Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-09
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RECENT DEATHS.
MANOR MOSES P. HANDY.

Hotel Bon Air, Augusta, Ga, Jan. s.
Major Moses P. Handy died at noon to-
day. The remains win be taken to
Berlin, Maryland, for burial.
Major Moses p. Handy was taken sud
denly and seriously i'll in Paris several
weeks ago, on the eve of his return to
the United States, after the successful
completion of his labors as United
States special commissioner to arrange
for the reception and display Of Ameri-
can exhibits at the Paris exposition to
be held in 1900 He arrived in Wash
ington the latter part of November. He
then went south for his health. He had
been seriously i'll of heart disease for
some time.
He prepared his report for presenta-
ton to the president, and 1t showed that
Major Handy's efforts were cordially
seconded by the French government
and the exposition authorities.
Mr.. Handy comes of a family which
has been prominent in. Maryland for
many generations. His father, Rev. L
W. K Handy, was a Presbyterian min
lister. Young Handy was educated at
the Virginian Collegiate Institute, at
Portsmouth Va. When he was seven
teen years old, he went to Richmond to
| join his father and brother, running a.
| federal blockade on the way. At Rich
mond he was conscripted into the con-
federate army, and assigned to the staff
of Gen. Stevens, chief of engineers in
Lees army.
| When the war came to an end,
Handy found himself penniless i'm Rich
mond, He tried in vain to obtain en-
| ployment on the daily papers of that
! city, and was glad to accept an offer
| from the Christian Observer, though the
salary paid him was only so month,
with board Mr.. Handy next trans
ferred his services to the Richmond Dis
patch In 1872 when Grant and Greeley
! were the opposing candidates for the
presidency, Mr.. Handy was editing the
| Dispatch. The following year the
Yirg;nius affair, which created such a
| sensation at the time, proved journal
istic bonanza to Mr.. Handy, who was
the only newspaper correspondent to
witness the surrender of the steamer to
the United States authorities by the
| Spanish government.
| This success brought him into nat
tional prominence, and soon afterward
| he was invited by Whitelaw Reid to
| join the editorial staff of the New York
Tribune. Mr.. Handy accepted the offer,
and while in this position he wrote up
| the remarkable women'S temperance
crusade in Ohio.
In October, 1875, he gave up his con-
nection with the Tribune to become
editor-in-chief of the Richmond En-
quirer. He was commissioner from that
state to the centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia, in 1875.
Mr.. Handy's health gave way and he
spent several months in Europe. In the
autumn of 1884, after his return to
America, he conceived the idea of found
| ing new daily paper in Philadelphia.
The result Of this was the Daily News.
For a portion Of that period he was
president of the celebrated Glover Club.
In 1892 Maj. Handy was appointed chief
of the bureau of promotion and publ
city of the Columbian exposition, his
administration of which was so success
full that his appointment as special COM
missioner to Paris by President McKin-
ley this year was hailed with universal
!