The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-18
CHARLES A. DANA IS DEAD
END OF THE CAREERO OF 4lIERICA'S
 FOREMOST JO OURN1LIST.
Had Been Seriously I'll for Months-Last Editors Whose Fams and Influence Were Worldwide-Heat of Friday and Saturday Precipitated the End,

Saturday Precipitated the End.
 New York, Oct. 17.--Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, died at l:20 thir afternoon at his home near Glen Cove, L. I. His death had been expected for several hours and his family and physicians were at his bed side when the end came.
 MT. Dana's condition has been such for several months that the members of his family had kept themselves in constant readiness to go to his bedside at any moment. On Saturday morning he had relapse and it was apparent that recovery was impossible. Several times, however, he rallied but toward night he began to sink. During the night there were feeble rallies, but they did not last long. This morning 1t was seen that the end was but few hours off and his attendants re- mained almost constantly at his bed side. The end came quietly.
 The extreme heat of Saturday and Friday had considerable to do with hastening the end On Friday he showed signs of distress and every thing possible was done to relieve him. He had been weakened by his long ill., ness and during the summer was seV- eral times thought to be on the verge of a fatal collapse, but each time he rallied. He did not improve much with the coming cooler weather and the sinking spells became more frequent. On Friday MT Dana was able to take only the slightest nourishment and this condition continued. Paul Dana and his sisters, Mrs. Draper, Mrs. Under- hill and Mrs Branan, were at his home on Saturday morning and were warned to remain there. They were at the bed side when death came.
 The cause of MT. Dana's death was cirrhosis of the liver.
 Charles Anderson Dana. was born in Hinsdale, N H., August 8, 1919. He was a descendant of Jacob, eldest son of Richard Dana, progenitor of most of those who bear the name in the United States. His boyhood was spent in Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked in store until he was eighteen years old. At that age he prepared himself for college, entering Harvard in 1889, but after two years of serious trouble with his eyesight compelled him to leave. He received an honorable dismissal, and was afterws rds given his bachelors and masters degrees. In 1S42 he be- came member of the Brook Farm as- sociation for agriculture and education being associated with George and Sophia Ripley, George William Curtis, Nathan iel Hawthorn, Theodore Parker Will liam Henry Charming, John Sullivan Dwight, Margaret Fuller and other philosophers more or less concerned in the remarkable attempt to realize at Roxbury high ideal of social and in telectual life. One of the survivors of Brook Farm speaks of MT Dana as the only man of affairs connected with that unitarian, humanitarian and sociaistic experiment.. His earliest newspaper ex perience was gained in the management of the "Harbinger," which was devoted to social reform and general literature. After about two years of editorial work on Elizur Wright's Boston "Chrono- type" a daily newspaper, MT. Dana joined the staff of the New York Trib- une in 1S47. The next year he spent eight months in Europe, and after his return he became one of the proprietors and managing editor of the Tribune, a post which he held until April 1, 1882. The extraordinary influence and cir culation attained by that newspaper during the ten years proceeding the civil war was in a degree due to the de- velopnlent of MT. Dana's genius for journalism. This remark applies not only to the making of the Tribune as q newspaper, but also to the management of it's staff of writer's, and to the steadi- ness of its policy as tho leading organ of anti-slavery sentiment. The great struggle of the Tribune under Greeley and Dana was rot so much for the overthrow of slavery where it already existed as against the further spread of the institution over unoccupied terri tory, and the acquisition of slavehold- ing countries outside of the union. It was not less firm in its resistance of the designs of the siaveholding interests than wise in its attitude toward the eX- tremists and impracticabiles at the north In the Tribune's opposition in the attempt to break down the Missou- ri compromise and to carry slavery in- to Kansas and Nebraska, and in tine development and organization of that popular sentiment which gave birth to the republican party and led to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1S60, MT. Dana bore TO unimportant part. Writing of the political situation in 1854 Henry Wilson says in his "Rise and Fall of the Slave Power" At the outset Mr. Greeley was hopeless and seemed dis inclined to enter the contest. He told his associates that he would not re- strain them, but, as for himself, he had no heart for the strife. They were more hopeful and Richard HiIdreth the his torian; Charles A. Dana, the veteran Journalist; James s. Pike.a ard other able writers, opened and continued a power ful opposition in its columns, and did very much to rally and reassure the friends of freedom and to nerve them for the fight" In 1861 Mir. Dana went 10 Albany to advance tine cause of Mir. Greeley as a candidate for the United States senate, and nearly succeeded in nominating him. The caucus was about equally divided between Mir Greeley's friends and those of Mir. Evarts, while Ira Harris had a few votes which held the balance of power, and at the insti- gation of Thurlow Weed, the supporters of Mir Evarts went over to Judge liar rnnr nj n