The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-04-17
ApOplexy Claims the Great
Newspaper Man---The
END CAME AT NEW YORK
Where He Was Stopping Temporarily
With His Family
Preparatory to Trip to the Seaside
Sketch of the Busy Life of De-
ceased and History of His
Work in Chicago.

NEW YORK, April 15.-James W.
Scott, proprietor and editor Of The Chi
cago Times Herald, died suddenly OF
apoplexy in his room in the Holland
house, Thirtieth street and Fifth ave.
nue., at 2:SO o'clock Sunday afternoon.
His death was as peaceful as it was un'
expected. Mr.. Scott arrived in this
city from Chicago last Friday evening.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Scott and
their niece, Miss Grace Hatch. Mr..
Scott was then apparently in the pink
of health. 1t was his intention to spend
few days in New York and then pro-
ceed to Cape May and afterwards to
Virginia beach. From there the SCOTS
intended to return to Chicago. The
trip was intended purely for recrea-
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott spent Saturday
very quietly as it was too rainy to
drive out Mr.. Scott was looking for
ward to pleasant Easter Sunday and
his usual health when he retired Satur-
day night and he did not complain OF
illness until after breakfast yesterday
morning. This was at 10 o'clock. Then
he suffered considerable pain in the abb
domen and DIR. j. A. Irwin was called
in. The doctor found that Mr.. Scott
was afflicted with renal calculus or
stone in the kidney. The substance
passed from the kidney to the bladder
and this caused Mr.. Scott intense pain.
His su1ferings threw him into nervous
state and he was obliged to go to bed.
No serious results, however, were an
ticipated and DR.. Irwin thought that
with a few days rest and treatment
Mr.. Scott would come out all right.
He sank apparently into peaceful
slumber soon afterward, but at 1:45
o'clock Mrs. Scott, who was alarmed
by his stentorious breathing, hastily
summoned DR.. Irwin. The doctor, af-
ter brief examination, said MIR. Scott
had suffered an attack of apopleXy and
was in a serious condition. At his sug-
gestion Dr. Crook was called in consul
tation. DR.. Crook agreed with DR..
Irwin that Mr.. Scott had suffered
stroke of apoplexy. 1t was 2:1O o'clock
"'i0h ~ Oioon t0'''iio'. VIZ Aio'oi "h't
twenty minutes later Mr.. Scott passed
peacefully away, without gaining con-
sciousness. At his bedside when the
end came were Mrs. Scott, Miss Hatch
and the two physicians.
Ion,ao yVil,not ccott ,yac borp In JUolxyortI,
county, Wis., in June 1910, He was the son of
D. Wilmot Scott, o lifelong printer and journ-
alist who removed to Galena. Ill., shortly after
the birth Of his son and became associated
with DR.. Charles II. Ray In the publication OF
the Jeffersonian. JamesW. Scott received his
early education in the public schools OF Galena
and later attended the college ut BelOit, Wis,
for two years. He then went to New York and
was engaged for time in Horticulture but
dropped that business to take position in the
government printing office at Washington, D. c.
His first newspaper venture on his own account
was at Huntingdon, Md, In 1872. A year or two
later, however he sold out and returned to Ca
lena, where he joined his father in starting q
paper called the Industrial Press"
In 1875 he came to Chicago, and in company
with f. w. Rice purchased the Daily National
Hotel Reporter which is still published by Mr..
Rice In the spring Of 1881 the Chicago Herald
was founded by stock company. of which Mr..
Scott was the head, and from that time to his
death he had continued as publisher of that
paper. In 1883 John r. Walsh purchased
controlling interest in the Herald, Mr.
Scott retaining the next interest February 10
of this year Mr. Scott purchased his stock and
control. On the fourth day of last March the
Herald was consolidated with the Times and
the paper has since been known as the Times
Herald. Mr.. j. W, Hawley owns the minority
holding in the Times-Herald 1t was in April
of 1880 that Mr., Scott in conjunction with Mr..
Walsh, founded the Evening Post At the time
Mr.. Scott bought the interest of Mr.. Walsh in
the Herald he also took his stock in the Even
ing Post.
Worlds Columbian exposition, OF which he af-
terWardS pechme u urector' memper ol the