Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-02-03
TBLEGRAPHlC.
W.CHILDS DEAD.
n, Celebrated Journalist Rissts
Away In Peace.
GREAT PHILANTHROPY GONE
,n,rk and Anxiety said to be The
Immediate Causes of the Fatal
Hines,

ry,tAprLrniA, Feb. 3.-rhe death
,a.,,ge W. Chllds occurred nj 3io3
,nIs morning IN.
cbidya last Illness began with
,,otlpe srell, which seized him while
a. M. office IN the Ledger building
f,ru,ry 10. lie became Unconscious
.J p,. Da Costa was hastily sum
ned. Rvstoratives were applet
-, The result that In an hour the pa
r,,t was able to walk with assistance
carriage. he was conveyed 10
home. and Mrs. Chile, VINO was
Inc country place Of Woo'on, was
named. Dr. Da COe,a called IN
iisiy and Morris ON the following
..av night. Tue physicians reIuc-
.uy admitted that paralysis OF the
., limbs accompanied tbs attack.
.t.,. /. hui little reason to doubt that
i,,neItate ciuse Of the attack was
.y,fyofk aud anxiety atlonuant upon
bl. ,nor,s ~ see that the memory OF MS
i,irlopg friend, the late a. J. DreAtl
rs, pfoperly hOnOrod. the Jay up
,.wpicn came the attack was spent
an yhilds In preparing for tue DreAei
.s.B1ritI services held In tue DreNel
it,aiute Saturday, January 2jth, Two
'-g. aiter the iaiai Thurslny. His
.ratcrl ab,ence from the ceremony
,,lff.ed him profoundly, aud TO THIS
.Hwas largely dur the relapse which
.r.ufred ou the night Of January 2lss'
Aurr midnight the patient SANK rhp.
die and il soon became certain that
,ae oud was very near A. the bedside
,gtrrr the beloved Journalist and phil.
,sltfoplst passed away were George o.
f..1,a. and james w. Paul VI the
s,s, oi Dfrxul q Co., Mf. aud Mrs.
INN Dfexel, Mita Petovuu, niece OF
M. ghildr, Miss Stanley, companion
9Mr. Childs, aud ColOael Edward
ID N0tfell
Nr Childs was probably ne widely
st4vn ss any man In thn Unilei
,,uiss, and there can be- no doubt that
I. Was far the best known resident OF
Philadelphia.
riail appearances, Childs was "A 70.
bgst man, yet his constitution was
yrfy delicate. He was Of u highly
nervous tcmpetament and with tho
altaek which proved the begi ming Of
hls iast iliutsF, came almost complete
nervous pfoasrution.
Those VINO kueW him beat believed
he was never thoroughly happy or
e0nirnted man since the death Oi MS
loon companion anu business partner,
Anthony J. DfeXel. They Wero
almo,l instpnrADle In companionship,
AndtWas n sad blow 10 HAYES 10 near u
friend carried OF ~ suddenly.
George w. Childa DTexel, the young
ut sOn Of the deceased banker, was
several years ago determined upon ~
The one who should succeed his father
In his Interest In the Ledger. The
,cnisr Dfrxul owned hall interest Ia
tho pnIef, and his Interest became
the property Of the son upon his
i,.nct's dtcrase. Young DteKsl had
been carefully educated and trained
with this tnu In view, Shortly alter
he falhei's death his name was placed
o, tho head OF the edltOlial columns
u the Ltdger ~ publisher, along
with MT. Cnilds Ms editor aud pro-
pfitl0r.
Childs had three homes, which he
aud his family occupied at different
tsasona OF the year. His town house,ou
Walnut street Is n white marble stluo.
iute aud IN one OF the most impuuing
tdlficrs on that street Of arislOcfnuc
homes. His country home at WuOlun
surrounded by sixty acres Of beautl.
iil grounds. The lawn IN faid 10 be the
mot beautiful IN this country. Here
the hospitality when Childs ever de-
lighted Ia nai one Of its principal
lltaler. The roll " visitors included
mauy distinguished strangers. In nd
lili0n to his Town and country houses,
CblIds hal a handsome cottage at
Long Branch, adJciplng that VI A. J,
DIexel,