The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-10
JUDGE TRER DTRS SUDDENLY
,JysP HACK Prom ms Is3D TRIP
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.
barn IN waShInEtsn. We HAD Been for -
lsars Active In ChiragS. lllinols
ana National Nrairs aleNelnnd'S
Minister to Belgium and To Russia.

Minister To Belgium and 10 Russia.
Fr.Judgs Lambert Tree ~ Chicago
So was Minister to Russia and later "a
g. gum under President cleveland. who
r. % he completion Of his i22d trip across
... atlantic last week gave THE SUS
rcminiscences. published yesterday
.. rrs early voyages. died suddenly Of
..,rt disease az the Waldorf yesterday
-. non. Dr. John Van der Peel ~ 50
vrst Fifty-second street had dropped
Pr. o., 500. Judge Tree and had just turned
o.. - the bedside TO telephone for a nurse
,.-n he heard Judge Tree sigh heavily
4. 90 walked toward his patient Judge
7-.. -ank hack upon the pillows and "a
f., ,.crnds later was dead
.Ce Tree had been suffering from
l.r. disease for several years and Of
&c.. No attacks have been growing more
'...IHnt. few DAYS ago while return
x aboard the Maurct ania from a visit
'ls son. Athur VI. Tree Of Eastbourne.
t.a English watering place on the Sussex
last. Judge Tree was III for a day or two
and Vas treated on the ship by Dir Van
dor Peel. who had known him for several
years and who happened TO he a fellow
passenger.
Judge Tree was in fairly good condition
however. when the Mauritania locked
on Friday morning On Friday night he
was talking to friends in the Waldorf
lpbhies and he said then hat he was some
what alarmed about his health and was
anxious to get to Chicago as soon a.
possible Another heart attack delayed
his departure on Saturday. Only Dr
Van der Peel and Judge Trees valet
were with him when he died
The Judge began his yearly trips abroad
before the beginning Of the civil war.
Some years ago his only son. Arthur NJ .
married Ethel Field daughter " Marshall
Field and went to In gland To live After
the divorce 81 Arthur Tree and his wife
about ten years ago their son. Ronald.
who IL now H. was put IN the Gust dy
Of the father upon the marriage 81 Mrs
Treeito Can't Beatty " the Royal Navy
Judge Tree spent part ~ each year with
his son and only grandchild in England.
usually going 20 Homburg To take he cure.
as he did this year. accompanied 10y the
son and grandson.
Judge Tree : wife. Who was a daughter
Of " X Magic. one II Chicago.s pioneers.
died of heart disease about seven years
az, aboard ship whi- returning from
iurope with her husband His aged
sstar Mrs J 4 Reeves. who lives IN
Jefferson place. Washington. H. e. was
visiting relatives at summit. y J wren
Judge "r,e died and she arrived ~ the
NtI.iprt with her cousin. Thomas TIlestOu
Or -rln NIT. a few hours after The JuGi =
a"t'h
N,tn tho exception Of Mrs Reeves his
son Arthur ard his grandson the only
p- loop immediate relative - .Iussph ! r,-c
o.! i.. .hr,rnd Ne lJs"lh Ire. j. - years
u.A ard JuCgo Ire" woYli have teen
- y"trs Of age n"Nt month n" Was
rru M Washington OF November -. 1872
NI'hOugh most II Judge Ir'-e bust
% 49, Iuliticdl ara professional life has
n""u id.ntiicd with IT," growth ot chicago
from. - frontier village to q rrotTopolis
hts hnyhood and youth were - "nt ~ the
ta-t.rr states som" 'ir-n Trinr to $50
~ n'l, '-r,r~ settled IN leuusvlsaula
~, vAs uan" after mis- great grandfather
Ian r.ri Irs,. an artIl"ry'uau Who was
killed H. hattie IN IN" k"yohtiun
Judge Ire. vas tn" son e Lambert
Tree. v no for forty years Nas clerk m
the Post tti'Ce bepartn ent al Washington.
and of Iaura VI Burrows HriN1t" tutors
looked after his early education and after
son time spent ir the columbian aw
school. Washington. he entered the
University OF Virginia While student
: gave n good deal of time 10 rench and
h.-man IN addition to Law
I'm 1855 he was graduated from the
University 81 Virginia with the deRre"
n LIB and was admitted Ia the Wash
ir -'on bar in the sam" year. He re-
NAMED only a few weeks at the capital
luvever. and armed with letter from
stephen A. Douglas he left his desk In
the Office Of James VI. Carlisle. then y
loader Of the Washington bar. and went Ia
Chicago.
After 1855. until advancing years lee.
sAn.d his activities, Judge Tree was
prominent not only in Democratic munich
pal politics in Chicago hut In State poll
us IN Illinois and IN national affairs
Eleven years after he opened his Chicago
law once he was elected president Of the
Law ln-titut" 81 Chicago. Five wears
later a vacancy which occurred in tho
Circuit Bench ~ Illinois by the elevation
~ Judge MrAllister 20 the supreme
Court was filed hy IN" appointment Of
Judge Tree as Judg" MChli-t"rs sue
o"Ss"r and az IN" subsequent election
h." was reelected. A. Circuit Iudg. h"
s.ryed until his torn ended in lN7i
lGig" Tree first began 80 he heard ~
b. t'rpnal politics in the Blaine campa ign
IN ~" convention - 1894 which nomi-
Ut's.i ~. ticket headed by Cleveland and
hendricks Judge Trea was a deagaia ~
.,rg" from Illinois Upon the el'r' ion e
Pros dent Cleveland Judge Tree an
y med his candidacy for the l'nt"d
states SENATE. Gen. Logan was his
Ioruhlcsn opponent. MIR Tree lost by
.'.s .DFa
Ro' his service on the Circuit
Bench and this eight for the Senatorial
".na'i9n Judge Tre%'s heart trouble first
logan 20 show itself A result, he
gtE" ~ his law practice temporarily
and sp"nt n few years Travelling abroad
W'rle he was in Europe the Chicago
democrats nominated him for Congress
10. 49, and IN spite - Cabed declinatIon 1
- -" nomination Judge Tree Was voted
'- ~" was nominated again for Con |
.-,.s4 Two years later and was defeated !
.. lOaI votes
= part ~ the fortune which Judge Tree |
p. 20 ~ Chicago he has spent 81 late years 1
u, ."Iring 10 he4utify Chicago's bouls- !
20 md park ~ stem Two ~ the hest I
~ rronzas in ChicaRo's Lincoln /
statue ~ a Sioux warrior on I
..artrk called 4 signal ~ Peace
.t" bronze statue ~ la Sale
..a ,r"-"n'ad 20 the cI'y 10y Judge 1
f' appointment A. United States /
-'ar .. BE giiIn came from prasidsnt