Arizona republican., 1906-07-23
NOTABLE FINANCIER
 ENDS HIS CAREER
Death of Russell Sage at His Home ia
 New York.

New York. July 22.-Russell Sage died suddenly today at his country home. "Cedarcroft." at Lawrence, L. l. The immediate cause of his death was heart failure. resulting from a combination of diseases incident to old age The veteran financier would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday on August 4th. MT Sage has been in exceptionally good health since his arrival at his summer home about six months ago. At noon today he was seized with a sinking spell and col Iapsed, falling into inconsistencies about two hours before his death. which occurred at 4:3O o'clock.
 There were present at the end Mrs. Sage, her brother. Col. J. J. Slocum; Rev. Dr. Robert Leech. pr. Theodore s. Janeway of New York, pr. C. Carl Schank, a local physician, who was summoned from New York when the first alarming symptoms were mani fested
 The funeral services will be held on Wednesday at the West Presbyterian church in West Forty-secOnd street, of which MT. Sage had been a member for many years. The interment will take place in Troy on Thursday Mrs. Sage and her brother Col. Slocum. are named as executors of MT. Sage's will.
 Russell Sage was born in Verona. township. Oneida county, New York August 4th. 1S16. the son of Elisha and Prudence Risley Sage. His parents were agriculturists and young Sage spent his early life on farm working during the summer months and attend ing a country school in the winter When young boy he began his bus mess life as an errand runner in the store of his brother at Troy. Later he was promoted to a clerk salesman and finally in 1887 he became a retail gro cer In the same year he began the building of whole sale business which later developed into one of the princi- pal institutions at Troy. He operated as wholesale grocer until 1851 He paid but little attention to politics but served on the Troy board of aldermen in 1S47 and was afterwards treasurer of his county. As a whig he served in the American congress 1S53-57. In 1863 he became interested in railways and moved from Troy to the city of New York. There he became engaged in the buying and selling of "privil- eges' in Wall street. He was for years one of the foremost operators in rail- way and other securities.
 At the time of his death he was the president and director of the Pough- keepsie and Eastern Railway company. Empire and Bay State Telegraph company, vice president. treasurer and director of the Albia and Centervile Railway company. a director of the Wabash Railroad company Chattanoo- ga and Southern Railroad Iowa Cen tral Railway company, Missouri Pa cific Railway company, Manhattan Railway company. St. Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern Railway com pany Shore Line Railway. Texas and Pacific Railway company. Western Union Telegraph company, American Telegraph and Cable company. Ameri- can Union Telegraph company. Golden Stock Telegraph company Interna- uonal Ocean Telegraph company. New York and Mutual Telegraph, Washing ton and New Orleans Telegraph. Fifth National bank, Fifth Avenue bank. importers and treasurers' National bank, United States Guarantee ,com- pany and the Pacific Mail and Steam ship company.
 His residence was in New York City where he occupied an unpretentious house on Fifth avenue. His offices on Nassau street were marked bv the same lack of splendor and show.