Evening star., 1912-09-30
TRIBUTE BY FRIENDS
Final Rites Tomorrow for Maj.
John N. Carson.
VETERAN NEWSPAPER MAN
Members of Gridiron Club to Serve
as Pallbearers.
MTERMENT AT ARLINGTON
Death Occurred in Philadelphia
Yesterday Afteroon, Due to Com
plication of Diseases.
[NTERMENT AT ARLINGTON

The funeral of Mai. John NJ. Carson.
veteran newspaper man and confidential
agent of the Department of Commerce
and Labor. who died yesterday in Phila-
delphia, Is to take place tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. Services will be held
at 1901 Massachusetts avenue northwest.
the residence Of DR.. T. L. Macdonald.
son-in-law of Maj. Carson. The interment
will be in Arlington cemetery. Rev.
George o. LittIe will officiate at the serv-
ices The pallbearers will be selected
from the Gridircn Club, of which Maj
Carson was formerly president.
Maj Carson died yesterday afternoon in
the Jewish Hospital in Philadelphia. He
had been suffering from complication
of diseases. His illness became acute two
weeks ago, and he was taken to the hos
pital. He was seyenty-four years old. He
and Mrs. Carson were visiting friends in
Philadelphia at the time he became ILL
Last week DR.. and Mrs. Macdonald were
summoned to his bedside, and they were
with Maj Carson when he died.
Mai. Carson's body was brought to
Washington last night on a special car.
Dr. and Mrs. Macdonald and niece.
Miss Elizabeth Percy. made up the party
accompanying the body.
The Gridiron Club will meet at noon to-
morrow at the New Willard to take ac-
tion in regard to Maj. Carson's death.
Made Record as Soldier.
For many years Maj. Carson had been
one of the best known newspaper men in
Washington and in the country. He was
born in Philadelphia June IS. 1896 He
married Miss Annie l.. Miller of PhiIa-
delphia in November. 1851, and then went
to war, first as lieutenant and later as
captain of the 21th Pennsylvania In
fantry. He served through the war of
the rebellion with distinction.
After he laid down the sword Maj.
Carson took up the pen, going into news
paper work in Philadelphia. He was in
that city until 1873. when he came to
Washington to be night editor of the Ma
tional Republican. He became a corTe-
spondent for the New York Times and
then chief of the New York Times bureau
here. From 1852 to 1902 he was head OF
the Philadelphia Public Ledger bureau in
this city. The Public Ledger and the
New York Times were consolidated under
one ownership and Mai. Carson was chief
of the consolidated bureau here until 1905.
He was appointed by President Roose-
Welt chief of the bureau of manufactures
of the Department of Commerce and
Labor in 1895. and served in that posi-
tion until 1910, when he became Il special
and Labor and Travelled abroad with his
wife. collecting information relative to
American trade with foreign nations. He
returned to this country about six months
ago. and was about To be sent on a new
detail for the department.
Among Gridiron Club Founders.
Maj. Carson was one of the founders
and the first president of the Gridiron
Club. and gave the name to the now fa
nous organization. When the club was
twenty years old Maj. Carson was
again elected president as a token of
the esteem of the members. This is the
only time that president of the club
was ever reelected.
He early became an authority on finan-
c;al and commercial questions and was
chosen by Pig Iron Kelley in the Forty
seventh Congress as clerk of the ways
and means committee of the House. He