grady last public appearance was
at the recent dinner of the Boston Mer.
chants Club, where he and ex-President
Cleveland were the principal speakers.
His theme then was the status of the ne.
gro in the South, and newspapers
throughout the country are still quotiug
from its ringing sentences and comment
ing upon his stirring utterances on that
occasion.
Mr.. Grady graduated at the Georgia
State University, and also took course
at the University of Virginia. In temper
and temperament he is still boy, He
has all boys ardor and enthusiasm. His
love of home, State and country is pas
sion that has made itself felt in his news
paper, in his speeches and in his daily
life.
What is your highest ambition ?" was
asked of him some time ago.
To have my friends love me and be-
lieve in me-" was the reply.