Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-12-07 | Page 1 | Henry Peery's Career Closed

I HENRY i CAREER CLOSED GIOSI I Prominent Capitalist Suc Sue Succumbs Succumbs to Brights Disease in Los Lo Angeles MAN OF MANY GOOD DEEDS HIS LOYALTY TO FRIENDS AND QUIET GENEROSITY Special to The Herald Los Angeles Dec 6 David Henry Peery died peacefully at 1230 this afternoon at the ho hotel hotel hotel tel In the hour of his death he called the tile members of his family and his friends who hurried to his bedside and thanking them for their kindness and sympathy s begged them to remain until the end came The dying man smiled as he listened to the blessings which were bestowed upon him in mes messages messages messages sages from sorrowing friends and then sank into unconsciousness His body is being prepared for burial at W V H undertaking establishment establishment and will be shipped to Salt Lake at 8 Sunday morning on the Los Angeles limited The funeral will be bC held at 2 Wednesday afternoon In i the tabernacle At the request of Mr Peery P ery It is probable that B H Roberts will vIlL officiate The body will be accompanied by Mrs Irs Letitia H Peery his mother Hor Horace Horace Horace ace E Peery Mrs Irs Charles C Richards Harry S Joseph Jo eph Ben Luce E M lI Mood Mend R W V Sloan and J A Patte Last Wednesday Mr Peery sent for several sev ral of his friends to come to his I bedside His sister Mrs Irs E F Fulker Fulkerson Fulkerson son of Chicago reached Ogden today tod ly but was stopped there by a telegram which h announced his death Joseph Luce Mead and Sloan reached Los Angeles in time to see him Mr lIr Peery Peer recognized them and expressed his ills gratitude In answer answering answering answerIng ing his summons Among those who sent telegrams of sympathy s were James A Pollock D U DC DC UC C Dunbar Durbar Reed Smoot George Sutherland Sutherland Sutherland erland William Igleheart Joel L Priest Mr and Mrs Samuel Newhouse James Jam s Shorten J U IT Eldredge Frank Knox Gus Holmes J d C Lynch H If S Young R E Hoag James H Doug Douglas Douglas Douglas las C E Luce Tod Goodwin E B M 31 I Conroy Thomas Kilker of Goldfield oldfield i and George Wingfield of Mr Ur Peery came to Los Angele Angeles last lat October for his health The malady had affected his system but phi phy physicians expressed a hope of checking it A brave fight light was made by Mr Peery and his friends were untiring In their efforts to ease his last mo moments moments moments ments SORROW IS WIDESPREAD Quiet Benefactions Endeared Him to Many He Ho was my good friend There were tears In the eyes of a big bigman bigman bigman man who stood in front of The Herald office yesterday afternoon and read of the death of D H Peery As he walked away two bright drops trickled down his cheeks A friend asked what trouble had come to him himI I have lost as good a friend as a man ever had he said When I was sick friendless and without means Henry Henr Peery saw that I was looked after He sent me to a hospital had me put In a private room with a special nurse and andall andall andall all the attention anybody any bod could have been given And after I left the tue hospital while I was still too weak to work he sent mc me money He was my good friend The big man went on his hla way sorrow sorrowfully sorrowfully sorrowfully fully Henry Peery had had nothing to gain by aiding him and the man knew It He lie knew Vi his case was but one of many man examples of the Impulsive big bighearted bighearted bighearted hearted generosity of Henry Peery Peer That Is why there was mourning In I Salt Lake yesterday when over the wires from Los Angeles came the word that nil 11 nf of Mr hsi h n AT PT P peeling g and l that t all of them had hoped d against hope would not come It was the message that told of his death the end of his tong oner battle against a disease that had slowly sapped his strength and broken his constitution More than a year ear ago Mr lIr Health began to fail He complained fre frequently of headaches and was often com corn compelled compelled polled to leave his office before the days business was done In order that he lie might rest Nevertheless he continued at his work remaining sometimes at his desk long after lie ha should have gone to rest Mr Peery had been so active all his life that he was most reluctant about giving up his business or even een about consulting a physician Last winter when he was In New York he consulted specialists about his condi condition condition condition tion but they did him no good They seemed at a loss to account for his Ill Illness illness illness ness Very gradually he grew worse Early last t spring he went to Los Angeles and remained there several months The change of altitude and the complete rest apparently benefited him and though he was far from well when he returned to Salt Lake City In August he was able to toa again a aln In a measure resume dally daily work at athis athis athis his office Continued on Page 12 HENRY RY POT CAREER CLOSED Prominent Capitalist Succumbs Suc Succumbs Succumbs