The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-01-11
A Few Occurrences of the Old Year Worth
Knowing.

Death has all seasons for its own
and it is surprising, in looking over
the records, to find how many dis.
tingulshed people have been gathered
in by the dread reaper during the per-
lod covered by this review. First on
the long list by virtue alike of the
dignity of the Office which he occupied
and of his own engaging and resource
ful personality should be placed the
name of Garret A. Hobart. formerly
Vice President of the United States.
Perhaps none of his predecessors in
the Vice Presidency, that tomb of po-
litical ambitions, had made his in
f1uence so much and so benehcially
felt in national affairs as Mr.. Hobart,
and he was possessed, in addition, of
SO many amiable qualitiesshat his de.
cease was felt to be a public loss and
was the subject of great and general
regret. Other American statesmen
and publicists of prominence who have
passed away during the year are Mel
son Dingley, the Republican leader in
the House Of Representative and the
author of the Tariff bill now IN oper-
alton Richard Parks Bland, ex-Sen.
ator Charles r. Buckalew, the
veteran Justin S. Morrill,, of Vermont;
James B. Eustls, formerly Ambassador
of the United States at Paris, and ex-
Senator and Attorney General Gar.
land. Among foreign men of affairs
whose deaths are noted are Felix
Faure, President of the French Re-
public Emilio Castelar,, President of
short-llved Republic of Spain Count
Caprlvi, Chancellor of the German
Empire, and General Blanco, ex-
President of Venezuela.
Literature has lost representatives
IN Mrs. +. ID. +. N. Southworth, Grant
Allen, Horatio Alger, Florence Mar
ryatt, and William Black science is
the poorer by the deaths of DIR. ID. G..
Brinton, Sir Douglass Galton, and
Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen the state
has lost Agustin DAILY, John Sleeper
Clark, Charles Coghlan, and Emma
Walker the famous artists, who have
gone, include Rosa Bonheur. the it,
lustrlous painter of animals, and Bir-
ket Foster, the English landscapist
and engraver; and music mourns the
taking off of Johan Strauss, the waltz
king, and of Richard Stahl, the prom
islng young composer of popular comic
operas. The dead inventors are Steph-
en- A. Morse, and Ottmar Mergenth-
aler. Among the leaders in the world
of business and finance the deceased
comprise Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frank
Thomson ex Judge Hilton, Roswell
P. Flower, Dell Nobit, Cbarlemage
Tower and Henry B. Plant. Eminen,
publisher and editors and writer's, who
have gone are Robert Bonner, Joseph
Medill, John A. Freas, John Russell
Young, Robert Ingersoll, and William
Henry Appleman. The legal profes
fession is the poorer by the loss of F,
Carroll Brewster, Henry c. Town
send, Judge Reeder, Justice Henry
w. Williams, of the Supreme Cour
of Pennsylvania, and Justice Stepher
| Tohn-Field of the Supreme Court o
the United States. The ministry o
religion has lost Bishops Williams
O'Hara and Newman, Dwight l.
Moody and Fathers P. A. Jordon ant
Nicholas Cantwel, and among tb'
prominent citizens who are no more
are Charles T. Guillou, Chas. J. Field
VIM. H. Rhawn, VIM. P. latham
Thomas H. McAllister, Amos M
Slack, Thomas Cochran, Joseph H
Mem, Samuel G. King, James Nc
Names, ex-Provost Charles J. Stille
Allen B. Rorke, Nicholas Mcguire
Horace Stephens, and Wilson H
Tenkins.-PHiLa. Ngnirer.