Show SURROUNDED WITH SYMPATHY Childs Funeral 1VII1 Probably lie Public Philadelphia Pa Feb 3George W ChIde philanthropist and proprietor of the Public Ledger passed away this morning surrounded by his family and friends One of his physicians made the following statement to an Associated Press reporter this morning morn-ing Childs suffered no pain his end was peaceful a befitted his life He has been unconscious for three days except ex-cept at intervals The change for the worse became manifest about 930 last evening his pulse faltered and he became be-came rapidly worse Then It worse was apparent ap-parent the end was near and death was only a question of a few hours The paralytic stroke which he suffered on January 18 only affected his right side causing him to lose the use dL 1 i t j Itt I > tt o i both the right arm and leg During the last hours he lay like a child asleep and when he grew so much worse about midnight every effort was made to rouse him but without V avail Childs fortune is believed to be lao rge but whether one million or ten la-o those intimately acqpainted with his affairs know The profit from the Ledge is said tJ average as high as 1000 a day and he had made many 1p profitable investments He leaves one child and it is i probable his namesak George W Childs Drexel son of his old friend A J Drexel < and now publisher pub-lisher u of the paper will assume full charge of i The first knowledge many citizens had of the death was secured through seeing the crep on the door of the late residence ornon the doors of the laL Ledger office Hundreds of telegrams announcing theideath were sent by Mrs announcng Childs direction this > morning to friends in this country and Europe and hundreds of dispatches of condolence con-dolence were received The arrangements arrange-ments foe the funeral will not be completed com-pleted till late this afternoon Mrs Childs would like the funeral to be private but friends are urging that on account of his position i is due that he be given a public funeral Among the hundreds of telegrams received by Mrs Childs today the following fol-lowing l offered condolences Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison J G Carlisle W Q Gresham H A Herbert Her-bert W S Bissell Sterling Morton J Jefferson A P Gorman Governor Robert Pattison of Penpslyvania Bishop Bis-hop of California Julia Marlowe Senator Morrill C H J < mes editor of the World E Rosewater Omaha Bee Abraham S Hewitt John A Cockerill New York Advertiser St Clair Mc V Kelway Brooklyn Eagle Horace White C Vanderbilt Whitelaw Reid Daniel C Gillman Piesident Johns Hopkins university John R McLean lln J McLeal Cincinnati Enquirer Murat Halstead H H Kahlsaat Kahlsat Chicago InterOcean and Chronicle M H DeYbung San Francisco |