The times., 1901-03-25
OBITUARY.

| Col Edward c. james. the well-kuowH
lawyer. died at Palm Beach, Fla. yester
| day morning from pneumonia. Colonel
James went TO Florida IN the latter part
of February TO recuperate from the ef-
| fects of a serious attack Of the grip. He
had 50 far recovered as to arrange for
| his return on last Friday. but a sudden
| drop in tho temperature a week ago
brought on return of the disease. which
developed into pneumonia The body will
be taken to Ogdensburg y. Y
Colonel James was born in Og6ens-
burg on May 1, 1sl1. He was educated
in the public schools and at Walnut HHI
Academy, Geneva. At the outbreak OF
the war. ne entered the Fiftieth New
York Volunteers and was rapidly pro-
NOTED. He finally became colonel Of thu.
ftGth New York In the fail of 1853 he re-
signed because of disability incurred in
the service.
Colonel James was admitted to the bar
IN October. 1863 and in the following year
formed a partnership in Ogdensburg with
Stillman FOote. which was dissolved in
l$4L At the time of his death he was
the senior member of the law firm of
games. ScheH & Elkus, at 56 Pine Street.
He had been employed in number OF
famous eases He was counsel for the
Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
and the jay Gould estate He was a
member Of the Lotus and Lawyers clubs
| and the New York Bar Association
Lorin BIodgett. statistfcian and china
tologist. died at his home in Philadelphia
yesterday. He was eighty years old He
was born in jamestown, N y was edu-
Gated at the academy there and at Geneva
College. In 1851 he was appointed To the
Smithsonian Institution, where his re-
searches and reports on the climatology
OF this country attracted wide attention
He was regarded as an authority on at
mosphere physics. He did important work
with the surveyors OF the Pacific rail-
roads, and in 1851 he completed his work
on the climatOIogy of the United States
and North America, which gave him
world wide fame and was commended by
Humboldt. In 1863 he was apuointed fo
the Treasury Department and placed in
charge of financial and statistical reports
In 1850 he was made general appraiser of
customs and assigned to duty in Phila-
delphIa- In 1874 be was made chief of the
customs divisions of the Treasury. which
post he held until 1871. when he resigned
Charles II. Roosevelt died YESTERDAY at
his home in Pelham on the Sound. near
the country home of the New York Ath-
letic Club.
Mr.. Roosevelt was a member of one
of the oldest and wealthiest families in
Westchester County, and was distantIy
related to vice President Roosevelt He
was born In 1882, in Poughskeepsie. and
was the son of the Rev. Washington
Roosevelt. He studied law in Pough-
keepsie, but after graduating came To
New York and practiced here and in
Westchester County for thirty years.
He was one of the largest property
owners of Pelham Manor. He was a
member of the St. Nicholas and Holland
Societies and the New York Athletic
Club. He leaves a widow and one son.
Dr. Rudolph J. Hess. twenty-seven
years old. died in the scarlet fever hospital
on North Brother Island, y. Y, at 1;30
o'clock yesterday morning. DR.. Hess
Joined the Bellevue Hospital staff on June
1 last He was taken sick last Monday
night. No alarm was felt until the fol-
lowing day, when he developed symptoms
of scarlet fever. The body will be taken
to Salamanca, n. Y. for burial.
At Bellevue DR.. Hess devoted much OF
his time to microscopic work. His even
ingS he gave to medical and religious
work among the poor on the East Side,
IL was in this work that he caught scar
let fever. DR.. Hess was a graduate of
Cornell and Cornell Medical College. and
entered Bellevue Hospital as an inferno in
the second medical division. His father is
a retired merchant in Salamanca
Dr. Mary S. West. ffty-three years old,
died at o'clock Sunday morning at her
home, 122 East Twenty-eighth Street.
New York. under circumstances which
caused DR. Frank A. King 10 report the
case to the coroners office. COroner's
Physician OHanIon examined the body
later and decided that DR.. West died
from apoplexy. DR.. King explained that
he had feared that DR.. West had died of
an overdose of some drug.
DR.. West was graduated from the
WCman's Medical College in 1873. At one
time she had large practice in New
York City.
John J. Phyfe. a member of the firm of
Dix & Phyfe, bankers, at 10 Wall Street.
New York died on Saturday at Palm
Beach. Fla, where he had been for some
time with his wife and daughter He has
a married daughter living in New York.
He was a member of the Harvard and
New York Athletic Clubs. His home was
at IS West Eighty-seventh Street, New
York.
Mrs Preston S. Brooks, of Edgefield
s c., the widow of the man who at
tackled and caned Charles Sumner in the
United States Senate. died of pneumonia
in Norfolk on Saturday night.
John A. Clark. a former soldier in Com
pany X, Third Infantry. a native of
N Y, died in St JOseph's
Hospital in Lexington, Ky, on Saturday
night from jungle fever, contracted ia
the Philippines.
J.P. MORGAN THE DONOR.
Gave the Bement Mineral Collection