The record-union., 1897-10-30
THE END PEACEFUL.
Henry George Passed way sitting
in a Chair in His Room.

the candidate of the Jeffersonian De-
mocracy for Mayor of Greater New
York. died in the Union Square Hotel
at 4:45 o'clock this morning. Death
is thought to have been due to apo
plexy.
Mr.. George arrived at the hotel about
O'Clock this morning. He had just
come from several large mass meetings
in the borough of Queens and Brook
lyn. The work of the night seemed to
have told on him. He complained CT
being tired, but his friends and rela-
tives who awaited him thought it only
the natural fatigue that follows such
hard campaign work as Mr. George has
been doing.
Not long after reaching the hotel he
retired. 1t was about $3.50 o'clock when
Mrs. George was awakened. She found
Mr. George sitting in an arm chair -
am not feeling quite comfortable said
Mr.. George to his wife.
Won't you go back to bed?'' in
quired Mrs. George anxiously.
Il will sit here a while,' was the re-
sponse.
Mrs. George at once grew anxious as
to her husbands condition. Mr. George
gradually grew incorherent, and Iapsed
into semi-consciousness.
Mrs. George was now thoroughly
alarmed, and called her son, Henry
George, Jr., from an adjoining room.
Mr.. George was now unconscious.
A call was sent to DR.. Kelley of III
East Fifty-ninth street, and came
without delay. Mr.. George IS still
unconscious. All efforts to revive him
failed. Without a sign of recognition
to those around him he passed peace
fully away at 4:45 o'clock.
Mrs George was prostrated, and was
cared for by her friends at the hotel
Tom L. Johnson was Immediately
sent for and arrived at $40.
Frank Stephens, a personal friend of
Mr. George and one of his campaign
managers, was at the candidates bed
side after the fatal attack came. He
said: Il came into the Union at l
o'clock this morning, and found Mr..
and Mrs. George sitting at table in
the dining room with a few friends.
Mr.. George had just returned from the
Central Opera-house, where he had de-
livered a speech. After a light meal
Mr.. George complained of indigestion.
He soon retired, after bidding us all
good might. Mrs. George found him sit
ting in an arm chair, and she sum
moned several of US. l went at once
for the doctor, and on my way stopped
at the Waldorf and notified Mr.. John
son. He was greatly shocked, and lost
not time in getting down to the Union
Square Hotel. He and I then went to
Mr.. Georges residence in South Brook
lyn and notified the members of the
family there. His son Richard and his
unmarried daughter We're there at the
time. With them were two nieces of
Mr. George. daughters of his brother
Thomas, who resides in Philadelphia.
After his nomination for Mayor by
the Jeffersonian Democrats a month
ago. Mr. George made an extremely
active canvass, speaking several times
every evening, and worked from early
to late at his headquarters. He gave
to the campaign its most sensational
incidents in attacks on Richard Croker
and Senator Platt, whom he Ikened to
prosecute for various crimes, such as
levying blackmail upon city contractors
and aspirants for office, should he be
elected Mayor His candidacy gave to
the coming election its greatest element
of uncertainty, for according to expert
politicians it was practically impossl-
BILE to estimate how much of Bryan's
vote of last year would go to George
instead of Van Wyck.
Last night Mr.. George spoke in the
borough of Queens, and later in the
borough of Manhattan, at the Central
Opera house. He was greeted by large
In one of his last speeches Mr.. George
and enthusiastic crowds everywhere.
said: L have laboFed for years to
make myself known, but now at last
these things are all written down. l
believe that the needed reforms are
summed up in the philosophy: The
right of every man TO eat, to drink, to
speak as he sees fit, so long as he does
not trench on the rights of others.
In the same speech he repeated
| threats against Mr.. Croker in a ring
ing voice that greatly affected his hear
ers, saying: Let him go to the peni-
tentiary. He shall go there"
Mrs. George accompanied her hus-
band ON most of his speech making
trips, and she was with him last night.
Newspaper men who have been with
George during the campaign have felt
that the strain was surely and rapidly
| breaking him down. At times he has
been incoherent. His whole tempera-
ment underwent a complete change. His
speeches, delivered by the half dozen
each day, We're often rambling, though
! their trend was ever faithful to the
toilers whose devoted champion he has
been all his life.
Mrs George and Henry George, Jr.,
have been solicitious regarding the eff
| feet Of the terrible strain of his being
| bundled about from place to place each
day far into the night, and making
speeches because of wildly enthusiastic
gatherings of his admirers, and it has
| been noted again and again that his
| faithful wife sat beside her husband ON
the platform wherever he spoke or
watched closely from place of vantage
close by
| Mr. George has not been strong for
the past three years, and his son, Henry
George, Jr, has been his companion in
almost every enterprise in which he
has engeged, going with him on his
tours of the. West as a special news
paper correspondent in the late politi-
cal campaign, and keeping close at his
side in his movements in this cam
paign.
Within the past day or two close
friends of Mr. George have noted with
] apprehension marked changes in his