The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-12
BISHOP M'CABE ILL IN STREET
STRICKEN on HIS WAY TO HIS
HOME IN PHILADELPHTi.
Methodist Preiate Carried into saloon
Rack Room and e Taken 10 a
Hospital - Best known as chaplain
Because OF His GIVu War services.

Bishop Charles c. McCabe Of the Methodist
Fpiscopal Church was stricken with apo
plexy yesterday morning about 10 o'clock
n the foot of West Twenty-third street
while on his way TO Philadelphia from a trip
to New England.
An ambulance was called and the Bishop
was taken 20 the New York Hospital, where
il was said last night that the attack was
comparatively slight. but that in view
of the Bishops seventy years no DEFINITE
prognosis could at that time be made.
II was a few minutes after 10 o'clock
when Patrolman John Leidner of the West
Twentieth street police station saw the
Bishop standing uncertainty on the SIDE
walk at Twelfth avenue ana Wthty-thlru
street He carried a small satchel ana a
rarCel in his left hand and was reellng anu
waving 20 and fro as if about TO fall. Inc
n,Iiceman saw at once that the clergyman
wa- seriously i'll and helped INN INTO the
back room OF a saloon on the corner
The Bishop's right side appeared 70 ne
almost useless and he had no control over
his right leg and arm. HIS speech ~as
thick and almost inComprehenTlile, put
he managed TO make the policeman under
stand tina his name was McEabe anu thdt
no was on his wav TO Philadelphia.
When the ambulance arrived, IN charge
Of a surgeon. Bishop McCahe at first de-
INJURED TO being taken TO the ho7pi'al,
He could scarcely talk, but II was pam
that he was ANXIOUS to continue ms, Journey
He was i'm no condition TO travel noweVeI,
and fnaIIv submitted 10 the ride IN the
ambulance. When il cas- time 10 leave
the shelter of the saloon back room II IVES
found that the Bishop could not walk ana
no was carried out on a stretcher.
At the hospital he was identified through
LETTERS found in his pockets. The hey.
Dr. Homer Eaton and the Rev. DR.. q. +.
Mains Of the Methodist Book Concern were
sent for and hurried 10 the hospital
Speaking with great difl yulty the blshop
managad II ask that his wife and son be
sent for. Then he added slowly:
Biahop McCabe is one OF the best KNOWN
men in the Methodist denomination re
has ocCupied his present post In the chllrch
fnr ten wears but was long known as Chap
lain McCabe on account OF his services
in the civil war, when he was chaplain
Of the 122d Ohio Volunteers. He was taken
prisoner at the battle Of winchester ana
spent four months in LIBBY Prison AIueI
the war he toured the country WITH a lecture
called aThe Bright Side Of Libby Prison,
The Bishop is regarded as one OF the
most successful money ralsers or any rehg'
ions denomination. II was ne VINO at
secretary of the Methodist Missionary
Society raised the cry OF a Million Ioi
Missions" Inside a year ne hah succeeueo
in raising that amount.
Last spring Bishop MoCabe became a
member Of the international FoncyhopnerS
Committee. In September he resigned IRON
that committee in a letter IN wnlch ne ue'
nounced the ~"vituperative campaign "age'
by that committee, declared that tne ON
r1ittea had given ont an address to which
his name was appended when he had nevel
seen it and expressed entire conrdenct
in the present administration OF both th'
Mutual and the New York Life.