The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-01
THE YEARS. WORK
Of SILENT REAPER.
Neurology Of the Year Bears the
Names Of 326 Men and Women
Foremost in Varied Callings.
MANY NOTABLE CHARACTERS
John Hay, Joseph Jefferson, Sir
Henry Irving, Gomez, Theo-
dore Thomas.

The neurology of the year Just
closed bears the names Of 1926 men
and women. foremost In their varied
callings, whose places in this worlds
work 1t will be hard to fill.
4 Nineteen five has seen death reap n
notable harvest. as its months have
passed. in one land after the other,
figures which for long have held the
center of the worlds stage have been
called forever behind the scenes. In
january passed thus Lord ISinross. JUS
tice General OF Scotland. and r. swain
Clifford, the American artist. and that
w. III. Baldwin. who, in very spite OF MS
mere forty-one years. was not only one
of this country's leading railroad men,
! but one OF her foremost citizens. me
closing days OF the twelve month heard
those veteran generals, f. i. Sherman
and Andreas Tchertkoff, answer to the
| roll for the last time. And between
ttse there has been built up q roster
of world-known names totalling to-day
ut 326.
| Consider the breadth and depth OF the
loss involved In the deaths of such as
these:
John Hay, who took his earliest lessons
in wisdom at the feet of Lincoln. and,
81 aiming the whole development of the
| rev Union brought serenity and
strength to the councils OF Mckinley and
Roosevelt.
Maxine Gomez. that gray little. great
little man: knight errant and disnter-
ested champion of true freedom.
Alphonse de Rothschid, perhaps tho
most influential of world bankers.
| Sir Henry Irving. great az an actor.
greater as a stage manager and greatest
In the uplifting influence he exerted
| upon his calling.
Jane Lathrop Stanford. in some re-
spects the most remarkable benefactor of
modern times.
| Theodore Thomas. who had done so
much toward the cultivation of love
| for the best music among the American
people.
| Dr. Thomas Bernardo. "the father of
nobodys children" whose epitaph might
we'll read "He saved sixty thousand I'M
wanted and destitute children from suf-
| fering, vice and crime
Mary a. Livermore. reformer. or
sanizer, nurse and patriot, who did great
deeds because she was q great woman.
ed as long as gentle humor is priced.
or while the odor OF kindness and pity
remains sweet in mans nostrils.
Henri GerNain, than whom no other
financial man in present day Europe had
more Influential continental banking
methods.
orvine II. Platt, the most active, dis
tinguished and useful member of the
Upper House of the National Legisla-
| ture.
Nations Now the Poorer.
Scarce land but has heard the cold
| swish of the scythe of death, announcing
| the erasure from the roll OF the living OF
some name now ancient in history, now
new, though honorable, in the doings OF
to-day. Spain mourns for those political
| leaders, Silvcla and Vilaverde: Russia for
that splendidly brave old General Drag
omiroff and Pau Lessar. her able. diplo
mat; France for Reclus. the scientist;
Henner, the artist. and Verne. the pro-
| phetic romancer. and America. among so
many others. for w. T. Richards, master
! among marinists. and that venerable Jay
| Cooke, who. with his great work long
since finished, had fingered as living
reminder OF perhaps the most crucial pc
Rod in the Republics development.
To the north of US have passed that
|
| Rev. John de Sayres. the Dominion's most
able divine. To the south death has
! called Luz Cobral, Brazil's millionaire
| phllanthropist; Gaindo. the poet of Peru,
| and Juan Paul. ex-President Of Venezuela.
| An assassin closed forever the career of
Delyarnis. the Greek premier; poverty put
the period to the good works OF 1taly's
| Countess Gel Drago. while disease car
| ried from the fields of German science
| and irlp hoe III
| the brothers Won Richtofen.
In the United States there have been
in all 1853 deaths OF men and women
| properly classified with the great of
| modern times, with slXty-six In England.
twenty-nine In France and nineteen in Ger
many. Russia has loEt nine, Spain six.
Italy five and Canada four. The rest of
the list, In ones, ,twos and threes, is di-
vlded between Austria Sweden and Bel
| gium Turkey. Japan and Brazil, Chill,
Cuba and Finland. Greece and Mexico,
Peru and Venezuela.
Monarchs of Title and of S S S
Loss has come to every walk In llfe
II one consider royalty and nobility, there
are the names of the Grand Duke Adolf.
| Of Nuremberg, the Oldest reigning sover-
eign In Europe. and Prince Leopold. of
lIohenzolern, who, as history recalls was
tho nominal cause of tho Franco German
War; Or take those who have ruled tho
| worlds of commerce and industry. Bos
ton no mO:e sees Francis Peabody or
Montgomery Sears, nor Philadelphia Ellis
Yarnall and j. Dundas Lippincott, nor
Pittsburg f. B. Laughlln or Charles Lock.
hart. Baltimore Is the poorer for the
death of John X. Shaw. Hartford for that
OF Colonel Greene. and Springfield (Mass.)
has lost the wisely generous bencfactions
OF "Uncle John" Olmsted,
From various fields of diplomacy and
politics have been called 10" Hawley
/ and G. S. Boutwell, and Carlos MARTINEZ
and Rane Goblet, and n bakers dozen
/ of the former governors Of sovereign
| States of this Union.
So might one run through all the death
roll. Not vocation through which men
/ help on the work of the world, but has
1 suffered since January last came in.
| sc!nece has lost such explorers as Gla-
4 zier and Gregory and DeBrazza ''The
| French Stanley; such inventors as Whit
| ten and Coldwell and Lagerman The
Il church no longer counts nmppc ITO 1iytp,