| Show RUSSELL RUSSEL SAGE DIES aa A RIPE HE OLD AGE veteran financier cler and stock speculator would have celebrated HI his ninetieth birthday or on august ath next ew yoi J sago sage died aud on d denh sunday sunda at his bin country homp hom f cedarcroft Cedar croft at I 1 fi wrence L I 1 I 1 ahe he mm irate cause of death wai wad heart failure from a comp cation of diseases incident to old age I 1 ahe he veteran finan clr would mould have hava cele ccle bunted his ninetieth birthday on aug 4 mr sarc sage had bad been in exception ally good health since his arrival fit at his summer budiner home about six months ciko at noon sunday ha be wa wai bejzer with a sinking spell and collapsed falling into unconsciousness about two hours before his hia death aich oe oc cuned culled at 4 30 0 clock russell sage sag multimillionaire millionaire and nestor of american aa was horn born on aug AU 4 1816 in verona onel da county new dojk where his par oats nt ellsa eliza and sago sage ment bets of a little company of eia eis tr fr m j connecticut had halted while on their westward march in quest ot of a homestead at the age of 12 HUB sell sage began his caider as erlind err ind boy in a the grocery store of hla his broth ti ci henry in lioy at he age of 2 i lie ha established a wholesale grocery ot of Ms its own in that place in 1857 the young had accumulated a fortune of about half a million a 1 great auni in those days ant an I 1 began to retire finin amlie business lie ho hail had become interested in hallways lall jall waya ways lilt first tiang action of this character being a loan to the lacrosse railroad company which led to fur hons resulting in his ao I 1 I 1 arsi arg interests Int erasts in the roads sow the chicago milwaukee st paul etem em of which he be tame vi aln pis prisident ident this deter mined mr to 0 o devote hla his time to wall and in 1806 1866 he be opened his office about that time he foi mcd an asso with alth jay gould could which conti continue nuel I 1 several eais in 1867 he originated the lie method I 1 in ill butr ts calls arld and b in which hp dealt deal later ater on a colossal col wale lian aln he pin chase chasel I 1 a seat on il the new I 1 aik oi oik it stock exchange in 18 4 1 I it deer that h never appear on the floor of the exchange only it Is baid did mr sa e exper tenca a tremendous tiemen dous loss which would lieve li ive shaken another man inan but bioni which lie einer emerged ged alt with conti conn dence unshaken aiom that demor ame lay lav in 1884 ihben the great tall me lie of giant vaid was announced result resulting ilig in the loss loas to mi sage of 0 about 6 i on a long line 61 puts hla his operations opera tlona necessitated the possession of a vast amount or oc lead ja capital pital and mr sage always kept hept hla his resources so ao well in hand that thai in ani an emergency mer gency lie he was waa able to control al must hsilun a f aunda 1 da at the th t time me 0 ot t death mr sage nya waa an aa officer and director in twenty alva great railroad and telegraph cor corpora purn eions |
