——— Sn HIS DEATH AT ANDSEETCH OF HIS LIFE. Beginning ct His Political Career. Speak- er, Senator, Secretary of State, Presi- His Bereavements and I11-Fated House in The Blaine Household. dential Candidate and Historian. Washington. Mr. Biaine died at his home in Wash ington, D.C., Friday morning, at 11 o'clock The end came peacefully. He was surrounded by his family at the last moiaent. Death came painlessly and quietly. Its approach was made evident to the family fully two hours before its occurrence, JANES G. BLAINE—FROM HIS LAST PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1802, Between 8 and § o'clock Friday morning the first dangerous symptoms were observed Mrs. Price, the trained nurse, had gone for her breakfast, leaving the patient temporar ily alone. Blaine Lad passed a restless nigh and had been pronounced ‘not well” by his physicians. but beyond a perceptible in crease of the languor which bis condition during the previous few once saw that the end was drawing near Both physicians were immediately tele- . graphed for, and arrived in a few minutes. Toe powerful heart stimulant, nitro-gly cer- before brought the patient back out of the valley ine, which had wzeveral 1imes of death, was powerless now. In the meantime all the family had been summoned into the death chamber—Mrs. Hattie Blaine, his unmarried daughter; ) rs, Dam- Blaine, the devoted wife; Miss rosch, "his married daughter, James G. Blaine, Jr., his only surviving son, and Miss Dodge (Gail Hamilton), his cousin. In silent, tearful sorrow they witnessed The patient luy so the closing scenes. guietly that even the doctors were hardly able to say when he died. No werd of cop- tciousness. 10 look of recognition passed. At 10:45 he lay so still that the window shades were raised to give more light, to enable the physicians to determine if life still lingered. Fifteen miuntes later they proclaimed him dead. The news was instantly flashed ¢ll the world. Young Mr. Blaine was in the act of writ- ing a note to President Harrison to inform him of the event, when the President him- self arrived, accompanied by his private tec- retary and Secretary of State Foster. All the rest of the Cabinet quickly followed and ihe excitement throughout the city became genera! as the news spread. Congress adjourned and the former associ- ates of the ex-Senator and ex-Speaker of both political parties united in tributes to his memory. The physicians have officially made pub- jc the cause of desth ss Bright's disease, aggravated by tubercular disease of the Jungs and followed by ber: failure. eloquent om ree i tm MR BLAINE'S HEALTH HIS HOBBY From Boyhood Up He Had a Dread of Illness. He Thought One Foot Bigger Than the Other. WasHINGTON, Jan. R7.—Many have been told relative to Mr. Blaine's dread of illness. He was a hypochon- driac, and from boyhood up was Ii ble to allow his 1magination to exaggerate slight ailments. A story attributed to his brother. Robert Blaine, illustrates this one peculiarity of the great states man. ‘4Jim.” as his brother called him, got it into his head one day when a boy that his right foot was considerably smaller than his left. This idea preyed upon his mind until he sought his brother. “Y,00k here, Bob,” said he, "I think there is something the matter with my feet. Isn’t my right foot smailer than my left??? Robert, in order to tease him, pretended to examine the tuture states- man’s feet very closely and then said very siowiy: “Why. Jim. I do believe it stories WASEINGTON bad marked days there was no very alarming change to be bem noted. When the nurse returned from her breakfast. however, her experienced eye at over Both houses of EULOGIES IN CONGRESS. 3 fitting Words Spoken in the Senate and House, After Which Both Bodies Ad- journ for the Day. WASEINGTON, Jan. ¥7.—The Senate met this morning in the gloom which the in- telligence of Mr. Blaine's death naturally cast over the Capitol. Mr. Hale, of Maine, one of deceased’s closest friends, formally announced the death. He said: A very great man has passed from this earth. James G. Blaine is dead. His career was so remarkable and his services so great that in all the histories which may be writ- ten of his time he will stand as the central figure not only as to his pwn country, but on politics and subjects that affected other reat nations. He belonged not to any one State, but to all the country: the Pennsyl- vania, which rave him birthplace and nur- tured him, and Maine, where he made his home, and where he became her first citizen, - { and which filled his lap with all the honors which she could bestow, mourn bim - | no more to-day than do the dwellers by the shores of the great gulf and in the cabins of the far Sierras. He was for years a distin- guishea member of the House of Repre- sentatives and for six vears presided as its Speaker. He was twice Secretary of State, and was until of late a member of the pres- ent administration. Ido not think there