Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-08
BODY OF ADD|CKS
BROUGHT TOC|TY
Funeral of PhiIadeIphian Who
Rose From Poverty to Million
aire Set for Tomorrow
MADE HIS FORTUNE IN GAS

Inc DOuy OIL y. CuWdIu nuui'hS'
once Philadelphia Office boy, who
made millions through operations in gas
companies, and who died in compare
tive poverty yesterday in New York,
will be brought to this city today. In
terment will be in Laurel Hill Cemetery
tomorrow.
Mr.. Addicks was born in Philadel-
phia. Up to a decade ago he was one
of the most widely known men in finance
and politics in the country. He once
served a Jail sentence for debt.
Heart failure is said to have caused
his death, which occurred in a private
sanatorium in New York. He had been
ill month.
Ran for Senate
The most famous of Mr.. Addicks's
gas company deals, out Of which he
made $4,000,000, was the Bay State
Gas Company. Later, in his thirteen
years of effort to be elected to a seat
in the United States Senate, he became
known as "the man who bought a
state" He sought election from Della
ware.
His millions enabled him to build up
a personal political machine which made
some of the most fantastic history in
the political life of Delaware.
Mr.. Addicks was born about fifty five
years ago and was graduated from the
high school at the age of fifteen years.
He then became a drygoods clerk and
later was employed In the store of Levi
Knowles, a prominent -four merchant.
In few years he was successfully es-
| tablished in business for himself. In
1877 he moved TO Claymont, Del, where
he intereted himself in the manufacture
| the manufacture of gas generating
| plants.
He became known as Gas Addicks.
| While a successful man Of affairs, he
always found time to take an active
interest in politics and soon after his
removal to Delaware he became leader
in the Republican party of that state.
He sought to succeed Eli Salisbury
in the United States Senate, but the
nomination in January, 1889 went to
Anthony Higgins.
Beaten BY Judge Gray
In 1892 he again began a vigorous
campaign looking to his election to the
Senate but former Judge George Gray,
Democrat, was elected. Another unsuc-
cessful attempt was made by him in
1894, when Mr.. Higginss term was
about to expire, but after a deadlock,
Colonel Henry a du Pont was declared
elected, although not admitted to the
Senate. A split in the party into two
factions ensued-the Union and Regu-
lar Republicans. Each put a ticket in
the field in 1896, with the result that
Richard r. Kenney, Democrat, went to
the Senate.
In .1S9S Addicks made another at
tempt for the Senate, but there was
another deadlock, lasting till the ad-
journment of the Legislature in March,
1890.
In 1907 he was living in dingy, Sc
cluded fat in Hoboken, where process
servers sought him.
Accusations that he had tried to
"hypnotize" his Hoboken landlady out
of her fortune brought reporters to
Philadelphia after Addicks about this
time from New York.
i Addicks married as his first wife
the eldest daughter of Washington
Butcher. One daughter was born to
them, Miss Florence Addicks, who later
became estranged from him. Mrs.
Rosalie Butcher Addicks, his second
wife, was his first wife's sister: She
sued him for divorce, naming her former
friend, Mrs. Ida Carr Wilson, widow.
as correspondent.
Addicks wus determined to clear Mrs
Wilson, and spent twenty nine months
in the effort, defeating Mrs. Addicks
efforts to gain a divorce. Later Mrs.
Addicks was given a sum of money
and again sued for divorce on the
grounds Of desertion. This suit was
successful and Addicks married for a
third time, this time taking Mrs. Will
| son as his bride,