The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-05
OELRICHS CAME HOME TO DIE.
HAD ROAMED EUROPE IN VAIN
SEARCH FOR RELIEF.

Ills Body Removed From the Kaiser VIII
helm and Taken TO Ellis Home -Surerod
Little Before the End Came and Passed
Away as II lie We're Going TO sleep
The body Of Hermann OeIrichs, who died
board the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse last Saturday when the vessel was
in midocean. was removed from the ship
upon its arrival at Hoboken yesterday after
noon.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., brother-in-
law Of the dead man; Charles r. Oelrichs, his
brother, and W. p. Pollock Of the New York
Central met the Kaiser at Quarantine on
the tugboat s. r. Gala way, on which were
the casket and two undertaken.
The party went at once to the captains
cabin, where Mr.. Oelrichs died and where
the body had lain. The tug steamed along
side the liner and at Hoboken, after the body
had been prepared for burial, 1t was put
aboard the tug and carried to the foot OF
West Forty-fOurth street, whence 1t was
taken 10 the Oelriohs residence, I East
F~ifty-seventh street
Mrs. Oelrichs, accompanied by her son
Hermann, was at the pier in Hoboken when
the Kaiser arrived.
The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock
this morning from the Oelrichs residence.
1t will be private. The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix
Of Trinity Church will oficiate, The inter-
ment will be at Woodlawn.
The death of Mr.. Oelrichs was not gener-
ally known on the ship until Monday. not
that there was any reason TO keep IT secret,
but Capt. Cuppers felt that there was 10
reason Tor the news to get about sooner.
Mr.. Oelrichs started home against the
advice of several physicians, Capt. Cuppers
said, but he declared that his coming TO
America was a matter of life and death with
him and he refused to stay longer on the
other side. Capt. tuppers was well ac-
| uuainted with MIR. Oelrichs and saw him in
Bremen on August ~. Mr.. Oelriohs was then
at Hillman's Hotel and was in bed.
He looked like a sick man to me and |
told him so" said Capt. Cuppers yesterday.
He said that he had been 10 Carlsbad for
treatment for kidney trouble but the waters
had done him no good. He had then gone
to Frankfort, where had he consulted Prof.
Van Orden, a specialist, who had old him
that he had but a little while to live. Other
specialists in Paris held out no hope to him.
He told me in Bremen that he intended
to sail with me the next day. l tried TO
keep him from starting but II wa no use.
There was something that had to be attended
to here, he declared, and the next day he
was at Bremerhaven. He came down there
in a special train and when he came aboard
/ gave him my room, as | had always done
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companied by Neils NOrstrom, his Danish
valet.
He told me that he had very little pain,
but he went to bed az soon as he got on the
ship. The next morning he was up, hut
did not leave the room. For the first two
DAYS we were out he had his meals brought
10 him in his room and ! began to feel that
he vas not so very bad al | had thought
he was when | saw him in Bremen
But Saturday morning for a time he
was unconscious. DR.. Peter Katerbau, the
ships surgeon, was in constant attendance
and saw Mr.. OelTichs at a little after 9 o'clock
that morning: In reply to a question from
the doctor Mr.. Oelrichs said that he was
quite comfortable and he told DR.. Katerbau
that he did not think that there was any
thing that he could do for him.
Saturday evening at 74S his valet asked
him a question from the next room and
getting no reply looked in to see II Mr..
Oelrichs we're asleep. To all appearances
he was sleeping. The valet then sat down
TO read a magazine, but 500 1t occurred
to him hat the patient had had little time
TO fall asleep and he went in and felt of his
pulse. II was not beating