The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-05
F.A. HE.INZE, ONCE
 A '1C0PPER KING, J STRICKEN SUDDEN MY
Meteoric Financier Dies After Brief Illness Tn
 New York

Saratoga Springs, N. Y.i Nov. 6-- Fritz Augustus Hetnze. the cooper king.' died suddenly here last night following a series Of hemerrhages caused by cIrrhosis Of the liver. with which he had been suffering for sew eraI years
 MT. Heinze, who had occupied a cottage here since June, came from New York Tuesday to vote He spent the evening with his attorney. County Judge Redwood. and to all appear ances was as well as usna1, but early yesterday morning he was seized with hemorrhages.
 MT. I4einze is survived by a twor year-old son, F. Augustus Heinzes IT. ; a sister, Mrs. William M.. F1eitmann E of New r York; two brethers, Otto and Arthur Ps. Of New York and a sister who resides in Germany. He was forty five years old.
 New York. Nov. 5-of the lives of American masters of millions the short one of Fritz Au- gustus Heinze is the most picturesque in the swiftness of his rise from a west to a. millionaire mine owner at twenty-eig.ht and in his thirt1es an invader of the inner circles Of high finance in the east.
 His father, German importer, lived in Pierrepont street, Brooklyn, where Fritz was born in December. 1869. When very young he was sent to schools in Germany. Fritz return ed when he was fifteen.
 From the Brooklyn Polytechnic he went to Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1889 as an en- gineer.. He went to Butte. Mont, and 2 job with the Boston and Montana Company at $5 a, day.
 He came east to receive a legacy Of $50, 900 left by his grandmother. He tried to induce his brothers Otto and Arthur, lawyers. to go west with bim. Arthur accepted the offer.
 With his $50,000 Heinze leased the Estre1la claim in Butte from James A Murray and built a small srne1ter
 Wuth s225 eco profit taken from the Estre11a mine he got control Of the Rarus mine and later Of the Glen garry mine Then he built big ernelter. He invaded British Colum- bia. built q smelter and a marrow gauge railroad- He became so inn road paid him, then 28 years old, $1,- 100000 for his railroad.
 Heinze returned to Butte in 1897 and there was accused of having with his Rarus mine property bnrroved under mines owned by Marcus DaIy. DaIy started to fight EIeinze, but died. Then Standard oil interests formed the .Amalgamated Copper company and took over the Daily interests. Arthur Heinze dug into the titles of every claim owned by AmaIgsnated. When Henry H. Rogers offered to pIacate Heinze by purchasing the Minnie Hea- ley mine for $250,o00, Heinze demand ed $10000s 900. In 1906 the AInaIgazuat- ed admitted defeat and settled with Heinze, who then came east.
 He established his brothers in the Stock Exchange firm of Otto c. Heinge & Co, bought control Of the Mercantile National bank from Ed- win Gould and became its president, In October, 1907. when all the bank CTS were husbanding their resources against an impending storm, Heinze tried to corner United Copper stock. The result was the wreck of his broth erss firm and Heinze was forced by the Clearing House association to re- sign the presidency of the Mercantile National. He was far from ruined, however, and died worth probably $5,- COCO to $6.000,o00.
 Heinze married on August S1, 1910, an actress. Mrs. Bernice Golden Hem derson. fifteen years his junior, and former wife of Charles A. Henderson, who paid her $1o0 a. week alirnony. In 1911 B. Augustus Heinze Jr., was born. Eighteen months later Mrs. Heinze obtained a divorce with ali- nony of $1.o00 a month. Mrs. Heinze died in her apartment at the Dorilton, No. I'll West Seventy-first street, April ?. 1913.