New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-30

as shock to the city az large 1t is prob
able that the funeral will be neld on
Wednesday.
George Albee Hibbard's last public ap-
pearaDee was as one of the quartet of
mayoralty candidates in Boston's epoch
making election of last fall. 1t was the
occasion of the trying out of the eity's new
direct nominations plan. whereby the can
didates for Mayor are nominated by petit
ton. five thousand signatures being re-
quired for each candidate. In this contest
John F. Fitzgerald was the representa- tive
of the element for whose effectual over
throw the good government forces looked
&c the new system.
Mr.. Hibbard had defeated Fitzgerald for
the office two years before. His admin
istration had been an honest one. He and
His friends confidently expected, there
fore, that he would be the choice of the
Citizens Municipal League Nevertheless,
his health had begun to fail him. and he
rad announced that he did not wish to run
again.
Added to this was the fact that his adj
ninistraton had not been quite positive
enough to please the reformers. The league
accordingly chose instead James J. Stor-
row. an avowed hon-partisan. Then Mr..
Hubbard, instead of throwing his support to
the reform movement, obtained his own
petition and ran as an avowed Republican.
1t was declared afterward that Fitzgerald
men helped nominate him to cripple Stor-
row To offset FIibbard the Democrats put
UP Nathaniel H Taylor. At the election
Mr.. Hubbard received only about third of
the number of votes represented on his pc
tition, but drew enough from Storrow to
throw the election to Fitzgerald.
Mr.. Hubbard went out of Office penniless,
broken in health and anita gonzed by many
powerful interests. 1t had been admitted
by both factions nearly to the end of his
administration that he had saved the city
more than s2.aG0G00. Yet, in August. 1893,
the finance commission charged that the
Mayor had lessened his vigilence and
turned To a policy of extravaganza. Never
theless. he had many friends, and his I'M
fortunate circumstances aroused the sym
pathy of the city
Mayor Fitzgerald early this month ap-
pointed him City Collector at a salary of
5000 year But in this. too, he was dis
appointed, for the Civil Service Commission
refused 10 approve the appointment. On
the very day Of the commissions announces
ment Mr.. Htbbard's physician told him that
!
almost Immediately he went into a rapid
decline, which ended in his death.
Mr.. Hibbard was born in Boston in 1864.
He was educated in the public schools Of
that city Selecting commercial career.
he succeeded in an1assiug g considerable
property. For many years he was mem
Der Of the firm of Weston X. Lewis & Co..
dealers in commercial paper and bonds,
and was president of the Hibbard & Mason
Corporation. tailors.
Mr.. Hihbard's political work began IN
1888 as member of the citizens commit
tee through the efforts of which Thomas
N Hart was elected Mayor of Boston,
From SS9 to 1895 he was member of his
ward committee. In 1890 AMI 1891 he was
chairman of the aldermanic district cou-
mittee, and in 1924 and 1895 represented
his district in the Legislature. 1t was at
this period that the State Treasurer re-
signed and it devolved on the Legislature
10 choose a successor. Mr.. Hibbard led on
five ballots but was beaten by a narrow
margin on the sixth. In the Legislature lie
served on the committees on Constitutional
Amendments. Election Laws and Banks
and Banking. and was chairman of the last
named committee during his last year.
In 1894 Mr.. Hibbard was chairman of the
Republican City Committee of Boston and
manager of the successful campaign of
E. T. Curtis for Mayor. Two years later
he was made treasurer OF the same COM
nittee, chairman of the 10th District Con
gressional Committee, and also delegate to
the National Republican Convention at St.
Louis. In 1900 he was appointed postnlas-
ter of Boston, a position he held till ne be-
came Mayor. in 1905
Mr. Hibbard married in 1886 Miss ".
Adelaide Ford. He was a member of the
Republican Club of Massachusetts and of
the Middlesex Home Market and Trade