Arizona republican., 1913-12-28
YEARS T0LL IF
 MEN 0F RANK
Death Exacts Unusual Har- vest from the Ranks of Men Who Have Attained Special Prominence in the Worlds Activities
Special to The Republican,

back over the toll of the months which make up the year now nearing its close, it seems as if death had exacted an unusual harvest from the ranks of men who had attained. for one reason or another, special promi- hence in the theater of the worlds activities. Of course, no year passes without leaving an impressive necro- logical roll, but the one about tc take it's departure has made some rather startling erasures from the scroll of living fame.
 Two rather interesting facts serve to distinguish the death list of 1913 from those of most previous years The first is that the names of con- paratively few women are included and the second is the almost total absence of deaths by violence. The only person of world wide prominence who met a violent death during the year was King George of Greece, who was assassinated by fanatic.
 The American world of finance and industry has made distinguished con- tributions 10 the mortality record that of J. Pierpont Morgan naturally attracting the greatest measure of public attention. Other notables in the list were Henry M. Flagler, the Standard Oil magnate and railroad builder; Adolphus Busch. the St Louis brewer; Edward Morris, one of the heads of the Chicago meat pack
 ing industry; James R. Keene. fa- nous as a Wall street speculator: Anthony N. Brady. lighting and traction magnate, and Benjamin Alt man and Robert C. ogden, New York merchants.
 In addition to MT. Morgan and MT Flagler both powerful factors in the railroad world, there passed away during the year a number of promi- nent railroad executives, active or re- tired. These included William W Finley. president of the Southern railway; Roswell Miller, president oi the Chicago. Milwaukee and St Paul; Thomas M. Emerson. president of the Atlantic Coast Line; James McCrea former president of the Pennsylvania railroad: Horace G. Burt. former president of the Union Pacific. an6 J. R. Parrott, president of the Florida East Coast railway.
 The army and navy also have sus- tained serious losses, including Lieut. Col. David Du Bose Gaillard. who directed the Culebra cut engineering work on the Panama canal besides several other well known general of ficers Eight rear admrals, active ol retired. have joined the great major ity. Great Britain lost her famou: soldier. Field Marshal Viscoun Wolseley, and Admiral Sir Archibald L. Douglas. former lord of the Bri tish admiralty. France lost Genera Andre, her former war minister Royalty made few contributions tt the mortality record of the year With the exception of George l. O Greece no reigning monarch in Europ' died during the twelve months. Th' doWager empress of China passed away and Menelill of Abyssinia wa. again reported dead. The British nobility lost the Duke of Abercorr and the Duke of Sutherland, the late one of England's greatest lant owners.
 Death deprived the College of Car dinals of five of it's members, amOnt them Cardinal Oreglia, the dean O the Sacred College, and the famous Cardinal Rampolia, the former Papa secretary of state. The most notable loss in American church circles ha! been the Rt. Rev. William Crosswel Doane. the venerable Episcopal bishol of Albany Other deaths recorded among American churchmen arr those of two Catholic bishops, Hogan of Kansas City and Kenny of St Augustine.
 Some of the deaths of the year wer not unexpected. John Fritz, famous | for the part he played in the develop
 ment of the iron and steel industr. 1 in the United States. had passed hi
 ninetieth year. So had Alfred Russel 1 Wallace, the famous British scientist
 Earl Nelson was in his ninetietl year and Sir Richard Scott. senate and long a prominent figure in Can adian public affairs, was eighty eight From the ranks of politics ant diplomacy have been taken man. figures of national or internationa prominence. Here again, however the foreign mortuary role is far il
 excess of that of the United States The great majority of Americal statesmen and diplomats who passe'
 away during the year had previousl,
 retired from the arena of public af
 fairs. The most notable exception
 were William J. Gaynor, mayor o
 New York city; Jeff Davis, Unite
 States senator from Arkansas; Ger
 Joseph F. Johnston. United State
 senator from Alabama, and Timoth
 L. Woodruff, former lieutenant gov
 ernor of New York and later lead
 CT of the progressive party.
 | A number of former members 0
 the United States senate passed ava
 Missouri. Frank o. Briggs of NeN
 Jersey, John Martin of Kansas an Thomas w. Palmer of Michigan.
 Frank S. Black, ex-governor c New York and at one time an in fluential figure in republican politics
 was included in the mortality recor of former governor. Others wer
 William J. Northen of Georgia an
 Gen. Samuel J. Crawford, who wa
 the civil war governor of Kansas. | Under the head of diplomats ma be placed the name of Gen. Stewal L. Woodford, who was the Ameri can minister to Spain at the be ginning of the Spanish American wa Among the serious losses sustaine tSu. oAt.1. o1,,p+r;..c u,ara Uicnony