is one Senator here who will not deem it fit- ting, in view of these facts -and of the fact that he died where his last peaceful look from his chamber window might embrace this Capitol, where his voice had been so f many times heard. that we make a prece- dent at this time. and that. although Mr. Blaine was at the time of his death a pri- vate citizen, this body take immediate ad- journment. Mr. Cockrell, Democrat, of Missouri, moved an adjournment and it was unani- mously carried. In the House, after the chaplain had referred feelingly in his prayer to the i death of Mr. Blaine, Mr. Milliken, of Maine, made the formal announcement. Mr. Holman, Democrat, of Indiana, said: The deaths which have been announced so recently of illustrious citizens may well bring fo our minds the prophetic words of the Hebrew King, ‘How are the JIgbty fallen!” The death of James G. Blaine will protoundly impress the sensibilities of the country. A great man is dead. He laid the foundation of his fame in this city. Here were his great and early triumphs How often have we heard in this hall the one of his ringing eloquence. Great in statesmanship, known not only in eur country, but to the statesmen of the civilized worid. And not only great in statesmanship, not only one of the illustrious characters which have illustrated the value of free institutions, but bevond that he was great in the field of literature. As the historian of the grandest epoch in the history of the world, he did nis » | work well. His history. covering a period of years, will go down to posterity as one or the brightest illustrations of the period in which he lived, and of the grandest events of which he was a part. It would seem, Mr. Speaker, to be emi- nently proper and fitting that with the an- nouncement of his death here in this, the . | theater of his first achievements, this house, out of respect to his memory, should ad- tT! journ. I therefore move that the House do now adjourn.” The motion was agreed to and the House adjourned. eine THE CAUSE OF DEATH. Intersticinl Nephritis,a Form of Bright's Disease, Coupled With Lung and Heart Trouble: The Fatal Attack. 3 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The physicians have officially made pubiic the cause of death as intersticial nephritis, a form of Bright's discase, aggravated by tuber- cular discase of the lungs, and followed by heart failure. Dr. Johnston said that since the attack ol heart failure on Sunday, December 18 Jast, there had been no hope of Mr. Blaine’s ultimate recovery. Hisdeath was but a question of how long his remarkable vitality would hold out. Following is the official statement of the attending physicians, Drs. Johnston znd Hyatt: “The beginning of Mr. Blaine's illness dates back some years. The carliest signs of ill-health were associated with and no doubt due to a gouty tendency, which manifested itseli in sub-acute attacks of gout, disturbances of digestion and progressive innutrition and anoemia. “Subsequent events prove that at this time changes were going on in the art- eries of the body, which resulted later in symptoms of obliteration of vessels and in chronic disease of the kidneys. The attack of paralysis in 1887 was ccnnected with similar alterations in the blocd ves- sels of the brain. “During the summer of 1892 tne evi- dences of tailing health were more de- cided, and in November, atter his return to Washington, his symptoms suddenly assumed an aggravated form. From this time, although there were periods of ap- parent improvement, he continued to grow worse from week to week. “The symptoms were, at first, more di- rectly connected with the kidneys, and examinations of the urine showed that there was a progressive intersticial change going on in the organ, and that he had a form of chronic Bright's disease. In December signs of lung complications appeared, which were no doubt connected with the general disease: but as tubercle bacilii were found in the sputa, it is probable that there was some tubercular infection as well. Much of the distress which Mr. Blaine suffered was associated with this disease of the lungs and his death was certainly hastened by it. “Toward the end of December, the heart began to show signs of unusual weakness from cardiac degeneration and dilatation, and on December 18 he had an alarming attack of heart ‘ exhaus tion; from this he rallied, but others of the same nature recurred on several occasions. From the middle of January these attacks ceased ana the action of the heart was more uniformly goed. There was, however, a daily loss of flesh and strength. “For three days before Mr. Blaine’s death there was no marked change in his condition: each day he seemed somewhat more feeble than on the day before, and on tne night before his death he did not seem to be in any imme: diate danger. Towards the morning ol | January 27 his pulse was observed t¢ be very feeble and his breathing more embarrassed. As a result of the tailing heart action oedema ol the lungs oc curred, and he died without much suffer: ine at 11 o'clock. “During the whole of Mr. Blaine’s ill ness the digestion was well performed, and jz sinaller than the other one.” | liquid food, chiefly milk, was taken in ful 4] knew it was,” replied James G.