The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15
]. HlECKELS B STRICKEN lancier Found Dead in Chicago. HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE Was President of Commercial Bank of Chicago.
 
HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE
He Was CemptroIler of the Currency Under Cleveland and Was Promi-
 nentIy Interested in Several Large COncerns.

Chicago, April 14.--James H. Eek els. president of the Commercial Na- tional Bank of this city and former Comptroller of the Currency died at his home early today of heart disease.
 The death of Mir. Eckels occurred apparently while he was asleep in his bed. The fact that he was dead was discovered by a butler. Frank Evans. who entered Mir. Eckeiss room after hearing a telephone within ring con- tinuousiy without receiving an an- swer. Thinking that MT. Eckels had not been awakened. Evans enter ed and found Mir. Eckels apparently asleep. The butler called to him and. getting no answer, sought to arouse him and found that he was dead.
 Other members of the household were summoned and Dr. Frank Churchill was hurriedly called. Dr. Churchill arrived within a short time his opinion that Mir. Eckels had been dead for some hours. Dr. John H. Murphy. the Eckels family physician. was also informed and responded promptly.
 Mrs. Eckels and her daughter are In Paris, where the latter Is attending a school. They have been abroad since last autumn and planned to re- turn to Chicago within a few weeks They were at once communicated with by cable. It is understood that they will sail for New. York.
 The death of MT. Eckels came on the eve of breakfast party which he had planned for number of his friends and relatives. Judge K. M. Landis of the Federal district court, Mrs. Landis, Judge and Mrs. E. H. Gary of New York; Mir. and Mrs. George M. Eckels. brother and sister in law of the deceased. and others were to have been his guests.
 James A. Eckels, of Princeton, father of James H. EckeIs, died two months ago. On the morning of the death of the elder Eckeis. .he son was a host of former President Cleveland, and the former president and Mfr. Eek els were at breakfast when news of the fathers death was received at the Eckeis residence. Mir. Eckls was kpt in ignorance of the fact for sev- erai hours until Mfr. Cleveland had left the city.
 It developed during the day that the person who was trying to commu- nicate with Mir. Eckels over the tel ephone, the ringing of which led to the discovery of the death. was George M. Eckels, a brother. Half an hour later he was called to his own tele- phone and notified of his brothers death.
 Post Mortem Examination. [ post mortem examination was held and a statement giving the cause of death as organic heart disease is sued. A formal coroner's inquest will to h1IJ tAr r,nrpft1o
 The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon from the Fourth Presbyte- rian church. Rev. William R. Not man will conduct the services. Inter- ment will not take place at once, 1t having been decided to place the body in a vault until the return of Mrs. Eckels and daughter when . private funeral will be held.
 Mir. Eckels was a stockholder and was prominent in the management of several concerns, among tham being the Hewitt Manufacturing Company. and tn Union Traction Company of which he was vice-presi1cnt; the Featherstone Foundry and Machine Company: the Chicago Real Estate Association; the Allis Chalmers Com pany; the American and British Secur- ities Company; the Bankers Trust Company of New York: the Oakland National Bank or DetToil dho tHe iSt National Bank of Baltimore.
 MT. Eckels was born at Princeton, H., November 22. 1858. and most of his life was spent in Illinois. He re- ceived his early education in the schools of his native city. later talk, ing up the study of law at Albany, N. Y,, graduating from the Albany Law School in 1880.
 He practiced law at Ottawa. Ill. un- til appointed by President Cleveland to the post of Comptroller of the Cur rency In 1893. Mir. Eckels. dul ing tn agitation of the currency question. be- came prominent as an advocate of the gold standard Always Democrat, he became affiliated, in 1896, with the gold standard Democrats.
 He retained the office of Comptroller of the Currency until the end Of