The San Francisco call., 1898-08-09
EX-MAYOR ADOLPH SUTR0 Died Earlu Yesterdau Morning al His Daughters Home on Van Ness Avenue.

looking the entrance to the Golden Gate, which he loved so dearly, is still fresh in the minds of the public. Dr. Merritt, exercising her prerogative as guardian, decided to remove her father, who was helpless to her home on Van Ness avenue, that she might give him more constant care and not be put to the inconvenience of travelling to the Cliff House. In this she was opposed by her brothers and sis ter, particularly Miss Clara Sutro, who thought that the fathers wish that he might die at his home by the sea ought to be respected. pr. Merritt had made up her mind, however. and one. evening she went with an ambulance to the house on the cliff to remove her father. Clara Sutro protested in vain, and failing to move her sister she rushed out of the house seized the ambulance drivers whip and laShed the horses causing them to run away But the team was caught just outside the Sutro grounds and taken back Dr. Merritt's plan was carried out and Adolph Sutro breathed his last In her home
 For over two score years Adolph Sutro has been identified with and he is in fact a Dart of the history Of San Francisco. His deeds of beneficence are only equaled by those of James Lick. His fame, however, like many other pioneers Who have gone before, is builded on his achievements in the mining industry. But there Is a difference in the life stories of Sutro and his mining contemporaries. What they acquired by luck or schemes he accomplished by tndefatigable indus try and tenacity of purpose. Opposition did not daunt him. The great Sutro tun- nel-the most stupendous engineering pro- feet ever successfully completed In the world-demonstrates the mans character and energy For twenty years he fought a bitter, unrelenting fight against terrific odds. but he won, and with his success came wealth and friends. But he never forgot the men who opposed him, and his hatred toward them never lessened.
 His interest in the progress and wei fare of San Francisco are too well known to require mention. The maintenance of Sutro Heights as a public park has been the delight and pleasure of count less thousands, and the erection of the Sutro Baths-the finest in the world-are two noteworthy examples Of his public spirit Then the Sutro library Of over half a million volumes Of valuable works which he intended to give to the city jS another monument to his generosity.
 The friendless German boy who began life as a peddler on the streets of this city has spent rAillions for his fellow men.
 Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro was born April 29. 1880. at Aix-la-Chapelle, Rhen- ish Prussia, and was the eldest of eleven children-seyen boys and four girls. The days of his boyhood were divided be- tween his fathers cloth factory and the polytechnic school. HE mind was versa tile and retentive, and he was practical far beyond his years. At the age of IS his school days were over and he went to work in the mill. His father dying year later, the management of the family estate, including the mills, fell upon the shoulders of the stripling. But he was equal to the emergency, though only boy. He conducted the cloth mill successfully, and established another at