The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-02
Oscar Han1merStein Noted I1npreSario
 Dies In New York
BEGAN CAREER AS EAST SIDE CIGAR MAKER-BUILT ELEVEN THEATRES MADE AND LOST THOUSANDS
 HAD 60 INVENTIONS.

New York, Aug. 2-Oscar Ham, merstein. veteran impresario, died at 7:25 p. m. yesterday at Lenox Hill hospital, Seventy-seventh street and Park Avenue. His death was due to diabetes and a complication of dis ca ses and had been imminent for days. Mir. Hammerstein lived thirty six hours longer than his physicians had believed possible.
 Nevertheless the end came suddenly and comparatively unexpectdly. His wife, son and two daughters, who had been at his bedside for hours, were absent from the hospital at the time. MT. Hammerstein's physician also was away. pr. M. Schvell. resident phy- sician at the hospital. was with him and summoned his family with all haste. They failed to arrive in time.
 Since Saturday afternoon, when MT.
 Iammerstein was taken to the hospi- tai from his home at 949 West End Avenue, he had been making a hope less but brave fight for his life. He conquered a similar attack a year and a half ago and had told frfnds he felt as well as ever. It was with outward expression of confidence that he entered upon his last struggle.
 Before dawn Tuesday physicians in attendance gave up hope. MT. Hammerstein, they believed, could not live but a few hours at most. He had sunk ino & diabetic coma and his right side was paralzed- From that time on his family scarcely left his bedside. They left the hospital yesterday afternoon for a short time in the expectation that no change was likely for some hours.
 Mir Hammerstein never rallied from the coma into which he had fallen. It was only a short time be- fore his death that indications that the final collapse was at hand ap- peared.
 The body of MT. Hammerstein was removed from the hospital to the Campbell Funeral Church, 1870 Broadway.
 Arthur Hammerstein said the body of his father would not be taken to the late residence and that burial would be in woodlawn Cemetery Monday. He said the body would be the first inferred in a new plot pur- chased in Woodlawn by the Ham, merstein family.
 From a little emigrant Jew making cigars on the East Side for 70 cents q day to grand opera impresario handling receipts of s60,o00 week. such was the romance Tn the flle or Oscar Hammerstein. who died last night. Inventor, editor, real estate speculator, composer, vaudeville manager, shrewd business man, reck- less plunger, humorist, builder of II theatres besides opera houses in New York, Philadelphia and London, he was one of New York's picturesque figures for half a century.
 Whimsical. temperamental, fear less. irascible, berating his audiences, his critics. assailing his foes, cajoling his singers, MT. Ham, merstein was ever in the limelight and often on the first page. As sh owman he had few peers. Whether he discoursed on divas or duchesses, his remarks bristled with epigrams. He was constantly in courts, suing and being sued. He summoned for tunes out of nothing and dissipated them as he indulged in his uncon- trollable passion for grand opera. Time and again he was penniless only to rise again.
 Long before he became the stormy petrel in the path of the aristocratic before the voices of famous singers were heard at the and salaries began to soar under the pressure of competition Hammerstein had made a name for