Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-25
| News By TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
ELLIOT FITCH SHEPARD,
Death Follows Inhalation
of Ether.
THOMAS BAILEY ALBRIeH DINEp.
Drexe| & Go. Again Backing
Reading.
NATIONAL CYCLING ASSOCIATION.
Disgraceful Conduct Of an
English Lord.
NATIONAL CYCLING ASSOCIATION.
ooLoNEL SHEPARD DEaD,

Sudden Death of the New York
Newspaper Proprieter-Aboutt to be
Examined by Physicians, Ether is
Administered - Restoratives Fall
Edema of she Lungs.
NEW YORK, March 24.-Colonel Elliott
F. Shepard, editor of the Mail and Ex-
press, died suddenly this afternoon at his
home, No. West Fifty second street. His
death followed the administration of ether
by DR.. Charles McBurney and the family
physician and DIR. J. W. HcLane, who
were about to make an examination to as
certain whether the colonel's suspicion
thst he suffered from stone in the bladder
was correct. Colonel Shepard had been in
good health, but nearly month ago he
noticed symptoms that led him to believe
that ha was afflicted with stone in the
bladder. He let it go and did
not consult a physician until a week
ago, when he went to DR.. Nc
Lane and told him of his suspicions
The doctor confirmed them and advised
him to at least submit to an examination,
but not undergo an operation unless 1t
should bs deemed necessary. The colonel
hkESSu W tuls huo LO-uhy no ooClucO Ou
the examination. Up to this morning
Colonel Shepard had attended to his bust
ness in the usual way. He was at the
Office every day. No one knew of the
operation when he went home last even
ing. He merely told his manager, A. B.
Defreece, that he probably would not be
down on Friday, but that he would be
there on Saturday.
This morning about 9 O'Clock before the
arrival of the doctor he complained of &C.
we're pains and thought be would go to
bed. But first he went to the telephone,
called up the Office of the Mail and Express
the future conduct of the newspaper in
case anything should happen to him. As
nobody in his ofice knew he was ill thsse
instructions caused some considerable won
der, but 1t was never the habit of any one
in the Office to question anything that the
colonel did and not even any inc uiries
were made as to what might be the mat
ter.
After telephoning these instructions the
colonel laid down a while. When the
physicians and nurses came in later he was
in good spirits. H. had induced his wife
and his youngest daughters. Marguerite
and Alice, to go off to Soarboro for the
day. His son, E. F. Shepard, jr., was at
home.
About o'clock Colonel Shepard said he
was ready, and the surgeons with the
nurees began the work of putting him un-
der ether. He had inhaled the drug but
two or three times when the physician de-
tected dangerous symptoms, and stopped
the inhalation. Colonel Shepard sank
rapidly, and for time it was feared he
could not be rallied. Powerful reatora-
tives were administered. At the end of
an hours work with oxygen he was re-
stored to partial consciousness, and he con-
tinued, apparently, to rally, until about
O'clock! Then, without warning and for
sink. The oxygen treatment was resumed,
but With no avail. He died at 400. He
was unconscious, and his death was peace
full. The cause of death given by his ply
sicians was edema of the lungs.
Immediately before Colonel Shepard's
death messages were sent to Mrs. Shepard
announcing that he was very low, and that
he might not live. She reached the house
at about o'clock. Immediate friends of
the family began arriving at about $50
O'Clock. Cornelius Vanderbilt WAS one of
the first. DR.. John Hall came about z p.
m. Colonel Shepard was a member of DR..
Halls church, and was an officer there.
Chauncey N. Depsw was the fourth or fifth
visitor. A string of carriages was eontin-
ually at the Fifth avenue side of the house
all the evening. At late hour no
arrangements had been made for his fu
neral.
Mr. Shepard was born in Jamestown, N.
z, July 25, 1888. He was educated at the
university of the City of New York, ad
mitted to the bar in 1868 and for many
years praoticed in New York city. In
1881 81 he was aide de- camp on the staff
of Governor Morgan, was In command of
the depot of volunteers at Elmirs, and
aided in organizing, equipping and for
warding to the field nearly 90, 600 mon. He
was instrumental in raising the Fifty first
New York infantry, which was named for
him the "Shepard Rifles" Ho was the
founder of the New York State Bar asso-
citation in 1876, which has formed the
model for the organization of similar asso-
Citations in other states. In March 1888,
he purchased the New York Mail and Ex-
press.
In 1857 Colonel Shepard became &C.
| quainted with Marguerite Louise, eldest
daughter of William q. Vanderbilt, and
after long courtship proposed marriage.
It is said the union was opposed by Miss
Vanderbilt's father, but the daughter had
her own way, and in 1868 they were mar
ried. Upon the death of her father in
1885 Mrs. Shepard became very rich. Her
| share of her fathers estate was the north
house of the group sof Vanderbilt houses
| on Fifth avenue, between Fifty-frst and
| Fifty eecond strests and securities valued
at about 81 2, 000, 900. The estate is worth
l mora TO-DAY