St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-11
HIS COPY is ALL IN.
Mart Williams Carried Away
by Heart Disease Late
Last Night.
He Had Been Ill but One Day
and Literally Died in
Harness.
Ministers Make Their First
Concerted Attack on Sun
day Theaters.
Aid. Loye's Snow Ordinance
Again--Distpiet Court
News.


club threw open its doors for its first re-
ceptiOn and most of the active newspa-
per workers of Minneapolis were gath
cred there for few hours of social
diversion. But one was absent, and be-
fore the others had departed for their
homes gloom was cast over the gather
ing by the announcement that the eld-
est, best known and Lowell newspaper
man in all the city had received his last
assignment and turned in his last
copy" A few minutes before IL
O'Clock $780, came to Mart Williams and
lie laid down the burdens of this life
which he had borne so honorably
through long years of activity. Calmly,
peacefully, as he lived, his soul went
out to join all those whom he so loved
on earth and who had preceded him
to the great unknown land where
the poor man is prince and the
prince but man. Mart Williams was
| not what men call prince on earth, but
on that roll of names of men who have
made the world better for their living
in it, his name will be written among
the first.
Mr.. Williams was taken i'll in the ed
itOrial rooms of the Morning Tribune
Wednesday night. He was revived,
and seemed to feel so much bet
ter that he started to walk to his
room in the National hotel. Another
attack came and he tainted on the way.
From that he revived, and yesterday
was feeling much better. On the adj
vice of his physician, however, he re-
manned in his room. He seemed TO be
Improving all day, and was looking for
ward TO going back to his desk in day
OF so. Late last night he became worse,
and passed away little before IL
| O'Clock. His death was almost painless.
| 1t was heart trouble that carried him off.
| All the afternoon the members of the
| local newspaper fraternity had been
dropping in 10 see him. He was not
strong, but there seemed no danger of
his Immediate death. In the evening it
was the same. About fifteen minutes
before II O'Clock last night the people
at the hotel telephOned the Tribune
office that Mr.. Williams was sinking.
IL. Z. Chaplin, the city editor, started for
| the hotel, but the soul had fed before
| he could arrive.
The death OF Mart Williams comes as
shock to the newspaper men Of Min
neapolis. He was the dean of the pro-
| feSsion in this city. Every one knew
| him. His was the SunnIest nature that
was ever implanted in the breast of
man. lie had been in the harness for
more years than most of those with
whom he worked had seen on earth.
Yet in spirit he was the young
est of them all. He possessed,
in rare degree, the spirit of
brotherly feeling for fellow newspaper
man that perYadeS the ranks of the
profession. To the beginner he was al
ways the best of friends. No young
reporter Just learning the trials of the
life of the newsgatherer was ever at
disadvantage when working alongside
Mart Williams. Itwas pleasure to him
to help out the young fellows. The ranks
| of the local newspaper workers has
suffered the loss of an efficient news
| paper man, father and brother,
man who lent honor to the calling of
reporter. And other than a reporter he
! never desired TO be. He knew it 10 be
the height of newspaper success 10 be
| called a good reporter, and he was all
that. His place cannot be filed.
History of His Career.
Martin Williams was such an exceed
| lngly modest man that the facts of his
history attainable are meager. He was
| born in Ohio fifty-nine years ago. He
came to Minnesota as printer in 1853.
| For several years he worked on newspa-
pers in st. Paul and in st. Peter. AT
the outbreak of the war he enlisted
| i'll the Second Minnesota cavalry
lie was at the front but one year as
| quartermaSter with the rank Of captain.
serving the rest of the time at Fort
| Snelling.At the close of the:war he went
| back TO ST. Peter and established the
st. Peter Tribune. He sold that
| paper in 1869 and removed to St.
Paul. There he was a reporter on the
! Press. In 1870 after, the ABSORPTION of
the Press and the Minneapolis Tribune
by the st. Paul Pioneer he came to
| Minneapolis as the assistant of Thomas
.. King on the Minneapolis department
OF the Pioneer Press. He remained with
the Minneapolis department of that pa
| per until one year ago last August. At
that time the Minneapolis staff of the
| Pioneer Press was reduced and Mr.
| Williams, who had been with the paper
| for twenty years, went to the Minneapo-
| lis Tribune. There he has been ever
since up to the day before his death.
| he leaves no living relatives, so far as
| any one knows, his wife having died
years ago. The last child that remained
to him was taken two years ago.
his troubles never soured his DISPOSE
ton. His loss will be felt BY more per
SONS than would that of sny other news
paper man in Minneapolis. No man
knew more of the city's history, or more
of the men who have made the CITY.
His death is loss to the community. A
meeting of the Press club has been called
for l O'Clock this afternoon to take
action regarding his funeral. He was
member of the George n. Morgan post,
u. A. r., and that organization and the
the obsequies. He had been invited to
become member of the Loyal Legion,
but again his unobtrusive nature and
innate modesty was manifested, and he
| refused.