Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-20
BISHOP NJ CABE
PASSES AWAY
DIES PEACEFULLY IN NEW
YORK HOSPITAL
Was Known All over the Country as
"chaplaln" Mecabe-Had Varied
Experiences on Lecture Plat
form and In Army
BY Associated press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. t9.-Bishop
Charles G. McCabe of the Methodist
Episcopal church died in the New YORK
hospital at $500 this morning.
Death was due to apoplexy with
which the bishop was stricken severa
city to his home i'm Philadelphia.
Mrs. McCabe and the bishops niece,
who have been with him almost con-
stantly since he was stricken, were ut
the bedside when the noted clergyman
passed away.
Bishop McCabe was stricken when
about to leave this city on December
II. The night before he had delivered
his lecture on The Sunny Side of Life
i'm Libby Prison" at Torrington, Conn"
and was passing through this city on
the return to his home i'm Philadelphia.
Accompanied by DR.. George p. Mains,
publishing agent of the Methodist
church, the bishop had reached the
West Twenty-third street terminal Of
the Pennsylvania railroad and was
about to step upon ferry boat when
he staggered and fell unconscious.
He was carried into the ferry house
and as soon as an ambulance could
be summoned was removed to the New
I OTh nOspltdl, NHele He leCciNSu 'iSoht7
ment.
Meantime the bishop had regained
consciousness and the indications of
the twenty-four hours following were
that the shock had been a slight one.
At that time his condition gave
promise of speedy recovery and the
former health of the patient encouraged
this hope.
Just before the attack he had walked
briskly and had carried a grip weighted
with books and papers without appar-
ent fatigue.
Bishop McCabe, however, early real
lied the seriousness of his illness and
his first words upon returning to con-
seriousness were:
please notify my wife that am very
ill, and ask her to come at once"
That night Mrs. McCabe and his
niece. who was also his secretary, ar
rived and have since remained at the
hospital.
The condition of the patient did not
materially change until early Saturday
last, when he lapsed into unconscious
ness.
From then on the bishop failed
gradually and on Monday the physi-
clans in attendance said that the out
come was no longer in doubt.
Bishop McCabe was born in Athens,
Ohio, october IL, 1886. He entered the
Ohio conference of the Methodist
church in 1860, and two years later
became chaplain of the 1920 Ohio in
fantry.
He was captured in the battle of
Winchester and spent four months in
Libby prison. His experience as a
prisoner of war were later recounted
on the lecture platform.
For more than thirty years he was
popularity known as Chaplain" Nc
Cabe, and the title chung to him even
after the general conference of the
Methodist church in 1896 made him a
bishop.
Following the war he became pastor
of church at Portsmouth, Ohio, and
later was associated as assistant secre-
tary with the board of church extern
sion.
While engaged in church work he ORR
ginated the rally cry, 1--WE are building
a church every day."
His success as a money raiser was
remarkable, and later as secretary of
the Methodist Missionary society, to
which post he was elected in 1884, he
added half a million dollars to the an
nual income of the society.
He was a singer and his songs were
feature of his pleas for funds. He
was chosen chancellor of the American
university at Washington December 10,
1902.