New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-07
CAPTAIN B. s. OSBON DIES
Dr.. Cooks Champion. Veteran
of Many Wars. Was 81.
WIFE WILL JOIN HIM SOON
In Their Last Conversation She
Said She Would Follow in
Two Weeks.

Captain Bradley :. Osbon. WI" SelNed
under Farragut during the civil war ana
! subsequently, i'm the navies of several for-
| eign countries died i'm the Post GRADUATE
| Hospital Yesterday afternoon I'm his eighty
| sixth year He had been seriously Ill Tot
fortnight. Captain Osbon was secretary
| Of the Arctic club of America. and was
| one of the most ardent supporters OF l)r
| Frederick A. Cook
The good old Peary ship has struck a
coral reef he said. after DR.. COOK n'ys-
terious disappearance The masts nave
snapped off close to the deck. ana the feary
| adherents are in tangled mass of spars
| and rigging They may linger. but not TOT
long When Or. Cook gets back To Amer
| lea on his second lecture cruise the TaillhS
| broken spars and rigging will all be cut
| adrift and all the dead cast overheard.
! In reply to a question at the time captain
| Osbon declared he knew that DR.. COOK WAS
in splendid health and could stand any
| "bloomin' bounding" necessary to prove MS
| claims as a mountain climber and pole
| disCoverer.
His devoted wio vas 10y his bedside to the
last and when sh. was seen in her little
| apartment on the FIFTH floor rear of NO l'1
last conversation with her husband. Ihey
wero married forty-three wears ago in Inv
erpool. an1 snc said sn snCy "ord ha'
never passed between them. In MS eNpeul-
tions sire accompanied him wherever posi-
| bic and acted as his nurse when ne WIS
| wounded or III.
Mrs Osbon was Miss Eliza Balfour ana
comes OF the English family of BaIfour o.
Burleigh She is a distinguished .ooNlh6
woman with short. snow-White. curly mar
! Between sohs she related how sne had tom
her husband she would meet him in heaven
two weeks from now.
! 1T was not until this morning" she SAID
that Captain Osbon realized that the cha
was near Then ne said to me: You are
not going TO leave ne now? replied t'aI
he was leaving me. and then he asked "heh
we should meet again.
! About two weeks from to-day, ! re-
piled I will meet you in heaven.
! She was asked. as gently As possible
what she meant by the declaration. but she
burst into tears and did not reply.
! Around the scrupulously clean room every
article there. IL seemed, was a reminder
OF the dead navigator, but there Wer" Signs
that indicated Captain Osbon had prohte1
! little by his many services. With touch
! of resentment. Mrs. Osbon said.
My husband died because he Was In want
of food and mediocre. He was ~. and J
nursed him for three months here before |
was told bv a friend that r did not take
him to a hospital / would take him 10 his
grave Then / took him TO the hospital
did Captain Osbon have any regular In
come" she was asked.
She replied that he had a pension Of so
month from the government, and the
couple have been crdca, orins 20 i've on
! that amount
Il believe my husband did more for the
government than any other living man.
the widow declared and a 80 tension was
all he received 20
Born in Westchcstcr County, y l.. in
1923. Captain Osbon went to sea at the age
| of ten years lie served in the Chinese navy
as coxswain, in the Argentine navy as
commander. signal officer in the United
States navy and admiral I'm the Mexican
/ navy.
During the civil Wa Captain Osbon
served under Du Pont, Farragut and Wor-
den, and during the Spanish-Amcrican War
was volunteer naval scout, and was The
| first to discover Cerveras fleet of the ISL
! and of Curacao. The Venezuelan govern
ment decorated him with the order Il
! "Busto del LiberatadOr.
! Captain Osbon was the founder and editor
| of The Nautical Gazette in 1871, said TO
be the first maritime newspaper published
in the United States. Among the books
written by Captain OsLou are "Osbon' )
| Hand Book Of the United States Navy
| United States Veteran Navy List and "A
| Sailor Of Fortune lie was also d lecturer
| Oh travels and adventures.
| Captain Osbon Was the last Of his lne.
| There were several children Of MS mar
riagc. but all arc dead. Ills body VIII be
| . 4. IN -. LIl.L,n.LIaN.