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The Georgia Record.
VOL I.
DEATH CLAMSVANDERBILT
Cornelius, Head of Famous Millionaire Farm
ily, Expires Suddenly.
DEATH RESULTED FROM A PARALYTIC STROKE
Was Enjoying Good Health and Had Just Returnee
From His Summer Home.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the head of
the Vanderbilt family and multi-mil
lionaire, died of a stroke of paralysis
at 5:45 o’clock Tuesday morning at
his home in New York city. He was
in his fifty-sixth year.
Mr. Vanderbilt arrived at home from
Newport Monday night, apparently in
the best of health. He arrived at the
Grand Central station at 9 o’clock,and
drove to his home, which he reached a
tew moments later. Mrs. Vanderbilt,
his daughter, Gladys, and his young
son, Reginald, were with him. He
had not been more cheerful or appar
ently in better health in a long time.
He had spent most of the summer at
Newport, partaking in a mild degree
of the social life there.
Immediately after reaching his resi
dence he retired and was soon sleep
ing. About midnight he was seized
with a serious attack, and the house
hold was aroused. Telegrams were
sent to Dr. Walter B. Janeway and
several physicians. Only Dr. Brown
eoul ’-bt- Ev.-rythic-g
ble was done for the patient, but he
grew rapidly worse until the end.
Physicians worked upon the distin
guished patient for several hours, but
nothing they could do would revive
him. Mr. Vanderbilt remained in a
semi-conscious state for five hours,
when he died.
The attack had occurred with such
suddenness that there had been no
time to send for Mr. Vanderbilt’s
friends or relatives in town. At his
bedside were only his wife, daughter,
young son Reginald and some of the
family servants. They wore present
when the end came at 5:45 o’clock, a
little more than four hours after the
attack. The direct cause of death was
heart failure as the result of the stroke
of paralysis. Messages were sent to
his brother, his sisters, his son Cor
nelius and other relatives and friends,
announcing the sudden end.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew was
one of the first to appear at the house
of the deceased and he was deeply
moved by the death of the man who
had been his associate in business for
a number of years. William K. Van
derbilt, the brother, was next at the
scene of death. He was weeping when
he entered the house. It was William
K. Vanderbilt who has managed the
great railroad properties of the Van
derbilts in recent years.
Conelius Vanderbilt made a trip to
Europe last spring. He came home
on June 24th in company with his wife
and daughter, Gladys. The family
went to Newport at once and remained
there until lest Monday. He left
Newport at 1:20 o’clock Monday after
noon for New York in his private car.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., was in New
port at the time of his father’s death.
Mr. Vanderbilt's sou Alfred is now in
Japan. He left in June with two
friends for a trip around the world.
A cable dispatch was sent to Yoko
hama for Alfred Vanderbilt.
A coroner’s physician made an in
quest into the cause of death and found
that it was due to cerebral hemor
rhages. The coroner also viewed the
body and indorsed this finding. Per
mission for burial was given and the
body was embalmed. The reason for
calling in the coroner was that Mr. Van
derbilt’s regular physician was not with
him at his death and a strange doctor
was in attendance who had been called
into the case less - than twenty-four
hours before death ensued.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born on
Staten Island November 27,1813. Wil
liam H. Vanderbilt, his father, was at
that time a farmer, and Cornelius, at
Chicagoans Abandon Trip.
Indignation over the outcome of the
Dreyfus trial has caused a party of
over 700 Chicagoans, who were going
to the fair in a body, to abandon their
trip.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1899.
: the age of sixteen, left school and se
. cured a place as messenger in the Shoe
and Leather bank. His grandfather,
“the commodore,” learning of this,
' sent for him and asked why he had
i not applied to him for a place.
“Because I did not want to ask you
for anything,” was the reply.
This pleased the commodore, and it
is said that he made a codicil to his
i will a few days later, leaving $1,000,-
000 to his grandson.
■ Cornelius left the Shoe and Leather
bank to go into the employ of Kissam
: Bros., bankers, but later his grand
i, father asked him to enter the railroad
service. The young man was making
SOO a month, and he declined to leave
'• his place unless he got more money.