| guantities. His mind was generally «YWhat do vou suppose I had better do| clear, except when clouded by uroemi: about it?’ When “Bob” saw how much and disturbed brain circulation. Al to heart his brother took the supposed discovery, he did argument and some ridicule to do so. Mr. Blaine could not be called supersti- tious, yet anything concerning his health liable to upset him. The clerks and others about the and safety was always Btate Department were aware of this and any occurrence about his that might have his comfort or peace of kept from his knowledge. knowledge. A large chandelier, whicl hung directly over the seat he alway occupied at his desk, fell one day with 2 an completely smashed the chair which Mr. terrible crash. It was very heavy Blaine would have been sitting in had h been at his post. ] 2 not to tell Mr. Blaine, knowing would worry him. that i tm ee 4 vad — Tar demand for work by unemployed J., that the girls is so great at Harrison, N. .amp Company had to ap Baison Electr peal to the police to preserve order. have been put to work since the ha Te ‘sion in favor of Edison in relatio lamp. all he could to disillu- sionize him, but it required considerable office interfered with mind was Just before he returned from his stay at Bar Harbor, in she summer and antumn of 1891, an acci gent happened in his office at ine State Department of which he never had any The attendants agreed Nearly n i | though unable to express himself ir words, he recognized all the members o! his family up to within a few moments o his death.” The stateraent of the physicians wil not be supplemented by an autopsy, the members of the family being thoroughly satisfied as to the cause of death. The body will not be embalmed for burial, tae family objecting to any disturbance of it The funeral will be as unostentation as it is possible to make it. There wil be 12 pallbearers, selected from among Mr. Blaine’s personal and official friends None will be chosen because of thei position, but naturally the larger portior will be from the ranks of official life. 1 2 ‘Chree Men Killed in a Collision. Two freight trains collided on the Santa Fe road near Millsdale, nine miles south of Joliet, 111, and Engineers A. M. Rahn and + | Richard Mitchell and Brakeman M. J. Ma- horney were killed. The other trainmen escaped without injury. Bo bh trains were badly wrecked apd the pecuniary loss will be heavy. € ie een OP me — Tne British and Foreign Bible Society fi weight of nd portions of Scrip. out every day five tons les, Testamne ) TEEPRESIDENT DEEPLY MOVED He Orders an Adjournment of the Cabi net Meeting and Issues a Proclamatiol for Official Mourning. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—1he Cabinet wa: in session when the newe of Mr. Blaine’: death was announced to them. President Harrison was deeply moved and said he felt unable, under the circumstances, te enter upon the consideration of any public business with the members of the Cabinet, most of whom had been associ ated with Mr. Blaine in the official family relations, and therefore the meet. ing of the Cabinet was adjourned. he President later issued the follow: ing proclamation: It is my painful duty to announce to the people of the United States the death ol ames Gillespie Blaine, which occurred in this city to-Gay at 11 o'clock. ¥or a tull generation .this eminent citizen has occupied a conspicuous and influential position in the Nation. His first public ser vice was in the Legislature of his State. Afterward for 14 years he was a member of the National House of Representatives signed his seat in that body in 1881 to ac cept the nosition of Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Garfield. After the tragic death ot his chief he resigned, gress” a most valuable and enduring con. tribution to our political literature. In State and continued to exercise this office until June, 1892. His devotion to the public interests, his marked ability and his ex- alted patriotism have won for him the gratitude and affection of his countrymen and the admiration of th world. In the varied pursuits of legisla tion, diplomacy and literature, his has added new lustre to American citizen: ship. As a suitable expression of the National appreciation of his great public services and of the general sorrow caused by his death, the departments of the executive branch ot the Government at Washington be closed, and that on all public buildings throughout the United States, the National flag shall be displaved at half-staff, and that for a riod of 30 days. the Department of State draped in mourning. The Mourning