Show FISHER SANFORD HARRIS I PASSES TO GREAT BEYOND DEATH ENDS NOS A BUSY LIFE Demise of Popular Man Fol Pol Follows Follows lows a Long Illness From Prom Laryngitis and Tuberculosis V sis of the Throat REALIZES END IS NEAR AND PREPARES HIS WILL WILLIn In Following His Ambition to Build Up the West He Over Overtaxed Overtaxed Overtaxed taxed His Voice While Mak Making Making Making ing Speech and Hastens End UTTERANCES WILL LIVE Fisher Tisher Sanford Harris Earns is dead Alter After a period of slight improve improvement improvement improvement ment taken as ns a hopeful sign fl he suffered a severe relapse yesterday afternoon and died at 8 30 last night conscious to the last breath Those who stood about him say that he died smiling and peace peaceful peaceful ful Surrounded by lifelong l elong friends and members of his family and the whole city hanging tense on the latest news from his Ius bedside he smiled the rec roe recognition recognition that a voice denied and made it known that he was aware of the approach of death Sev Several Several eral minutes before the end he indi indicated indicated his desire to be placed in a chair where he died with no tremor nor any sign of pain or struggle Death was duo to laryngitis complicated ed tl with tuberculosis of the throat Two years ago Mr MI Harris strained his vocal ocal chords In his Ills famous speech at Denver enver before the tha Dry Farming con congress gross gress The Tho speech brought the to Salt Lake but b t s returned ed edwith with his bIB brilliant career as an nn orator for tor forever foreve ever eve ev shattered by the loss Ios of his hie hi voice Learned specialists told him the t e strain was but temporary aDd ami that he would rover recover r his speaking peers A year ago such proved to be the case tIe and for the brief space of three months he again a sought to assume his title as the great greatest greatest est eat orator and public speaker ap aker of the west welt Last the disease dist aBe coming coining on again with complications forever blighted his hopes and he grew steadily the th affliction causing a general p breakdown bre k own Early Barly in October as a last resort he went with Mrs Harris to New York to consult with Dr a famous throat specialist Within one week he returned home with the specialists ver Yer verdict diet dict that he might live Jive three months or orte he te might die within ten day daye da His condition was Wa kept from the public for or IV far ar the general concern would af affect affe a feet fe t his spirit Medical aid being de do despaired of Christian Science was called Into usa use and the little family took new hpe Cheerful from froni habit Mr Harris kept hit hIs hS loved ones cheerful and al although although although though fully tully aware of his condition hop hotd d against hope himself Knew End Was Ws Near Saturday he Imparted to his family his knowledge that death was near and asked that Judge O 0 W IV Powers be called In Jh long conference with his hiB b ed hed he hed hed d w up his hie last will in full pe pos if all ail his mental faculties and bd bid doe Powers goodby informing him tt t t he hedi did di t not expect to live Uve more than several r ral this dj 8 longer At Vt the tune time of ot the relapse yesterday e afternoon Gus S Holmes Joseph Joeph E Calne Caine aln W V J Halloran A J J Davis and other friends hurried to the Harris home at 1 Thirteenth East street and were with Mr Harris Hams Ha ls when n he died Mrs Har Her Harris Herne ris ne prostrated at first bone bore up as well as rould be expected Worn out with days of anxious watching she happily felt fell foU asleep several hours after her hus has husbands husband band bands death and Anet nd IB Is resting easily today Fisher Sanford Harris was the organ organizer her izer and secretary of ot the Salt Lake Com Corn Commercial i mercial club chub the medium through which he wielded probably greater Influence for good for Salt SaU Lake and Utah than any man ian in the history of the state He was originator of the See America First Idea Hen l one that has received national roe rec recognition He wee was president of or the Dry Farming congress for one year and is known as one of the founders of or that as His speech before that body at Denver two years oaFs ears ago has gone clown In hi history as one of the most eloquent masterful mastt orations ever eer delivered dt by an au American The last lines linea of this speech When n nesting birds shall fill flU the can cannon non riona a mouth and forts are Continued on Page 2 t kd J d i No k 4 W i is io ito J i s J o Y 1 to Ji jo r k kIi k y Ii f i kt fI r 1 1 FISHER SANFORD ORD HARRIS FISHER SANFORD HARRIS Continued from Page 1 sights for curious men Is now known throughout America as a gem sem It has been printed on numerous pamphlets in all alt persons of ot the country and locally has been immortalized by enthusiastic admirers of the tho man Stands Unique in History Fisher Harris stands unique In the his history history tory of the west Without money mone or fi ft financial financial backing or any Rny power but that of his own wonderful personality and re remarkable remarkable brain he became an empire builder In the truest sense Every ex extensive extensive plan for the of Utah and Salt Lake had Fisher Harris at the bottom of It He Ho conceived the Wizard of the Wasatch idea one that Is la likely to do great good to the state He told the board of governors of the Commercial club how they could build a new home and Invented the plan for the raising of the necessary funds He made of ot the Commercial club a statewide organization tion solidly united for the single purpose of ot building up the state and incidentally the west Never more than moderately supplied with money