Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-07-15
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Robert Bonner. one Of the sturdiest
and strongest OF men, and one of the
most regular habits is dead of nothing
more nor less than Il broker heart.
He was IS years old. There was no
organic disease, and death was due,
his physicians say,to the shock of two
great sorrows--the death of his eldest
son, Andrew 4. Bonner, from pneumo.
nia on Dec. 81 last, and of his pastor,
the Rev. DIR. John Hall, to whom he
was deeply attached. aud one of whose
warmest supporters he had been in
nll the troubles which led to DR.. Halls
final retirement from the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church. Without these
bereavements, the doctors say, there
was no reason why he should not have
lived for many wears, for his life had
always been one OF frugal regularity.
He began to decline on the death of
his son, and as long ago as March he
told h.s remaining children that his
own time had come. He had been
confined to his bed only eight days.
and week ago Tuesday he was ont
driving. The end cane peacefully and
painlessly. Born in the north of Ire.
land he has been described as "simply
aScotchman born in Ireland. Trained
under the influence of the shorter
catechism, he never departed from the
faith of his fathers. Noted in his
boyhood for great manliness of char
a'ter and for frank and generous i'm
pulses, those characteristics becume
more and more conspicuous in later
years, which he applied to the large
affairs Of life. He was conscientious
in business, his industry was tireless,
and he possessed fertility Of genius
that many regard as unmatched.
The death here of the venerable ex-
Mayor Daniel +. Tiemann, at the
age of nearly ninety-tive years, re-
moves one who was probably the onl y
remaining native New Yorker whose
life and memory of the city's growth
and development covered so long
period. His Identification with politi
cal and business interests brought him
into peculiarly close contact with
municipal progress from two opposite
directions for considerably more than
half century; his splendid physical
preservation enabled him, in extreme
age, to maintain an intimacy with mod
ern life, and his unimpaired mind and
powers of memory, combined with
perennial geniality, rendered him
unique as picturesque figure and
direct link between the beginning and
the close Of the century, 1t taxes the
Imagination that one should have been
able, but few days ago. to discuss
current events with one who was
boy while Thomas Jefferson was presi-
dent, and was engaged in an active
business career when Andrew Jack.
son was inaugurated; one who was an
interested listener to the reports of
progress in the wars of 1912 aud who
had reached middle life at the out
break of the Mexican war-while men
! born in that year are now whitening
| with the passage of time.
The National City bank of New
York, which has bought the old GUS
tom house here is now the largest bank
in the United States with deposits OF
$l20, 900, 900. Its stock, the par value
of which is 800, is quoted at $4,000,
and it is scarce at that figure. Now
it pays 2,265,O for a banking
house, the conditions of the sale being
that the government may occupy the
building until the new custom house
is completed, paying rent at the rate
OF per cent. per annum on the pur-
chase price. 1t is rich bank, the
Rockefellers, til 'Vanderbilts, the Have
meyers and the Morgans being repre-.
sented in the directorate.
Mr.. George Gonlds way of celebrat-
ing the Fourth was about as good as
they make 'em. He aud his family
with party OF friends, went aboard
his yacht, the Atlanta, anchored of
Bellevue Hospital, and spent the day
in tranquility and GOODNESS. At night
he gave as gorgeous and as elaborate
display of fireworks as money could
buy, and the patients at Bellevue able
to leave their rooms were on the
grounds and verandas to see the show.
All that section OF East river was
ablaze with the magnificent pyrotech-
MICS.
1t could not escape notice that re-
cent Tammany hall audience did not
| begin to exhibit much enthusiasm
until one of the latter speakers, ex-
Governor Hogg OF Texas, called for
fight in 1900 on 16 to l, anti.t trust,
Cuban independence, e,anti-imperialism,
income tax platform with Bryan as
leader. Then the rafters began to ring.
This is better, anyhow, than Croker's
platform of imperialism and plunder.
w. r. Laidlaw, the clerk who was
injured by an exploding bomb in Rus.
| sell Sage's Office here in 1891 aud who
has sued four times for damages, the
verdict being in each case set aside by
higher court, says that he will begin
q fifth suit this fall.
| Mr.. Croker's managers of the muni.
cipal government have resumed the
cheerful task of increasing their own
salaries. And the people are gener.
ously permitted to supply the funds.
OF the $4,000, 900, 900 assessed ON
personal property in this city this yea,
81, 400, 900, 900 have been sworn of mp
to date. What blooming farce is
this personal tax assessment business!
The Mothers club of this city has
discovered that the poetical works OF
the immortal Mother Goose are unfi,
for childish minds.
| kNICKERBOCKER
experts Declare Mur(ieress Crazy.
| New York July 13-Tha oro,a ,,,..,