Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-22
HE DIED POOR.
illionaire Will sBe Buried from
 Small Apartment House.

Multi-Millionaire Will eBe Buried from
 Small Apartment House.
 New York. Jan 22.-In I humble
 grave at Mount Olivet cemetery, with out any of the pomp fitting his high
 station. Count Joseph De Susini, once q Cuban multi-millionaire, honored by
 many courts and pope at Rome. will
 be buried on Thursday. Though once
 one of the weal1hieSt and most noted
 men in all the new world possessions
 of Spain. Count De Susini reduced to poverty, died yesterday in | small
 apartment in the tenement house at 412 East Eleventh street.
 Ten times q millionaire. he was once
 a power in Havana and q power for
 good. He was q guard of the Apos-
 tolc palace, by appointment of Pope
 Plus TX. a commander of the Order
 of the Grand Cross of Malta: he had
 q right to wear the Grand Cross of Benevolence. l Spanish order given tol
 those famed for their philanthropy; q
 member Of the Spanish Order of King
 Charles III. and of the Order of Isa- bella the Catholic. bestowed upon those who accomplished great things
 ill the western hemisphere. In all he
 was the possessor of thirty eight or ders.
 Count De Susini's father was one of the wealthiest tobacco merchants of Havana. On his fathers deatr the count succeeded to the business and built it up rapidly. He was the founder of the La Honradez cigarette factory, which had q capacity of g. ooo.OOO cigarettes day and employed 5000 hands. Count SuSini came to
 New York after the: factory was con- pleted and purchased fire apparatus here that cost him more than S5OOO0. This he installed in the factory. With in few days after it reached Havana q serious fire started ir tue city. with
 which the. city fire department could
 do nothing. Count De Susini. at the head of his own fire department of 600 employees dashed out of the factory enclosure with their new apparatus from the United States and saved the city Count De Susini presented his I wife with the first sewing machine that was ever exported from the
 United States. He set up the first
 electric light plant in Cuba and inn ported the first street cars Havana l had. Tine Autograph presses he used for the printing of the labels of his cigarette packages were the first that
 were taken into the island,
 Trouble first came to the count
 when q vast plan to obtain a .monopo- " OI 1ile CiSIEGIl6 pOSlIeSS Ill uJ.t through q concession from the Spanish | government resulted in failure. The Cuban revolution ruined his last hope.
 When the count was in Gucaran in 1858 he loaned $11, 1,OOO at the prevail | ing rate of interest, per cent
 month,- to the government to buy food | and clothing for the army then en- gagged in fighting the savage tribes on the borders. This. with interest. now
 amounts to about s2oO,u0o.
 When poverty came to him the count sold the right to use his name l and his hand in the manufacture of | cigarettes to man named SanderSon. | Sanderson sold these rights to the ! English tobacco trust. De SuSini de | clared he had given no permission Tor | the transfer of these rights and won | a suit against SanderSon for S1, ,OOO.- | OUU. The case is now before the Gu | ban court of appeals. where it has l dragged along for many years.