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MORGAN PASSES AWAY
Death of the Senior Senator
From Alabama.
CLOSE OF EMINENT CAREER
Esteemed as a Patriot, Who Rose
Above Party.
ATTITUDE IN HAWAIIAN AFFAIR
Known as the Etanch Advocate of an
Isthmian Canal-Veteran Com
mander in Civil War.

United States Senator j ,hn T. Morgan of
Alabama died of angina pectoris at his
residence. 315 John Marshall place. at 11:15
o'clock last night At his bedside were his
two daughters, Misses Mary and Cornelia
Morgan. The end was peaceful and the
statesman was partially conscious to the
last.
Senator Morgan mas been in failing health
for the past two or three years, but at
tended the sessions of the Senate even in
his enfeebled condition throughout the past
winter. Every week it was noticed by his
friends that his step was growing feebler.
his voice weaker. and there were other signs
of physical distro S, but there was no ap-
parent dimming CT the intellect which for
thirty years has marked him as one of
the foremost men in the Senate and lead
ing statesman and patriot of his country.
When addressing the Senate in the last
days of the session his voice often could
not be heard in the confines of the chamber
but when his remarks were read in the
Record next morning there no indica-
ton of failing mental power.
He kept close to his home since Congress
adjourned. and for the past ten days was
confined to his ped. His relatives and
friends knew that he very sick man.
and yesterday he began to fail more rapid
ly. Extraordinary efforts were made by
his physician to prolong the little spark Of
life. but it flickered lower and lower and
finally became extnguished shortly after
II O'Clock
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senator's secretary, received those who
came and made arrangements for the flu
neral
A great many messages were received
from all parts of the country conveying
condolences and expressions Of sympathy
These came from public men and private
citizens alike, and all bore testimony to
the high esteem and affection in which the
dead statesman was held.
Sergeant-at-arms Ransdell of the Senate
took orders today for the funeral arrange
ments. The family did not desire to have
any services in this city, but that the flu
neral should be held at the old home in
Selma, Ala. Accordingly two special cars
will be provided which will carry the flu
neral party to Selma. leaving over the
Southern railway at 1880 tomorrow night
In charge of a member Of Col. Ransdells
official staff
The funeral will be held in Selma Satur-
day a. II o clock
The senators appointed to form the flu
neral escort in behalf of the Senate are
Messrs. Pettus. Allison, Frye Cullom, Dam
lei, Simmons, McLaurin, Culberson, Per-
kins Bacon, McCreary. Elkins, Tillman
Fraser, Gallinger, Rayner, Mallory, Nc
Emery, Clarke of Arkansas, Nelson, Stone
Proctor. White, Talliaferro. Overman, For
aker and Scott. Some of these will be I'M
able to go probably, but there will be a
good representation of the Senate in any
event
Senator Pettus, The aged colleague of
Senator Morgan. s IN Washington and was
deeply affected by Senator Morgan's death.
The TWO were great friends. and Senator
Pettus held him III the highest possible
esteem.
Senator Overman of North Carolina is
also in town and was also much grieved
at the death of his friend
u regarded Senator Morgan as one of the
greatest American statesmen, he said.
His Place in Public Life.
II Senator Morgan had lived until the
10th OF this month he would have been
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Riis and Graves Speak to Editors

NORFOLK, Va, June 12-The principal
features of yesterdays session of the Ma
tional Editorial Association meeting at the
jamestown exposition we're addresses hv
Jacob Riis of New York and John Temple
Graves of Atlanta. Mr.. Riis spoke on
Good Citizenship and Education" and Mr.
Graves subject was THE Power of the
Press for Good Mr. Graves spoke partic-
ularly on the Importance of an independent
press President John E. Junkin of Kansas
delivered his annual address at yesterdays
session. The editors were entertained as
guests Of honor at the Illinois state build
ing in the afternoon.
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Charge Of Robbery.

