The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-15
ANDREW RADEL DIES SUDDENLY
 AT HIS HOME Man Who Developed Local Traction Lines Victim of
 Apoplexy. COMMANDING FIGURE. IN OYSTER INDUSTRY Found Unconscious on Floor By Family, Dies Within
 Few Minutes

Andrew Rade1, president and treas urer of the Rade1 Oyster company and a prominent figure in traction circles in the East, died suddenly this morn ing at his home, POP Washington ave- nue.
 Death was due to cerebral apoplexy. MT. RadeI was stricken in the bath room of his home about 7:30 o'clock and was discovered unconscious on the. floor few minutes later, by members of his family. He breathed his last without lregaining consciousness short 1y after the arrival of Dr. John c. Lynch, the family physician.
 MT. Rade1 had been under treatment for nervous indigestion for a long time. He was responding favorably and was about his daily duties of late with more or less accustomed vtgor.
 Early last evening, he complained of a slight recurrence of the aflment. It was not remotely suspected, however, that the attack would have any serious consequences.
 Mir RadeI arose shortly before 7:so o'clock this morning. He went to the bathroom and within a few moments the family was aroused by a thud as if someone had fallen. MT. Radel was found unconscious on the floor.
 Dr. Lynch was summoned by the family who believed that Mir. Radel was stricken with a fainting spell Shortly after the physicianS arrived, MT. Radei breathed his last. He did not speak.
 While the news of his sudden end was distinct shock to the city gen. eralfy. the home circle is almost pros- trated with grief. A home loving man, MT. Radei's loss falls exceedingly heavy on those near to him.
 A daughter Miss Margaret K Ra- del, was summoned home from Wel1es- ley College, and a son, Andrew Radel, IT,, arrived here this morning soon af- ter his father died.
 At the home when the end came we're Mrs. RadeI, who was Miss Be- ma Berg of Newark. N. J.. and the three other children. Miss Mary, a senior at Courtland school; Lewis, att tending Bridgeport High school, and Laura. a pupil at Miss Fannie Smiths school here.
 Mr Radel's brother, Edward T. Radel of Bound Brook. N. J., and a sister. Mrs. John J. McDpnough of South Orasge. N. J.. came here this afternoon on receipt of the news of his osath. SAAlso surviving, are two half brothers. Frank a. and John J. of Newark. and a half sister Mrs. Dennis O'Connors of Worcester, Mass.
 While arrangements for the funeral have not been made, MT. IRadel will be- buried in Newafk, beside his fath- CT and mother. l
 While MT. RadeI was one of the commanding figures in the business life of this city, he was a man of simple tastes and ideas. He was that he held so dear. His wife and his children were his const9at com panions and in that eonpanionshfp he found his greatest happiness.
 A devout member of St. Augustine's R. c. parish, MT. Rade1 was in every sense a strong, practical Catholic. The many instances of MT. RadePs char fer while he was ever ready to aid the needy and worthy, his giving was aI- ways without the slightest senblance of ostentation.
 Andrew Rade1, was born March 2, 862, in Newark N. J. His father, years at a small wage purchased the 1 Newark and South Orange street rail way in New Jersey, which he develop ed into one of the greatest trolley lines near New York John Radel made | himself known as one of the most | of the East and he instilled into his son, Andrew, that knowledge which | ater ins life was to make him the trol- ley genius of New England.
 Andy as he was famiIiar1y called | by hosts of friends, even at a school
  -ailway affairs. His father took him rom St. Benedict's college that the soy might aid him in task new to both of them-that of building up a worn out and di1apitated horse rail- .oad into the nucleus of the great troll ey system that now form it's net work n Newark and the many surrounding owns.
 At the age of 21, Andrew had prac- ically the entire responsibilities of the .oad, both physical and financial, upon ais shoulders and was probably the trolley superintendent in the world. Night and day and sometimes LII night the youthful superintendent worked. By the inauguration of a shooting park at the end of the line business was greatly stimulated and it vas necessary to extend trackage and purchase more horses. Double track ng of the lines soon followed.
 From predicting that the Radels would lose every dollar they had in- rested, promoters, street railway men Ind especially realty investors along ,egan to tumble over'' themselves iIfd acquiring property that had enhanced n values.
 illuminating the efforts of young 7ade1 and his father, who was fast re- easing the control of the road to An Irew, a Newark and New York syndi- ate was formed and in 1892 purchased he road at a price of $1, 800, 0o0. John 7edea had paid $34,o0O for the property y ixteen years before. Andrew Radel, whose untiring effort created the sue ess, was one of the largest stockhold- ITS in the /new syndicate which has ,rospered.
 Another evidence of the popularity F. f MT Radel was the fact that he was