The sun., 1901-07-03
ALBERT L: JOHNSON DEAD:
HEART DISEASE KILLS the BI0. BUS.
TITyG STREET CAR MAN.
He Had Been III Three weeks. and nis Brother,
the Mayor. was with Him when Ne Died
His Doinss In the street Car Business
West and Eayt-Latsiy Conspicuous.

West and Eau-Lats'y Conspicseus.
Albert l.. johnson. the street railroad pro-
motor and brother Of Mayor Tom johnson
Of Cleveland, Ohio died at i0l5 o'clock last
night at his Italian palace on the Shore Road.
For, Hamilton. He had been suffering for
three weeks from heart disease and the ex-
treme heat Of the last three days was more
than enough to offset any chances OF recovery
that there might have been
His mother, his brother Tom and his four
children and two physicians were with him
when be died The physicians were DR..
Philip q Brown Of Fort Hamilton. the family
rhysicisn, and DR.. J. c. McCorkle OF lao
Clinton street. Brooklyn. who was called In
consultation late yesterday afternoon.
Albert l., johnson was born in Kentucky
about forty years ago. Whatever Of wealth
he and his more famous brother. Tom l.. now
Mayor OF Cleveland. accumulated. they ma de
by their own exertions
Al Johnson. as he was familiarly called,
was connected with street car companies
almost from the time he began to earn living.
His first connection with a surface railroad
was when he got job as a car driver on one
Of the lines in Louisville. Tom johnson
already had q better job in the same COM
pany o-,,
NlltT lew years lof1 WcTt w
got franchise for a street railroad line and
built IL Albert followed and got better
Job than that Of car driver
owned al the street car lines In Cleveland
worth owning He put his brother into every
thing in which he was interested Tom john
e-tinated 70 be worth several hundred
thousand. Tom johnson came Fast to look
for more surface roads. He went to Brook
lyn and thought he saw chance 10 make
some money
The late Deacon William Richardson was
then President Of the Atlantic Avenue Rail
line by building cable road In Park avenue.
Eastern District
Tom Johnson heard about il and told
Richardson about his girder rail and patent
Welding machine for putting down the track
Richardson gave him the contract TO build
The road AND Tom nso 2r a. rafy bq
Broadway Railroad company which was
Following their work on the Park ,s,s,u avenue us
p X Flynn. a. politician OF Brooklyn, who
va. President e The company @dy., ,. ,,.. =.
member Of the Brooklyn Board Of Aldermen
He got through the board resolution. WHICH
si S.s Ss S qSs .ss. ss shi 20 sSd
Ut The % Johnson q SrotSers seS liked that kind of
Ss'e snd SsTssS ss"Ssa e build Ss ns' lines
and then sold them TO the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit system. Tom then ceased to be an
active railroad factor In the East, but Albert
remained here. He got the credit for foster.
Ing the strike Of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
employees two years ago. In the mesntime
he became Interested In surface railroads in
Pennsylvania and. at the time OF hi. death.
owned the controlling interest. with his
brother, In the surface lines In sixty-slf Penn
Last winter he came forward with a scheme
70 reduce the street car fares In Philadelphia
10 3 cents and connect Philadelphia and Now
between the. two points for 50 cents This
was all contingent upon getting q franchise
in Philadelphia like that whichthe Nassau
line got in Brooklyn
He wanted the Philsdelphia Aldermen to
one hundred and seventy-nve miles in all.
which were not occupied by other lines.
He didn't get the franchise, and then he
proposed TO the Rapid Transit Commlssiop
here to connect Brooklyn and Staten Island
by a tunnel and then connect that tunnel
with the one now building In Manhattan
His attacks upon the plans OF the Rapid
Transit Commission did not alter their plans
but he was credited With helping to kill the
Three cent fares, the sin gle tax. public owner
ship Of transportation lines, and. until public
ownership comes as large a share OF the
private ownership as can be got have been
Al Johnson was a big man, standing over
feet and Weighing omethins more than
200 pounds His size came In for some dis
cission just after Tom was elected Mayor OF
Cleveland last spring
Senator Hanna speaking about the election
remark credited to Johnson. said Johnson
was A linr and that he i,Hannai would tell
him the next time he saw him. The two
never came to blows Al johnson said he had
never made the often sive remark and the
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