1 He was given $65, and he accepted it.
He was then about twenty-one years
old. The first place he was given was
• that of assistant treasurer of the New
York and Harlem railroad. His rise
•; was rapid, and he succeeded his father
!! as head of the Vanderbilt system.
Mr. Vanderbilt’s active career was
i ; practically closed when he suffered the
puru* j tic .uiukc iir-JStto.
Despite his enormous business in
terest, he found time to devote to
church and Sunday school work,
: which he began early in life. He gave
i freely to the railroad branch of the
■ Young Men’s Christian association,
and to the work of St. Bartholomew’s
Protestant Episcopal church in New
York city.
Mr. Vanderbilt's great business
career made his life necessarily method
ical, and he was noted for his punctu
ality.
When Mr. Vanderbilt was twenty
three years of age he married Alice
Gwynne, the daughter of a Cincinnati
lawyer. His first born son, William
11., died in 1892, while he was a stu
dent in Yale university.
Mr. Vanderbilt left five children—
Cornelius, Gertrude, Alfred, Reginald
and Gladys. Cornelius married f
daughter of R. T. Wilson, the banker,
about two years ago, and later Ger
trude became the wife of Harry Paynf
Whitney, son of the former secretarj
of the navy, William C. Whitney. At
the time of his death Mr. Vanderbilt
was president of the Canada Southern
railway, vice president and director of
the Beach Creek railroad, president of
the Detroit and Bay City railroad, di
rector of the Detroit and Chicago rail
road, director of the Dunkirk, Alle
ghany Valley and Pittsburg railroad,
director of the Hudson River Bridge
Company, president of the Joilet ane
Northern Indiana railroad, presiden
of the Leamington and St. Clair railroad
president of the New York and Harlem
president of the Niagara River Bridge
company, president of the Spuytoa
Duyvil and Port Morris railroad, di
rector of the Wagner Palace Car com
pany, director of the West Shore rail
road, director of the West Shore and
Ontario Terminal company, director
of the Toledo, Canada Southern Rail
road company, director of the New
York Central and Hudson River rail
road and a dozen other affiilated rail
roads.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Harry
Payne Whitney and his wife arrived
at the Vanderbilt mansion late Tues
day. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.,
remained at Newport. All of Mr. Van
derbilt’s children were in the city
Tuesday night with the exception of
Alfred, and he will undoubtedly come
home.
The home-coming of Cornelius Van
derbilt, Jr., was an unusually sad
one. The estrangement between his
father and * himself because of the
young man’s marriage with Miss Wil
son had never worn away.
Ammunition For Kruger.
A consignment of 547 cases of am
munition, presumably bouud for the
Transvaal, has been landed at Louren
zo Marquez, Delagoa Bay.
TARTAR ALLOWED CLEARANCE.
British Office Deen’ 'd It Unwise
To Interfere Wit.i American
Transports.
A Washington dispatch says: Clear
ance papers have allowed the
Tartar at Hong Kong, j It is expected
that she will proceed to the United
States at once.
The information thgt clearance had
been allowed came in a dispatch to
Adjutant General Corbin Thursday
morning from Colone; Metcalf, com
manding the Twentieth Kansas and
the troops aboard the transport.
It is supposed that clearance papers
were allowed upon th? suggestion of
the British foreign offi’e to the British
governor at Hong Ko A- that it would
be unwise to with American
transports.
Another dispatch fn m Colonel Met
calf, in reply to one B>nt Wednesday,
states that the Tartar was no more
overcrowded and that the food was as
good as on other tra sports leaving
Manila. He said that tlie trouble arose
among the discharged regular soldiers
who were returning Lome on board
the ship.
The incident is now regarded as
closed. It is learned at the state de
partment that the representations
made to Mr. Choate, our ambassador
at London, on this subject were in
the nature of a protest
HENDERSON WAt LYNCHED.
One of the Asflailnntw of Mn. Ash Meets
His Doom.
A wierd scene gree >d the citizens
of Ty Ty, Ga., when, they awoke
Thursday morning. jA tall, slender,
b'ack negro about 25/Vears old, who
■■ ..«► d- v.z*-.-
was dangling from a[ telegraph pole
I within three hundreql yards of the
Brunswick and Western depot.
