The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-30
At a Banquet in His Honor at
Delmonico's,
AFTER MAKING A RESPONSE TO
The First Toast of the Eyening-The Cause
Was Heart Failure and Coma-The
News in Washington.

and swooned at once and died almost i'm
medlately. Every effort to restore him was
made but in vain. He died of heart dis
ease. The great assemblage at once dis
solved. Mr.. Window had been the only
speaker, and the sentiment to which he re-
sponded was: Our countryis prosperity,
dependent upon its instruments of com
merce.n
In the early evening the members of the
board of trade and transportation gathered
IN the reception parlors at Delmonico' S and
welcomed the guests and friends who had
come from near and far. Perhaps the
most prominent were Secretaries Window
aud Tracy, OF the treasury and navy, re-
spectiyely. Nova Scotia had representa-
1--WE IN the person of her attorney general,
Mr.. Longley. Canada, too, was there, in
the person of Hon. MILFORD Laurier Mr.
Window, dignitied of mien, as usual, was
apparently in perfect health.
All formed jolly procession to the ban
quet hall, where the members and guests
We're seated, the members at tables upon
the floor and the guests at long tables upon
raised platform. The aged Captain Am
orose Snow, president of the board, was in
the centre place. at his right he seated
Mr.. Window, and upon his left MIR. Bay
ard. The dinner was completed shortly
after 9 o'clock, and Window, introduced by
Judge Arnoux, responded to the toast:
Our country's prosperity, dependent
upon its instruments of commerce."
Secretary Window confined MS remarks
to transportation and money. Under the
first head he spoke strongly of the decadence
OF our foreign carrying trade and said if
we would regain our lost prestige we must
make the conquest with the same weapons
which proved SO successful in the hands of
our rivals.
On the topic of money the secretary said
an ideal financial system would be one that
should furnish just enough absolutely
sound currency to meet tie legitimate
wants OF trade, and have enough elasticity
| of volume TO adjust itself to the
varying necessities of the peo-
pie. Should such medium De
secured the grave commercial disasters
which threatened our future might be
averted. These disasters always come when
unusual activity in business causes an ao-
normal demand for money, as in the autumn
Tor the movement OF our immense crops.
There will always be great danger at those
times unGer any cast iron system Of cur
rency such as we now have. Had it not
not been for the peculiar condition
" Inch enabled the United States
treasury to disburse over SO, Co.,
OJ0 III two ana half months last
Iall, the strlngency would have resulted in
OF the secretary, our bonded debt should be
IN part exchanged for inter-conyertible
bonds bearing low rate Of interest and al
ways inter hangeable for money at the
viii of the people.
Believing there is not enough of either
gold or silver in the world to meet the
necessities OF business, the secretary said he
was an earnest bl netalist and conceded TO
no one a stronger desire for the free and
nf Sit1
conditions can be reached, through inter
national agreement or otherwise, by which
such coinage shall be safe. But it was
his hrm convection that Tor this
country TO enter upon that experiment now
would result not in pi-metalism, but in sill
yer mono-metsl,sm, which would produce
swift and sure contraction and eventually
reduce the market value of silver
In conclusion, the secretary said "Give
US direct and ample transportation facili-
ties under the American flag and con
trolled by American citiss; cur
rency sound in quality and adequate
IN quantity: an international bank to
facilitate exchanges and system of re-
cprocity carefully adjusted within the
lines OF protection, and not only
will our foreign commerce again in
wade every sea, but every American
Industry Will be quickened and our whole
people 1eel the impulse of a new and endur-
Ing prosperity
He finished his speech at 9:55 It had
been remarked he was reading it off hur-
rleaIy from printed copy, going faster and
faster as he neared the end, and at last. he
had requested the audience not to applaud
A qulver OF fear Shot through the assem- :
blage like an electric shock as the speaker
finished. Window was standing erect under
the glare of the gas lights, with the faces
of all turned toward MIN. For a moment
the secretary stood silent while the ban
quetters, equally silent, watched him. 1t
was moment that 40 one who was present
will ever forget. Then Mir. Window sat
down quietly, too quietly, many thought
In his seat and the toast master arose to
introduce ex-Secretary OF State Bayard, as
the next speaker. He began short speech
but had not proceeded far when MIR. Win.
dom gave Short sharp.moan of anguish
and fell back in his chair His face
grew purple, his lower limbs stiffened
and he stretched out under the table
His eyelids opened and shut spasmodically.
but there was no CLEAN of intelligence in
the eyes, which were rapidly losing th e
lustre of life. The cigar which he had been
smoking was held between the grim clinch
of his teeth. For only moment he ap-
peared thus. A cry went up from those
sitting near guest table, ''Look Look at
Mr.. Window" Every eye was turned
toward the man whose voice had
just ceased. AS they looked, he
collapsed in his chair and was falling to the
| floor. His face was CHASTITY and cry of
horror arose from the late festive banquet
tiers. There was an immediate rush on the
part of all toward WINDOWS chair, but sew
eral doctors who were present at
! the dinner got there first and drove
the others back They were Drs.
Robinson, Durant, Whitney, Fisher
and Bishop. DR.. Robinson bent
down and making a close examination of
the PROSTATE form, discovered the heart
was yet beating, and with the assistance
of Judge Truax, Captain Snow and one or
two others, carried him into the room be-
hind the banquet hall, and everything was
done to resuscitate him. Messengers were
hastily dispatched for electric batteries,
and as many as four were applied to his
body, but it was rapidly growing
cold. This was exactly 1905 pm. For
six minutes the electric shocks were ap-
piled necessarily, but without success He
was pronounced dead. II would say the
cause of death was apoplexy.n said Dr..
Robinson, elf it was not for the history of
heart disease. am inclined to think heart
disease killed Mr.. Window as he was sub
ject to fits of heart failure, On Tuesday
last he was seized with an attack while on
the steps of the treasury at Washington,
but he did not lose consciousness and was
able to take care of himself
AT 10:1l pm. Judge Arnout came out of
the room where lay Mr.. Window and an
nounced to the diners that Secretary
Window, whom they had the pleasure Of
hearing only a few minutes before, had
breathed his Last