Universal. WasHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Legisla. tures of the various S{ates that are at present in session all adjourned to-day upon learning of Mr. Blaine’s death. rom all over the country come expres- sions of sorrow. Telegrams of condo- lence are reaching the Blaine family by the thousands. SKETCH OF MR. BLAINE'S LIFE. James Gillespie slains was born on the 31st of January, 183), at West Brownsville, Penn.. in a house built by his great-zrand- father before the War of the Rsvolution, which stil} stands. The Gillespies and Blaines were people of standing before the Revolu- tion, Colonel Blaine, who was commissary- general of the Northern Department of Washington’s army during the Revolution, was James G. Blaine’s great-zrandfather. ‘When eleven years old, he went to live with uncle, Thomas Ewinz, in Ohio, where his mother’s father, Neal Gillespie, an accom- plished scholar, directed his studies. Later he attended Washington College, at Wasb- ington, Penn., graduating at the age of sev- enteen. After leaving college he tanzht school at Blue Lick Springs, Ky. It was as a profes- sor in the military school there that he made the acquaintancs of the lady—a schobl teacher trom Maine—who afterward became his wife. Later he went to Philadelphia, where he tauzht school and studiel law. But after two years he abandoned law stud- ies, went to Maine, and became proprietor and editor of the Kennebec Journal. At the birta of the Republican Party he was a delegate to the Philadelphia Conven- tion in 1856, which nominated Fremont. After serving as Speaker of the Maine Leg- islature, he was sent to Congress and began his National career in 1862, with the out- break of the war. During thas Yorty-first Forty-szcond and Forty-third Congresses he was Speaker of the House. Mr, Blaine’s administration of the Speak- ership is commonly regarded as one of the most brilliant and successful in the annais of the House. He bad rare aptitude and equip - ment for the duties of presiding officer, and his complete mastery of Parhamentary law, his dexterity and physical endurance, his rapid dispatch of business, and his firm and impartial spirit were recognizad on all sides. It was during his occupancy of the Speak- er's chair in 1874 that he took the floor ani succeeded in defeating the passage of tne original *‘Force bill.” The political revulsion of 187+ placzd the Democrats in control of the House, and Mr. Blaine became the leader of the iainority. "I'he session precading the Presidential con- test of 1876 was a perioi of stormy and ve- hement contention. Oa the 21 of May a resolution was adopted in tae House to in - vestigate an alleged purchase by tae Union Pacific Rai.roud Company oi certain bonds of the Little Reckend Fort Smith Railroad Company. It soon became evident that tha investigation was aimed at Mr. Blaine. An extended business correspondencs on his part swith Warren Fisuer, o! Boston, rua- ning through years and relating to various transactions, had fallen into the hands ola clerk named Mulligan, ani it was alleged that the production ot this corrassondenc: and, devoting himself to literary work, gave § to the public in his “Twenty Years in Conf March, 1889, he again became Secretary of § I direct that on the day of his funeral, all} transaction, was traveling in Europe and both sides were seeking to communicate with him. After finishing the reading of the letters Mr. Blaine turned to the Chair- man of the Committze aud demanded to know whether he had received any dispatch from Mr. Caldwell. Receivinz an evasive answer Mr. Blaine asserted, as within his own knowledge, that the Chairman had re- ceived such a dispatch ‘‘completely and ab- solutely exonerating me from this charge and you bave suppressed it.” About the bezinaing ol his administration he purchased his late home, which is on toe opposite side of Lafavette square, and is known as the Seward House, The old place had been unoccupied for somo years and was in a dilapidated condition. It was considered notoriously unluegy, two tragedies having occurred within its portals. During Buchanan's administration it was occupied as a clubhouse. One day Philip Barton Key, the vounr ani handsome Dis trict Attoroey of the District of Columbia, FT, HH] . - Tn LAUT a Settee Lg et tenga Steet ——— MR. BLAINE'S RESIDENCE Ee TTT TT 1 TCL 8 HHH | Lo | 12 a Or du Stn Ma ey BD IN WASIINGTIN, D. C. In 1875 Mr. Blaine was appointe1 to ths Senate to fill the vacancy causal by the re- signation of @enator Morrill, ani the nex’ winter was el8cted by the Legislatura to the succeeding term. His career in the Senats | was both brilliant and distinguisied, as it bad been in the House. He was called from | the Senate to enter President Garfald’s | Cabinet as Secretary of State. It was while | passing through the railroad depo$ leaning on Mr. Blaine’s arm and pleasantly chatting with him about his coming holiday that Garfield recaived the assassin’s fatal bullet. The death of