The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-17
"H0RSE" EDWARDS.
LOYAL AND TRUE TO THE UNI
VERSITY OF PRINCETON.
knowing Death Was Close, He De-
sired to Meet Tt in the Old Haunts
He Loved So Well.

New York, June 1.-THE Herald this
morning says: The gay commence
ment Of the Princeton university was
interrupted by the most pathetic spec
tacle that has ever been seen within
the walls of old Nassau on graduation
days. 1t was the funeral services of
DR.. George F. Edwards. who was con-
sidered the most popular graduate of
the university since he obtained his di-
ploma in 1889.
DR.. Edwards was a college wag. Pos
sessed of a fund OF good nature, witty,
loyal and generous, he was hail fell
low well met. At all the university
functions he was a conspicuous and
necessary figure. He was alive to the
pranks of the horse players" and
earned in his college course the So
briquet of Horse" Edwards. In the
burlesque games in the college min
strels, in all the tricks of university
life, he was a leading character. The
professors loved him and were amused
at his innocent pranks. The graduates
saw in him splendid exponent of col
lege life, and undergraduates made
him their leader and companion.
He left college in the spring of 1889.
Subsequently he entered the medical
department of the University of Penn
hOnorS. After a brief service in the
Presbyterian hospital in Philadelphia
he went TO Johns Hopkins university
and began the study of tuberculosis.
While there he was infected with con-
sumption through coming in contact
with patients. The first signs of the
malady appeared in him about three
years ago. Then began the long fight
for life, which eliminated in his death
a Drinnafnr, hut h. ~,
iett his entire fortune, about $l50,000,
10 the institution and to a university
club of which he was member.
Dr. Edwards realized laSi rail- that
his end was near. he haQ gone 10 the
Pacific slope IN quest of health, but the
disease had mastered his vital powers.
shall probably die next spring
said he TO his friends, but l desire 10
pass away in Old East college. where l
roomed in Princeton. l want to see one
more Yale game and attend another
Ivy dinner: then l shall be happy.
So il happened that Horse" Edwards
arrived in Princeton shortly after the
middle of last week. He was near
death, and those who remembered the
noted college wag in his days of health
greeted him in the same cheerful fash
ion that they were wont and turned
away to hide their tears Of sympathy.
back once more among the elms. He
was there to die. He knew it, and said
so.
The dinner of the Ivy club, the ia
nous eating club Of Princeton, of which
DR.. Edwards was member, was held
on Friday night in its beautiful house.
The Horse" was there. He was
propped up in big arm chair in the
room adjoining the banquet hall. so
no hl a11 hnfr
said and listen 20 the speeches.
All the Ivy men knew he was near
by. His figure was so emaciated that
he did not desire to sit at the table He
Thought that his presence would mar
the dinner.
AS the night wore on, and it was
near the time that the sufferer should
be in bed, he was taken into the dinner
hall. The Ivy men arose TO their feet
and gave him cheer after cheer. DR..
Edwards managed to find sufficient
strength to. arise and make his final
speech 10 the Ivy club members.
This is the last time ! shall be with
YOU" he said, substantially 4 urge
upon you all 10 be loyal 10 your uni
versity. How many pleasant hours |
have passed here. The scenes now come
back TO me, and how thankful l am
for the associations of the past. So
good night and farewell
That night he wrote a letter to a
negro by whom he had befriended and
given an education. Next he started
to send farewell message to the Ivy
club members. and 10 dispose of his
estate Several times he lapsed into
uncOnsciousness, but his friends man.
aged to arouse him to finish the mes
sage 10 the new members of the club
the old and the new. The fareW III let
ter is filed with an aDDeal TO Prince
ton men TO be loyal to their Institution.
After series of efforts he completed
his viii, in which he leaves nearly ali
of his fortune. estimated at $50. 600. to
Princeton university. The Ivy club
also will receive a bequest and a small
legacy is left to the negro boy whom
he educated.