Arizona republican., 1902-12-01
DEATH OF A NOTED LAWYER.
Associate of Lincoln and Built spite
 Hotel" in the CatskiIls.

George Harding. one of the leading patent lawyers of the United States. and at one time associated in paten. suits with Abraham Lincoln and Edwin n. Stanton, died on Monday In this city. aged 76 years. He was a man of wealth. owning. among other proper ties, the Hotel Kaaterskill, in the Cats kill mountains.
 The Catskill mountain house was the leading hotel in the Catskills, and wa7 kept by Mir. Beach, an old friend of MT. Harding. It had been the habit or Mr. Harding to spend some weeks with his friend Beach during the CatslSill season. MT. Harding generally brought his family. That was before the tiIiie when buffets and grill rooms open until late at night had been introduced as a feature of large hotels in this coun try, and the hotels in the Catskills bad fixed hours for meals and were distin- guished for rigid adherence to a sim- pie bill of fare from which nothing could move themI The guests had to take what the hotel set before them cor go without" and they had to arrive a; the dining room before the doors closed or go hungry to bed As the story goes. Mir. Harding wanted some 5roiied chicken for one of his children who was sick
 "BroiIed chicken is the only thing the child can take" he said.
 "There is no chicken on the bill of fare today"
 Cant you send out and kill a chick en?''
 No" was the reply. You will have to wait till chickens comes around. O. be satisfied with something else.'
 Well, then" said MT. Harding, ac- cording to the story, "I will build a hotel where l can get chicken when I want it."
 He was laughed at by the people of the Catskill mountain house, who thought themselves secure in a monop- oly But within a short time they learned that MT. Harding had bought the finest site In the entire reg1on-a mountain top commanding a magnifi- cent view of .the river and the sur rounding country-and almost imme- diately the construction of the Hotel Kaaterskill was begun. The Kaaters- kill is the most celebrated of the spite hotels in this country built by guests as the result of similar disputes It Ne~s' BNA oAAeiilN iiioi idStu ny MI II dl N- ing for several years after his retire ment from active legal work, and the guests were always supplied with lib- eral quantities of broiled chicken. MT Beach died a few weeks ago.
 Mr. Harding was born in Philadel- phia in 1927. was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1S46 and, after reading law with John Cad walader. was admitted to the bar in 1S49 With Edwin M. Stanton he was engaged to argue the Mccormick reap CT case. and when they went west tO try it in Illinois they engaged Abraham Lincoln, because of his familiarity with the methods of the local courts. In order to illustrate the mechanical prin- ciples at issue in this case, MT. Hard ing showed a miniature grain field in the court. The acquaintance thus formed led to Mir Stanton being made secretary of war, while MT Harding was offered a supreme court judgeship. which he declined. He was said to have received two fees of $10O, ,0OO each and one fee of $16O.OOO. Mir. Harding leaves two children, a son and a daugh- ter. The former, George J. Harding,