The age-herald., 1900-11-03
EX-MAYOR STRONG
 DIED SUDDENLY Announcement Came as a Sur
 prise to His Friends END CAME AT EARLY HOUR Had Been III for Several Weeks, But His Condition Was Not Consider ed Serious-His Business and Political Career
END CAME AT EARLY HOUR

New York, November 2.-William H. Strong the last Mayor of the old city of New York, died suddenly at a. m. at his residence in this city.
 The illness of MT. Strong had been kept from his political friends. It was known among his business associates, but no one suspected that his condition was alarming. MT. Strong had not been ct his place of business for several days.
 MT. Strong took ap active part h the present campaign, and it Is said his polit- teal labors, combined with his attempts to retain supervision over his business affairs in the face of impaired health, brought about the illness that resulted In his death.
 William L. Strong was borne in Ohio in 1927, and came to New York when young man In 1870 he organized the firm of Will liam L. Strong 6 Go. The firm soon grew to be one of the most prominent business houses in the city. He also interested him. self in banking matters, and was president of the Central National ank.
 MT. Strong took an active part in poli- tics, and was one of the leaders in the re- form movement in this city, and was elect ca Mayor on the Republican Citizens ticket in 1894 He was the last Mayor of the old City of New York before consolidation with Brooklyn and the other boroughs compos- ing the city of New York.
 At the time of his death MT. Strong was a member of a number of societies, in cluding the Ohio Society, American Fine Arts Society, American Museum of Nat ural History, Metropolitan Mussum Asso- citation and American Geographical Society.
 MT. Strong had been in poor health for about six weeks. He ate supper as usual last night, and did not complain of any pain or weakness at that time About Il o'clock he returned to his bedroom, assisted by two nurses, who had been in attendance from the beginning of his illness.
 About an hour after he had gone to bed he awoke and told one of his nurses that he was very sick. He asked to have his wife and son, Maj. Putnam Bradlee Strong, called. When MT. Strong saw his wife he put his arms about her and said: T am very, very weak
 Colonel Strong grew a little better, and his condition at that time did not seem alarming, and the physician was not sent Tor. His daughter, Mrs. Shattuck, and her husband, were called, however.
 A little before o'clock MT. Strong seem- ed to have decided change for the worse, oiAu iiiS PiiSSiCAdIl Was HdStlly but he did not arrive until after the pa- tient's death.
 At mass meeting in Madison Square Garden in 1894 a non-partsan committee of seventy was appointed to organize the op- position to Tammany Hall, to frame a plat form and select candida tes for office, and it was this committee that selected MT. Strong to run for Mayor on the reform platform. The nomination was accepted and the candidate entered into the cam paign with vigor and determination His opponent was Hugh J. Grant, and the con- test was bitter one. The outcome was the election of MT. Strong by plurality of 47,1S7.