Show SENATOR HEARST Californias Democratic Senator Caliornas i Bead H SCENE AT THE DEATHBED He Passed Quietly Away Last NightSketch of His LifeHis Success In Various Fields A Good Man Gone WASHINGTON Fob 2SSenator George Hearst of California died at his residence on New Hampshire avenue at 910 tonight He has been ill a long time and in December Decem-ber last went t New York city to consult with Dr Charles Ward His physician i found he was afflicted with a complication I of diseases resulting primarily from serious seri-ous derangement of the bowels Acting upon his physicians advice he returned toMs to-Ms family in this city and yielded himself entirely to medical treatment Absolute quietude and rest were strictly enjoined and his official duties lightened as much as possible Notwithstanding the fact that he received the benefit of the most careful nursing and the most skillful medical attention atten-tion a steady and uninterrupted decline vas observed and it was seen several weeks ago that his case was a hopeless one Within With-in the past day or two there was a change for the worse This evening ho sank rapidly rap-idly and his family was summoned to his bedside Those present were William R Hearst the Senators son J G Follansboe Dr of California the Senators partner Ward nurses and several domestics The Senators hands were held by Mrs Hearst and his physician and so quietly and easily did he pass away that Mrs Hearst did not know that he was dead until 60 informed by Dr Ward He gavo no indication in-dication whatever of pain or discomfort and seemad to the anxious watchers merely t have fallen asleep Dr Ward said tonight to-night that the Senator displayed wonderful fortitude in his illness and had not during its entire course uttered a complaining the word or expressed the least fear as to result The Senators death was communicated by his private secretary to the sergeautat arms of the Senate and subsequently communicated com-municated to that body The President also promptly notified Senator Stanford who has been a frequent visitor at the house of his late colleague called there a few minutes after his death and extended his sympathies to Mrs Hearst Many other Senators and Representatives and leading officials called and left messages of condolence condo-lence While arrangements for the funeral are not entirely completed i is settled that the remains will be taken to San Francisco for interment and the funeral services in this city will be brief and simple The will probably be conducted at his late residence in this city tomorrow or Monday as it is desired to convey his remains to California as soon a possible George Hearst was born i Franklin Mo September 3 1S20 His father had gone t that state from North Carolina in 1819 The son received only such a limited education a the common schools afforded in that day Ho worked on his fathers farm until 1S50 when ho caught the gold fever and went t California For several years he was a miner and prospector and subsequently by location and purchase he became the owner of valuable val-uable mining interests and a large employer em-ployer having at one time a many as 3000 men at work i his mines alone and operating oper-ating quartz mills tat crushed 1000 tons ot ore per day The increase of his wealth was steady and rapid and for some years past his income in-come has been something like 1000 per day He has been for a long time chief partner in the extensive mining firm of Hearst Haggin Tevis Co He owned Hearst above forty thousand acres in San Luis Obispo county California a ranch of 165 0 acres of grazing land in Old Mexico stocked with a very large herd of cattle and a fine stable of thoroughbred horses He was also interested in a large tract of land near Tern Cruz and in railroad building build-ing l Mexico His fortune at the time of his death was estimated at 20000000 Mr Hearsts political e began in 1865 when he was elected t the California legislature and served one term In 18S3 he was a candidate before the Democratic state convention at San Jose CaL for the nomination of governor but was defeated by General George Stoneman The latter was elected governor and when by the death of United States Senator Sen-ator John F Miller in 1SS5 the power of appointing a Senator was given to him he appointed his former opponent for the gubernatorial gu-bernatorial nomination Mr Hearst The latter was reelected in 1837 by the California Califor-nia legislature which was then Democratic Demo-cratic and his term would have expired in 3S93 His death gives the Republicans in their turn the gves advantage which the death of Senator Miller gave the Democrats Demo-crats cratsWhile in the Senate Mr Hearst was a man of action rather than of words He 4 took but little part in the debates a he suffered from a weak voice but when he did address the Senate his speeches were always brief but pointed Senator Hearst leaves a widow and but one child William B Hearst proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner Mr Hearst was in person tall and slender ivith blue eyes and long gray beard He was a good type of the old California pioneer pio-neer He was warmhearted impulsive and generous popular with his associates in the Senate and had many devoted friends frends The following tribute to the memory of the late Senator i from the pen of a well known Californian For thirty years or more George Hearst has been one of the vital men of the west one of the individual forces which have been inspired and given direction to that quick and vast development of its resources which is one of the material miracles of the century But it is not a the mining expert ex-pert the organizer of gigantic enterprises enter-prises or the possessor of a groat fortune that he will be mourned It is not an obituary commonplace but the simple truth to say that his death will bring sorrow to thousands of hearts Change of fortune made no change in the man As a Senator of the United States he was tie same simple unaffected clearheaded clear-headed warmhearted George Hearst who mined on the Feather and Yuba in the fifties and took his share of thorough free life of the claims and cabins To the thousands thou-sands of his comrades who knew him he remained always as a comrade Ostentation Ostenta-tion was abhorrent to a man formed on his rugged lines and it will never be known how many successful men owe their begin begn ning t him or how many lives were made easier to live because of his hidden helping had To hundreds of men hundreds of the associates and even tho acquaintances ofpioneer times he was a good providence Because ho was so thorough a Callfor alan Mr Hearst was held in affection by all Californians whose experience reached back to the days when railroads and the sharp competition of commercial life were unknown t the coast His years of hard work and intimate mingling with men of every social and intellectual sgrade gave him C knowledge of human nature and a sympathy with its defect and weaknesses which kept him free from the pride of purse and hardness of feeling that sometimes some-times go with the riches of the selfmade men and while he had a singularly keen perception of character and shrewdness that baffled all pretenders his heart was tender his charity great and his capacity for forgiveness inexhaustible Neither in business politics nor in private life would he cherish enmities but when I blows were necessary he would give as well as take for he was a man of intense and strong character but the battle overlie over-lie was for shaking hands with a good humor that had in it no mixture of guile I he has loft enemies ho has passed away hating none Without previous experience of nubile Ufe Mr Hearst the miner and man of business went to the Senate and although in that body he spoke seldom he brought his duties a consciousness and an industry that made him highly useful to his neonle in his committee work The t sturdy good sense of the manhis knowledge knowl-edge of affairs and particularly of the needs of the Pacific coast more than compensated com-pensated his constituents for deficiencies as a public speaker He earned the esteem of the Senate and the best men in it became be-came his friends as good men did everywhere every-where His death is a serious public loss not alone to California but to the entire Pacific Pa-cific coast and particularly to the miners whose special friend and advocate he was In the death of George Hearst a strongman strong-man an able man n good and very humble man has been taken away He had a manly a gentle and a loving heart There will be moist eyes in thousands of western homes grand and humble at the news of his death and the sorrow will not be least in the cabins dotting the cations and streams of the Sierras |