The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-29
GEN. FITZHUGH LEE DEAD.
STRICKEN WITH IPOPLEXY ON
the FEDERAL EMPRESS.
lie was on Hiy way Prom boston tO wash
lnxtOn ana was Found Unconscious In
Bcrth ~ Train was Passing Mott Haven
Dies In Hospital IN Washington.

Herth ~ Train was Passing NOtt Haven
Dies In Hospital IN Wasringto on.
WASHINGTON April %. Ger. Fitzhugh
| Ice, cavalry commander in tho Confed-
| crate Army during the civil war, former
| Governor OF Virginia, a Major-General Of
! Volunteers In the war with Spain and now
a retired Brigadler-General OF the United
! States Army. died here tonight Of apoplexy.
! He was stricken late last night while on "A
! train from Boston and on his arrival here
this morning was removed TO a hospital.
He was attended on the train by Dr.
Richard c. Cabot Of Boston, a fellow passen-
ger, and by DR.. Schulz Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Surgeon-General O'Reilly aud
Surgeons Kern Edie and Mason of the army
met Gen. Lee at the station TO render any
assistance needed, and after his removal
to the hospital they pronounced his con-
dition serious.
He recovered consciousness, however,
and at / O'Clock this afternoon Major Edie
issued bulletin saying that he had suffered
stroke of apoplexy. His left side was
affected by paralysis but notwithstanding
the apparently alarming condition, the
physicians said that he had chance for
recovery There was no great change in
Ills HglLIlolllA hllAll ldAt AllAN evening.
At II O'Clock the, attending physicians
issued the following bulletin:
Gen, Lee has had turn for the worse.
Respiration is difficult and pulse is not as
good.
He continued to sink until the end came
at II 20.
Gen. Lee went TO Boston to urge that
the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts erect
a building at the Jamestown exposition
- ziflanf nf the RyTIziflOn
and has been working for the success Of
the project in Now York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey He left Boston last
evening for Washington, where he was
to he Joined by Mrs. Lee, who is at Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga, with her married daughter.
She has been notified a. has also her son
George, an army officer. who Is in san
Francisco preparing TO sail for the Philip
pines. Since becoming connected with
the jamestown exposition Gen. Lee has
made his home in Norfolk.
Surgeon General OReilly went TO the
hospital this afternoon and participated in
the consultation Of physicians over Gen.
Lees condition.
Gen. Lee boarded the Federal exp ress
in Boston last evening. He passed the
early part OF the night apparently resting
comfortably in his berth.
The train i due at Mott Haven at 4lO
O'Clock A. NJ, and just as L arrived there
other passengers near the General heard him
groaning. The porter was called, and he
discovered that Gen. Lee was unconscious
No stop was advisable at that place, but a
telephone message was sent TO physician
in New York 20 meet the transport that
carried the train around New York TO
Jersey City The express was held for
half an hour while stimuants were admin
istered 10 the General
The New York physician could not con-
time with the train. 80 telegram was sent
TO the general manager Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Philadelphia 70 have
physician in readiness at Broad Street
Station.
Or. Watson, assistant to the Penn-yl-
yania Railroads medical examiner, was
at the station. He promptly entered the
car and the train then continued on to
| Washington.
Frank and generous, full OF the strong
hearty qualities which are associated with
the most lovable type OF American charac-
| ter, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. ever since the
| events Of the Spanish war brought him
| prominently before the country at lnrge,
| has been easily one Of the most generally
| popular men in the United States.
He would have been seventy years Of
| age IL he had lived until the 10th OF next
| November; but he was one OF those men
| people somehow refuse even 10 think Of
as anything else than young. His ardor
| and his vitality were seemingly az buovant
! no TO almost the very moment before he
was stricken down az they were at any
| time during his long and intensely active
| career. His father, Gen. Robert +. Lees
| brother, was very much the same type OF
man. He was a sailor, Sydney Smith Lee,
! OF the United States Navy.
He graduated from the Naval Academy
| in 1920 h,Camo a Lieutenant in 1898, served in
! the Mexican War and was an officer in the
| Perry expedition to Japan, which has had
such surprising consequences. In 1850
he was made Commando and in 1891, when
the civil war came, he, like his hrother
Robert f.. went with his state into the
ranks Of the CCnfedeTacy.
FitZhugh Lee was the eldest son Of sydney
smith lee and was the favorite nephew,
inst rs his father had been the favorite
brct her Of Gen. r. +. lee. Both father and
son were beloved 10y the great Confederate
commander for similar qualities Rose
was the pet nickname with Gen. x. +, lee
for the brother, while "Fitz' was his and
everybody else's pet nickname for the son.
There was ever too much Of the old-time
Nirginian in Fitzhugh Lee for him over
to take kindly to salt water. II involved
too little opportunity to get astTaddie
horses back, and Fitzhugh from his very
boyhood loved a horse. So he did not fol-
low his father into the navy. He followed
his uncle Robert F., into the army. Rober
r. Lee then a Captain Of Engineers, was
ssperintendent OF the Military Academy
at West Point when tit2hugh WIS taken
there as a cadet One dav Capt. lee, the
superintendent was showing his father
in.law. O. W. Parke GUSTS, about the
ACdltulN kibNll.'7'
sDid YOU notice that cadet doing punish
mont duty?r asked Capt. Ice Of his guest.
why. yes, replied the guest Noticed
that he was very polite. He drew himself
mo and presented arms very respectfully
a. We passed.
Wei. said Capt Lee, that's my hope.
ful nephew. Fitzhugh, brother Sydney's
son
Fitzhugh himself loved to tell this story
in later years and how Il was that he
happened TO be doing punishment duty-a
little nocturnal expedition to Benny Ravens
and a dummy in bed that did not pass
muster when the inspection officer came
around
II was In 1864 that Fitzhugh gradu-
ated from West Point His first assign
ment was drilling raw recruits at the bar
racks IN Carlisle. Pa. Then he had an
exciting chapter Of Indian fighting under
Major EarI Van Dorm, in Texas. and got
an arrow wound in one fight that came
very near. putting an end TO his career
then and there He had barely recovered
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