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not be far off. Several times on Saturday
the patient appeared to rally, but toward
night he began to sink. During the night
there were feeble rallies, but they did nue
last, and yesterday morning it was seen
the end was but a few hours off, and his
attendants remained almost constantly at
the bedside. The end came peacefully.
The extreme heat of Saturday and Fri
day had considerable to do with fastening
the end. On Friday Mr.. Dana showed signs
OF distress, and everything possible was
done to relieve him. He HAD, been weak
ened by his long illness, and during the
summer was several times thought to bc
on the verge of fatal collapse but each
time rallied He did not improve much
with the coming of cold weather, and the
sinking spells became more frequent
ON Friday he asked ito be carried through
his house, so he might see it once more.
His wish was gratified. The same day his
stomach refused to retain anything except
the highest of nourfsilIne1lt- '- So = 80
Paul Dana and .his3 sisters. Mrs, w, H.
Draper Mrs. Zoe Gnderhill and Mrs.
Brannan. were air at the house on Satuf-
Gay morning andcwere warned to remain
there. They were at the bedside when
death came.
/ ,rheofanexal will be held Wednesday
rorning at HIS, o'clock. at the Glen Cove
His EARLY Life. o.-
Mr.. Dana was born August s, 1919 in
Hinsdale. N. H.. of remote Huguenot an
cestry. He was the eldest son of Richard
Dana whose father, Jacob Dana, was the
progenitor of the Gfaraily in this country.
His parehks mo,eed to Gaines, IN Orleans
county, New York, in 1871, and again, in
1927, to Guildhall. W.T..
In 1881 young Dana went to live with an
uncle in Buffalo and became a clerk in the
latter's dry goods store. In 1887 his uncle
failed in business and Dana was made the
representative of the assignee to close up
the business. While in Buffalo he had
studied at night with the intention of pre-
pairing himself for Harvard and in 1889 he
entered that university. q He was poor but
he managed to get along for two years by
teaching school during the three months
vacation at Scituate and borrowing from
the college fund, the college taking an,in-
surance his life as security for the
money thus advanced which was repaid
twenty Years later. Dana'S eyesight failed
and he was compelled to leave Harvard at
the end of his sophomore year. He joined
the Brook Farm community at Roxbury,
Mass. of which George Ripley was presi-
dent, and was associated with Nathaniel
Hawthorne, George William Curtis, .Theo-
dore Parker, William Henry Claiming,
John Sullivan Dwight, Sophia Ripley, Mar
garet Fuller and others. 1t was here he
performed his first newspaper work "a
writer for the community organ, The Har-
binSer. In 1874 he went to work on the
Boston Chronotype, under Elizur Wright,
at s. per week, and here first began to show
his ability. Sal
He Joins the Tribue.
Mr.. Dana went to New York in 1917, and
in February was made city editor of the
New York Tribune by Horace Greeley at a
salary of $40 per week. which was raised
seven months Iatert sl4 Just before this
he had married Miss Eunice mcdaniel of
Walker street. - The next year, in 1S4S, Mr.
Dana went tosFrance and wrote letters on
the French revolution for the Tribune and
other papers. in the following year he be-
came managing sadttor Of the Tribune at
salary of $21,per week. In the same year,
1919. he published "ProudhCn and His
mutual banking scheme, and an attack on
specie currency and the payment of in
terest. He was then in sympathy with
theoretical socialism as he had been with
its practical application at Brook farm
He was managing editor of the Tribune for
ten years. and was also associated with
George Ripleyin editing '@Phe~ New Amer
lean Cyclopaedia,' first published in 1863
He edited the Household Book of Poetry"
published in 1857. Regarding his departure
from the service Of the Tribune the latter
paper In Its issue today says:
MIR. Dana was reSpor Sible for the itera-.
ton OF the On to Richmond! cry in the
Tribune. which preceded the battle of Bull
run AS soon as Mr.. Greeley was able,
AFTER the brain fever into which that dis
aster threw him. he repudiated the utter
ance, ana required the Tribune to abjure
efforts at dir Getting military operations. He
found further cause, however, for dissatis-
faction. and finally insisted on MIR. Dana's
resignation. Afterr some delay this was
presented, and accepted by the trustees,
and took effect oneApr1l /. 1862. The trus-
tees. IN MI. Greeley's absence. passed a
complimentary resolution continuing Mr.
Dana's salary forssix months. Mr.. Greeley
soon after called maeting ard requested
that the resolution be- rescinded on the
ground that Mr.: Dana was working against
the interests Of the Tstbune ard revealing
It's secrets to a ,Fival, 1t was decided, to
ask Mr. Dana to explain. and he wrote
letter, saying thai he regarded the salary
thew couls p peso,0n e. contract which
after he manifested hostility to his asso-
ciates or to those who came after him on
me tribune. His immediate successor as
found it neeessa han he Wishsd 70 Gay az
tain Information ut the War Department
wnile Mr. Dana was. employed there to
seek IT through the medium Of some friend
connected with another newspaper Iohn
Russell Young, who succeedsd MI. Cav
was the object Of many attacks by Mr..
Assastaht Secretary of War.
In 1862 after leaving the Tribune, Mr..
Dana was sent by the Secretary of War to
Cairo. ILL.,. to investigate quarterrnasters.
accounts-.sIn 1863 he was appointed assist
ant secretary Of war. and enjoyed the con-
fdence d President Lincoln and Secretary
Stanton during the scontiDnance of hostfu-
ties. He was sent frequently to the front
great value by the authorities at Washing
ton.
At the close Of the war In 1885 Mr. Dana
went to Chicago and assumed the editor
ship Of the Chicago .RepubIIcan. Witch SOL,
became involved In financial l1iff1cuities