| Show E GOVFLOWER DEAD Acute Indigestion Develops Info Heart Failure THE END CAME SUDDENLY + I GOOD SPIRITS EARLY IN TH DAY Had Been a Sufferer Prom Gastritis Por a Long Time Was at the Eastport Country Club When StrickenSketch of Career of the Famous Financier 4 I New York May 12Former Governor i Rowel P Flower died tonight at 1030 at Inc Eastport Country club at East port L I 11 Flu s taken ill early in the day with Lere attack of acute indigestion in-digestion In the afternoon symptoms of heart failure supervened and he grew steadily worse until the time of his death The attack of heart failure was accompanied by a fainting spell and Mr Flowers family in New York City were quickly notified Mrs Flower Flow-er and the former governors nephew Frederick S Flower accompanied by Dr Thomas H Allen 11 Flowers physician left at once on a special train for Eastport When they arrived ar-rived there 11 Flower had somewhat recovered but tonight the attack of heart failure was marked and Mr Flower became unconscious an hour or more before his death At the club house all the reports early in the evening regarding Mr I Flowers serious illness were emphatically emphatic-ally denied although at that time It was not believed that he would recover 11 Flower has been a sufferer frm gastritis for a long time every now and then having an acute attack For a month or two past he has been a regular regu-lar visitor at the Eastport Country I club in the hope that he would find some relief in the ease He was in robust health yesterday and this i morning when he arrived at Eastport I where he intended to remain until Monday his health was apparently excellent ex-cellent The attack from which he suffered today came on suddenly and was of a more severe type at the outset out-set than any he had previously suffered suffer-ed from Frederick S Flower took charge of the details after his uncles death but I no arrangement for the funeral has e been made The body will probably probab-ly be transferred to Manhattan tomorrow tomor-row morning Roswell P Flower was born In Theresa Jefferson county New York Aug 7 1835 Roswell was the sixth of nine children and when his father died he was eight years old He worked with his brothers on two farms his mother owned and spent his time between ownel anl tme tween school sessions jn the hardest kind of labor He became deputy postmaster of Watertown N Y in 1853 and kept his place six years Then he became a partner In the jewelry firm of Hitchcock Flower frm Hichck FIOer bought out his partner at the end of two y ars and 1869 continued In the business Until 1869Mr Mr Flower came to New York in that year to take charge of the estate of Henry Keep whose widow was ln Flowers sister Mr Keep owned a great many railroad and other stocks and during the months before his death he spent much time In instructing Mr Flower about them Having thus gained an insight into Wall street and its methods Mr Flower formed in 1870 the firm of Benedict Flower Coin Co-In which he joined F C Benedict and H H Truman This firm was dissolved in 1S72 Not long afterward he organized organ-ized the banking fn of Flower St Co which has since been a power in Wall street Mr Flower always was a Democrat In the early 70s he helped Samuel Tilden to develop the famous organization organiza-tion which exposed Tweed and enjoyed many other triumphs Mr Flower was chosen chairman of the Democratic state committee hv 1877 and in 1881 he defeated William Wal dorf Astor for congress after a hot campaign in the Eleventh district His majority was 3100 while Levi P Morton Mor-ton Republican had carried it at the I last previous election by more than 7000 I voles He refused a renomination He ism was elected governor of the state in II ismMr Mr Flower took up Brooklyn Rapid Transit less than two years ago buying buy-ing from 20000 to 30000 shares at about 25 when the capital stock was only 50000 He absorbed many subordinate subordi-nate lines among them the Nassau Electric company and increased the capital stock to 45000000 and by his extraordinarily successful manipulation manipula-tion put the price up to 137 His holdings hold-ings In Brooklyn Rapid Transit alone which cost him two years ago little more than 500000 are worth at todays market price more than 3000000 11 Flower was one of the founders of the Federal Steel Trust whose stock already issued is 99737800 Good authorities au-thorities estimate that Mr Flowers profits in the last eighteen months In Wall street have exceeded 10000000 He has become in that time the acknowledged ac-knowledged speculative leader in the financial markets of the United States Mr Flower married Sarah Woodruff a daughter of Mr and Mrs Woodruff of Watertown in 1859 Three children were born of whom only one survives Emma Gertrpde who is the wife Of I John B Taylor |
