Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-01-17
FIELDS GREAT
CAREER OVER.
MuIimiIIiOnaire Head of Biz
Chicago Firm Succumbs After
Eight Days Illness.

Field, the millionaire Chicago mer-
chant, us dead at the Holland House
after an eight days illness of pneuIno-
mia. Death came peacefully while mem
bers of the family who had been in al
most constant attendance for several
days were gathered around the death
bed. They as well as the dying mer-
chant himself were prepared for the
end. For days they had been swayed
between hope and fear. but when the
alarming turn came after a remarkable
rally hit vas recognized that the end
had Been only briefly deferred. Those
who kvere present when the merchant
died Mere Mrs. Marshall Field, Mrs.
MarshaN Field, Jr.; Augustus n. Eddy,
Catherine Eddy. Mrs. Henry Dibblee,
Robert q. Lincoln and Mrs. Preston
Gibson.
The ray Of hope which flashed to the
watchers when the seemingly dying
man suddenly rallied and for a time APP
peared to gain strength rapidly was
first dispelled by an announcement aft
err consultation of the physicians. Mr..
Fields rest had been disturbed during
the latter part of the night. and when
morning came it was found that the
improvement had not been maintained.
From that time until the end the ap-
proach of death was steady and irresis-
tible.
Mr.. Fields illness developed about a
week ago while he and Mrs. Field were
on their way from Chicago to this city.
He was travelling on the Pennsylvania
Limited, and he was taken i'll early
Tuesday morning just before the train
reached Pittsburg. There a physician
boarded the train and came on to this
city with Mr.. Field.
When his condition became more seri-
Gus DR.. Walter b. James, who had
been in attendance. called in Drs. Ed
ward G.. Janeway and Austin F. Riggs
of this city, and after a consultation
the physicians announced that Mr.. Field
was suffering from pneumonia.
During Sunday night Mr.. Field ap-
peared to be sinking rapidly, and Mon
day morning the physicians announced
that all hope for his recovery had been
abandoned. Mr.. Field himself appar-
emily believed that the end was at
hand. and by his request all the mem
bers of his family were summoned to
the bedside. Suddenly, however, there
came a remarkable change. The
strength which gradually had slipped
away from the patient seemed sudden
ly to be rushing back. He looked up
and smiled, asked for a drink and then
ca,J- i,tp n noa,ofnI ,.octf,,I eIoo1 IL,
was better. the physicians said-much
better-and there was even hope that
he might successfully pass the crisis.
Mr.. Field did not rest we'll during the
last hours OF the night. The spread Of
the disease had recommended, and his
condition, while critical, was not re-
garded as hopeless. His condition. how
ever. continued to become more desper-
ate with every moment, and soon the
last ray of hope had fled.
DR.. Frank Billings. Mr.. Fields ply
stefan, who came from Chicago, said
that Mr.. Field was unconscious for
three hours before his death and that
his temperature was 107 when he died.
Mr.. Fields body will be taken to
Chicago this morning by special train.
No funeral services will be held here.
Marshall Field was a multimillion-
aire merchant and a leader in the dry
goods trade of the world. Mr.. Field
was seventy years of age.
Mr.. Field was the head of the Chica-
60 firm Of Marshall Field & Co. and of
branch houses in Paris and Manchester.
Entirely outside his enormous dry
goods business he was estimated to be
worth $4,000 900. He lost a million
in the Chicago fire.
Marshall Field was born in Conway,
Mass, i'll 1885 and spent the early
years of his life on a farm. He attend
ed an academy until 1852, when he
started in life for himself as a dry
goods clerk in a store at Pittsfeld,
Mass.
In 1856 he moved to Chicago and at
tanned a remarkable success for the
firm of Marshall Field & Co.. which is
attributed almost entirely to Mr.. Field.
He made it n rule never to borrow
money and never to issue a note. He
paid cash for everything he bought not
only in connection with his dry goods
enterprise, but for all of his dealings in
real estate and in other investments.
Mr.. Field was twice married. his last
matrimonial venture being still fresh in
the public mind. He was married to
Mrs. Arthur Cation Sept. 5 last at West
minister, England.