The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-01

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 Sketch of Ills Public Career.
 | New York, Feb 28.-Dr. Lambert, the
 physician in attendance on ex-Senatol
 William Maxwell Evarts, said that his
 patient had a bad turn about o'clock
 this morning. After that he failed
 quite rapidly and died shortly after
 o'clock. His death was caused by pneu-
 monia.
 For several years past MT. Evarts
 had been without the use of his eyes
 and was otherwise so feeble that he
 was unable to leave his home. Up tc
 the time of death he was the nominal
 head of the law firm of Evarts, Choate
 & Beaman, although for many years
 he had not been in active practice. He was eighty-three years old.
 l Soon after four o'clock this morning
 MT. Evarts suffered relapse and he He became weaker and weaker until he
 breathed his last at ten minutes after 9 o'clock without regaining conscious
 ness.
 From the time he became uncon- scious the dying mans eight children
 and his wife were in the room with 1 him. There were four daughters and the same number of sons. The latter ase Allan, Sherman, Rev. Dr, Prescott and Maxwell Evarts, and the daughters are Miss May Evarts, Mrs. Beaman, Mrs. Tweed and Mrs. Scudder.
 The funeral of William M. Evarts will take place at 10 o'clock Saturday morning from Calvary Protestant Epis- copal church. After the services here the family will go with the remains to held again. Interment will be in the family plot in the cemetery there. The pallbearers will not be chosen until to- morrow afternoon.
 MT Evarts was born in Boston Feb ruary G. ISIS; was graduated at Yale college in 1887, as was his father before him. In Senator Evarts' class were two young men whose lives in later years he was destined greatly to influ- ence-Morrison R. Waite and Samuel J. Tilden. In 1S49 MT. Evarts graduated at Harvard Law school and was admit ted to the bar in New York where he practiced with great distinction. He was leading counsel employed for the defense of President Johnson in his tri- al before the senate in 1869; attorney general of the United States from July, 1868, to March I, 1869; one of the three lawyers appointed by President Grant in 1871 to defend the interests of citi- zens of the United States before the tri- bunal of arbitrators who met at Geneva to settle the Alabama claims; appoint ed secretary of state by President Hayes March ', 1877; elected United States senator for New York January 21, 1885. Among his public addresses were his eulogy on Chief Justice Chase GS73), centennial oration in Philadel- phia QS76) and the oration at the un- yelling of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty.
 Mir. Evarts was brilliant speaker and fond of his alma mater, and one of the features of Yale commencement dinners years ago, looked forward with most pleasing anticipations by the as- sembled alumni, was a speech of MT. Evarts, for he was invariably very wit ty and diverting, and his speech was sure to enliven the proceedings greatly. He possessed q style of oratory which was not free from fault. but which was effective both with courts and juries, and which seemed always to gain in dignity and power in proportion to the importance of the cause and the intel lectual quality of the tribunal. His mind was a logical machine of great power and accuracy His slight but vigorous frame seemed capable of en- during the most unusual strains. He was a man of the world, in the best sense of the word. And he was every where noted for a most unfailing and | genial and kindly humor.