Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-08-09
GATES WANTED
TO RECOVER
He Had Planned Big Things
and Loved Life for Its
Own Sake
HF PASSED. AWAY IlcT NIGHT
He PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT
Great Financier and Pluneer
Dead After Keen Struggle
With Illness,

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Paris. France, Aug. 9.-Tne death
this morning of John w. Gates, the
American financier, has called forth
many expressions of regret not only
from his wide circle of acquaintances,
but from numberless persons who
knew him only as bold and success
full business man bit had been deep
ly moved by the courageous struggle
which he made against an Illness.
the fatal outcome of which had been
feared.
Mrs. Gates and her son, Charles G.
Gates, are much worn by their long
period of anxiety and nursing, and
much sympathy for them is expressed.
AS soon as word of Mr.. Gates death
had been cabled to America, messages
OF coincidence commenced to arrive
from friends and business associates
in the United States and elsewhere.
Gates Loved Life.
All arrangements for the disposition
of the body have been made by Harry
st. Francis Black, president of the U.
S Realty e. improvement Company
of New York. Mr. Black said: "Mr.
Gates loved life and said that he
wished to live. He wanted to de
things in life. He was frequently
spoken of as 'plunger' but his oper
ations We're always founded on wond.
erful studies in figlres. Wall street
will not see his like again for some
time"
The body of Mr. Gates will be
placed in vault at the Interdenomin-
ational American Church in the Rue
de Berri, where it will remain until
taken on steamer for removal to the
United States. The funeral service
win be held at this church Saturday.
Started With Throat Trouble.
Two weeks after mis- arrival in Paris
early in the summer, Mr.. Gates suf-
fered from pains in the throat and
was reported to have undergone sew
eral operations for this trouble Re-
lief was afforded, but later it was
stated by his physicians that poisons
from the throat abscess had affected
the kidneys, resulting in serious COM
plications. Soon afterwards it became
kown that the financier was seriously
ill. At one time, it was widely re-
ported that Mr.. Gates had died. This
followed a pronounced sinking spell.
from which he later rallied, his fight.
ing spirit coming to his aid at crit
ical moment. The congestion Of the
kidneys was relieved but later the
pneumonia appeared and the combiu-
alton kidney trouble and congestion
OF the lungs was too much for the
wasted strength Of the patient.
Lapsed Into Inconsistencies.
Shortly before the end, Mr.. Gates
lapsed into Inconsistencies and his
death, which followed at $40 o'clock
was peaceful. Mrs. Gates and Charles
were at the bedside with Doctors
Gros and Reeves. The officiaNs Nstate.
ment of the physicians said that the
immediate cause Of death was heart
failure, the lungs having stopped their
functions and smothered the action
OF the heart.
Mrs. Gates accompanied her hus.
band to Europe and she had been with
him Throughout his illness. Before
her marriage she was Miss nellor %
Baker, of st. Charles, Ill. In recent
years they had made their home in
New. York
Funeral at Aurora.
Aurora, ILL.,, Aug. 9-It is stated here
that the body Of John w. Gates. win
be given its final resting place in the
little cemetery at West Chicago in
the lot where his parents are inferred
Mr.. Gates was born in West Chicago.
NOT SATISFIED