The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-18
Ex-MAY0R LOW, OF N. Y, DEAD
 AT AGE OF 66
Former City Official And
 Columbia President Succumbs.

NeW YOrk, Sept. 1S-Seth LOW, up- builder of Columbia University, for mer Mayor of New York and previ- | ously twice Mayor of Brooklyn, died yesterday at Broad Brook Farm, his | estate between Bedford Hills and Mount Kisco, N. Y. He was sixty six years old.
 When MT. Low went to his country residence early in May he was suffer- ing from indigestion. Dr. Charles F: Chapman of Mount Kisco was called in, and he and his father, Dr. J. Fran cis Chapman. had been in almost constant attendance since|
 MT. Lows condition became so grave yesterday afternoon that his nurses hurriedly called the younger Dr. Chapman. Before the physician arrived MT. Low was dead. Mrs. Low and the members of the household were with him at the last.
 Worked for Industrial Peace
 His friends attribute MT. Lows death to a general breakdown. As President of the National Civic Feder- ation, he had for three months prior to his illness devoted himself almost exclusively to seeking a solution of the differences between the members of the railroad brotherhoods and their employers. Even after he fell i'll MT. Low kept in touch with the chiefs of the brotherhoods,' with Samuel Com pers, President of the American Fed eration of Labor, and other union leaders, some of them members of the Civic Federation, whom he knew we'll.
 Since the outbreak of the European war. MT. Low had been busily engaged in trying to solve the business, ship ping /and financial problems arisir g from that conflict, and affecting this country. He was a delegate at large to the State Constitutional Convention and as Chairman of the Committee or City Government of the Convention MT. Low worked many hours day and night for six months, it is said.
 The funeral service will be held at Broad Brook Farm Wednesday morp- ing. The interpent will be in Green wood Cemetery
 Seth Low was twice mayor of Brooklyn, once mayor of New York, and flor eleven, years was president of Columbia University. In each of these offices he became distinguished for public service and he was known throughout the country as one of the leading figures in New York city life.
 Born in Brooklyn, January IS, 1850, he came of a long line of merchant princes and men of culture. His grandfather, for whom he was<named was a Harvard-bred merohaht, who previous to his settlement in New b,1ci iJ Salem, Mass His father, Abiel Ab- bot Law, founded big business in the importation of tea and silk in New York and at one time had a fleet of more than a dozen clipper ships en- gagged in the China trade.
 Young Law was educated at the Poly technic Institute in Brooklyn and then at Columbia, from which he was twenty. In college he had been dis tinguished both as a student and an athlete. He excelled in tennis and football, bowling and billiards. and on the gridiron he often lined up against the herculean form of Hamilton Fish pr. Barnard, the then president of the college, was particularly attracted by young Lows work and personality and in the spring of Lows senior year. the president spoke thus of him in A letter to a friend: "I have just been having long talk with young Low the first scholar in college, and the most manly young fellow we have had here for many year"
 On leaving Columbia, MT. Low went to his fathers business house, enter ing as clerk and traversing all the grades until he was finally head ot the firmg In the meantime he be- | came greatly interested in public life | particularly in Brooklyn charities. In 1878, he organized and became the | first president of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, which was one of the first societies organized for the pro-
 motion of, co-operation and the pre-. | vention jef waste and imposition ir l charity service.
 It was during the campaign of Gar. field for President, in 1880, that MT.
 LoY first became prominent in poll.
 tics. A Young Republican Club
 was organized in Brooklyn to pro-
 mote the Garfield campaign and MT Low was selected as president of the
 club. Municipal affairs in Brooklyn | were. at that time in a bad way, suf | Ier1ng from the wave or eXrraVa
 gance and corruption that had beer
 set in motion by the Tweed rins
 in New York. MT. Low and his cluf
 insisted that the improvement of civic
 government could be accomphshet
 only by disregarding party lines ana
 national issues so far as. municipa
 affairs were concerned. The princi | pie at that time was new one ant
 MT. Lows leadership in the movemen
 resulted in his election as mayor O.
 Ffooklyn by the regular Republican
 and independent forces. In 1883 ht
 was reelected for a second term. Ht
 stood squarely and insistently fol
 business principles in local affair!
 and he carried the municipal admins
 tration in Brooklyn to such a higf point of efficiency that he was almos
 universally praised. He was remark | a h1y r1o |,