Show WILLAM f. f PUBLISHER Of NEW N YORK SUN i S DEAD DAU Was of Artistic Temperament Tempera Ten ment and an Authority on W Wood oo Engravings NEW YO YORK IC in 19 William lal 1 P. Laffan of York publisher th tIme the Now Su died diell today tOil at t his huis hil home in iii Long Jou Island following an au operation for ap appendicitis al ni performed on n Monday William Laffan s tho th successor or of tho lato into Charles A A. A Dana Dani in tho time management man of if the New York Sun Run and ami the publisher r of that hint I newspaper nes ne for for tin tin- last lat twenty twenty-fi- years fars Hi his Ilia homo hOlo was was in in La Lawrence L. L I. I I Mr lr Laffan Latan was born hor in iii Dublin Ireland ireland Ire ire- land two sixty years rs ago no O awl and sifter completing his studies in Dublin emit emit- 1 came lm to tu this thi country Once on San Francisco l' l Paper pcr In ISTO 80 ho hue was mado managing iD editor edi tor of tho the San Francisco Bulletin but two years vears later removed to Baltimore to become and amid half haIr owner of tho the Daily Dam Dai Bulletin subsequently acquiring ac ac- ac quiring limit full ownership of that flint paper While in iii Baltimore ho ito ned married laric 1 the daughter of Judge e Daniel Danie of Washington D. D P. P Mr r. r Lallan Laffan w was recognized n ns its an authority au thorit on 01 wood engravings en ravin s and orien oriental or u tal tl por porcelain In 1 0 hr directed tho work fork of catalo cataloguing uin the tIme Chinese porcelain ce lain in iii the collection of J 1 Pierpont Morgan and later the time Chinese porcelain porcelain Ioree- Ioree lain in 1 thin tho Metropolitan museum of art of oe which ho was a trustee tusto His ITis first connection with wih tho Sun dates back to 1877 when ho lie became its ihl art critic In ISSI ho lie wa was ci elected pr president of the tho Sun un and amid 1 ii in 1000 1900 purchased purchased pur pur- chased time Iho interest of ni th time the estate clato of Charles A A. A Dana in the Sun Print Printing n and Publishing as association and became president of tho time n association |