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Show i SENATOR QUAY PASSES AWAY Dies at His Home in Beaver. He Slept Away and the End Came Peacefully Yesterday Yester-day Afternoon. Immediate Cause of Death Was Exhaustion, Ex-haustion, Due to Inability to Assimilate Pood. EATER. Pa., May 23. Col. Mat-S Mat-S thew Stanley Quay, senior Sena-JJI Sena-JJI tor from Pennsylvania, died peacefully at 2HS o'clock this afternoon af-ternoon after an Illness which had been .norc or less persistent for the last year, .hlch took a turn for tho worse ten days ago. and which tho doctors diagnosed diag-nosed as chronic crastrltls. Tho funeral will bo at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 31, and tho remains will be Interred In the family burial plot In Beaver cemetery. Senator Quay's lllneas was a recurrence recur-rence of tho troublo that beset him during the latter part of 1000 and tho early duys of January, 1001, when ho was undergoing tho strain of a desperate des-perate fight for re-election to tho Senate. Sen-ate. Senator Quay, In his health, was a great eater, and his troubles of later enrs dated from overdraught on his ltal system, duo to heavy eating, nmoklng and tho great nervous strain which ho underwent. Tnkes Long Outing. Last summer, after tho political situation situ-ation had cleared up in the Stnte, Mr. Quay decided upon a long outing. Accompanied Ac-companied by two friends he went Into I he heart of the great Malno wilder-nest", wilder-nest", traveling miles and miles and living liv-ing In the open. At that time he complained com-plained of weakness and continued loss of strength. He began to lose flesh it first gradually, but later pound by lound. Ills stomach refused to assimilate assimi-late the food It got, and, nutrition falling, fall-ing, weakness followed. On hlB return from the woods Quay vn bronzed an a veteran and looked turdy enough to live years. Ho celebrated cele-brated his 70th birthday at Beaver lost fall and at the time seemed In excellent excel-lent health. The loss of weight, how-ver. how-ver. distressed him. Day In nnd day out he went to a scale to see what his . eight was. He dropped so persistently persistent-ly that the alarm which pervaded his own mind spread to his friends and his family. The result was that he forsook his duties In the United States Senate md betook himself to Florida, hoping that the mild weather there would bring relief, but Florida failed to restore re-store vitality. The Senator went back to "Washington, "Washing-ton, and coon after was taken to Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, where he was placed under treatment of two eminent specialists of that city. They ordered him to Atlantic At-lantic City, hoping the sea air would aid In the recovery, but tho loss continued con-tinued gradually. Finding that Atlantic Atlan-tic City did nothing toward reviving the distinguished patient, the physl- Inns advised him to return to "Washington, "Wash-ington, There his condition continued unchanged. Constantly Expected Death. Senator Quay constantly expected death and told his friends so. The last call he made at the "White House he told President Roosevelt that he expected ex-pected never to recover and would hardly sec him again. To Attorhoy-Ocneral Attorhoy-Ocneral Knox he gave the same Information. Infor-mation. In order to escape the worries of 1 ofllclnl life and be entirely securo against Intrusion, Senator Quay de-i de-i Ided to come to Pennsylvania. In going go-ing to Morgunza, where his brother. Jerome Quay, was superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania reform school, the thought was that In that place he could be visited by none but his physicians and the family. Ills condition after arriving there was Buch is to give no encouragement to the family, although ho appeared brighter some days. The doctors, lighting stubbornly, stub-bornly, hoped against hope. It w.as refilled re-filled that the only chance of recovery Senator Quay had woa to restore Borne life and activity to tho stomach, which ibnolutely refused to perform Its functions. func-tions. Senator Quay himself told them ill it was useless, that he had run his course and waa gradually slipping wny. Hj Preparing' for tho End. Ten days ago he began tho arrangc- H rnent of his personal affairs, looking 1 toward tho end. The last paporu wero H rot signed until yesterday morning H (Friday), but tho arrangements were all made. In tho meantime no relief 1 came and the sapping of vitality con- tlnucd. The only food he could take 1 was a milk preparation. Sunday last his condition became so H alarming that the family decided to ro- H move him to Beaver. It was hoped H that the old homo and the old friends Hj would revive