Two young men, whose names were re-
corded as Louis Bateman and Harry Will
son, were arrested last night by the police
of the fifth precinct and charged with hav-
it.s robbed a watch box->near the PennsyI-
vania avenue bridge. Detectives Parham
and O'Brien recovered the property, which
consisted of a gun and wearing apparel
This morning the prisoners were measured
and photographed at police headquarters.
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Ordination Council Meets.

council was held at Broad Rock Bap-
fist Church, 9TH street between and o
streets. yesteray. when David Pollard was
ordained for gospel work. The council in
cluded Rev. L. Edmonds, moderator; Rev.
G. I. Toliver, Rev. c. H. Turner, Rev
w. II. Dobbons, Rev. d. d. Storkes, Rev
c. H. Bell and Rev. r. l.. Caster. clerk
The ordination sermon was preached by
Rev. Mr.. Dobbons. the ordination prayer
by Rev. l.. Edmonds, and the Bible
was presented by Rev. G.. T. Toliver.
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Dies Within Half an Hour of Each
Ofhar

.sLATlNGTON, June 12.-Mrs Susan Neff.
aged eighty-three years, and her grand
daughter, Gertrude Wanamaker, fourteen
years old, died within half an hour Monday
night The girl had been an invalid When
she heard of the sudden death of her grand
mother, to whom she was greatly attached
her emotions were SO wrought up that size
said: Il shall follow Granny to the grave
tonight. Bury us together" The double
funeral will take place today
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branches and ramificatiOns in a manner
that could not be exceled by any other man
In that body. He was a profound student
OF the theory of government was deeply
versed in history, was a parliamentarian
Of skill, and had a philosophical and logi-
cal as Wen as legal mind. He was con-
slant reader. especially in the later years of
his life. when his feebleness debarred him
from exercise. In his spacious and old
fashioned home on John Marshall place he
surrounded himself with his books and
spent many hours alone with these dear
companions. His family life was beautiful
and simple. He was attended by few de-
voted relatives, and a few almost equally
devoted friends. He did not seek society,
but was delightful host and always glad
to see the friends who called upon him
A part of his summers in the recess of
Congress was spent. in Alabama He did
not enter actively and aggressively into
the politics of his state because 1t was not
necessary. His worth and ability were rec
him in the Senate without unusual effort
on his part. This does not mean that he
was oblivjous of the practical interests of
his state or his constituents. On the con-
trary he was very watchful of all these,
but attending to those and to the broader
duties of his office, he left politics to take
care of itself in measure.
When the time came for the legislature tn
provide for filling the expiring terms of
Senator Morgan and of Senator Pettus his
colleague, 1t was decided that in view of
the age of the two senators alternates
should be named to serve in case of the
death of either. In pursuance of that pol
icy former Representative Bankhead was
declared TO be the choice of the legislature
to succeed Senator Morgan in the event of
his death, and accordingly Mr.. Bankhead
will be appointed by the governor to fill
the vacancy.
Morgan the Friend of Hawaii.
Although Senator Morgan figured actively
and prominently in all of the great debates
and legislative action in the Senate for the
past thirty years, he was more prominently
connected with the legislation concerning
the annexation of Hawaii end the legisla-
canal. Senator Morgan took issue with his
party and with his President over the Ha-
watian affair. He was one of the stanchest
friends of the struggling little republic
which afterward became territory of the
United States, and he fought Grover Cleve-
land vigorously in the efforts of the Presi-
dent to suppress the island republic and
indeed, to hand it back to the deposed
queen Liliuokalani.
1t will be recalled that lust at the end of
the Harrison administration the residents
of Hawaii, tired of native rule overturned
the native government and hoisted the
Stars and Stripes over a provisional gov
eminent. The movement was protected II
| was charged at that time, by forces landed
from an American warship then in the
harbor of Honolulu. When President
Cleveland entered upon his office one of his
first acts was to send a commissioner
to the islands, ex-Representative Blount o.
Georgia, sarcastically called Paramount
Blount, on account Of the sweeping author
ity vested in him, to investigate the al
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in Congress of the isthmian canal project
ana better posted on the subject than any
man IN the Senate. He was opposed to the
fanama project and was a firm believer in
the feasibility of the Nicaragua route He
| labored in behalf of the Nicaragua project
f Heae IN 4non and year ar. out and at one
successful fruition of his labors Every one
remembers the action of Congress with
| reference to the Nicaragua route which
! was subsequently reversed, largely through
| the efforts of the late Senator Hanna and
| the Panama route decided upon instead
Ihere is no question that Senator Nor
-gan's latter days We're embittered by this
| defeat Of his favorite plan. He fought
| the Panama project to the end and was
| never reconciled to it. Even after the
| fsthmian strip was acquired from Panama
and the canal bought from the French
owners Senator Morgan was unreconciled
and opposed many steps necessary to
further its construction. But his opposi-
ton was overlooked by his colleagues in
their broader appreciation of his fnvalu-
able efforts in the past for an isthmian
canal and he was regarded to the day of
his death. as being responsible more than
any individual for the undertaking by this
government Of canal across the Central
American isthmus
In 1892 he was appointed by President
Harrison member Of the board of arbi-
traitors on the Boring sea fisheries, and
in 1898 President Mckinley appointed him
a member of the commission that organ
ized territorial government in Hawaii fol-
lowing the passage of the Hawaiian an
nexat1on bill. He was a member of the
foreign relations committee of the Senate
IN TWO congresses public lands in nine
lndlan affairs in ten, Pacific railroads in
eight. claims against Nicaragua in six,
forest reservations in five, fisheries in
two. interoceanic canals in three, coast
ana 1nsular survey in three congresses
His Life in Alabama.
Senator Morgan was born June 20, 1924,
In what is now Athens. Tenn, but when he
was nine years old his father moved to
Alabama He was admitted to the bar at
the age of twenty-one, and to the breaking
out of the civil war practiced in the courts
of Alabama. He took an actice interest
In politics. and in 1860 was presidential
elector and voted for Breckenridge and
Lane. In the following year he was a dele
gate to the state convention that voted
the ordinance of secession, and a few weeks
later entered the Confederate service, en-
listing as a private, but was subsequently
elected lieutenant colonel of the 9Th Ala
bama Infantry. Early in 1862 he received
commission as colonel raised the 51st |
Alabama Infantry, and the year following
was promoted to the rank Of brigadier
general and placed in command of brigade
in Virginia.
old home in Selma, Ala, resuming the |
practice of law. In 1876 he was democratic |
presidential elector for the state at large |
and was the same year elected to the |
United States Senate, succeeding George |
Goldthwate, taking his seat March ), 1877. |
He was reelected to the Senate in 1882 |
1888, 1894 and 1900. |
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Senator Morgan's Successor.

