Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-30
END OF GREAT CAREER
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Senator Hoar Passes Away at
Worcester.
DEATH COMES QUIETLY
PLAYED IMPORTANT PART IN
HISTORY OF COUNTRY.
Members of Immediate Family Present
at the Bedside-Tolling of
Town Bells.

WORCESTER. Mass, September 3O.-Sen-
ator George Frisbie Hoar died at his home
in this city at 1:35 o'clock this morning
The end followed period of unconscious
ness that had continued since early Tues
| day, and came so gently that only the
attending physicians aware of the
| exact moment of dissolution.
| The attending physicians despaired of
| the Senator's life six weeks ago, but such
was the vitality exhibited by their dis.in-
| guished patient that even they were sur
| prised ana the public was at times led to
| cherish a faith in an ultimate recovery.
| On Sunday last however, all hope was
| abandoned after a last unsuccessful at
| tempt to administer medicine and nourisn-
! ment. Brief lucid intervals were followed
| by longer durations of Inconsistencies I'M
| til Tuesday morning, when the venerable
| statesman sank into state of coma from
which all efforts to rouse him proved futile.
The Last Hours.
| During the last hours there was not a
/ movement of the body, and only scarcely
| perceptible pulse evidenced the final strug-
gle.
| There were present at the bedside when
| death came the senator's son, Gen. Rock
wood Hoar; his daughter, Mary Hoar, and
DR.. Warren r. Gilman. who for weeks has
been in almost constant attendance upon
the senator
Intelligence of Senator Hoar's demise was
first communicated by telephone from the
residence to the press by DR.. Gilman. I'M
mediately after a prearranged signal was
transmitted on the fire alarm system ana
the ng-dreaded tidings were conveyed to
the people of the city by the tolling OF the
church bells.
ARRANGEMENTS were made to notify the
public in this manner when the physicians
attending him decided that the venerable
legislator was on his deathbed
Passing Of an Eminent Statesman.
The death of Senator Hoar marks the
passing of another eminent statesman or
the old school. 1t removes from the united
States Senate one of the men who nave
contributed much to the greatness of that
body one who was most jealous of his
reputation as a statesman and who made
the duties of statecraft the absorbing OBJ
ject of his life. /
The eminent senator from Massa chusetts
was one of those who could and did fire.
quently take positions in opposition TO
party without affecting their influence IN
the Senate or in the least jeopardizing theii
strength in their own states. For the past
five or six years he was not in harmony
with the dominant thought of the majority
of the Senate on the subject of the policy
of the United States toward the Philip
pines Some of his friends declared that
his action was guided by strict construc-
ton of the Constitution. while many in his
party regarded his antagonsm to widen
ing influence of the nation by the acquisi-
ton of territory as merely the bias of
old man whose habits of thought were In
fuenced by the conditions of a past gen.
Grafton. ---4 49, '-f
Senator Hoar's freqtient opposition to the
policies of his own party did not lead him
to vote against the party in the end. He
declared himself with the utmost freedom,
and after he has made his fight on bill
and secured such modification of 1t as was
possible he has cast his vote In favor of
the measure. He contended that that pol
icy of fighting for his convictions within
his own party was the best and resulted In
greater achievements than would have
been the case had he concluded to vote
against his party at the end of a debate.
Senator Hoar was one of those who did
more to modify legislation than he did to
frame ii. But his opinion was always re-
spected and the removal of no senator will
cause a vacancy in that body harder to
fill than in the case of Mr. Hoar.
Senator Hoar's Ancestry.
He came from long line of people prom
trent in the history of the country. His
mother was the daughter of Roger Sher-
man. one of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence. 1t was largely through
the family of his mother that he was at
early age thrown into association with men
who had actively participated in the af-
fairs of the revolution. These early ASSOC
Citations made a deep impression on the
young man, and when he himself became
leader in the affairs of his country he
priced those recollections and loved to re-
late them.
The senator's father was Samuel Hoar,
who was for long period an eminent law
yer of Massa chusetts. He retired from
active practice in 1897. but even in those
early days he was ardent anti-slavery
man. His last professional work was to
go to Charleston, S. c., to defend negro
sailors who were then imprisoned and sold
to pay their jail fees If their ship deserted
them. He was immensely unpopular In The
south because of that course and personal
violence was threatened if he did not
promptly leave the town. He was finally
forced to leave, but no indignity was
thrown upon him. He was a man of aus
tere character. though gentle and kindly
When he died and his estate was divided
among his children they each received
$4,000. Senator Hoar himself never accu-'
mulated much money. When he wrote his
autobiography shortly before his death he
received $4,000 for it, which, as stated at
the time. was used to pay off a mortgage
on his modest home in this city
Sprung as he was from sturdy revolution
airy stock. the traditions of family always
had great influence on his life and on the
course he followed in the Senate His
grandfather. two great grandfathers and
others of his kindred were In the battle of
concord, April II. It10. Such men as Elmer
son. Edward Everett. Longfellow, Webster
Rufus Choate and Thoreau were frequent
visitors at his fathers house and he re-
membered them we'll
Sketch Of His Life.
George Frisbie Hoar was born August
20. 1926 He entered Harvard when six
teen years Of age, having received his
principal preparation from Mrs Ripley, a
woman of great intellectual attachments.
Young Hoar had been in an atmosphere OF
educational work from hts earliest day. At
six he began TO struggle with Latin III
those days Harvard was FAR from being
the institution 1t is today It was prac-
tically in 1914 what it had been for 100
years, and the graduate was not well
equipped. While there young Hoar spent
most of his time In reading novels and did
very little studying
In spite of his career of miscellaneous
reading and indifference to systematic hard
work while at college, young Hoar grad
uated nineteenth In class of sixty-sIx:
then. after being absent a year from col
lege. attended the Harvard law school. He
always referred to his four years at coll
lege as time very largely wasted He set
to work to make up for what he regarded
as that lost time.
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