The Cairo bulletin., 1913-10-11
WAS GREAT PHILANTR0PHlST
Donations Each Year to Charity as
Well as Educational Establish
ments Were Enormous.

st. Louis. oct. t0-Adolphus Busch
multimillionaire brewer, died at his
castle on the Rhine at Lanzen-Sch-
walbach, Germany at S:15 o'clock
this evening. Death VAS due to
llropsy, from which he has suffered
seven years. News of the death was
received here in a cablegram 20 the
grandson Of the brewer, Adolphus III,
and his father. August \. Busch,
lis wealth was estimated at sixty
million dollars.
In addition to the brewing inter-
vsts in St Louis. Busch was also
director in several banks here and
several public utility corporations.
lie was also interested IN breWerie5
In san Antonio, Galveston and Fort
Worth, and owner OF ice manufactur-
ing ulants in many parts of the coun-
trv. He was head Of the foreitC de-
rartment of the Worlds Fair IN st.
Louis
Mr.. Busch's philanthropies were
numerous, one of the most recent
being the gift of $150o00 to Harv-
ard University TO establish a Ger
manic Institute Every year he gave
$4,000 to the Convent of the Good
Shepherd in St Louis,
His most recent local benefactlon
was the gift of $25, 900 for the erec-
tion of memorial to Carl Schurtz,
Emil Pretorious and Carl Daenzer
the trio of German editors who flour
ished in st. Louis at the time OF the
Civil War.
Bad Health For Years.
Though his home is in st. Louis. o.
recent years. Mr.. Busch has spent but
n small portion of his time here.
He usually passed the winter in Pase-
flena, Cal, and the summer in Ger
many, stopping about six weeks in
the spring and six weeks in the fall
in st. Louis. For years he had been
in bad health, and when he was at
home here last spring, he drove over
the down town district for the first
time in four years
Busch died at the age of 76, wat
the last of the twenty-one children.
lie is survived by his widow, FIVE
daughters, Mrs. Jacob Loeb of Chi
cago; Mrs. Hugo Reisinger or New
York Mrs. Paul Won Gongard of Ger
many, Mrs. Edward A. Faust Of St.
Louis and Mrs. Edward Scharrer Of
Stuttgart, Germany; two sons, Aug
ust A. Busch and Carl Busch, both OF
st. Louis. The body viii be brought
arrangements have not yet been made
At the time of the San Francisco
earthquake and fire, Busch contrib.
uted $4,000 to the relief fund. He
also contributed to the relief of the
Galveston food sufferers, and $685.
600 to the relief of the Ohio Valley
flood sufferers last spring His wealth
was estimated at $60,O00,000 and
according to the last tax list pub
lished here, had personal property
assessed at Sl,000,000.
Owner of Railroads.
In addition to the st. Louis finan-
cial and brewing interests with
which he was identified, he was the
heaviest stockholder in the St Louis
& San Francisco, and the Rock Is
land lines and the owner of Goa
mines in Western Virginia. He was
interested in various hotels in diff
ferent parts of the country, being the
owner of large hotel in Chicago
His annual income was $4,000, 900
Busch first became connected will
the industry in which his name is as
sociated by obtaining a clerkshia il
the malt and hop storage house o
Rose Seidel, and finally acquired al
interest in small brewing plant
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