him. but It dldaiot. ThOBO who were permitted to sea him wero rhocked. Instead of the little, short, 1 stolid figure of yoro, there was an cmn- 1 rlated, sunken Quay, weak as a child, H unable to walk, peevish but brave. For H a day or two there waa Improvement. H ind hopo again pervaded the stricken H family, but it was merely temporary. H Showed Stoicism of Indian. H Quay showed all the stoicism of an H Indian in his last Illness. He held out H no hope of recover, and refused to H believe It was possible. Coolly and H firmly ha took leave of his dearest H things. Thursday last he asked to be H taken to his famous library, romark- H lng to his attendants: "I want to seo H my books onco more before I die." H Through it all his mental energies H "ever flagged. He joked grimly at B mes, and was cheerful in his com- H The relapse which alarmed the family H on Sunday last at Morganza recurred H again on Thursday night, and the alarm was so serious that tho Pittsburg Pitts-burg specialists were called In at midnight. mid-night. On Friday he rallied again and was able to converse with former Scn-ntor Scn-ntor J. Donald Cameron for a time. Senator Quay had sent for Mr. Camor-on, Camor-on, but never told anybody what he wanted. The same night the absent members of the family were summoned and every preparation for the end was : made. Last night his condition continued con-tinued worse and the end gradually came, stupor, fever, high pulBc and weakened respiration marklnc tho approach ap-proach of death. The pallbearers selected are a$ follows: fol-lows: Senator Penrose, Former Attorney-General John P. Elkln, William Montgomery, cashier Allegheny National Na-tional bank, Allegheny, Pa.; Samuel Moody, assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines; United Unit-ed States Marshal S. P. Stone of Beaver; Bea-ver; State Bank Examiner J. R. Hurrah; Hur-rah; Thomas S. Blgelow, leader of the Citizens' party in Allegheny county, and George T. Oliver, chief owner of the Pittsburg Gazette and Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Will He Sweeping1 Changes. Senator Penroso was asked thls-afternoon thls-afternoon what effect the death would havo on politics. He said: "I don't want to discuss it under tho conditions. condi-tions. Undoubtedly there will be sweeping sweep-ing chunges, but I cannot name theso now." Senator Penrose raced across the Stato from Philadelphia last night to see tho Senator before he dlod. He reached hero at 10 o'clock this morning, before the end had come. William Montgomery, cashier of the Allegheny National bank of Pittsburg, and a cIoho. business and social friend of tho Senator, tonight estimated that Senator Quay's estate was worth about J800.000, of which H00.&00 Is absolutely secured to hlB widow. It Is rumored that conferences aro to be held In Philadelphia Sunday, at which a successor to Senator Quay may bo decided on, nnd Governor Penny-packer Penny-packer asked to call a special session of the Legislature. Among thOBO mentioned men-tioned as posslblo successor to Senator Quay Is W. W. Frlck, with whom J. Donald Cameron spent the night after leaving Quay, and there Is a very strong feeling In certain quarters that J. Donald Don-ald Cameron will succeed Senator Quay and harmonize all the State factions. Sketch of His Life. Matthew Stanley Quay was born at Dlllsbury, Pa., September 30, 1833. He attended tho public schools and Jefferson Jeffer-son college, graduating In 1SG0 nnd In 1SC4 was admitted to tho bar. He was Colonel of the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers and military secretary to the Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil war. From 1SG5 to 1S67 Quay wus a member of the State Legislature and 1872 he was elected Secretary of the Commonwealth, Common-wealth, a position which he held for six years. He was Recorder of Philadelphia Philadel-phia and chairman of the Republican State committee during the following year and in 1879 was again elected Secretary Sec-retary of the Commonwealth, holding the ofilce for three years. Ho was delegate dele-gate to the Republican National convention con-vention in 1S72 and 187C and alBO from 1SS0 to 1892. The last State ofllce which he held was that of Stato Treasurer In 18S5. He was elected United Stntes Senator from Pennsylvania by tho Republican Re-publican party and took his Beat March 4. 1SS7. no was chairman of the Republican Repub-lican national committee In 1SSS. Quay was United Stntes Senator for two terms from 1SS7 to 1899. In tho latter year he was tried for misappropriation misappro-priation of the public funds and acquitted ac-quitted April 21, 1899, and on the eame day he wiw appointed United States Senator by Governor Stone of Pennsylvania. |
