The age-herald., 1902-03-27
CELL RHODES
 PASSES AWAY After Long Illness the End Came
 Peacefully TOLD HIS BOYS GOODBYE
One of the Worlds Greatest Develop CTS and a Unique Character Sue cumbs to Heart Attacks-Earl
 Gray Draws Pen Picture.

Capetown March 26-Cecil Rhodes died this afternoon at 5;57 o'clock.
 MT. Rhodes was conscious until 5:55, when he muttered q few words and sank quickly. The immediate cause of his death was three succes sive attacks of heart fall ure.
 At his bedside were Dr. Jameson, pr. J. w. Smart the commissioner of public works; Col Elmhurst Rhodes, director of signalling of the South African field force, and Mir. Walton, a member of the Assembly of Port Elizabeth.
 MT. Rhodes lest words were the names of his brother and some of the others present, which were meant to be good byos The only person who attended him during his illness, and who was not pres ent at his death bed, was Dr. Stevenson; all the others, his boys and personal ser wants were admitted at the last.
 The body will be taken to Grooteschuur, the residence of the deceased, near Cape town. on special train tomorrow. It will probably lie In state for a day or two and
 
 remains. l. has not been determined where he will be burit d. It was the wish of MT. Rhodes to be inferred at Maloppo Hills, Rhodesis.. Certain of his friends will proceed to Maloppo Hills to determine whether it Is practit ble to carry out his wish.
 Public Funeral.
 The features Of the dead man are placid and death mask of them will be taken.
 The government has decided to give Cecil Rhodes public funeral. His sremains will be brought here from Grooteschuur for the burial service, which will te held in the Go sthcdral. The body will then be taken hack to Grooteschuur and will eventually be inferred at Maloppo Hills. Since MT. Rhodes took to his bed three weeks ago his friends had been most anxious that he should recover sufficiently to be taken back to England. The cot tage where he died wss simple seaside cabin, small and close to the railroad. It was ill-fitted to be a sick chamber, al- though the utmost was done to improve the ventilation and make 1t more com fortable. Dr. Stevenson slept by his pa-  readiness to administer oxygen, which practically kept MT. Rhodes alive
 Last Sunday he lest all interest in everything, and since then he dozed the hours away. His rally from the crisis of Tuesday left but the faintest hopes for his ultimate recovery. These were en- tirely abandoned with the renewed attack at noon today.
 The news of his death spread rapidly nd ranaad nrnfOun6 grief. All places of amusment were im- mediately closed.
 An open air concert was stopped and the audience uncovered while the band played the "Dead March," The people then silently dispersed.
 Earl Gray's Pen Picture.
 New York, March 26.-Earl Grey. before sailing for England gave to the Asso- ciated Press an interview concerning Cecil Rhodes, the Earl having received cablegrams from South Africa, which led him to believe that MT. Rhodes had but a few days to live. Lord Grey knew the famous South African leader intimately, having served with him on the board of the British South African Company and the intimacy grew when the Earl was Governor of Rhodesia. Lord Grey said:
 Cecil Rhodes is the only exemplar, perhaps, in our generation of those ideal sts who, in the days of Elizabethan ad- venture, made the Anglo-Saxon the pre- domiant partner in the worlds firm. l need not call up their names and titles
 "'Admirals, all, they went their way
 To the cottage under the hill
 ''They were all after their kind, both the admiration and the terror of their contemporaries and l believe that with all of them, from Drake to Robert Give, terror rather than admiration was the keynote they struck. The conservative forces are those which naturally are in control of governments.
 Always Had Surprise in Store.
 "'We never know what he will do next, said a friend to me of Rhodes. Some thing big, some great development that might involve perhaps a change. in the heart of our empire, and so the greatest Enslishman of our day ha- come to be looked upon, and not by the British man darion only, with somewhat mixed 1eel- ings.
 '' One thing I should like especiaiiy to point out He had never lalnns coiii- dence in the growth of the federal prih- cinal of government. He admired the American nation enormously, put TOT tiiis strange and detached reason he peneVeo YOU owed your prodigious development to the splendid construction or your con- stitution. I personally have always op- posed home rule. Rhodes, however never wearied of assuring me that in thls olrec- ton alone was safety; that the lrlsn were building better than they at all knew that their demand was on all fours with the American state right platform anu that in the very rapidity of the proposeo change was our best promise or safety. He gave, you may recall, ten thousand pounds to MT Parnell. This gift was a rock of offense to the best Whig eie- ment in our country, but Rhodes pe- lieved with Sir Hercules Robinson that Ireland would make one or two oroerly states of a federal union; he saw that the federation of Canada had been agree ably arranged and that a race problem had been solved; that the time Tor Aus tralian federation was now at hand' Una, a peaceful Gas he thought federation of South Africa was inevitable, and with certain notifications in our second cham Der so that it might evolve as an lm- perial senate, the federation of those va rious components into an imperlm union would be secured and in our time
 The Jameson Raid.
 Earl Grey then turned the conversation to the famous Jameson raid, calling IL