New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-06

improved. and on Monday was SO much better
that he dictated several letters to his stenog-
rapher.
Early yesterday afternoon his partner visited
him. and the two had long talk. AS Mr..
Thompson left his bedside Mr.. Dundy remarked;
Il fee! as If this illness is going TO be serious.
Promise me ore thing Fred. and that is that
you will look after old Nanny"
Mr.. Dundy, having spent the most of his life
IN the Southern States, always referred 70 his
mother Mrs. Mary Dundy, to his partner es
Nanny
About an hour after Mr.. Thompson had de-
parted Mr. Dundy again became worse His
mother his sister, Mrs. Lee. and DR.. Lee were
at his bedside when he died
1t was announced last night that tho plans
made by tho firm would hold good, and that
the firm name OF Thompson & Dundy would
remain unchanged. John Kilborn. the firm
manager IN Luna Park, will assume MI
Duudys place in the firm. handling the financial
end OF the enterprises. He is the brother OF
Vice President Kuborn OF the National City
Bank
Mr. Dundy was born in Omaha. in 1852. He
was the Of Judge Elmer S. Dundy, an ap-
pointee OF President Lincoln, and the hrst
United States judge in Nebraska. he was edu-
Gated al the Nebraska state University. Soon
after HIS graduation he was appointed clerk
IN the United States Court, place he held for
twenty years. Toward the end Of his term he
was master IN ChanCery. In this capacity, IT
is said. he sold the Union Pacific for $90O0O.OOO'
AFTER IL nau Deen plaCeu IN Iue HdudS VI a ~
ceiver.
Like his partner. Elmer scipio Dundy-or
skip" Dundy, the West knew hiul-nao q
remarkable career. He entered the show busl-
ness At the Trans Mississippi Exhibition at
Omaha IN 1895 where he backed H Roltatr
(who afterward created "DreamlandD in the
illusion Havana and the Maine" While the
exhibition was so successful that II was CON
tinued into 1899 Mr. Dundy dropped" $4,000
in Midway shows at the exhibition.
Nothing daunted. however, he vowed TO get
square" IN 1901 MI Dundy visited the Pan
American Exposition I'm Buffalo. where he met
Mr. Thompson. the pair creating exposition
"spectacleS" and illusions" Soon afterward
they parted. Mr.. Dundy going 70 st. Louis and
Mr. Thompson to New York whence he sent a
hurry calT' for Mr.. Dundy telling him that
81 600 600 awaited them in this city.
In 1902 the pair opened "A Trip to the Noon
In Steeplechase Park 1t was in the following
year perhaps. that the pair began actually 10
strike pay dirt" With the modest capital OF
S11 between them they opened Luna Park, a
stock company.
In April, 1905, Thompson & Dundy opened the
Hippodrome, resigning from the concerns board
tanning their block of stock, valued at nearly
100000.
The firm is now building immense amuse-
ment place, Vanity Fair. at Fort George. and
is engaged in general theatrical enterprises. in
GLIDING "Brewster's Millions" which is being
produced at the New Amsterdam, and Polly of
the Circus" IN course Of production
Mr. Dundy's wife is visiting her parents I'm
Newark. Ohio. and told last night OF her
husbands death
The funeral will be held tomorrow, burial be-
ing in the Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island.
Services will be held at his mothers home in
the afternoon.