New-York tribune., 1909-05-19
FALLS II STORIES. DEAD
BODY OF E.. G.. LONG FOUND
on SKYLIGlIT.
Umdcp in His office on 18th Floor
Of Hadson Terminal Building
DisC0rered Vide Open.

Erwin G Long president Of the E. e. Long
Company. dealers in electric railway materials
at No % Church street one of the Hudson Ter
minaI buildings, was found crushed to death
last evening on skylight in airshaft at the
level Of the second floor. He had fallen or
Jumped from window in his Office on the thir-
teenth floor Half finished notes and confused
memoranda in his Office pointed to suicide, ac-
cording TO the police. He had been in i'll health
for several weeks, too.
Joseph Monteith. Of Hackensack. y. j. ana
Albert Schaefer Of Little Falls, y. J.. two clerks
employed IN the offices Of the Erie RAllroad
COMPANY. on the second floor. heard a thud on
the skvIight. and. investigating. found the body
on the glass They called tn night watchman
Michael Cunningham, who in turn summoned
Patron1an McGuinness, Of the Fulton street
station An ambulance surgeon from the Huu-
son Street Hospital pronounced the man dead
The dead mans identity quickly sug-
gested bv the finding Of a commuters ticket
made out TO e 9. Long" for travel between
New York and bloomfield. y. ]. The watchman
knew Mr Long and he and the policeman went
10 the office on the thirteenth story.
The window Of the ohice facing the airshaft
mas omen The electric light stu on A
derby hat initiated Il. c l., was hung on
rack.
ON desk were evidences that before the
tragedy NJ Long made three Intellectual at
tennis to write a letter 10 "Keisuke FNjioka NO
112 Broadway Bloomfield, y. j There we're
three pages each containing the beginning OF
. letter Each contained references 20 the in
closure Of $50 "on allowance account and 10
tho fact that your father does not seem to want
,-o,, "a go 70 the Packer Institute" The note
nearest completion Went on to say: Permission
10 go may be secured If you present and then
1be word present" is written several times
There was also a sheet Of memorandum paper
,-ttb the name wv. B. Corey & Co" written on 1t
several times.
Mr. Longs friends believe his death may have
been similar TO that Of Harvey Watterson'
Colonel Henry Watterson's son. who. in at
ten,pting to shut a window in his office on the
nineteenth floor of the Trust Company of Amer
ica building No. 81 Wall street. pitched out
head foremost to the roof of the next building,
one hundred feet below.
Mr. Long, who forty years old. lived at
No 50 Highland avenue. Glen Ridge. y. J.
When word of her husbands death was con-
veyed to Mrs Long she collapsed and became
hvstericaI Her condition was such that no
body was allowed to see her. except her family
physician. Dr. Wallace. Of Glen Ridge
Mr. Long was a member OF Christ Eps-
copaI Church. of Glen Ridge. and also Of the
Glen Ridge Club. II said last night by
friends of the Long family that there was no
known reason for Mr.. Longs taking his me-
as his home ties of the happiest and his
financial affairs were in excellent condition. Mr..
Long leaves three children.
The f. G. Long Company is capitalized at
$4,000 He was president. and Edward Mays is
secretary The third member is Frank Van
Anden, the three being directors. according to
the Corporation Directory.
The secretary MayS, the police reached
by telephone at his home. No 221A Willoughby
avenue Brooklyn. He went to the station
house and added his identification of the body.
He said he did not understand why his partner
should kill himself. and that II nothing
that concerned their business. in any case. He
did not know who the Japanese mentioned in
Longs unfinished letter
Coroner Shrady took charge OF the case. At
midnight DR.. Wallace reached New York with an
order for the removal of the body, signed by the
widow. He and Mr. Mays arranged with the
stephen Merritt Burial Company, 1sth street
and Eighth avenue, to take charge of the body
until some time this morning, when it wTll be
removed to Glen Ridge.