The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-01
SENATOR HOAR SUMMONED
Death Claims Famous Mdssa.
ChusettS Statesman

Worcester Mass, Sept. 30.-The tolling
of the bells of the church towers and
fire stations of Worcester communicated
to his fellow-citizens the intelligence or
the passing of United States Senator
George Frisbie Hoar whose death oc-
/ CURED at 1:35 a. M today.
The people of Worcester, to whom Sen
ator Hoar was endeared in a measure
beyond that ever given to any other man,
anxiously followed the course of his sick
ness for six weeks, and hundreds of calls
on the telephone company made daily at
the newspaper offices by persons who de-
bedside.
The state of profound stupor which was
an indication of the approach of death
embraced the senator for forty hours
Yesterday ne became as weak as ne
could be and live. with the pulse and
respiration so faint that they could be
detected only by the physician. DR.. War
rem r. Gilman, the medical attendant,
said that so slight a thing as pulling the
clothing on the bed would have been sur
ficient to take away enough strength to
cause death. The patient had expressed
the wish earlier in his Illness that he
might die peacefully and without a strug-
gle. Such death came to him.
Besides DR.. Gilman, the senator's two
children, lockwood Hoar and Miss Mary
Hoar, were at the bedside until the emu.
E. w. Doherty, the messenger of the
committee on judiciary of the senate, of
which Mr.. Hoar was chairman. came to
Worcester yesterday to be with the sem
ator in his last hours.
Early in the week Rev. Wr. Edward
Everett Hale, an intimate friend. came
the sick chamber. nor was Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge admitted when he
called on Wednesday. The physician was
afraid lest the least commotion would
have fatal effect.
Senator Hoar was inseparably identified
in the interests of worchester. He was
The principal in establishing a free pup
lie library and later reading room He
was foremost in placing the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute on a solid founda
SON and for many years was one of its
trustees. He was warm friend of CLARK
university. being first its vice president
and at the death of Jonas B. Clark, Its
head, Mr.. Hoar became president or the
board of trustees, position he held un-
til his death. For many years he was
trustee Of Leicester Academy. The Wor-
cester Art Society and the Worcester
Club were founded by his efforts. lie was
an honorary life member of the Worces-
ter Mechanics Association and member
of the Republican Club of Massachusetts.
He was the oldest member. saving two.
of the American Society of Antiquity.
He also held membership in the New
England Genealogical Society, was for
mer president of the American Historical
oociety anu WAS dctiNe III the MassoShuo-
etts Historical Society. He was trusece
OF the Peabody trust fund for the pro-
motion OF education IN the South. lie
was a regent of the Smithsonian Inst;-
tute at Washington and was prominent
in the Unitarian church. ~
During the day hundreds of messages
Of coincidence were received at the family
residence.
The funeral will be held Monday from
the church Of the Unity. and Rev. Ed
ward Everett Hale, chaplain of the United
States senate. will be asked to officiate.