AS stated, Senator Morgan's successor
will be ex-Representative John H. Bank
head. After serving ten terms in the House
of Representatives, Mr.. Bankhead was de-
feated for denomination by Capt. Richmond
P. Hobson of Spanish war fame. 1t was
long-drawn-out struggle, but finally Mr.
Bankhead lost
However his apparent undoing turned
out to his real advantage, for he went into
the contest for senatorial alternates and
won, so that the day his successor in the
House takes his seat Mr.. Bankhead will
take seat in the United States. Senate.
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Funeral to Be Held Saturday.

The family residence, in John Marshall
place was visited today by a constant
throng of callers. who came to leave cards
and expressions of coincidence. Besides
members of the family Mr.. Jones, the late
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baucheries. That was the chief fact
which middle western American col
leges taught concerning Rome twenty
years ago.
But the cigarette story Is Thaw's
chief bid for remembrance as a col
legian. Wooster still recalls 1t, hold
ing up it's hands in horror. This Thaw
boy learned very early in life to
smoke cigarettes. AS matter of fact,
the cigarette was just about that time
coming into favor with thoughtless
youth. 1t was something new.
To Europe For Cigarettes.
The good man who was president of
Wooster called Harry Thaw before
him. He told the boy that his mother,
the widow of the Pittsburg millionaire,
was Of opinion that he should get down
to serious study.
"Your pranks," said the president,
"have become the talk of the univer-
sity. Your mother wants you to make
sors~thino of YOURSELF Now for v--t
mothers sake. won't you turn over a
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was free-free with $4,000 q year,
S219 a day, to spend, more than half
as much again as the president of the
just starting in life.
Here was youth who never since
his birth had earned cent. Every
copper he had spent had come to him
from the labor of others. 1t was easy
money-easy come. easy gone. Charles
Reade once wrote n novel called Put
Yourself In His Place." The theme
was the same as the subject.
Harry Thaw seems to have conceived
quite early in his life that his mission
was to spend the money provided by
his father. The world was beautiful.
1t was full of opportunities for sensual
enjoyment. So far as intellectual en-
joyment was concerned, Harry Thaw
knew nothing. He had been educated
only In the senses. He proposed to
get what he considered was coming to
him and what he had the money to
pay for. So he set out to get it.
Thaw on the "Great White Way"
Pittsburg is live town, but it wasn't
swift enough for Thaw. In New York
there is a region known as the Great
White Way" 1t has multitudinous
lights, large illuminations, flare and
blare. 1t is not only luminous, but it
Is loud. Mostly veneered folk walk
thereon. The veneer is of vice. 1t is
gilded vice. to be sure. but no less
vice.
Some stray into the "Great White
Way" through curiosity, just to see 1t
and go home and tell about 1t with lift
ed hands of horror; but for the most
part, men and women invade it in
tendingly They like it. They love
to be swallowed up in its ribaldry and
revelry.
Thaw invaded the Great White Way"
which consists of cafes where the wine
flows not freely but at so much per
pint, and where the chorus girl flour
-fsues. one night. high with hiia1Ey
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was Pittsburg man who had made
his own way in the world. He had
worked up from poverty to affluence,
In railroad and other investments he
had become many times a millionaire.
He died when Harry was boy. But
he knew Harry. He had observed the
boy closely and saw that he was not
the sort of lad to intrust with large
responsibilities.
100000. The income from the portion
which Harry Thaw would inherit
would be $4,000 a year, and the IA
ther stipulated in his will that Harry
should have only $2,4O0 year until, in
the judgment of the rest of the family,
he might be considered capable of
handling properly the income of his
full share of the estate.
Eighty Thousand a Yearl
The wisdom of William Thaw has
been proved and clinched most con-
clusively by the course of events. His
theory was that his son Harry would
be more useful to himself and to soci-
ETY. as the possessor of an income of
$2,400 year than as one who had
the spending of $S0,000.
The boys mother, however, and his
brothers and sisters took pity on him
and permitted him to have his full in
