New-York tribune., 1902-09-16
NICHOLAS FISH DYING.
THE BANKER .SENSELESS IN
STREET WITH FRAC-
TURED SIX ULL.
TO HAVE HIT STONE COPING
IN FALL-WIFE CALLED TO HOS
PITAL BEDSIDE

Nicholas Fish, the banker at No. 120 Broad
way, the son of ex-Secretary of State Hamilton
Fish, the brother of Stuyvesant Fish. and the
father of Hamilton Fish, the Rough Rider ser
geant who was killed in Cuba in the Spanish
American war, is lying in Roosevelt Hospital
with a fractured skull. received in a fall to the
sidewalk yesterday afternoon. His condition
last night was very grave, although the hospital
physicians declined to say how great his danger
was or his exact condition. His wife was called
from Tuxedo to his bedside
The Fish home, No. 53 Irving Place, is closed
for the summer months. Mrs. Fish was IN
Tuxedo not having returned to town. Her
husband has been used to go down town
to his banking house from the home every
morning and if he does not intend to
return in the evening. to send word, usually by
telegram The servants in charge OF the mouse
last evening said the banker had left nome as
usual in the morning, with the eVident lnteh-
tior, of going to business. They had NOT heafd
from him and did not know where ne was
They had received no telegram or other word
from him. which they think would have nap
pened had he not intended TO return home.
About 5 o'clock pedestrians noticed an elderly
man lying unconscious on the sidewalk IN
Tbirty-fourth-st near Eighth-ave- Some of
them called Policeman David Lawlor. of the
West Thirty-seventh-st station, Who with their
assistance. carried him to the saloon OF Geo-
hardt Bros short distance from where he
fell.
There the policeman called an ambulance from
Roosevelt Hospital The surgeon VINO arrived
with the vehicle did not properly diagnose the
case at first, and it was not known ulllli tile
patient reached the hospital that he had
fractured skull His identity had not been dls-
closed but when restoratives were appled ne
told
When Mr. Fish was found his head rested
near the stone coping of a fence, and 1t is
thought that in falling he struck his head
against the projecting stone, thus causing the
fracture of the skull
Can+air Haughev said four of his detectives
had investigated Mr.. Fishs accident ana hau
learned that he had not been 1i-treated IN any
way. They found he had fallen on the street.
Though Mr.. Fish taken to the hospital
soon after o'clock the ponce oiu lo' tei any
thing about the case until o'clock for some
unknown reason.
A. Roosevelt Hospital, Mrs. Fish, who had
been summoned from her summer nome at
Tuxedo, issued the following bulletin last hish''
Mr. Fish WAS brought to the hospital this
afternoon in an ambulance from thlrty.louttn
st and Eighth-ave. sufferns - haan sue
at the base of the skull, sao " i'' - -
;nd h,r falling on step. His injuries are
grave and it is difficult TO say at present what
the outcome will be.
Mr Fish is z private patient at lhe noSti'ai'
attended by his family physician anu 'ns no
ni4al doctors Nothing could be ledrheu "esiueS
the official statement. A..
II was r,mored at ] o'clock this morning that
the phvsicians at Roosevelt Hospital hau MI
Fish on the operating table and were "epniiiils
his skull TO save his lie vii,
,-.,,,.s E,sb is the son of Hamilton FISH, eA-
Soora+ar,, of state. and the father OF Hamilton
Fish. who was killed during the CUBAN war a'
the first army battle in the Santiago dihpeisil,
He was secretary of the American Legal at
berlin and American Minister TO beFhe'
c,,,.,tror,and and also at Brussels. He was
r,o-,u1or at all these stations being considered
ine tVpe of the trained diplomat AFTER ar 1eari,s
the Diplomatic service, he became d AZ sactaI
No 10 Broadway. He was profnlheR' IN III ST. osat
and club life He was menloet e o. and-eWs
ropolttan. University. Century, 49, %, eonietv
Iawvers New-York Yacht. St Nlcnotas 20 60
PLAYERS Tuxedo. University otan Glee tbe Dnn
inn,bia thletic Club of Washington, the Fun
lap Society and the Society OF the Ciiieiiiia'i