Ed Henderson was arrested at Tifton
Wednesday and carried to Ty Ty, and
when iu the presence of his victim he
was immediately identified by her and
her little brother, who is about nine
years old. When Ed Henderson was
arrested he was wearing different '
clothing from those worn when he was
in Ty Ty the day of the crime, but the
clothes he had discarded were secured
by parties iu Tifton and carried to
Ty Ty, and they were recognized by
the victim beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Henderson claimed his innocence to
the last, but from his story related,
which was very conflicting, his guilt
was fully established in the minds of
all present.
The crowd was as orderly as if at a
legal execution. No insult or indig- !
nity was offered the prisoner. Not a
shot was fired, even while his body
was swinging. Not an oath uttered or
a shout raised. No lantern or torch
was lighted, and only the silent stars
looked down on the scene of retribu
tion.
After the execution all quietly dis
persed, but a determined search is be
ing made for the other criminal, who
is the real ravisher, Henderson only ,
being his accomplice.
In reporting this crime the victim’s
name was given as Mrs. Ash Johnson,
and the boy her son, but we find the
lady was a Miss Johnson, and married
a Mr. Ash. and that her name is Mrs.
Jennie Ash, and the little boy who
was in the cotton field with her is her
brother.
JOHN DELEGAL CONVICTED.
The Murderer of Deputy Sheriff
Townsend Is Sentenced To
Life Imprisonment.
The caso of John Delegal, of the
Darien, Ga., rioters, sent to the Ef
fingham county court; on change of
venue from Mclntosh county, was
concluded Thursday at Springfield in
a verdict of guilty of murder with a
recommendation to the mercy of the
court. He was sentenced to life im
prisonment. John Delegal, it will be
•remembered, shot and killed Deputy
Sheriff Townsend, who went to arrest
him during the time of the riots. His
brother and sister, who were indicted
with him, were acquitted.
The case of Henry Delegal, for
rape, which, after a mistrial in Darien
last week, was also sent to Effingham
county on a change of venue, was
taken up Thursday afternoon. This
covers the case out of which grew the
riots. There was no trouble in secur
ing a jury and the evidence was quickly
submitted.
JUDGES ASK MERCY
Formal Appeal For Dreyfus Is
Signed By Courtmartial
AND SENT TO PRESIDENT LOUBET
Parisians Are Confident of the Guilt of
Dreyfus and See No Fault In Ver
dict of Courtmartial.
A Paris special says: The court
martial, Monday afternoon, signed a
formal recommendation for mercy in
the chse of Captain Dreyfus. Its ob
ject is to eliminate the degradation
feature of the punishment. The rec
ommendation was sent to President
Loubet.
Except for slight street disturbances
Monday night Paris has remained un
expectedly quiet, but this condition of
affirrs is not likely to continue. The
long, heavy rain of Sunday, combined
with the fact that the leaders of the
opposing parties were all at Rennes
prevented any organized demonstra
tion. Then, too, the general public
was delighted with the verdict as con
firming the prevailing opinion.
Now, however, they are beginning
to see the want of logic in conceding
“extenuating circumstances” to a con
victed traitor, a concession which ex
ercises doubt as to the strength of the
case against Dreyfus. Moreover, pub
lic opinion is being sobered by read
ing the comments of the world at
large and by the prospect, however
remote, that the exhibition will be
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of millions to the country.
It is estimated that the last year’s
proceedings have cost the Dreyfus
party at least 1,500,000 francs. They
do not intend to let matters rest and
rumors are revived of the impending
arrest of General Mercier. He de
clares that he does not care what hap
pens, being quite sure that he has
done his duly.
It is understood that President
Loubet opposes such an extreme
course as prosecuting Mercier or the
other generals. He is rather inclined
to a conciliatory policy, extending
even to a pardon for Dreyfus.
The Dossier In Paris.
The dossier of the Rennes courtmar
tisl proceedings was received in Paris
Monday night for submission to the
military court of revision, consisting
of General Marcillo, Colonel Courbo
housse, Lieutenant Colonel Lagrene,
Major Copp and Major Allard.
It is said that Mathieu Dreyfus in
tends to supplicate Emperor William
to order the publication of the docu
ments enumerated in the bordereau.
