The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-06-10
LAST HOURS or PAUL DU GRAILLU.
His Remains Will be Brought to
This Country This Month.

The remains of Paul Belloni Du
Chaillu. the African explorer and
author, who died at St. Petersburg
April so, will arrive in New York
about June 10, and arrangements to
receive them are being perfected.
Details of his last hours and death are
given in letter from W. r. Holloway,
the American consul general there, to
Henry r. Hoyt Of this city, who was
Du Chaillu's trustee under the will
Of Chic Justice Charles 2. DAILY, and
who is his executor.
Du Chaillu, who had been ailing and
had Suffered greatly, had boarded for
two years at the Hotel de France, at
ST. Petersburg, and was breakfasting
in his restaurant at 10 a. m., April
so, when two gentlemen near him saw
him take up a newspaper and heard
him exclaim:
g I can't see. There must be some
thing the matter. -
In attempting to rise he exhibited
signs Of feebleness, and when taken to
q hall outside the retaurant he stag
gered. He was aided to reach busiL-
ness Office and physicians were sum-
moned, as well as a close personal
friend, a brother Of the great Russian
military painter, Vassiai Verestchagin.
Recognizing him, Du Chaillu said !:
81 am dying" and was taken to
his room. He had then failed so that
he was unable to talk except incoher-
emily.
He remained in his condition until
6 o. m., under the care OF the physi-
clan, NJ. Verestchagin, and the NJ. NJ.
Ronault, SONS of the proprietor of the
hotel, when the United States am
bassador, Mr.. Mccormick, called.
DuChiallu recognized himas he entered
the room and tried gainly to remove
his right hand from under the bed
clothing. While the ambassador was
there the Rev. Alexander Francis,
pastor of the Congregational British
American church, came, and after
a consultation it was decided to re-
move the patient to the Alexander
hospital NJ. Verestchaign accompani-
ed him there. Death came at II p. M.
Consul Holloway took possession OF
the explorers effects, and after consult
ing our ambassador, notified Assistant
Secretary of State Loomis at Wash
ington, suggesting conferences as to
the disposition of the remains, and
received in reply the cable message
Have the remains embalmed, placed
in vault and await instructions.
Ambassador Mccormick received a
cable message from New York from
Charles Robinson Smith, as Du-
Chaillu s nearestssfriend, asking that the
body he sent to his home, "a West
Sixty-ninth street, for burial, and
another of the same character from
John Anderson publisher Of the
Scandinavian, Chicago. Another offer
of sepulture came Of q conference be-
tween M. lVerestchagin and Senator P.
P. Semenov, president of the I'm
perial Geographical Society who offer
ed interment in the Novo-Dievitchy
cemetery, which is reserved for emf
nent literary men. This was accepted
conditionally.
An autopsy was performed, and aft
er the body had been embalmed Pastor
Francis held service in the hospital
chapel. It was attended by the Ameri-
can ambassador and his staff, Consul
General Holloway, about forty of the
leading American residents of st.
Petersburg, NJ. Verestchagin, and
other prominent Russians. The coffin
was then placed in the mortuary
chapel of the British-American
church to await removal to New York.
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