Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-06-09
ALKs TO FRIENDS IN FORENOON
Willing Flesh Too Weak to Rally,
Dies in Evening.
FUNERAL UNDER MASONIC RITES

$50 p. m. Saturday. the result OF old all
ments, complicated by peritonitis, at the
| age of T3 years. He was conscious TO the
last and only a few hours prior to the end
\ he conversed with brother Masons and ex-
/ pressed the hope of vanquishing the newt
able foe which he could but realize was
gaining steadily upon him. Later in tho
day he appreciated the futility of hope and
was resigned at the last. Only Mrs. Lin
! niger and the nurse were present when
death came. Mrs. r. L. Halier the only
living child, is in Europe with Mr.. Haller
Mr. Lininger had one brother at Wymore.
and he was promptly notified
| The funeral will be held Monday and the
body will be buried at Forest Lawn ceme-
terry The body will lie IN state at the
Lininger gallery, Eighteenth and Davenport
streets from to p. m. today and from
10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Monday. During the
entire period and up to the funeral the
body Will be under the care OF a guard OF
knights Templar. The funeral services
will be held at 2 p. m. at the gallery. under
the charge of Dean Beecher of Trinity
cathedral. after which the grand lodge OF
Masons of Nebraska will take charge ana
convey the body to Forest Lawn for inter-
ment with Masonic honors An escort from
Mt. Calvary commandery No. Of Omaha
assisted by Capitol lodge No. OF Omaha,
will accompany the grand lodge The
family requests fcwers be sent.
The news Of Mr.. Lnnger's death was
| received with no great surprise, as II had
been known by those close to him and
through the press to the public for day
that ne could not last long. though the
shock was nevertheless profound.
slow to Abandon Hope.
Mr.. Llninger's fatal illness had been
| brief but his condition was unfit for the
last attack, as he had never fully regained
normal strength since his sickness last
winter. But the venerable man made
heroic fight end did not falter in his sturdy
hope OF success over an enemy even as in
sidious as death itself until he was con-
vinced that 1t was hoping against hope
. and a will which he obeyed above his own
Mr.. I.ninRer was upon the streets as late
as wednesday. On that day he left his
sick room and went to the session OF the
grand lodge of Masons at Masonic temple
to make what he did not know then was
his last appeal for that object Of his great-
est affection, the Home for Masons at
Plattsmouth. He wanted an appropriation
of $4,000 for the home, and he gotfit He
was scarcely able to be I'm the lodge room.
much less able to make the appeal he did.
But here was an institution which and
whose work lay too close to his great,
! tender heart for him to consider any feel
ing personal to himself When he entered
upon his mission OF seeking the appropria-
tion he did not have the unanimous sup
port OF his brother Masons, but his way
of thinking, as usual, was taken finally
as the right way The $4,000 was granted
and Mr.. Lininger went home TO lie down
and die his grand. glorious career con-
summated by a deed OF charity for others,
l. -, hNa etpal
Tuesday Mr.. Lininger had attended the
Veteran Masonic associations sessions and
had shared in it's deliberations
story of sturdy Character.
, Son of a small New Jersey farmer and
tailor, brought up on the frontier of Illinois,
, engaged for years in the stove, tin and
hardware business, It seems strange that
the thoughts and energies of this remark
able man should have turned In his latter
days so ardently to the poetic In color and
designs to the beautiful productions of tho
advanced thought of all ages. In this
anomaly is a field for those who love to
speculate upon the mysteries Of heredity.
, : 1t may easily be- indeed, that somewhere
back in the dim centuries an ancestor OF
Mr.. IAninger was an artist. for the family
traces its line to the German nobility. These
ancestors In the seventh century owned a
, castle on the Rhine, a principality OF more
than 100 square miles. and kept an army
, OF retainers to assist them In collecting
, their tribute Mr.. Lininger early mani
tested taste for art. while still engaged
, in the hardware business he purchased
several pictures. But the struggle for a
livelihood left little time and yielded little
money for artistic pursuits.
1 Native of PennsyIvaniR.
A The frst twelve years OF his life were
spent in Chambersburg. Pa, where he was
born December "a. 1884. His father was in
T moderate circumstances and. when friend
who had been IN Ohio returned and told
wonderful tales OF the fertility OF the coun-
try beyond the Alleghenies. he put his
family his goods and chattels on wagon
ana emigrated to Illinois. He operated
sawmil for some time and then moved
10 the town OF Peru. where George grew
up. entered the hardware business and. in
1855. married Miss Caroline NJ Newman.
Two children were born TO them. George AL
bert died in childhood and Miss Florence be-
came Mrs r. L. Hailer. Mr.. Haller is secre-
: tary OF the Lininger Implement company.
He might have spent his life there In the
: village, his artistic longings Stined by cir
, cumstanoes. But again fate stepped in. dis
! guIsed this time as death. Physicians told
, him his only chance for life was In going
west, SO he started for Kansas. That
country not suiting him, he came north
? and settled IN Council Bluffs where. In 1853.
: with e l. shugart as a partner, he es-
tabIished the first joobing agricultural inn
: plement house on the Missouri river under
the name OF shugart 4 Lininger. FIVE years
later the nrm moved across the river and
changed It's name TO the q. w AningeF
: company. In 1881 II became the LiningeE
= g Metcalf company and is now the Lin
h niger Implement company. Mr.. HningeI
e has always been president OF the irm and
q has directed its policy He has seen IL grow
n from a small concern with only one employs
q to It's present great proportions. Honesty
s integrity and industry have made II q sue
:. cess. A year ago In recognising his bust
ness he did AomsthinK characteristics nf him