The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-18
OBIT{ AIRY.

A cable despatch from Berlin, announces
the death. from PARALYSIS Yesterday Of COZ.
T y Wa1ar M IA in ;p WhN T ims t fss@ Gaaman Ven Hshol IA.
the .Gross NeV Yorker ZeitunO and the Men
Yorker, Rerue. Col; Mayer was born in Wen
old he became a Lieutenant in the Austrian
navy and two years later he made a trip 70
ARsn The c Ht d %sT Srok sS o TT" he was asr one s@ of
the first 10 enlist. He entered the Seventy
frst Regiment and in ,wo vars became q
to mercantile pursuits and later in 1878
he entered the newspaper business. buying
Ihe N'% nS5fdr Di"C y IN when ths p 9oemS wa
Tritung. and appeared after that under the
name SeT YoIkcr Tf""%g. In ESQ he as, a.,
publication of the German Heroid, the Meg
Yorker Zeitmn0 and the SUNDAY EDITION OF
these two paper, the Hs% norkrr Rer%,.
vented col. MAYER took great interest in this
new departure and in 1894 he purchased the
then established himself. without. however.
giving up his business interests in America.
Twice every year he came TO New York.
in Berlin, and a married daughter, who also
lives In the German capital.
Henry Ward Beechcr Howard. the eighth
child of the late W r. Howard, died on Mon
day OF kidney trouble at his home, 800 Adelphi
street. Brooklyn. in his, ffty-seventh year,
Yale College in 1872 he engaged in newspaper
work. OF late years he had been the bursar
Of the Polytechnic and Collegiate institute.
He recently resigned this place to become
assistant secretary. and ASSISTANT treasurer of
the American Institute Of Mining Engineers,
Of which Rossiter w. RAYMOND Is secretary.
Like all the members of his family he had been
actively Interested In the affairs of Plymouth
Church, and for eighteen years was the head
Of the church work committee. lie was a
Der Of the Yale Club OF New, York, and the
and a daughter He Is also survived by his
mother, who is in her ninety-fourth year.
c9i g p1E1.d MIGHSiShas snd former arr old P ti@e
CLAYTON McMichsel was horn in Philadelphia
y IHnss SO 80. l snce H Msy Was " SOP Ph Il isd M25f9n Mn In
1851, though less than u years old, he was
among the first to, go TO the war, In 1873
he vas wa s pppmission by p re- 1Sa n "rsn, Gne
exposition at Vienna. and in 1882 by Presi-
dent Arthur 10 The post Of United States
January. Isas, he was elected city treasurer
OF Philadelphia. for a term of three years.
on Ss Isp@ "a Phi III lad 5e elph ia he b was p TPGSS.n'eqR ppo oss-
welt. in which Office he continued until March /
of the present year.
William Friel, who was found dead in At
lantic CITY Yesterday, was the head of the
ceiVcrs Of Morocco hides and, skins at oil
trade the world over, Forty Tears ago. when
he was a youth Of 20. he founded the firm.
Some years ago his sons, John and George,
| Ill Nv " l"hi ~ sup WI Z ll'
went TO Atlantic City Monday with the inten-
ton Of proceeding to Philadelphia on a husi-
| ness trip. When he left he was in good spirits.
He is survived by a wife and ten grown
children living at Sg2 Seventh avenue, Brook
ivn. MIR Friel was .asphyxiated in his room
in a hotel. The cock Ola gas stove was found
turned on,
Francis Lewis Sperry, a former mining
| engineer Of New York city and Buffalo and
member Of the American Society OF Mining
Engineers. died yesterday al his home AT
TatlmadRe, Ohio. aged a wears. He was
graduated from Yale and was con-
nected with the Canadian Copper Company
| at Sudbury, Canada. for six years. There
he discovered a new mineral now extensively
| used II In the arts and called Sperrylite, n metal
lie tin white platinum. Later he pursued
his studies N FreiburE,. Germany. and then
exhaustion.
Darrow & Son. dealers in and manufacturers
home, 3Os West Ninety-frst street. He was
born in this city on April II, 1890, and was
Lone OF the oldest members OF the Building
| Material Exchange. He went into business
| with his father az the foot Of Forty-seventh
street, North River. in 1858. His father
| and grandfather were natives OF this city.
He leaves a widow, three sons and two
daughters.
Captain John E. Stephens Of the United
States Army, retired, died on Monday at his
home, 1902 Eighty-fourth street, Brooklyn. He
contracted his fatal Illness while serving with
the Tenth Infantry in the Philippines. The
| funeral services will be held tomorrow morn
Ing in st. Flnbar's Roman Catholic Church.