Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1922-10-19
Political Boss Of Philadelphia
Succumbs After Long illness.
LITTLE DAUGHTER I'LL NEARBY
He Was SO Years Of Age and Ross
( From Work on Ash Cart to Be Null
ti-MiIlionaire.

Philadelphia. Senator Edwin H.
Ware died at his country home
"AbendruAe' Evening Rest), Amber.
He was 60 years old last July.
In forty years he rose from ash
cart driver to the political leadership
of Philadelphia
From modest beginnings In South
Philadelphia he has amassed $1,000
600 fortune which all the vicissitudes
OF politics could not dispense. From
an old-fashioned brick house he had
moved to beautiful palace, one OF
the show places Of suburban Philadel-
phia.
Philadelphia Witnessed the meteor
ic rise of figure unique in American
politics. In 1883 Senator Ware left his
wagon to pull doorbells In the cam
paign of his brother George A. Ware,
who sought election to the state SEN
ate
When he left this life he was con-
sidered one of the most powerful fig
ures in Pennsylvania politics. Cover
nors and mayors had been made by
him. Administrations had bowed be-
fore him. Among the sstalwarts" in
the city tears fell at the passing Of
"the easy boss"
The end came after FIVE remarkable
rallies DR.. Andrew Godfrey, Of Am
bier, and DR.. Judson Daland, of this
city, pronounced death due to oedema
of the lungs superinduced by throat
affection from which the senator had
suffered for some time and resulting in
heart failure.
Across the hall from the senator's
room his 10-year-old daughter, Abigail,
lies, unaware Of her fathers death.
She is recovering from an attack Of
double pneumonia contracted early In
October.
Constant attendance upon his daugh-
ter broke Senator vare's health when
he appeared 10 be well on the road to
recovery. Night and day he was by
her bedside until he collapsed a. week
or more ago Last Thursday she was
able TO walk to her fathers ROOM This
was one moment Of great happiness
for her father. light In the darkness
Of his own suffering.
Mrs. Ware, widow Of the senator,
was Frustrated by his death. Her
vigil has lasted for weeks. Recently
her daughter, and Mrs. James NJ.
Hazlett, wife of the recorder of deeds,
have been taking care Of her.
At the senator's bedside when the.
end came were his two physicians, his
widow, his daughters. Mrs. Charlotte
Ware Care, Miss Florence II. and
Dorothy Ware and his sons, Edwin H.
Ware, Jr., and George A. Ware, I'd.
Two brothers, Congressman William
S. Ware, who ip years of political and
business life, has been inseparable
from the senator, and Thomas w.
Ware, we're also there, as was the
Senator's sister, Miss Anna e.. Ware.
From apparent improvement Satur-
day, Senator Ware suffered severe
relapse early Sunday morning, his
condition becoming critical in the opin-
Ion of his physicians. With the in
domitable courage he has shown
throughout his entire Illness, the SEN
ator rallied and himself Gained the
fears of those by his bedside.
Sunday his. general condition APP
peared improved. Drs. Daland and
Godfrey, fearing another relapse, call
ed DR.. Thomas McCrea, Of the Jeffer-
son Medical College, into consultation.
It was decided to use anti-toxin in
jections to fight the poison.
Later the senator suffered severe
relapse. He sank into state Of
coma and his pulse was barely per-
ceptible.
The family was hurriedly summon
ed. The end came peacefully.
After the senator's death his physi-
clans issued post-mortem bulletin
explaining the attack to be cardiac
failure and oedema dwelling and In
fiammation) of the lungs caused by
the streptococcus germs which had
been generated during the throat In
lection.