Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-19

liffe's family, who have been expect
ing his death for the past tyo
weeks. Mr.. Hinchliffe went South
last March. He was q spectator at
a baseball game in st. Augustine when
he was stricken. His entire left side
was paralyzed, but the patient recov-
cred sufficiently to return to his home
in this city. About three months ago
Mr.. Hinchliffe again went South. He
gradually grew worse
Former Senator HinchIiffe began his
public career in 1875. when he was
elected school commissioner in this
city. Two years later he was elected
q tax commissioner, to which office
he was reelected in 1929. He was first
elected to the New Jersey Senate in
1891, and in 1897 was elected by the
voters of this city as their chief exec
utive. He accepted another mayor.
atty nomination at the end of his two
year term and was returned to that
office.
! He served as a member of the State
Sewerage Commission in 1899 and in
1891 was reelected mayor of Paterson
for third term. In 1906 he again en-
tered the senatorial race in Passaic
county and was elected. Three years
later when he sought reelection, he
was defeated by John D. Prince. He
was elected delegate large to the
Democratic national convention at
Baltimore, and in 1918 was elected
State committeeman.
Mr.. Hinchliffe was born in New
York, but when a year old his parents
removed to Paterson, where he spent
all his life. He was educated in the
public schools of this city and after
ward sent to Europe to complete his
studies.
Studied in Europe.
He entered the King James Gram
mar School in Yorkshire, England,
and later entered college in Ireland,
from which he was graduated. Upon
his return to this city Mr.. Hinchliffe
became associated with his father,
who was the head of the brewing
firm of Shaw, Hinchliffe & Penrose.
The elder Hinchliffe eventually got
control of the business and later
turned it over to his sons. 1t is now
known as the Hinchliffe Brewing
Company.
Perhaps the greatest fight of SEN
ator EIinchliffe's political life hap
pened in 1891, when he became cam
didate on the Democratic ticket for
State senator. The late Eugene Emley
was nominated against him on the
Republican ticket. The county was
and is strongly Republican, but a
total of the votes showed that Mr..
Hinchliffe had won by 112. In 1906,
when Senator Hinchliffe was pitted
against Wood Mckee for the office
of State senator, Mr.. Hinchliffe was
elected by a plurality of 1894. the
largest plurality ever given a Demo-
cratic candidate in Passaic county.
Mr.. Hinchliffe came in for national
attention during mis- terms as mayor
Of Paterson. He was the city's chief
executive when the city was swept
by fire and floods in 1902 and 1903. The
day following the big fire, when the
entire business section of the city
was swept away, offers of financial
assistance came in from all parts of
the country. Mr.. Hinchliffe sent word
to the country that:
Paterson can take care of itself.
We will accept no outside assistance,
thank you"
That stand. perhaps the first of its
kind ever taken by a mayor of a
stricken city, is still remembered
throughout the country. Paterson did
set about to help herself, and a year
later, when the Passaic river over
flowed it's banks, making hundreds
homeless, Mayor Hinchliffe made a
similar reply to offers of assistance
from others than Patersonians And it
got to be understood, through Mayor
Hinchliffe, that Paterson could help
herself, no matter what the circurn-
stances were,
Heads Police Against silk Rioters.
During the riots of the dyers in. the
summer of 1902 and early part of the
following year Mayor Hinchliffe de-
posed the chief of police and himself
took command of the police force
when the anarchists began throwing
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