Show NEWS OF MILLS DEATH RECEIVED WITH SORROW New ew York Jan 4 ew or of the sudden death of D O 0 Mills at his I California winter home was ns received with sorrow here where he had long been prominent Mr 11 Mills lUlIs withdrawal from busIness and active Interest In his various philanthropic because of ill health had somewhat Prepared his friends l to for l the tho news al ai although though a fatal termination or of his hilS ill illness ness flees at this time timo was not expected Although his hiM active participation In business affairs had ceased Mr jr Mills II s sup up to the time ot of his death remained a dIrector In man marty corporations His HIlS railroad Interests included d the hold Jug ot of a In the N Nen m Central and Lake Shore companies and he held n a place piece aI u well In the of Now New York ban banks Its and trust companies and numerous In industrial enterprises One ot of Mr Mills notable Sc Ic enterprises was the establishment of the chain of hotels the tho name ot of Is familiar the count country oVer as Mills hotels Thee hotels o of which there arc three In this city wore ware In Intended Intended tended ns as equipped and main maln In efficient modern fashion fashJon and lodgings could ho he respectable men at nominal prices Mr Mills always declared that he dId not class claES this enterprise as philanthropy maintaining that It was n a sagacious public spirit that prompted hint him In establishing them The hotels have hae been lug Ing Not long lonh ao ago Mr MI Milia deeded them and the adjacent Mills dwellings to three his eon oon Ogden Oden Mills and his daughter Mrs Whitelaw stipulations vs to succession in n membership In the tho hoar loard whIch will tale take the tho work on Indefinitely I no announcement has hns b been en made It Is believed Mr Mills i III II Iii a bod body will be brought east and burled buried In the old Sleepy Hollow cemetery just north ot of Tarrytown 1 N y T be beside beside side that or of his wife |