Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-09
SUMMONS
MAN OF AFFAIRS
COLONEL ALFRED 3. SCHANZ
PASSES AWAY
WRITER AND EXPLORER YIELDS
TO LONG ILLNESS
Character Of National Importance,
Formerly Los Angeles News
paper Man, Dies at Zenith
of Power

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Los Angeles yesterday morning after
| long illness, the result of overwork.
| For fifteen years Col. Schanz had
been connected with the Sterling Rem
edy company, and his assiduity, his de-
votion to duty and his toilsome effort
to build the business up to It's present
proportions cost him his health.
He came here last summer with his
wife to visit his mother and old friends,
and made UP his mind to sever his con-
nection with the industry he had Gre
ated and to return to this city and
make his home here. Part OF his 1nten-
tion he carried out. He came back and
q few weeks ago bought fine house in
the suburbs, but just after he had
entered his new home his disease be-
came acute and he sank rapidly.
Col. Schanz reputation was of ma
tional character. He was well known
! not only for his invention and his as
| sociation with the manufacture of one
/ of the best known medicines of modern
| times but for his excellence as mill
! tary tactician and strategist. He had
| third reputation which he won as
! distinguished newspaper and literary
writer and a fourth which he earned
az a daring and successful explorer.
Army Adopts His Report
So highly was his expert authority In
| military matters regarded that When
Governor DuTDlu OF lldloiid oCiit AiAiii
as special attache to the Manassas
maneuvers, General wagner commend
ed in the highest terms his official re-
mort. saying it was mot only report,
but a text book" and the recon-
mendations he made were forwarded TO
washington and adopted in the resu-
lar army.
Col. Schanz' funeral will take place
Monday afternoon. Religious exercises
will be held at his mothers home 1917
Wall street, from which six of his old
est friends, acting as pallbearers, VIII
escort the body to Rosedale cemetery.
There it will be received with Masonic
ritual and honors, and cremated.
The friends who will act as palibear-
ers are David G. Baillie, Los Angeles
| Herald; Arthur L. MacKaye, Los An
geles Times; Louis Herzog, Ferdinand
Ramps, Frank Dickman and Robert
| Beattie. Mr.. Beattie Will represent the
Masons. Colonel Schanz was a Blue
Lodge and Scottish Rite Mason and
| Shriner. He was a member of Murat
temple, Indianapolis.
Although Colonel Schanz was born in
Milwaukee, most of his earlier life was
spent in Los Angeles, and he always
| called himself a Californian and an
"Angeleno," and looked forward to the
time when he would be able to return
! to this city as a permanent resident.
But under the strain of protracted hard
work his health gave way, and when
he finally "came home," still in early
middle life, he was an invalid.
Interested in Science
Colonel Schanz was the son of the
| late Prof Norbert Schanz, we'll known
in musical and educational circles in
Los Angeles. His mother, Mrs. Louisa
! Schanz, was one of the first kinder
| garten teachers in the west.
] .IaAsw 1t a tn 0F
cation in Michigan university at Ann
Arbor Colonel Schanz devoted his at
| tention to scientific subjects. While
pursuing scientific studies he became
reporter on the staff of The Los An
geles Herald, which was then under
the editorial management of Joe"
| Lynch. He resigned from The Herald
! to go east and accept position as as
sistant astronomer at Allegheny OBJ
servatory, Pennsylvania, where his
! chief was Prof. S. 2. Langley.
Through writing on scientific sub
! jects for the Pittsburg newspapers he
became regularly attached to the staff
of the Pittsburg Dispatch, where his
knowledge of music won him the favor
of Andrew Carnegie, and was the
means of inducing Mr.. Carnegie to
| give a long exclusive Interview to Mr..
Schanz paper at time when there
was tension in the Pennsylvania indus
trial situation, and when Carnegie and
his partners were refusing to talk for
publication.
Goes to New York
Col. Schanz' success in newspaper
work in Los Angeles and Pittsburg led
him to seek a wider field in New York,
where he became member of the
city staff of the Tribune.
His knowledge of scientific subjects
and of astronomy made him an eager
and ready student of navigation, and
he was appointed yachting editor, po-
sition in which he soon became recog-
nized as one of the most expert and
scientific of the yachting writers.
His scientific attainments commanded
widespread attention and won him rec
ognition outside of newspaper circles.
E. ]. Glave, who accompanied Henry
NJ. Stanley in his last expedition in
Africa, came to New York to lecture,
Col. Schanz made his acquaintance
and the two young men became very
friendly. Alaska had not yet been ex-
plored, and Leslies Weekly determined
| to send an expedition to investigate
the new country scientifically and make
maps of it.
Sent to Alaska
Glaye had agreed to return to Africa
| to conduct some Investigations in the
ivory country for the kinp of the Bel
CLANS, DuT ne WAS SO IdSCtudISu Will
the vague idea that something eX-
traordinary" might be found in Alaska,
that he obtained years leave of alb
sence in order to join the Leslie eX-
pedition. He decided the party would
be incomplete without scientist, and
Schanz was engaged.
The Leslie expedition was successful
from a geographical and scientific point
of view, but soon after Schanz and
Glave returned to civilisation they were
surprised to hear they had travelled
through the richest region of Alaska
and had never "smelled gold"
Col Schanz often referred to himself
good humoredly as the near billion
aire." as he had literally camped for
weeks at time on beds of gold. Glave
reported for duty to Leopold of Be
gium and was appointed commander
of an ivory hunting party. In Africa
he died of fever and was buried in the
wilderness.
Organizes Medical Company
Col. Schanz began to make expert
ments in medical research. He thought
he would make a hit with mothers" If
he concocted a nursery medicine more
palatable than castor oil and senha.
| The result was the candy "Cascaret,"
q new idea in medicine.
A company was formed, Schanz was
appointed secretary and began an adj