Mr. Garfield led to Mr. Blaine’s ratirement from the Cabinet, in Decamber, 1882. From that date until he entered Mr. Harrison’s Cabinet as Secretary of State, he was in private life except during his campaign for the Presidency in 1884. uring his retirement Mr. Blaine wrote his “Twenty Years in Congress,” a work of great historical value. It was in accordancs with his original suggestion and dus to his earnest efforts that provision was made in the McKinley bill for the reciprocity trea- ties which formed such prominent features of National policy. Tne Samoan difficul- ties, the complications arising out of the lynching of Italians at New Orleans,and the WRI. JAMES G. BLATNT, killing of American seamen at Valparaiso were also disposed of while Mr. Blaine was at the head of the State Department. The events precading and attenlinz ths recent Minneapolis Convention ars too recent al- most to need recounting. Mr. Blaine was inducad to permit his name to ba used asa cindidate, and resiznal bis plac: io the Cabinet. Whether in public position or in private life, he alwavs remainad a central fizure in National affairs. BLAINE'S LIFE IN WASHINGTON. For nearly tairty vears Mr. B.aine has been a rasident of Washinzton. Wails he never gave up his homs ani home life in Maine, whera he had a town residence in Augusta and a summer residence at Bar Haroor, yet he also had a home in Washing- ton. 1s was only a few years after going there as a Member of Congress that he would confirm the imputation agaiust Mr. Blame. \When Mulligan was sammozed to . MR. BLAINE'S BIRTHPLACE me DM. . ir Washington Mr. Blaine possesse 1 himself ot the letters, tozether with memorandum that contained a full izdex and abstract. On the 5th of June, 187% he ross to a personal explanation, and atter denying the power of the House to compsl the production of his private papers, and his willingness to go to any extremity in defense of his rizhts, he declared that he propose to reserve noth- ine. Holding up the letters he exclaimed: “Thank God, I am not ashamed to show them. There is the very orignal package. And swith some sense of humiliation, with a mortification Ido not attempt to conczal, with a sense of outrage which [ think any man in my position would feel, I invite the confidence cf 40,000,000 of my counirymen while I read these letters from my desz.” i sed with a dramatic , one of the origina- k and Fort Smith Rail- owledge of the whole Lought the residence, 821 Fifteenth street, 7 opposed him: but the stranger, making a i} teint of departure, suddenlv snrangz at ‘} ages that swathed his neck saved him | intruder retreated lie was again intercepted, hai just left the ciubhous> whsn he was shotdown by Congressman Sickles, of New York. Mr. Key was carriel back to tke clubhouse. An’ intrigue which Key had bzen carrying on witn Siciles’s wife was the cause of th2 encounter. ‘Two years after this occurrance the house, whica was for a time unoccupied, was taken by the then Szcretary of State, William H. Ssward, and he moved into it with his fam- AA RAC TE iy 4 T= — BLAINE'S AUSUSTA RESIDENCE. ily. On the night of April 14, 1865, while Mr. Seward lay sick in bed in one ot the upper rooms, a big, oak complexioned, broad shouloered man ranz the door bell and told the servant who admitted him that be had a package of medicine which the Sec- retary’s physician had ordered to bz deliv- ered to him personally. The servant ra tused to allow him to go upstairs and the Secretary’s son, Frederick W. Seward, also Frederick and felled him to the floor with the hutt of a revolver, almost on the same jnstant slashing the servant with a knife. Ee then darted forward and reached the sick chamber where Secretary Saward was sitting up in bed. The knife gleamed again and Mr. Seward, weak and helpless, was stabbed in the face and neck, but ths band- from a mortal wonnd. As the murderous this time by Major Augustus H. Seward and an attendant, but he shook them off, and running down stairs, leaped on his horse and rode off. He was captured =a tew days later, and being fully identified as Lewis Payne, one of the men implhicatel mn President Lincoln’s death, was tried, condemned and ex- ecuted with his fellow-conspirators. Secretary of War Belknap was the next tenant of tae house of misfortune, and for a time the soverold edifice became gay with thelife of the Grant regime. Before a twelve- month its evil genius had again asserted it- self and Mrs. Belknap lay dead under its roof after a brief illness. Then, after the Belknaps vacated, it again did duty, as in the earlier days, as a boarding-house, but Washington had somehow got ths impres- sion that the place was uncanny and that its tenants wera dogzad by an evil fate. For a time the Commissary Generals staff held possession, then when they had moved to the War Department’s new build- ing it was again tenanties:. 