Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-09
Payment OF TAXES rites FOR THE DEAD
Proposed Segregation the Funeral of Thomas F. Walsh
District Building. Tomorrow Afternoon.
PLAN IS BEING STUDIED SIMPLE SERVICE ARRANGED
Change Would Put Tax dg Millionaire Mine
the Collectors Office. to Disease
CITIZENS SKETCH OF HIS ACTIVE CAREER
of Indebtedness He
Many Anassed
Funeral of Thomas F. Walsh
Tomorrow Afternoon.
SIMPLE SERVICE ARRANGED
Millionaire Mine Owner Succumbs
to Heart Disease.
SKETCH OF HIS ACTIVE CAREER
Attracted to the West by Stories Of
Successful Mines, He
"a
Amassed a Fortune. el

The funeral of Thomas F. Walsh, cap
italist and mining magnate, vho died at
u:2j o'clock last night at his home on
Massachusetts, avenue will take place
from the family home tomorrow after
noon. Mr.. Walsh had been i'll for several
months from a complication of diseases
following pneumonia, and death was due
primarily to heart disease
One of the last requests made by Mr.
Walsh was that burial should follow
death quickly in order that his family
should not be distressed, and arrange
ments were made accordingly. 1t was
another request of the dead millionaire
that the funeral service should be of the
simplest character, and as a result the
last rites will be strictly private and OF
the quietest character
There will be non-sectarian service at
the house and interment will be made in
Rock Creek cemetery. Arrangements for
the funeral will be completed tonight At
conference of the Walsh and Mclean
families
Origin of Last Illness
Mr.. Walshs last illness found it's begin
ming in heavy cold which he contracted
while on a business trip to New York
early last winter. Bronchitis developed
and was followed by pneumonia, and the
capitalist was SO greatly weakened by his
suffering that corps of specialists was
called in. Early in January they advised
that he be taken to Palm Beach. but the
benefits sought at that resort did not ma
terialize and 1t was decided that the dry
air of the prairies might give him q
longer lease of life. Accordingly he was
taken to San Antonio. Tex. and more
than month was spent there. but Mr..
Walsh continued to grow worse. and II
was finally realized that the end was q
!. matter of only few weeks
II was almost race with death WHICH
followed and several times on the jour-
ney to Washington on special train MT.
Walsh became so weak that il was neces-
sary to stop the train to permit him 10
rest.
Prior to his arrival here Mr.. Walsh
family had built for him a special room
on the roof OF his palatial Massachusetts
avenue home. 1t was similar IN construc-
ton to the 'solarium" which was useo
in an effort to prolong the lie OF the
late F. H. Hartman. Beneath dome or
glass and the floods of sunshine of March
and April Mr.. Walsh spent his last days.
He grew worse steadily, and yester-
day the specialists, who had been In
constant attendance, declared that Mr.
conscious to the very end, and by mas
bedside when he died were grouped
the three members of his little 1amiiy
circle, including Mrs Walsh, Mrs. Il. u.
Mclean. his daughter and ms son,in-
law. Edward b. Mclean. His three ply
sicians, DR.. Mitchell of this city aud
Drs. Guthrie and Finney of Johns HOP
kins were also present.
Native of ireland.
Thomas Francis Walsh, mine owner
and mining engineer, as he designated
himself in a brief autobiography whlcn
was written shortly before his departure
for Palm Beach. was the son OF ThomaS
Walsh and Bridget Scully Walsh. De
was born in 1851 on farm In Baptist
Grange, near Fethard. county OF Tippe-
rary, ireland. AS boy he gathered ms
education in the public schools, and while
still in his teens learned the trades of mill
wright and carpenter. His early ambition
was to be building contractor.
Mr.. Walsh came to America in 1870
and settled i'm Worcester. Mass. He FOL
lowed his trade carpenter there, but
the tales of the bonanzas in Colorado
reached his ears, and in 1872 he went to
that state and participated in the initial
boom at Deadwood, in the Black Hills.
He had made some little money i'm Mas
sachusetts. and his real start IN Colo
rado found its inception in ms practice
of grub stalking men who had what
they thought were promising mining
claims Many of these ventures turned
out well. Then came the LeadVille boom,
and the young business man, Thomas X.
Walsh, had nearly slO0,OUO to start with
when he joined in the rush 10 that new
field
This was in 1879. and soon as he
reached Leadville Mr.. Walsh turned land
lord and opened the Grand Central Hotel'
AS the owner of the leading hotel in
boom town with the gold fever at ITS
height, Mr. Walsh made money fast. lie
erub-staked more miners and made more
money All of the time, in spite OF MS
many interests. Mr.. Walsh found time 20
make close study OF geoios!, niln.
eralogy metallurgy, the disposition OF ore
bodies and the development and trea atment
of ores.
Owned Many Paying Properties.
Much of Mr. Walsh's income when his
fortune really began to swell was due TO
the Yellow Bird mine, in the Camp BIRD
district of Colorado. where he was the
owner of the majority of the paying prop
critics. He used the symbol of the yellow
bird a great deal as sort of sign man
ual, and 1t was to be found among MS
seals and his stationery.
There is q current story IN LeauVile ds
to the location of the Yellow Bird claim
Mr.. Walsh who was not then the national
figure that he afterward became, was out
hunting and prospecting. He had not had
much luck either way all day, ana wnen
turning homeward shot at a yellow plro
that was in a bush beside the trail. he
got the bird. and the charge of shot
ploughing up the side of the bank un-
earthed the lead that afterward made the
yellow Bird one of the great producing
mines of the west.
His Work as Developer.
Another story has it that Mr. Walsh
the idea that great bodies or
ore ought to be found on the SUBMITS OF
mountain ranges, where volcanic action
might be expected to have. reached the
maximum of it's fusing power Experts
laughed at him. but he was not TO oe dis
suaded. and he prospected among the
neaks of the San Juan range, and finally
bought several claims which had been
abandoned because of the very great diffi-
Guilty experienced in working them.
The claims were 1000 feet above sea
level and other mining engineers told him