The leader., 1897-11-03

ings in the borough of Queens and
Brooklyn. The work of the night
seemed to have told on him. He COM
planned of being tired, but his friends
and relatives, who awaited him thought
it only the natural fatigue that follows
such hard campaign work as Mr..
George had been doing.
Not long after reaching the hotel he
retired. Mrs. George awaited him. 1t
was about $3.50 o'clock when Mrs.
George was awakened. She found Mr..
George sitting in an arm chair.
Il am not feeling quite comfortable"
said Mr.. George to his wife. Wont
you go back to bed?" inquired Mrs.
George, anxiously.
Il will sit here awhile" was the re
Spouse.
Mrs. George at once grew anxious
as to her husbands condition Mr.
George gradually grew incoherent and
lapsed into mi-consciousness.
Mrs. George was now thoroughly
alarmed and called her son, Henry
George, Jr., from an adjoining room
A call was sent to DR.. Kelly of III
East Fifty-n ninth street ans he came
without delay. Mr.. George was still
unconscious. All efforts to revive him
failed. Without sign of recognition to
those around him he passed peacefully
away at Ids O'Clock. Mrs. George was
Frustrated and was cared for by the
friends of the family at the hotel.
Just before Georges nomination
there was a runnor that he had
stroke of apoplexy, and this was cur
rently rumored when the committee
of the united democracy went to no.
tify him Of their desire TO- nominate
him.
Mr.. George took that opportunity to
deny the report, and then stated that
he had not had an attack of apoplexy
for the past three years.
The body will not be taken from the
Union Square hotel. 1t probably will
be buried from Fort Hamilton.
Henry George was born in PhIadel-
phia Sept. 2, 1899, and attended the
common schools of that city till the
age of Is. The next few years of his
life were full of travel, excitement and
adventure. After a short service in
counting house he went to sea, ship
ping on an India merchantmen as a
cabin boy.
Returning after one voyage, he I'M
dertook to learn the printing trade,
and worked at the case till 1857.
when the fever of adventure returned
with redoubled force. A steamer
bound for California was at the wharf,
and young George went with the boat
as purser's clerk. The Fraser river
gold excitement in British Columbia
was then at it's height, and the young
adventurer stopped but a few days in
San Francisco, hurrying into the will
derness with a prospecting party. The
seal CHI for fortune proved a failure
and George came back to San Fran
cisco, working once more at the print
er's trade.
Trips to Oregon and Washington
netting him nothing George applied
hire elf to his daily toll and finally, in
1860, became a reporter on the Sacra-
mento Record. In 1862 he married
Miss Annie Fox, an Australian girl Of
Irish parentage. Soon after he be-
came managing editor of the Califor-
MIA Times, but gave up the position
for what he thought sure road to
SUGGESTIVE establish D. tent Of bureau
in. New York for the furnishing Of
news to western papers. The scheme
falling through, he went back to San
Francisco and became editor of the
Sacramento Reporter. About this time
-1869--he issued his first pamphlet
on the land question, wrote series of
letters on this subject to the New
York Tribune and even delivered some
lectures.
In 1871 Mr. George founded the
Evening Post-the first penny paper
on the Pacific coast. Losing control
of this sheet, he first entered into pol
itics and, in 1876 became state in
spector of gas meters, while the San
Francisco public library made him
trustee three years later.
For twelve years-ever since 1861