Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31
Other Notable Dead.

faIken.
Other Notable Dead.
Others among the notable dead of the
year were Sir Charles Dixie, British lib
eral leader; Gen Pet \. Cronje, hero in
the Boer war; Baron Albert von> Roths-
child, Vienna representative of the family
of international bankers; Sir Caspar Pur-
don Clarke, former director of the Metro
politan Museum Of Art, New York city;
Felix A. Guilmant, most famous French
Organtst and composer; John B. McDon-
aid, builder Of the New York subway;
Charles Barr. the skipper who figured 50
conspicuously in the International yacht
races for the Americas cup; Denman
Thompson Of "Old Homestead celebrity;
Sam Lloyd, known as the puzzle king" 4;
Harry Fem, eminent painter and Illus
traitor; Maria Pia, queen dowager of Por
tugal: Maurice Rouvier, twice premier OF
France; Edward Harrigan, old-time foot
light favorite; Mrs. Carrie Nation, mill
tant temperance advocate; Sir Eldon
GOrst, who pacifed Egypt and brought it
under British rule Edward NJ. Shepard.
noted lawyer and democratic politician;
Edwin A. Abbey, American artist, who
painted the coronation of Edward VII:
John w. Gates, a leading figure in the
financial world: Josef Israels, the Dutch
painter, who lived to see his work COM
mand prices equal to those brought by
the old masters; Maj Henry r. Rathbone,
who was with Lincoln in the box at the
theater when the latter was assassinated;
Bradford L. Gilbert, the architect who
designed New York's first skyscraper
Prof. Masuchika Shimose. the inventor
Of the high explosive used SO effectively
by Japan in the war with Russia; Ed
ward Whymer, first to ascend the Mat
terhorn; Peter A. Stolypin, premier of
Russia, and Ramon Caceres. President OF
tod ;r
Robert Hart, for many years head Of the
Chinese imp erial customs service; Ahmed
Arab Pasha, exiled leader of the Egyp-
tian rebellion of 1922; DR.. James c. Hep
burn. first medical missionary to Japan;
Capt. Louis N. Stodder, acting master of
the Monitor after Lieut.. Worden was dis
abled in the battle with the Merrimac
George +. Cunningham, who installed the
engine and boilers of the Monitor: Nine
Norman Neruda Uady Halle), famous
violin player; Clarence Lexow, head of
the famous state senate committee which
investigated the New York city govern
ment; Joseph Pulitzer, who accumulated
fortune of 0,OOO,OOO In the newspaper
business: Thomas Hall, inventor. whose
keyed typewriter was the first intro
duced upon the American market
Ida Lewis Wilson, the famous keeper
OF the Lime Rock lighthouse. at New
port, r. l.: Kyrle Bellew, the noted
actor; William Clark Russell, noted
author and Illustrator; Irving b. Dudley,
United States ambassador to Brazil;
Thomas +. Gilroy, ex-mayor of New
York; Thomas Ball. famous American
sculptor and painter: Sir Joseph d.
,, Hooker. noted English surgeon and
naturalist; Kitty Blanchard, actress,
who was popular star in the seventies
and eighties of the last century; Sir
George Lewis. for fifty years England
most famous criminal lawyer, and be-
lieved to know the secrets of every fam
lily in the British peerage and a great
many others who were outside of that
famous record; John Bigelow, famous
diplomat and author.