to Brights Br Disease in Los Angeles MAN OF MANY GOOD DEEDS HIS LOYALTY TO T FRIENDS AND ANE QUIET GENEROSITY Continued from Pane Page 1 This lasted only a fow weeks Again Agair he began to fall faU noticeably and six ix weeks week ago he returned to Los Angeles Angele At tha that time tho the attack of ot Brights disease which killed him had made inae marked progress Privately Mr physicians held out no hope for his recovery Friends who went to the station with him tho night lie e started for tor California knew know In thi hearts that they would woud never seo him alive again Mr Ir Peery was most courageous how however however however ever Although he ho felt that the chances chancer wore were decidedly against him and al although although although though there was a hint of sad lad ad finality In some of the farewells he be said to his hi friends friend his general demeanor was waff hope hopeful I fiji ful But the seal of death was upon him The verdict had already been written For Fora j or a time after he reached Ix Los Ios s Angeles his hi condition apparently Improved He at least kist l st held his own ownA ownA ownA A little more than two weeks ago though a decided change for tor the woree worse came His brother Horace E Peery was first summoned to his bedside Later he asked that his Ills mother be brought to him and finally his sister Mrs Irs C O C Rich Richards Richards Richards ards was Was called Other friends were with liim ilm daily doing all they humanly hum could to alleviate his sufferings A week ago It was as clear that the end could not long longhe lie he delayed Mr death seemed a question not of days but of hours Whon hen the realization that he was wa about to die came to him one of the strongest characteristics of the man his love for his friends was manifested He asked that telegrams be sent to those of whose affection he had long been be n assured nam narn naming naming ing many of them One of ot the messages read Henrys Illness has taken a turn for forthe forthe forthe the worse and his recovery seems very doubtful In his hour of uncertainty he desires to send best boat wishes f too t you Thus Henry Peery Peer said goodbye as the night drew on To ro his last breath he was Joyal oal to his friends Dispatches received last ast night Indicate that the end was allbut all allbut allbut but painless Murmuring the names of ol his bis friends as a child murmurs the names of loved ones In the eventide when sleep ep weighs Its tired eyelids Henry ry passed into his final rest Shrewd Observer of Men MenD D H Peery was still a young oung man at atthe atthe atthe the time of oL his death He was born forty one years rears ago in Ogden and there thore he grew to manhood From his boyhood he was keenly Interested in business and irom from his boyhood ho he was as a shrewd ob observer observer observer server of events and of ot men It has been said eald of him that he was as one of the best judges of men the state has ever pro produced produced that once he made up his mind about an he was very rarely mistaken It was in the merchandise business in Ogden that Mr Peery Pee made his begin beginning beginning beginning ning Later in the early earh nineties he en engaged engaged engaged In the real estate business and closed out his Interests at a handsome profit In 1834 he was appointed clerk of I Ithe the Weber district court Later in 1897 1297 he came to Salt Lake City where he had lived Jived ever since Here he Identified him himself himself self with mining both as an operator and developer of properties and as a stock stockbroker stockbroker broker Mr Ir Peery soon became prominent in business and in politics for both of which i he was splendidly adapted In 1898 he was elected to the state senate to nil fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George A Whitaker and served through the ensuing session with splendid fidelity to the interests of his constituents Al AI Always Always ways an earnest uncompromising Demo Democrat Democrat Democrat crat In 1904 lOOt Mr Peen Peor was elected na national national committeeman from Utah for tor his party larty an office which he held until his death In this as azin in all his other spheres of If activity Mr Peery was diligent and faithful At the time his last Illness be began began began gan he was arranging his affairs so that he lie could attend the committee this month to designate the city in which the next na convention is to be beheld beheld beheld held As has been said one of the most prominent traits in Mr Ir character r was his hig loyalty to his friends He could not boar to hear a friend spoken of slight slightingly slightInglY and no matter who uttered the unkind words Mr Pearl promptly resent resented ed them He was also loyal loal to the city of his birth and to its people This last led him sometimes Into what seemed to somo some people extravagances but he laughingly laugh laughingly insisted always that nothing was wa w too good for Ogden or Ogden people Many Quiet Benefactions For example there theio were wore at