1t was about this time that Mr. Blaine, shortly after his appointment as Secretary of State by Presi- dent Harrison, astonished his friends by renting the ill-omened house for ten years at $3000 a year. He decorated and reno- vated it throughout, tearing down the walls of the room in which the attempt on Mr. Seward’s life took place, and by generous expenditures transtormed the dingy old wide-roomed house into a magnificent mod- ern residence. Yet all the changes failed to | eradicate the characteristic attributed to the mansion by the superstitious Washington jane. Becoming its tenant, Mr. Blaine has encountered the greatest reverses to his am- bitions, and experienced the keenest sorrows of his life. MR. BLAINE'S HOUSEHOLD. Of Mr. Blaine’s six children. threz—two sous and a daughter— were suddenly stricken down by aeath atter reacaing maturity. His § I NEAR WASHINGTON, PENN. was about the year 185). when he was elected Speaker of the House for the first time. “he house he bouzht was one of a row which had just bean built and was re- garded at that time as ond of the chief architectural features of the city. He made bis home at 821 Fifteenth street for over ten years, and then having built the fine residence froatinz on Dupont Circle. he sold the old house and took poss3ssion of the new one. The death of Garfield ani Mr. Biaine’s retirement from public life caused a change in his plans and he leas:d his Dapont { Circle house to Mr. Loiter. He was { absent from ths city for savaral years, al- | though he speat a portion of one or two i wintars there and occunisd the house on La [Res he lived so many years. This fayette square adjoining Ganeral Beaie's residencs, which is ownel by ta > daaghte: j of the lat> Rapregentative Scott, ol Pennsyi- | vania, Mrs. Scott Towasend. { eldest son, Walker, a young man of fine parts, who nal ‘given evidence of rare abilities ani was apparently | cei. man, in manner and character destined to a brilliant future, died two years | aro. Emmons, his second son, a bright closely resembling his father, also died sud- denly in the heyday of youth and prosperity. A tmird and crushing bereavement was the death of the eldest daughter, Alice, | who was married to Lieutenant Colonel i Jehan J. Coppinger. It followed closely on the death of her brother, Walker Blzine, whose funeral she was at- tending when seiz:l by the fatal ill ness. Ot the three surviving children, the son, James G., made an unfortunate marriage, tae results of which em- { bittered the latter years of his father’s lite. One of the daughters, Miss Margaret, is married to Mr. Walter Damrosch, the fa- mous New York musical director, and the other, Miss Harriet, is unmarried. Mrs, BLAINE'S COTTAGE AT BAR HAREOR. Blaine is still an active and brilliant | lady. She has been a devoted wife to the | great statesman, wao.n she marriel forty- | one years ago when both were school | teachers in a country district with but little | to indicate ths prominent place they were | destined to fill in the hixheso circles of the and rare order. MEN WHO KNEW BLAINE WELL. THEY SAY HIS ACHIEVEMENTS WERE OF A HIGH AND RARE ORDER. HE RANKED WITH GLAD STONE, AND BISMARCK. WasHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Senator Jobn Sherman, of Ohio, was asked to-day for an ‘expression of his estimate of Mr) Blaine’s character as 2a man and states+ man. “It would be useless,” he saidy “for me to attempt at this time to give expression to the worth of Mr. Blaine. Ihave known him since he was a lad, living with his uncle, Mr. Ewing, of Ohio. Our family was related to the Ewings, and while I was older than the boy, 1 saw a great deal of ‘Jim,’ as we called him. I have watched his career with the interest of a relation almost, and can only say now that his achieve- ments in statesmanship were of a high I feel personally pro- found sorrow at his death.” Senator John G. Carlisle said: opinion Mr. Blaine was one of men of this nation. He was brilliant and able. Ifeela deep sorrow at his death. His party has lost one of its greatest leaders, and the country has lost one whose counsels bave contributed greatly to the advancement made by it in the past 30 years.” A Democrat, who has been very close to the dead statesman, is Senator Black« burn, of Kentucky. Whiledeclaring that he had made a vow not to appear in an interview, Mr. Blackburn said: ‘‘There is no man who can bear witness to the lovable character and great worth of Mr. Blaine more emphatically than I. We were friends in the best sense of the word, and his death affects me deeply.” Representative Charles O'Neill 1s the “Father of the House.” and as such has watched the career of Mr. Blaine from the time the latter entered the House in the Thirty-eighth Congress. “I remem- ber well,” said Mr. O'Neill to-day, “of standing before the bar of the House and taking the cath with Mr. Blaine in the Thirty-eighth Congress. He was then a comparatively young man of most vigorous health. He was aggressive from the very first a he took his seat. That meant