Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-23
Death This Morning of Henry
w. Grady.
EMIN BAY Is NOW CONvALESCENT.
SlaVin and Smith Fight Their Tilt to q
Draw.
UNCERTAIN STATE OF THINGS IN BRAZIL
THE SOUTH LOSES A CHAMPION.
Death Early This Morning Of Henry W..
Grady at Atlanta.

ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 23.-Henry W. Grady
died of pneumonia at twenty minutes before
four this morning. With perhaps a single ex-
ception Henry Wooden Grady was the best
known editor in all the southern states. He
stood i'll the front rank of American journalists
and the prospect of none was brighter. His
father was a colonel in the confederate army.
and lost his life in battle when his son was only
fourteen years old. Young Grady was edu-
Gated at the University 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 on leaving college, lad of nineteen, he
started daily paper on his own account at
Rome, Ga, which failed of support. He moved
to Atlanta and issued the Atlanta Herald and
afterward the Atlanta Courier, both of which
ventures proved unsuccessful. His ready pen.
however. found plenty of employment. He
wrote for the Atlanta Constitution, the Louis
vile Courier-,JOurnat and other papers
James Gordon Bennett the elder appointed
him as Georgia correspondent for the New
York Herald, post which he held for six years
A fortunate speculation. 1t is said. in railroad
stock yielded him 5000 which he very wisely
invested IN a quarter interest in the Atlanta
ConsttstiOn. This interest, now enormously
enhanced, he still owned when he died. In the
December following the Charleston catastrophe
MIR. Grady delivered an address in New York at
tuc ANNUAL U.Lner OF the New England society
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 remote localities where his name had
not hitherto been known. MIR. Grady's last
public appearance was at the recent dinner of
the Boston merchants club, where he and ex-
President Cleveland played star parts His
theme then was the status of the negro in the
south, and newspapers throughout the country
are still quoting from its ringing sentences and
commenting upon his stirring utterances on
that occasion.
MR.. GRADY's ILLNESS.
Mr.. Grady was i'll when he left Atlanta for
Boston TO deliver the speech recently delivered
there. He went contrary to the advice of his
physician and returned quite sick. Saturday
his condition was very serious and Sunday it
was understood that there was very little hope
for his recovery. The announcement that his
death was possible was a great shock to the
people and the most intense interest was felt
By 1880 O'Clock last night he began growing
worse, and at o'clock he was said to be dying.
At $40 he quietly breathed his last.
When daylight came and the news of his
death spread over the city it created a sorrow
never equaled here before. The arrangements
for the funeral have not been made yet. Mr.
Grady was born in Athens, Ga, in 1851. and
will probably be buried there beside his father
who was killed In the while gallantly lead
ing the 25th North Carolina regiment at Peters
burg. MIR. Grady leaves widow and two chill
dreH.
MoURNED IN CHARLESTON
CHARLESTON, sc Dec. 23.-Henry W. Grady's
death has caused universal regret in Charles
ton. His loss is regarded as public calamity
AS soon as the news was received here the stars
and stripes were placed at half-nast on the
Neccs and Courier building