various times In the Salt Lake Opera performances young women who came from Ogden And whether they were prominently In the cast or whether they occupied humble places in the chorus Henry lenry Peery never forgot them He made it his business to find out what Salt Lake woman was getting the handsomest hand handsomest handsomest bunch of flowers Then ho he saw to it that the Ogden girl got a good deal handsomer floral tribute For several years it n was his custom to visit the Hermitage in Ogden canyon canon and here for several days das Always on thes he would arrange fiestas offering prizes for the handsomest girls the homeliest man the best dancers It was as hie his very great pleasure at such times to bring his friends about him friends both from Salt Balt Lake and from Ogden and have them enjoy themselves Of Ot Henry quiet benefactions a might be written without telling a tithe of them Indeed nobody save him himself himself himself self ever knew how bow much of ot that sort of thing he did for he be carefully concealed all nIl that he could conceal The Instances that came to light never came from him but from the beneficiaries of his generos generosity generosity ity fly cited at the beginning of this story stor was one Here Is an another another another other Some time ago Mr Peery Peer had In his employ a young oung clerk who one day da com corn committed committed a trifling error The night before had been a bad one for Peery lie He had suffered much pain and he could not sleep The result was that his system was out of tune The error grated on him hima He spoke harshly to the tle clerK much more harshly than he intended The clerk was waS indignant and said so and Peery Poesy apologized handsomely The next day he laid a stock certificate on the clerks desk d k Take that and sell it n he said It will net you OU or You have earned the money during the last hours And the next time I speak un unkindly unkindly kindly ly try to bear with me because I dont really mean a word of it IL it That Incident was typical absolutely absolute y Another typical incident witnessed by a friend was as a verbal setto with a tele telephone telephone telephone phone operator Mr Peery un tin understand why central was unable to get his number and he said so with some frankness before he hung up his receiver It more than a minute before le Ie called up the exchange again Is this the girl I was talking to a minute ago It was Well this Is Mr Peery Peer I owe you a box of candy and Im sending It over oer right away I want to bog beg b g your our pardon Mr Peery never forgot the th telephone operators at Christmas Always he sent each of them a box of as fine candy as asic ashe ashe he ic could buy And talking about Christ Christmas Christmas Christmas mas ho he never nevet forgot anybody His Christ Christmas Christmas mas presents ran into hundreds in num numer number her ber er and into thousands in value He lie de delighted delighted lighted particularly in remembering peo people people I pie who had been good to him as a boy especially If It their circumstances were such as to warrant the belief that his of offering offering fering would materially heighten their Christmas pleasure Sorrow In Goldfield There will be bo sorrow In Goldfield over the he death of Henry Peery Three years ago when Goldfield came into being he heas was as among the first to go o in there There he 10 remained for a year during a period of depression and he made friends throughout the district s George Wing Wingfield V Ing Ingfield field the millionaire mine operator was one of the closest Mr Wingfield consult consulted ed Mr Peery on all occasions rarely making an important move without wit out first hearing suggestions from him Mr and Mrs J Casey McDannell McDonnell of the he Merchants Hotel at Columbia now of the Hotel Casey at Goldfield were other close friends of Peery Poesy They will regard his death as a personal p bereave bereavement bereavement bereavement ment It was as Mr Peery who named the new hotel for them and a suite that he never lived to occupy was always re reserved reserved served there for him And there are arc many others In Goldfield and in that vi vicinity who will mourn sincerely for Henry Peery In New York City Mr III Peery was al almost almost almost most as well known as in Salt Sait Late Lake His headquarters In the metropolis were at athe atthe atthe the he and he was fond of getting his friends around him there A returning Salt Laker once said that Henry Peery got more attention at the than Charles M Schwab or anybody else that frequented the place ilace Many lIany Inquiries were received yesterday afternoon and last night regarding the date ate of the funeral services It is c certain r rain ain tain tam that friends from all over Utah and Nevada will avail themselves of the op Gp opportunity If it is offered them to pay paya a last tribute of respect to Mr memory I Mr Peery Feery was president of the Salt Lake mining exchange for three years I A committee was appointed yesterday to draft appropriate resolutions