come. From that moment the swift
speed Of Harry K. Thaw on the in
clined plane began. He went down
like a tOboggan.
Thaw's relatives sent him as a strip
ling youth to the Wooster university at
Wooster, O. This is a UNCONVENTIONAL
college, Presbyterian. 1t was altogeth-
er too staid for Thaw. The tradi-
tions of the town grew out Of the col
lege and the church. 1t was a decent,
respectable, conventional place.
Thaw was only a boy-it was nearly
twenty years ago-but he was a boy
with power. Money was the power.
He had $4,000 year. A college b.
with that much can do things. Harry
Thaw did things. The good folk Of
Wooster were shocked beyond express
sion Thaw had hahit so II is told
in Wooster even unto this day, of pre-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-20

new leaf and apply yourself to some
course of study?'
Young Thaw blew large clouds of
smoke from his cigarette.
what studies do you choose for
your speciality" asked the president.
"Penmanship and lawn tennis for
minel" replied the boy.
Next week the president of Wooster
received telegram dated New York
1t read:
I'm going to Europe to buy some ciga-
rettes. H. X THAW.
Some weeks later Thaw returned to
Wooster with large supplies of his IA
vorite brand of cigarettes. A previous
trip to Europe had introduced him to
this brand, and America had nothing
"just as good;" hence his trip to Eu-
rope. Any boy with $4,000 a year
could have done the same If so minded
With $50 year or nothing he might
have remained at the college, studying
hard, doing janitor work for the bulk
of his expenses and becoming presi-
dent of the United States, just as
James A. Garfield did under practical
ly the same conditions suggested here
at another Ohio college.
Suppers For Chorus Girls.
Every time cheap theatrical troupe
with chorus contingent came to the
"op'ry house" in Wooster Harry Thaw
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were described
as "orgies, and
it was predicted
by the | oc a |
press that Har-
ry Thaw would
come to some
bad end. The
local press got
this rather con-
ventional notion
not merely from
the Thaw esca-
pades, but from
human history
running back to
the days of the
Roman empire.
Every college
student knows
that Rome fell
h4AnxtoA - IL
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C a n e In his
path. 1t was a
sort of mania
with him. At
Weber's Music
hall he thrash
ed several usl
ers, W ho no
d o u b t w e + @
withheld from
thrashing h i'm
because of the
awe of money
which paralyzes
the ignora n t.
Then he hired
n C a b a n d
thras h d the
cabman. Hav.
ing disposed of
aahI- III I. -
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gave a supper
to the chorus
girls. T h a t
shocked Woos-
ter 30 severely
that at la 8 t
Thaw decided
he would go
to Prince ton,
which was far
ther east and
C o n Sc q ntly
not quite so con-
ventio nal. At
Princeton he
was not so con-
spicuous. There
were other gild-
ed college youth
at Princeton,
t b o u & b few
-
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The first thing Thaw did in Paris to
give himself international notoriety
was to preside at beauty dinner"
costing him about $4,000. at which
Cleo de Merode, the lady with the pc
culiar style of hair, was the star guest.
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Thaw walked through a plate glass
window in the Imperial hotel cafe.
The glass cost money, but Thaw paid
it. No arteries being cut. the matter
did not become Immediately public.
Then he ran amuek in resort known
as the Garrick, fell upon negro porter
and beat him till he howled and other
wise disported himself not according
to convention. He gave an assumed
name when the police arrested him and
his money got him out of the scrape.
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drove the horse up the front steps of
an exclusive club and went inside He
was elected.
Thaw next drove his automobile
through a plate glass window This
cost him the price of the window; but,
according to his code, the fun was
worth the price. 1t Is related also that
he espoused poker, the presumably ia
vorite game of the Missourian, and lost
$4,000 at one sitting.
The Notorious "Beauty Dinner
Then Thaw went to Europe. Amer
lea was too tame for him. He was
nearly thirty years old and blase. Par
is appeared TO hold further exhilara-
ton He became a boulevardier.
boulevardier Is a high roller. He
moved rapidly, hitting only the high
places IN spote-- =
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Four Chapters In the Thaw Tragedy
HEN Thaw left
college his real

