The Washington times., 1905-01-01
Wars and Assassination
Helped to Enlarge
the List.
Statesmen, Scholars and
Soldiers Go to Join
the Majority.
Real Loss in the Death
of Men Like Stanley
and Hoar.
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M assist him, accident and sui
" cfdes and illness to further
his ends. Death has in 1904
reaped a notable harvest AS the
months have passed that made up the
year which has Just closed, first one na-
ton and then another has seen called
behind the scenes some figure which
had stood well to the center of her
stage, now this profession, and now
that craft has seen its work laid by for
ever as some foremost disciple has
passed across the great beyond. From
the deaths in January Of those vener-
able generals, Longstreet and Gordon.
Ind of that Of Princess Bonaparte, who
had linked the era Of the first Napo-
S1eon with present day history, on
through the weeks to the deaths Of
Cardinal Mocenni and President Brown,
Of Lehigh University, and Val Prinsep,
the artist, in the tweive-month's clos
ing days, roll of world-known names
has been forming, which now totals at
262
There is real loss in the passing of
such men as Henry NJ Stanley. Lafca-
dio Herne, William Vernon Harcourt,
Z
Rousseau, Antonin Dvorak. George
Frederick Watts, Maurus Jokai, William
c. Whitney, and George Frisbie Hoar.
All Lands Suffer.
Scarce a land but has heard the cold
swish of the scythe of the grim reaper
announcing the erasure from the roster
Of tho living Of some name now ancient
IN history, now new though honorable
IN the doinEs of today. In this country
there have been 122 such deaths, with
sixty IA England, and an even score In
Germany. France has lost sixteen. Rus
sia and Austria ten each, and Italy four.
One finds three japanese names on the
long roll. three Spanish, three Belgian,
and three Danish; while in Canada and
the United States of Colombia, vene-
znela and Peru, Turkey and Poland,
South Africa and the Ionian Islands at
least one OF the country's foremost cftt-
zens has been carried to his last long
rest.
Monarchs of Title and Dollars.
Loss has come to every walk of life.
II one consider royalty and nobility,
there is Duke Frederick of AnhaIt, who.
with seventy titles following his name.
headed the house which comes first In
GbIOpCS Ali.diidC QS OF the
Duke Of Cambridge, q grandson of
George III Of England; or Isabella of
Spain. who reigned thirty-eight years
and then spent thirty-six in exile
11zsstn, too. has lost the Infanta Maria,
the sister OF the present monarch of the
peninsula, who ruled six months in her
own right before the coming Of Alfonso.
Murad V OF Turkey is yet another Of
the tilted dead. though he ruled scarce
three drunken months before his twen-
ty-eight years Of imprisonment were
thrust upon him
What men of affairs have died? Levi
T. Letter. of Chicago; w. j. Lemp, of
ST. Louis; Edward W. Clark, of Phila-
delphia; Henry w Oliver, OF Pittsburg;
James J. Belden, of Syracuse; w. r.
Grace and Ashbel P. Fitch, Of New
York. and more than a dozen others,
though these seven names alone repre-
sented SIS, 100000 and the widest Of COM
mcrcial and public interests.
From various fields Of diplomacy and
politics death has called Paul Kruger
Postmaster General Payne, Senators
Quay and Vest. Golden Rule" Jones of
Toledo, Mayor Robert NcLane OF Balti-
more. President Candamo of Peru, the
Russians de Pleske ard Won Plehve. and
eight former governors OF sovereign
states Of this Republic-Bushnell and
Nash Of Ohio, Pattison OF Pennsylvania,
Lewis of Wisconsin, Cornell OF New
York, Kinkead Of ALASKA, Lounsbury of