The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1897-11-06
HENRY GEORGE DEAD
He Was a Victim Of Over
work
THE BLOW WAS SWIFT
He fingered Only Little More Than
an Hour After Being Stricken
With Disease.
His Was an EventfuI Life-Beginninc as a
Cabin Boy on an Ocean Vessel, He
Climbed to a Position of
Honor.

NEW YORK, Oct. 29.-Henry George
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. His death
Is thought to have been due to apo.
plexy
George arrived at the hotel about !
o'clock this morning. He had just
come from several large mass meetings
in 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
1t only natural fatigue that follows
such hard campaign work as Mr..
George has been doing. Not long after
reaching the hotel he retired.
AT about $3.50 o'clock, when Mrs.
| George awakened, she found Mr..
George sitting in an arm chair.
81 am not feeling quite comfortable,
sale Mr.. George to his wife.
won't you go back to bed?" in.
| quired Mrs. George anixiously.
81 will sit here while," was the re.
sponse.
Mrs. George at once grew anxious as
to her husbands condition. Mr..
George gradually grew incohereht and
lapsed into semi-unconsciousnes -
Mrs. George, now thoroughly
alarmed, called her son from an adioin-
ing room. Mr.. George was now un-
conscious. A call was sent to physi-
clan. Mr.. George was still unconscious.
All efforts to revive him failed. With
out recognition of those around him he
passed peacefully away at 4:45 O'Clock.
Last night George spoke in the
borough of Queens, and later in the
borough OF Manhattan, at Central
opera-house. He was greeted by large
and enthusiastic crowds everywhere.
In one of his last speeches, Mr.. George
said:
81 have labcred for years to make
myself known. and at last these things
are all written down. sbelieve that
needed reforms are summed up in the
right of every man to eat, to drink and
to speak as he sees fit, SO long as he
does not trench ON the rights of
Others"
Henry George was boru in Phila-
delphla, Sept 2, 1889. At the age OF
IS he graduated from the Philadelphia
high school, and a year later went to
sea as cabin boy. After voyage of
IA months he returned to New York
For several years George followed the
sea and type setting alternately, hav
ing learned the printing trade, and in
1858 he shipped before the mast for a
trip around the horn to California
He met with with varied experience
in California, working when he coulc |
get work, and often being driven ut
the severest extremities to get enough |
to eat. In 1861 he was married, with
out dollar and in borrowed clothes.
For years George had hard strug
gle to make living, working at type
setting in San Francisco, where he |
says in his autobiography he supported
his family on so cents a day. He first
came into prominence as a newspaper |
writer through an article written for
the S. F. Alta on the assassination OF |
Lincoln. Finally he became editor Of
the Sacramento Record in 1859, which
position he held until the Central Pa.
.:ific railroad got control of the paper.
he next appeared in San Francisco as
one of the publishers of the Post, and /
under his management it was success
In 1880 Mr.. George went to New York,
which place has ever since been his
home, and in 1885 began the publica-
ion OF his single tax paper, the Stand
lrd, which outside of the numerous
books he has written, has proven the
greatest success of his life.