len ThaW LETT
college his real
career began to
take shape. The
cigarette period
had merely in
dica ted 1t S
trend. He was
then a grown
Y o Il II & man.
Apron strings
no longer re-
strained him. If
they ever did.
Conventional
ira ditions of
d o m e s tic or
scholastic de-
cency were in
force no longer.
Harry Il ha w
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All the other
e u e s t s were
women, and the
most beautiful
women In Par
is, according to
the estimate of
the boulevards.
Thaw presented
e a C b of his
guests at this
q l II II G L WlIQ
costly jewels.
There was a
Ere nch count
ess who ex-
pressed love for
L h a w. s b g
s e e IN e d mad
over him. She
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Four Chapters In the Thaw Tragedy
r AIRY *. THAW

l X X Y X. I'll a w
first came into pub
lie notice as a
confirmed victim of
the cigarette habit.
Concerning him is
told the most re-
markable of all Gig
arctic stories. He
Is the one man, SO
far as is known,
who ever made a
trip to Europe just
to lay in a supply
of his favorite Gig
arettes.
Villa m Thaw,
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senting the ''co-eds." the girls of Woos-
ter university. with garters decorated
with the college colors; also he gave
wine suppers, a terrible shock to
Wooster
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A Lesson From Rome.

Anybody who has attended a church
college in a town of the middle west
needs no argument to convince him
how sensational is the very idea of
wine supper. Some of these exploits
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Mania For Thrashing People.

Thaw seems always to have had a
for thrashing people who
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Chapter II.-Thaw, the Glded Youth.

Apron Strings and Free Who Had Never Earned
a Cent With Two Hundred and Nineteen Dollars Day
"BowHe nvades the Great White Way Thrashes Ushers
Breaks Window With Automobile Gives a
Dnner'-He
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10 A WINDOW. threatened to
throw herself into the Seine regardless
of the sewage. Thaw pacified her by
offering her a submarine boat.
The submarine boat, of course, would
take her down more quickly than
Thaw himself So she was satisfied.
Penniless noblemen sought Thaw.
One of them was the young Earl of
Yarmouth. Thaw conceived the no
tion that it would be a fine thing to
have an earl for a brother-in-law. So
he brought young Yarmouth back with
him and introduced the sprig of nobil-
ity to his sister in Pittsburg. Miss
Thaw became the Countess of Var
mouth.
He Meets Evelyn Nesbit.
Thaw returned to the Great White
Way" for time. He gave a beauty
dinner la Paris. This was sensa-
tion for New York. 1t is said to have
cost Thaw nearly years income. In
New York there was no Cleo de Me-
rode for chief guest but there was an
other young woman, an American, and
a Pittsburger at that, who was "just
as good" Her name was Florence
Evelyn Nesbt At that period she
was called Florence Nesbit This girl
was the hostess at the Thaw beauty
i'fiu1n71 IN Kew York..
Continued next week