much in those days. Nowadays everybody is in a sense independent, but there was a disposition 80 years ago to be guided and controlled by the leaders. Mr. Blaine asserted his “In my the great independence at once, and sprang into the front ranks. He did not hesitate to measure lances with such leaders as Thaddeus Stevens and General Schenck. He was like William D. Kelly. of Philadelphia, one to lead and not to be led. No man ever had the hold upon the people that Mr. Blaine had. Jt was his charming, magnetic manner. I will always remember his kindness and the cordiality oft his greeting. He had a habit of calling me ‘Charley’, in a warm, cordial manner, that went right to the heart. As a statesman he ranked with Gladstone and Bismarck, and 1 be- lieve in some ways was greater than either. While his death has long been expected. I feel inexpressibly sad to-day to think that the great man has left us. 2 ————— i ee THE CONKLING EPISODE. Mr. Blaine in an Angry Altercation in the House Referred to the New Yorker's “Magnificent Turkey Gobbler Strut.” ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. ¥7.—One of the old est stenographers of the House said: “Mr. Blaine’s career in the House wag marked by many exciting episodes. He first came into prominence through an angry altercation between himself and the House from Utica, N. Y. It was in the war period, and Mr. Blaine made a bitter attack npon Mr. Conkling for hav. ing charged the Government with fees as a judge advocate while he was drawing pay as'a member of Congress. “Mr. Conkling repelled the attack, and indulged in some severe criticisms of his antagonist, wto in reply spoke derisively of Mr. Conkling’s ‘magnificent turkey gobbler strut.’ “The incident excited great attention at the time, and helped to bring both actors in it into that prominence which they each enjoyed during the remainder of their lives.” The National House of Representatives, said the same experienced reporter, has had few Speakers, if any, who enjoyed greater popularity among its mem- bers, or 'who exercised more influence over Legislators than Mr. Blaine. Democrats admired him for his impartiality and fairness, as much as for his abilities, and he had no faster friend on either side of the Chamber than Mr. Randall, the unflinching Pennsyivanial Democrat. Up to, and all through Mr. Randall's last illness, the kindliest rela tions were maintained between the two men, who had been so long associates on the fioor of the House. and who had each occupied the Speaker’s chair with signal ability and success. There are but seven of those who served with Mr. Blaine in the Senate remaining in that body, in which he served 80 honorably and so well. They are Senators Allison, Cockerell, Dawes, Gordon, Mitchell, Morrill and Ransom, four Republicans and three Democrats. There are but 12 members who served in the House with Mr. Blaine in the Forty-fourth or prior Congresses. These are Holman, O'Neill, of Pennsylvania; Harmer, Hooker, Blount, Burrows, Springer, Forumey, Culbertson, Bland, Henderson. of Illinois: and Ketcham. : —t FUNERAL OF BISHOP BROOKS. Simultaneous Services in Three Churches es and an Open Air Ceremony. The funeral of the late Bishop Phillips Brooks, of the Episcopal Church, occurred at Boston, Mass., on Friday. Thousands viewed the remains at Trinity Church. where the services were conducted at noon by Bishop Potter, assisted by Bishops Wil- liams, Neely, Talbot and Niles. When the procession started for Mt. Au- purn Cemetery, where the remains were laid in the family lot, a public service was held from the steps of the west vestibule of the church, for the benefit of the multi- ‘ude who could not gain entrance to the church. Simultaneously with the services in the church, there were public services of prayer in the First Baptist and Old South Church, both within a stone's throw of Trinity. Ateach there was a large atten- dance. GOING TO WALKER ANDEMMONS Mr. Blaine's Last Message by Sign to His Wife. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-—A pathetic incis dent of Mr. Blaine’s last moments was told this evening by a prominent Maine Representative, who was at the house just atter the end came. He says that while Mr. Blaine was sinking, but before he had entirely lost conscious- ness, Mrs. Blaine bent over the dying man and said to him: “Do vouremember Walker and Emmons? Do you know that you are going where they are?’ Mr. Blaine did not open his eyes, but the index finger of his outstretched hand slowly and feebly raised itself to point upward. This was the last indication given by the dying man of any kuowle Nation. i edge of earthly things. Mr. Roscoe Conkling, then a member of a AR er — In { No is Chi {essin If: stand wisdc O « thy st est i this, t Wi sure | tion i the w Th the w ‘crops fulne Me depres clear] and i Bible We true | in it tion { preps Do whel viru ing. the se plast vet. 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