The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-30
DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE
PASSES AWAY IN THE HEAT OF 4 FIERCE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.

Had Been Feeling Unwell for some Time Death Due to Apoplexy and Asphyxia- Sketch of the Career of This Noted Phil osopher and Reformer.
 New York, Oct. 29.-Henry George, the candidate of the Jeffersonian de- mocracy for mayor of the Greater New York, died in the Union Square hotel at 4:45 o'clock this morning. Death is thought to have been due to apoplexy. MT. George arrived at the hotel about 1 o'clock this morning. He had just come from several large mass meetings in the boroughs of Queens and Brook lyn, and came home to the hotel eX- hausted and soon afterward retired. Soon he complained of feeling i'll and got up and sat in a chair. In response to his wife's solicitude he said that he was not feeling quite comfortable, and added that he would sit a while longer He grew worse, however. A doctor was sent for by Henry George, jr. Dr. Kel- ly arrived in few minutes, but all eff forts were in vain and he died without a sign of recognition of those about
 
 cate was death by apopIexy, aided by asphyxia-
 Mr. George had changed greatly in appearance since he joined in the cam paign, and he had become wan and worn and haggard, so much so as to excite the anxiety of his friends.
 Henry George was born in Philadel- phia on September 2, 1889, the oldest son of eight children. His father R. s. H. George, was publisher of Episcopal books and his son Henry attributed his love of reading and study to his habit of using the books in the store. He went to a. private school for children, then to public school, then to the Protestant Episcopal academy and back to a high school, from which he was graduated at the head of his class when thirteen years of age.
 That ended his schooling. For a year he worked as office boy in a crock cry importing house, dreaming all the time of the sea, to which he took when fourteen years old. He shipped as a cabin boy on the Hindoo, sailing from New York to London, thence to Mel bourne, to Calcutta, and back to New K, His grandfather had been sea captain, but his father opposed this life, and had requested a friend on board the Hindoo to make it hard for the boy. The friend was obliging, though in no sense cruel or unjust, and Henry George turned to the printers trade when he got back to New York At that he worked for very short time, then shipped as an ordinary seaman on a schooner that sailed between New York and Boston, and was paid off at the end of his service as an able sea- man.
 In 1858 the young man, then nineteen years old, worked his way around the Horn to California, where he found the Fraser river gold fever at it's height, but when he got to Victoria, B. C., it was all over and he returned to San Francisco. There he worked as a print CT, but soon moved on up the river to Sacramento, where, after a period of roughing it, he got job as compost tor on a weekly paper, and soon after started an evening paper of his own. This did not go very well, and there was another period of distress. In the course of it, however he became &C., quainted with a California girl of Aus tralian birth, and a Catholic. The re- ligious difference made some trouble, but that only hastened the marriage, though MT. George had to borrow clothes for the wedding and arrange in advance for two weeks board on cred 1t.
 Returning in some anxiety to San Francisco, MT. George secured employ ment on two San Francisco papers, working double time. For several years he was compositor or job printer in Sacramento or San Francisco. It was a hard struggle; nevertheless, MT. George joined an expedition planned to go to Mexico to help fight Maxilimian. A revenue cutter put a stop to this and MT. George became reporter, falling back on printing frequently and shift ing between Sacramento and San Fran cisco, but going on gradually to edito- rial writing, which led him to study political economy.
 MT. George related once that he was made free trader by a "young fellow of great ability, William H. Mills, who delivered a. speech in favor of protec- tion in 6 debating society in Sacramen- to-" He kept up his studies while he worked on the newspapers He went east on a newspaper mission by the pony express. He failed to get the tel egraph terms he sought, but he made acauaintances which helped him later to market his writings The first arti- cle on the Chinese immigration was written by him for one of his eastern newspaper friends, and his arguments in opposition to the Chinese brought him a letter of praise and inquiry from John Stuart Mill.
 More important for him, however was the effect of his observation in the east upon his mind. Of this he himself has spoken as follows:
 But what had most aroused me in my visit to the east was the growth of poverty, which always accompanies in- dustrial progress. While editing a pa- per in Oakland, and after long thought, the reason of it all came upon me like a revelation. I had taken a horse and gone for a ride, and, absorbed in my own thoughts, had driven him into the hills until he panted for breath. Stop
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