The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-05-10
POTTER PALMER DEAD.
well-Known Chicago miihio""e
succumbs to Attack OF
Heart Disease.

Chicago, May 5.-Potter Palmer
died of heart failure at his residence,
100 Lake Shore drive, ut $3.50 o'clock
Sunday evening. The end OF 90 years
of useful and honorable life In the
financial and social world of Chicago
came almost unexpectedly to the
members of his family. Although
suffering for some three weeks Win
stomach ailment, Mr.. Palmer's con-
dition had not been regarded as ex-
tremely serious, even by the family
physician, DIR. Henry b. Favill. MT.
Palmer had been confined to his bed
during most of this period, but even |
| with his rs years of age DIR. Favlii be-
| lieyed when he saw him last Sunday
morning that there was no occasion
| for alarm.
Sunday afternoon Mrs. Palmer no.
ticed symptoms of sinking in MT.
Palmer and became much alarmed.
| Members of the family were unapie
| to locate DIR. Favill at his residence
| but MS he had left word that in case
of an emergency DR.. George p. Mar
| ouis should be called the latter was
| immediately summoned. He reached
| the Palmer residence at four O'Clock,
and after brief examination OF the
| patient advised Mrs. Palmer he could
hold out no hope. Mr.. Palmer lay In
his own room, his favorite room, stu
| ated on the second floor of the resi-
| dence. in front and overlooking the
/ lake, of which he was exceedingly
| fond. He had seemed to fau asleep
at three o'clock although it was fatal
| Inconsistencies, and so he renamed
until the end, his face turned toward
the waters to whose shore charms ne
had added so much during his years
| of greatest activity. All the members
of his family and immediate relatives
| were gathered at his bedside with the
! exception of Mrs. Palmer's mother,
| Mrs. II. H. Honore, whose feeble state
of health made it impossible Tor her
to come.
lust after Mr.. Palmer's death, DR..
Fayill arrived at the residence. Dr.
Fayill was astonished at the sudden
ness of his patients death. After
brief conference with DR.. Marquis he
announced that death was due to heart
failure. He discovered slight DIS
order of the lungs that gave some IN
dication of ,incipient pneumonia, pos
sibly brought on by an attack of grip
suffered several months ago, but not
sufficient to have brought the speedy
end. Funeral arrangements VIII be
r made to-day.
r AS the owner of the Palmer house
Mr.. Palmer's name was widely known
{ before his wealth placed him in the
n front rank of Chicago's citizens. His
/ fortune is estimated at $10,000,00o. in
vested almost entirely in Chicago rea
G estate, in which he was always firm
h believer. In the matter of public i'm
4, provements, Mr.. Palmer probably lief
a greater impress on the Chicago OF to
day than any other man that has calle'
It the city his home. He was gifted Wit
" that foresight which not only enabled
q him % forecast with accuracy the tren
v of the growth of the town. but pei
mitted him to do n great deal towar
err shaping the course it took. The mont
We ments which will stand in his memor
Of as long as the city shall endure are tn
great retail mart in State street. tn
fe Lake Shore drive, and the South Par
ar system. When Chicago arose from tn
ne ashes of the fire of 1871 and rebui
the business portion with celerit
is which made the world marvel, NJ
he Palmer was among the leaders who:
faith and hope never left them.
in The present proportions of Sta
VS. street were forced through by NJ
elk Palmer in the face of strong oppos
ng ton among his business associate
who had no favor for the change fro
lrd Lake street, which then was the cent
ate of industry, to the ill-built thoroug
fiji fare running to the open prairie on Il
of south. With one stroke he obtain
in possession of mile of State sire
in frontage, put the building line ba
many feet, and after the fire succeed
lite in getting his line made permanel
Drk The Lake Shore drive was disco
nen cred by him amid wilderness of sa
4 of dunes, stunted willows, and pools
ed stagnant water. He planned beau
full residence there, then far from a
i'm other inhabited street. BY buying
less the lake frontage in large sections a
to selling only to men who would ass
of him in his aims, the drive, which
at known all over the world, was ms
es- possible. At the present time tn
are blocks of large stone residen
will standing removed from the thickly $
,ica- tied streets which he built to deve
,ica- the made lands on the north shore
year wo,h.r aud Child Drowned.
the West Newton, Pa, May 5.-A S
containing four grown people an
'aid- child was overturned in the Youg
yam pheny river here Sunday and two "
ght. 5rovned. The dead are: Mrs. +
illed Iandsnorger and her son. aged I