M. Demange has been blamed for
conceding so many points in his
speech, but it appears that he did so
in the hope of winning another waverer
among the judges, who, however,
finally joined the majority on condi
tion that the verdict would be accom
panied with the proviso as to extenu
ating circumstances.
Quiet at Renne.o.
A state of calm prevails at Rennes.
All the troopsand gendarmes quarter
ed in the town and its environs have
left and the jouralists and others in
terested iu the trial have departed
since Saturday. The cases whieh for
the last few weeks have been thronged
by excited crowds are deserted.
Monday a solitary gendarme paced
up and down before the military
prison, and there was not a policeman
or soldier near the Lycee, which last
week resembled a barracks. Work
men were busily dismantling the
courtroom and packing chairs, tables
and benches on trolley cars outside.
Madame Dreyfus visited her hus
band iu prison Monday afternoon, but
not the slightest interest was shown
in their meeting by the population.
She found him calm and in better
spirits than could be expected.
TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA.
English Cabinet Decides to Send Ten
Thousand at Once.
The London Cabinet has decided to
send 10,000 troops to South Africa in
addition to the Natal force already
there of 5,000 men, of whieh reinforce
ments 5,000 men will be sent from In
dia, 900 from Engiand, a battalion of
the Northumberland regiment, and
the remainder frpm the Mediterranean
station. All go at once.
NO. 12.
URGE BOYCOTT
ON ALL SIDES
Fight To Be Made Against the
Paris Exposition.
A RESULT OF DREYFUS VERDICT
Congress Will Be Asked To With-
Draw Our Appropriation
And Exhibit.
A Washington special says: It is
believed that when congress assem
bles there will be considerable agita
tion of a proposition for this govern
ment to abandon its participation in
the Faris exposition. It is known that
expressions hostile to the exposition
quoted from Senator Stewart are very
widely sympathised in, and it is
thought that if the conviction of Drey
fus is permitted to stand there will be
very little friendly feeling for*Franco
among members of either the house or
senate. Such a move, however, would
be a grave one. It is pointed out to
. withdraw from participation in the ex
position would be regarded as an offi
cial insult to France. No further leg
islation on the part of congress is
jieedod to.carrv out the nlane of this
country for the expositieu.
About $1,200,000 has been appropri
ated for the expenses of the commis
sion and the government exhibit; the
commission has been appointed and
the space desired tor exhibits from
this country has been secured.
There are now only two ways in
which congress could interfere, one
would be to revoke such part of the
appropriation as has not been already
expended in the exp»ns«s of the com
mission and the other would be to
pass a resolution declaring that on ac
count of the unsettled conditions the
valuable government exhibits should
not be sent to Paris.
To do either of these things is suf
ficient, it is believed, to break off
all friendly relations between the two
countries. Congress and the state de
partment may look at the matter from
different points of view.
The president and the state depart
ment, having the responsibility for
maintaining our relations with foreign
governments, cannot be expected to
find in this affair a reason for involv
ing the country in an international
complication, and it is likely that the
executive branch of the government
will use what influence it can to pre
vent any baity action.
Unless congress expressly forbids it,
this government will proceed with the
preparations for the exhibition and
will send to Paris such government
exhibits as are decided upon, but this
will bo done with a realization of the
probability that much of the space se
cured with such difficulty for private
American exhibits will be left vacant.
Little doubt is felt that the latitude
allowed the private citizen will be
quite extensively availed of to with
draw from participation in the expo
sition.
Another difficulty in the way of an
effort to prevent participation in the
exposition, however, will be found in
the fact that before congress has as
sembled much of the government ex
hibit probably will be packed and on
its way to Paris, if not actually there.
The exposition opens in April, and the
work of transporting and preparing
the exhibit will have to begin some
months before that tame. Up to this
time, it is said, the preparation of the
government exhibit has not begun,
but the work will proceed as soon as
the government officials are ready.
Representative Hepburn, of lowa,
said that he had ceased to marvel at
the methods of French array justice
after observing how the trial of Drey
fus was conducted. No such trial or
verdict was possible in the United
States. He did not think it would in
any w r ay affect diplomatic relations
between this country and France, nor
did he think it would interfere with
the United States exhibitors at the
coming evposition.