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Show I! Robert J. Collier Dies Suddenly , of Heart Disease NEW YORK. Nov. S. Robert J. Collier, tho publisher, died suddenly at 'his home here tonight. His death was attributed to heart disease by the county medical examiner's ofilce. Mr. Collier had been at the head of the firm of P. F. Collier & Son, since the death of his father in 1909. He. had been editor and publisher of Col- Iter's Weekly since 1S98. Mr. Collier had been at the head of tho firm of P. F Collier and Son, since ! the death of his father in 1909, He ' had been editor and publisher of Col- i lier's Weekly since 1898. Aviation was the subject, next to 1 books, in which. Mr. Collier was most deeply interested. He was at one time president of the Aero club of America , and sevorai years ago offered valuable prizes to promote interest in aviation which then was an almost unexplored field. His first gift of this kind was a gold trophy and a prize of $2,500 I which he offered in 1909. Three years later ho started for Panama to fly J across the isthmus but became ill at I New Orleans and cancelled the trip. There were reports the next year that he would attempt a flight across tho Atlantic in a hydroalrplane but Iho I European war began, before hlB plans I matured. J Mr. Collier was the originator of tho I plan to purchase the birthplace of Ab- raham Lincoln. He also was widely I known as a colloctor of Tare books. I Personally and In his weekly ho was U an earnest crusader against tubercu- 'oDis and in 1910 won the thanks of ; the countess of Aberdeen for his aid 1 1 in Ireland in combatting tho white I Mr. Collier was born in this city I Juno 17, 1876, and was married in I 1902 to Sara Van Alcn, daughter of I J- J. Van Alen of Newport. Ho was I polo, hunting and tennis enthusiast I and member of half n dozen clubs. |