Republican farmer., 1919-08-08

Park Avenue. His death was due to diabetes and a complication of dis cases and had been imminent for days. MT. Hammerstein lived thirty six hours longer than his physicians had believed possible.
 Nevertheless the end came suddenly and comparatively unexpectd1y. Ills wife, son and two daughters, who had been at his bedside for hours, were abscnt from the hospital at the time. Mfr Hammorstein's physician also was away. Dr. M. 5chvell. resident phy- stefan at the hospital, was with him and summoned his family with all haste. They failed to arrive in time.
 Since Saturday afternoon, when MT. fIammerstein 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 half ago and had told frinds 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 a diabetic coma and his right side was paralzed. From that time on his family scarcely left his bedside. They left the hospital yeste terday 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 Mir. Hammerstein was removed from the hospital to the Campbell Funeral Church, 1870 Broadway.
 Arthur Hammerstei 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 la day to grand opera impresarfo handling receipts of $60,00O a week such was the romance in the life 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, jcondcmning his critics. assafling his foes. catoling his singers. MT. Ham merstein was ever in the limel1sht and often on the first page. AS showmsn he had few peers. Whether Itxroa his remarks bristled with epigrams. He was constantly in courts, suing and being sued. He summoned for tunes out of nothing and dissipated thcm as he indulged in his uncon- trollnbIe passion for grand opera. Time and again he was penniless only to rise again.
 Long before he became the stormy petreI in the path of the aristocratic Metropolitan - before the voices of famous singers were heard at the Manhattan and salaries began to soar under the pressure of competition Jfsmmerstein had made name for himself
 He had invented a machine for wrapping cigars which brought him f10O.O00 and another for stemmdns the leaves which was equally profita- blc. He had bought and edited a to-
 
 tured in real estate before there was building on the West Side above l11Oth street, constructing some forty or fifty houses.
 Then he entered the theatrical business. First he built the Harlem Opera House in 125th street, then the Columbus theatre. which later became Proctor's 125th Street theatre, then the Harlem Music Hall. where Hur- tig Seamon's buriesques were present. Tod later. Failure stared him in the face many times before he saw profits. which were never large. For brief period the grand opera spell seized him. and at Thirty-fourth street he built the Manhattan Opera House. which opened with Moszkowskfs s T"Boabdir on January 23, 1893.
 But the time for working in such inn enterprise had not arrived yet and the structure was turned into a music hall when Roster & Bial bought an interest in the project Disputes arose and Hammcrstein sold out to his part ner. only to purchase for s1.00o.0O0 the plot in Broadway between Forty fourth and Forty-fifth streets where he built the Olympia. three theatres in one, now known as the New York and the Criterion.
 This venture was an absolute fail- ure and Hammerstein was compelled to mortgage his furniture to pay the rent of a $35 month flat. Nothing daunted, he built the Victoria, at the corr-y of Broadway. Seventh avenue and i2ud street. The building was two stories high when the contract CTS refused to continue without a z .rthcr payment They finally agreed -- 70 ahead for s2.0oo. The theat- rical manager was at his wits end 70 raise the money when he met in q street car chorus girl whom he ind employed in the Olympia. She drew on her savings account to help fim and he completed the theatre along with the Republic just behind lil These proved profitable. After ,.lc had built the Harris he was soon 1bie to indulge himself in a new Sfa nhattan. opera House in s4th bA.-cet-
 He sacrincsd everything 10 his one leAn==uon1sh. 1E:sndss health and