The sun., 1906-02-19
JOHN A. M'CALL Is DEAD.
FOR 16 HOURS BE-
FORE HE PASSED AWAY.
He Was President Of the n. Y. Life for IL
Years and Built Up the Company After
the Downfall OF the Beers Adminis'

Years and Built Up the Company Atcr
the Downfall Of the Beers Adlninis'
tration-- Onco state superint tendcnt.
LAKEWOOD, n. j. Feb. 1s.-John Augustine
Mccall, former president OF the New York
Life Insurance Company died at 5;35 o'clock
this evening at the Laurel House, Lake.
wood, where he has been seriously Ill for
several weeks. Mr.. McCall's death was
due to cirrhosis Of tho liver
Mr.. Mccall had been unconscious since
O'Clock this morning, At o'clock this after
noon 1t became very apparent that he was
dying DR.. John Wander Poel OF New
York, who has been attending the sick mani
told the members of the family that it was
only matter Of short timo before MIR.
Mccall would die, and all OF the relatives
gathered about'the bedside to await the end.
Mrs. Mccall stood at tho head Of the bed
in the hope that her husband would recover
consciousness for brief period and recog-
nize her. A few minutes afteS o'clock
the dying man opened his eyes, smiled for
a moment at his wife and then lapsed into
a state OF coma from which he never awoke.
From the time he seemed to recognize his
wife Mr.. Mccall became weaker and weaker
until he breathed his last His death, tho
members Of the family say, came as II
clock had run down.
Besides Mrs. Mccall there were at the bed
side Mr.. and Mrs. John C. Mccall. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ballard Mccall, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo
Mccall, Stanley Mccall, Clifford Mccall and
the insurance mans two daughters, Mrs.
Darwin p. Kingsley and Mrs, Albert NJ.
MoClaye, and his brother, Supreme Cour6
Justice Edward Il. Mccall.
From o'clock on until Mr. Mccall died
the litany for the dying was recited at the
bedside. The sick man had prepared Tor
DEATH and for days had been thoroughly
resigned to the inevitable. On Saturday
morning he sent for the Rev. Father Thomas
B. Healy, pastor of the Church OF st. Mary
of the Lake, and extreme JUNCTION was adj
ministered. Father Healy had anointed
Mr.. Mccall several days previous. Satur-
day afternoon prayers for the dying were
said at the bedside.
The Rev. Father Matthew Taylor, pastor
of the Church OF the Blessed Sacrament.
on West Seventy-first street, New York.
in which Mr.. Mccall worshpped, was sent
for on Saturday and was with the dying
man for several hours. Bishop James A.
McFaul Of the diocese OF Trenton, who
was an intimate friend of Mr.. Mccall.
arrived in Lakewood last evening and
said mass for the dying man at the local
church yesterday morning.
Mrs. MCCALL is prostrated as a result OF
her husbands death. All Of the relatives
are moro or less fatigued and broken down
from the long vigil they have kept at the
bedside, John C. Mccall, who has been in
constant attendance upon his father ever
since he was removed to Lakewood, came
down % the lobby of the hotel fow minutes
after the end had come. Young Mccall
was greatly broken up.
aThe end has come. Father has passed
away" he said to the waiting newspaper
reporters.
Mrs. Darwin P. Kingsley is so completely
| Frustrated over her fathers death that her
condition is a source of much alarm.
MIR. McCalls body was removed to the
| undertaking establishment OF Edward j.
Westhall, in Second street, this evenings
| where it was prepared for removal to Ne"
! York. Darwin p. Kingsley and Albert Mo-
! CDaye. Mr.. McCall's sons-in-law, will keep
! vigil beside the body during the night
| The casket will be placed in special car
| which will be attached to the express train
leaving here at 3aS O'Clock Tomorrow after
noon. 1t will be taken direct to Mr.. McCalis 3
| home in West Seventy second street.
1t was announced tonight that the
| funeral would be held on Wednesday morn
| ing in the Church of the Blessed Sacramento
! Broadway and Seventy-first street inter-
ment will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Late tonight, when the news OF Mr:
McCall's death had reached his friends and
acouaintances, scores of kilograms and
messages of coincidence came to the grief
stricken family. The little telegraph Office
here was fairly flooded with these ,ele-
grams.