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Show RUSSELL SAGE DIES AT RIPE OLO AGE Veteran Financier ami Steok peo later Would Htvt Celebrated Hit Ninetieth Birthday en Auautt 4th NeiL New York Roaeell Rag died end il.nly Sunday at his country home Cedarcrolt," at iawnnco LI I he Immediate cause ot death was Jean failure, reqUlng froJ complication gf disease IrSJent to old age The fltertn flnancVr Vould havo ecle hrated hla Stnctlith birthday on Aug 4 Mr Sag bad been In cxi option ally good hoallh lnce hit arrival at hi summer bom about lx month (ijn At nooa flunda he was selieil with a alnklng anell and collapsed, railing Into unconsciousness about two hours before bis death which occurred oc-curred nt i 10 o'clock Hnssell Sage multl mllllnnilre and Nestor or American tin mc l re wa horn on Aug I, II0 In Verona Ond da county New York where his pir-.nt. pir-.nt. EHaa and Pendance Hagc mem-br mem-br or a little compsny o( plonorrt from Connecticut had halted while on their westward march In nuesl of a hnmestesd At the age of II Hun-sell Hun-sell Sage began his career aa erMnil Iwy In the grocery store of his broth er Henry In Trn) At the age of ti he established a wholesale grocery ot bis own In that place In l67 the )oung merchant had accumulated n fortune of about half a million a great sum In those days and began to retire from active business H had already become Interested In railway his nrst transaction of this character being s losn to the l-scrotte llallroad company, which led to further fur-ther transactions, resulting In hit acquiring ac-quiring large Inttretlt In the roadt now forming the Iblcago, Milwaukee h St Paul system ot which he lie-came lie-came vice president. This determined deter-mined Mr Sage lo devote bis time to Wall street, and In le he opened his nmce About that time he formed no association with Jay Oould which continued several years In 167 be originated the prcstnt method In "puts' call" and siruldliK In which lie dealt lalT on a tolosl scale When he purchased n eeat on the New ortt atix k exilian In 17 It provided that hi niver apprnr on the floor of the exchange Only once. It Is aald did Mr Sag experience a Irnnendous loas which would have shaken another man, but rrom which he emerged wllh conll dene unthtkeii From Hut memor-alio memor-alio day In 18I when the groat rail ure or Oront A Ward was announced, resulting In the lots to Mr Bage ol nbout f 0.000.000, on a l"ngllni dl ''putl,1 hit operallont nreVtatIW possession ot a ntt amount ot reaft npltal. and Mr Htge nlwnyt kept Ml resources so well In hand that In any emergency ho was able to control al most llmltleta funds At the lime of death Mr Sagu vat nn omoer and director In twenty-lvt great railroad and telegraph corpnM, tlona |