himself he probably probably probably ably wrought greater riches for tor the com corn community community both industrial and otherwise than any man of money In the state He was born near Norfolk Virginia of an old southern family Sept 19 1865 His schooling was gotten from the tho country schools of his home village and later he attended the University of ot Virginia Be Before Before Before fore finishing his studies he came west and was appointed clerk to the quarter quartermaster quartermaster quartermaster master at Fort ort Sheridan near Cheyenne Wyoming when only 18 years old A year later he went to Denver as ns clerk of the St James hotel where Gus Holmes since his lifelong friend found him and brought him out to Salt Lake as clerk cl rk of the old Continental hotel Mr Harris was then 21 years yens old A year later the Knuts Knutsford Knutsford Knutsford ford hotel was opened and Mr Harris went in as clerk which position he held for twelve consecutive years yearn Seven years ago he organized the Com Corn Commercial Commercial mercial club and a p 1 year later inter accepted the nomination of city treasurer on the Democratic ticket and as he often put it with the understanding that he was not to be elected It was another Instance of the power of personality over every everything everything thing else He had already ady won his way to the hearts heam of all Salt Lakers and a landslide in his direction was tho the result For two years during the administration of Mayor Richard Morris he fulfilled the duties of ot treasurer leaving the office with an honorable record Building Salt Lake The last five years of his life Mr Har Bar Harris Harris ris devoted entirely to tho the building up of ot Salt Lake Through him and his sil eu eloquence all America came cameto to know that Salt Lake existed He spoke at every important gathering In the thc west and always his theme was Salt Lake City Utah and the west It became a great with him this build building lag ing of a commonwealth and aud he be threw himself into it with a seal eal and zest that was his bis final undoing The See Sae America First Firs t Idea was his pet hobby With numerous magazine ar articles tides ticla and splendid speeches he caught and held the attention of ot the country It was while touring America in the In Interests threats of ot the thc plan that his voice failed tailed him at Denver before the Dry Farm con congress congress gress gross He returned to Salt Balt Lake and the tragic years ears that followed are well known to all Salt Lakers Laker His voice gone and suffering from the th dread tuberculosis of ot the tho throat he took i up the heavy duties as sec sac secretary secretary of the Commercial club from which position he engineered the biggest things Salt Lake ever did He helped bring the Grand Army Anny of the Republic here and numerous lesser gatherings He was truly the center of Salt Lakes civic ac activities activities activities Only when his ailment had reached a stage calling for Immediate con consultation with a specialist did he leave his post poat He was the life Ufe of the Commercial club With the great power of or that solid soUd or organization organization organization in his hands and with his won wonderful wonderful brain to wield meld it there is no tell telling tellIng tellIng ing what his ambition to make Salt Lake might have wrought Friends of af Mr Harris whom when asked for tor expressions of their regard for Mr Har Harris Harris Harne ris ne were unanimous and unstinted in their praise last night W J Halloran president of the Com Corn Commercial Commercial mercial club said sald You cannot say too much good of at Fisher FIshe Harris Salt Lake has lost a 0 man who practically gave his hi life Ute to the up building of the city At present I feel too tood deeply d DIY his death to attempt a proper ex of his worth The club as a whole will attempt proper observance of ot othIs his untimely mt ly death dt nth Gus clue Holmes who was WaB associated with Mr lr Harris probably closer than any oth other other er man said of ot his friend nd He was the tile truest man I have bave ever known Big in heart and brain and filled with a great gr t purpose j he achieved great greatness greatness ness in tn my opinion through unselfish devotion to his fellow tellow men flies He had no rio great money Int here or and yet he brought wealth Inestimable to Salt Lake through his unceasing boost boast boasting boostIng boostIng ing and working for the city As a per personal personal friend of mine he be was the most lovable man on earth earthA A J Davis said Not now nor for tor a long Um will we wo fully appreciate the worth of ot Fisher Har Bar Harris Harris Barne ris ne to Utah At present wa only mourn his death I can only say he was a mil mai whom men might say they loved Fisher Harris Is survived by a widow two sons eons and a 8 daughter These are Fisher Harris Jr a High school student Robert Harris Harri and Mar Ma arat Harris The Time family was one of the best known in the city and Mr MI Harris numbered his social and personal friends by the hundreds Of Ot Othis his relatives in Virginia but one sister survives him It is known that he made full tull plans for tor tho the disposition of ot his body bodT and md it Is un nn understood understood that his request was that he be burled with Masonic Masonis rites rUes of which lodge he was a prominent member Funeral s will oe os made to today today today day and an his hla requests will vill ill be followed The lub will bo be 1 0 placed md In m d dep sep mourning until after thC th funeral As a body the club members will select some means of showing their regard and respect for the past s of the club The board of governors will meet today for far these thue arrangements |