Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-31

| immediate cause of his death was heart
| disease. Judge Yeomans had been confined
| to his room since the middle Of September
by heart trouble. but up to last night it was
| believed that he had a good chance to re-
cover. Shortly after IL o'clock he SUFFERED
! a relapse, but toward morning he seemed
| to again grow stronger.
A few minutes before his death the
| trained nurse in attendance asked him to
| Sit upon the side Of the bed for a mo-
| ment and as he did SO he sank backward
! apparently In faint A physician was
ment within five minutes, but upon his
| arrival hefound Judge Yeomans dead.
| Mrs. Yeomans, who was Miss Cornelia
Davis of New York. and James H. Yeo-
d mans. son, were in the apartment at
| the time.
The funeral arrangements will not be
completed until the arrival in the city of
! another son, George B. Yeomans of New
| York. -
! The; latter is counsel for the Brooklyn
| Rapid Transit railway in New York: The
other son Is young man OF HucfrpEotnise
who has been attending to his Fathers
property interests since the beginning Of
his illness.
1t is more than probable that the in
| terment will be made at East Aurora, N
! Y, Judge Yeomans' old home
Judge Yeomans was born at Bennington,
| Wyoming county, N: Y, April q, 1915, and
| was educated in the common schools of
| New York state.
When seventeen years old he was en-
ployed on the Erie railroad. In 1864 he
| went south to Chattanooga and en-
gagged in railroading for the government
during the war.
In 1872 he was made assistant superin-
tendent of the B. n. Y and P. railroad. and
| in 1873 was made general superintendent
| Of the same road, which position he filled
for six years. He then resigned to engage
| in the construction of railways In 1888 he
| removed to Iowa and engaged in the stock
| "a
of the senate of the state of Iowa In 1890,
and his term of Office had not expired
when, on April 2. 1884, he was appointed by
President cleveland to fill the unexpired
| term of ]. W. McDill, deceased a mem
Der of the interstate commerce commission.
On the expiration of his term, December
81, $685. he was reappointed for a term Of
six years by President Mckinley.
His Work in Iowa.
| Prior to his appointment as a member Of
the interstate commerce commission Judge
| Yeomans was prominent commercially in
Iowa and was instrumental in having
formed an organization, with headquarters
at Sioux City. the purpose of; which was
to prevent Determinations by railroads
against Iowa cities in the making of rates
This organization known as the Sioux City
Jobbers and Manufacturers Association, is
! still powerful in the northwest as a protec-
| tor of commercial cities of Iowa, Nebraska
/ SOulH DdhOtd dIlQ MlfueSOld lie dSSO-
citation furnished a pattern for similar Or
ganizaNons in many other parts Of the
country. 1t was Judge Yeomans' work in
| this connection and the interest he thus de-
veloped in transportation problems that
| suggested his fitness to serve on the inter-
! state commerce commission.
| He was succeeded in the interstate COM
merce commission by Former United States
| Senator Francis M. Cockrell of Missouri.
Mr.. Yeomans had private business inter
ests in this city, to which he devoted him
| self after his retirement from public life
Injured by an Unruly Horse.
After the expiration of his term of Office
| Mr.. Yeomans took up the management of
his extensive farming interests in Virginia.
| In dealing with an unruly horse he I'M
doubtedly injured himself, as shortly after
ward he began to fail and had been con-
fined to his apartments in the Cumberland
| for the last few weeks.
| Judge Yeomans," he was Familiarity
called, was a great, big-hearted man. he
| was a giant in physician strength and had
| a host of friends among all who knew him.
| Rigid honesty was his Distinguishing char
actertstic. His friendships were sincere,
and he possessed to remarkable degree
| that rugged common sense which Is so es-
| sential to success. His associates on the
interstate commerce commission with whom
! he was closely connected for many years
| held him In wel-deservea esteem. and his
| familiar figure. which was SO long known
upon our streets will be sadly missed.