Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-22

LELAND STANFORD. plectic, and his weight
was increasing alar1ningly. There was
stiffness about the limbs that made loco
motion an exceedingly difficult task. His
body was fast becoming too heavy for his
limbs to support, and he could take only
the slightest exercise. Six months ago
the senator sent for DR.. Curtis, of San
Francisco, who prescribed heroic treat
ment, but the senator was not ready to
undergo drastic methods for reduction
of flesh and the restoration Of waning
strength
Prescribed a Severely Plain Diet.
, His apoplectic symptoms increased, and
his situation became such to create ser
!ous alarm about six weeks ago, when it
was fouIsd necessary to impose severely
plain diet upon the senator. and since that
time his sole food had consisted Of fried
hashed meat, with hot water the only
liquid accompaniment. The senator rigidly
adhered to the severe requirements of his
physician, and it seemed for Il time that the
results were most beneficial and might
possibly effect permanent cure.
, Had Deferred Action Too Long.
The senator, indeed, expressed himself
as much encouraged and looked forward
hopefully to the time when he could de-
vote himself with renewed energy TO pub
lie affairs and to the completion of certain
educational and other benevolent enter
prises that were very near to his heart.
But his strength was not sufficiently great
to respond to the demands upon it. Its
fundamental weakness suddenly mani
tested itself and he passed quietly away.
a Great Railway Achievement.
Leland Stanford was more of business
man than statesman. He was born near
Albany, \. V, in 1924, and spent his early
years on a farm. Later he studied law,
but in 1852 abandoned the profession and
went to California, where he went into
businesshnd, rapidly ss<fHeu4tlsa4
til he was rnulti-miilionaire. He was
governor of California and sstaneh Re
publican, being prominent fnsthe party all
his later life He was one of the chief pro-
moters of the Union Pacific railway, and
drove the hast spike himself on May 10,
1863 He built $50 miles of this road in 293
,, days.
What VIII Keep His Memory Green.
He was very successful breeder of
horses and his Palo Alto farm was de-
voted to this business and has given the
turf such flyers as Electioneer, Sunol and
Arion But his chief claim to the remem-
brance of future generations is his gener-
osity in providing the splendid educational
endowment for this state of the Leland
Stanford. .Jr, university To this he de-
nothing neglected that money can buy for
its perfect equipment. The college is in
memory of his only child, son, who died
when he was 16 years of age, and who had
been the apple of his fathers eye. He had
hoped great things of this boy, and when
death took him the father began to think
how he could best keep his memory green.
The university shows that Leland Stan
ford had both a level head and "A heart
in the right place.
HIS BencfactiOns Were Varied.
The university was not his only benefac
tion. for his benefcence has been as varied as
his career. The needy individual has not
been passed by that the public institution
might be magnified. In Mrs Stanford,
who survives him, he had a worthy mate.
She keeps seven kindergartens going, and
has eight institutions for the education of
young girls in various parts of the coun-
try Sometimes she wears dresses three
years old.