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Inst after tho doctors announced that
Mr. Schurz was dead q cableeram was
feoaived from Prince Henry ~ Prussia,
tho Emperor'a brother. asking for news Of
Mr. schurz. A despatch vas AZ once sent
T. the Prince announcing Mr. Schurz's
death
A soon ~ II was known that Mr. Schurz
wa lead kilograms and message Of con-
dolence began 10 pour In from all parts Of
the country. including one from President
Rooae welt.
Among those who called 10 express their
sympathy were the Rev. Ernest NJ. Stires
81 ~. Thomas Church, Gen. James Grant
Wilson. Loyal Farragut, son Of the Ad-
miral: Gen. Julius S'anel, y. \. Mcclure,
Isaac n. Seligman, Consul General Brlenz,
Col. Silas W. Bart and Gustave Iindenthal.
Kari Bitter, the sculptor, took a death
mask.
kilograms we're received from Prof
Hugo Muensterberg OF Harvard Univer-
city, * Minister Simon Wolf OF Waahin G.
ton, Gen. +. C.. Winken Of Milwaukee, Ed
ward NJ. Shepard. Afford W. Cooley. Charles
A. schieren, Oscar Straus and the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity, Of which Mr.. Schurz
was an honorary member.
Mr.. Pretorius received a despatch from
Ct. Louis saying that a mass meeting in
memory Of Mr.. Schurz was being held
there last night. Similar meetings were
held in Chicago and Cincinnati.
Gen. Julius Stahel, who called to express
his sympathy, said that Carl Schurz's death
left but four surviving Major-Generals Of
the civil war. Gen. Stahel is one Of them.
Carl Schurz's Career.
The friends Of Carl Schurz believed that
nature intended him for a musician. per-
haps a great composer, Fate made him
a hot headed student rcvolutionist at the
University Of Bonn to being one OF the Rest
known American public men Of the nine-
tenth century. From his boyhood days
his ca reer was romantic, eventful aud adj
venturous.
Mr.. Schurz was almost equally famous
as a soldier, author, editor and statesman.
He was a newspap per editor at 10 and n
leader Of the. revolution Of iStS at the same
age. The downfall Of liberal ideas in
Prussia sent Mr.. Schurn with other young
Germans to this country. He became in
turn here an editor, a M~ntor-General Of
the United States editor again United
dav Of his death, almost, he was hale and
menta lily vigorous, lie retired from active
pa "ticipation ia public affairs in late years,
hut was keenly engrossed in intellectual
TNtl'fEs. ~ III iart 1 10 IA Sbkf XVI III
writing his autobiography for McClurc's
Magazine.
He was born in Llblar, near Cologne.
Prussia, March 2, 1929. His parents were
tomary education of the gymnasium and
in lsi6 entered the University Of Bonn.
When Schurz was 10 the French Socialists
and the Paris editors, uniting, sent Louis
Philippe to the right about, and brought
upon Europe a series of little revolutions.
The bent OF Schurz's mind was seen at once
when things were turned topsy turvy in
Paris. and seldom during his life did he de-
part from II. Some Of his inspiration he
took from a book by Gustav Strive, then a
man of 4S, and the Sooialistic genius Of the
revolution of 1s4s. 1t was entitled. A Plan
for Revolutionizing and Repuhicanizing
Germany
At Bonn at that time was a professor Of
the name of Gottfried Kinkel. who held the
chair of rhetoric, an ardent tempered man,
revolutionist to the backbone. He caught
the imagination OF young Schurz, who
started a newspaper with him. At one
paper, which was extremely liberal In it's
views. Schurz and Kinkel attempted to
revolutionize Prussia from their editors
office at Bonn. Klnkel was sent to the Prus-
slan Legislature, Then he and Sohurz,
falling in an attempt to raise an insurreotion
at Bonn, were driven out Of Prussia They
joined an insurrectionary force in the States
between Prussia and Switzerland, and threw
themselves into Rastadt.
Already q distin guished soldier, Franz
Sigsl, afterward a Major-General in the
Federal army during the civil war, was
leading the revolutionists, Beaten by the
Prince of Prussia, he withdrew TO Rastadt.
where there was a strong fortress. There
he was invested. Schurz took part in the
defence Of Rastadt, and when the city fell
escaped, by a miracle almost, spending.
according to stories Of the day, three days
and nights hiding in a sewer, with little
or nothing to eat. Schurz managed to
get over the frontier into Sw Switzerland, but
kinkel was arrested and sent to a fort.
Schurz's popularity was founded on the
part he is said to have played in the rescue
OF Prof. Kinkel, imprisoned in the citadel
of Spandau. A number Of the professors
old students resolved, according to the
story, TO rescue Kinkel, banding them
selves together by solemn oaths. On the
night Of November O, 1850, the students
broke into Kinkel's cell and lowered him
from the roof to the ground. It was said
afterward that the Prussian Government
having quelled the revolution had no
particular desire to hold Kinkel and others
in prison. since it cost money to keep them
and because their imprisonmen stirred
up unnecessary agitation. II was limited
even that no great obstacles were put in
the way OF the rescuers. Mr.. Schurz,
however. got the credit of rescling his old