| Show I MR BROWE IS DEAD Salt Lakes Postmaster Passes Juicily Away Shortly Before 7 Oclock This Mornings S The Peaceful End of a Long Siege of Suffering and a Hard Fight With Death Billy Browe as the Soldier the Railroader the Jtiner and the Postmaster For many days past the public has that Postmaster been aware of the fact Browe was suffering from a severe illness and the changes in his condition have been watched with great anxiety by the gentlemans many friends But with all that has been said of his illness there were few who were prepared for the news which came up town this morning morn-ing to the effect that our Postmaster was dead Those who had been at his bedside bed-side had seen that he could never regain perfect health but even they could not reconcile themselves to the terrible fact that Death was so near and was every moment fighting for the spirit of the afflicted man manTHE THE LAST ILLNESS For over two years now Mr Browe himself has been prepared for this event and although he has fought it off bravely i he seemed always aware of its steady i approach and when it did come ho met it as only a brave man could and bowed to the inevitable Everything he has done for over a year now has been so regulated as to suit the emergency which he saw coming on He has often remarked re-marked to Mrs Browe that if he was ever taken sick he would never get over it j and when the former tried to make light of the matter be would reply Oh I mean it but Im not afraid to die J It was in this state Df mind and in a frail physical condition that Mr Browe was found when a more serious spell than usual brought him to his bed some weeks ago From the first lie had no hopes of recovery but with it all he never gave up to despondency and to the last maintained his wonted cheerfulness cheer-fulness DR BENEDICT Was his attending physician from the first and he has been very faithful in his services to the dying man When a few days ago it was found that there was but little hope Drs Standart and Hall were called into consultation and the three physicians agreed upon a course of treatment Under this he made some improvement but yesterday yes-terday afternoon he began to sink very rapidly The administration of a stimulant snatched him from the arms of death half a dozen times during the day but when this began to loose its effect it was seen that there was no room for hope During last night he rested easily and when the sun rose this morning he seemed better than he had been for many days but at just a quarter to 7 oclock he turned from his side to his back and was dead Mr Augustus Podlech Mr II F Hopgood and a nurse were the only persons present and they describe the death as a most peaceful one The relatives and friends of Mr Browe in the East were telegraphed to and the sad news soon went from one to another of f his numerous friends in this city WILLIAM C BROWE Was born in Belleville N J December 15 183Q He passed most of his youth in Newark in the same State and it was here that he received a good education and grew to manhood Among his schoolmates i school-mates were Archbishop Corrigan of New Jersey and A H Jones now wellknown in Denver Sometime prior to the war he came West as far as Indiana and when the second call for volunteers volun-teers was made he organized Company Com-pany A of the First Indiana cavalry As captain of this compant he served in Missouri under exGovernor Baker of Indiana and at the close of the war he returned to his old home in New Jersey Here he began his career as a railroad man accepting a position on the New Jersey Central road in New York While still working for that road in 1871 he married the present Mrs Browethen aMiss a-Miss Mitchelland in the next year 1872 they decided to try the west and went out to Texas Here Mr Browe was employed by one of the railroads for about a year and he then went co Mar quette Michigan where he took the general I gen-eral passenger agency of the Marguette Houghton Ontonagon road After remaining re-maining there for about a year he went to Denver and then to Boulder Here he put all of his savings into mining and when it failed to pan out he went back to railroading accepting a position with the U P in Denver When the D R G was built he accepted a position in their Denver offices went with them to Gunnison thence to South Park and finally the first sleeper that entered this city over the Little Giant road carried Mr and Mrs Browe among the passengers passen-gers The gentleman first became known here as city ticket agent for the D R G road and on March 18th 1885 he receivedafter a long fight for ithis commission as postmaster of Salt Lake City Mr Browes record as postmaster speaks for itself and it is not necessary now to go into the details of the improvements improve-ments he has made and the efficiency he has exhibited The gentleman leaves a father a brother and a sister in Newark N J and a brother and sister in Minnesota to all of whom the news of his death will be a fearful shock Nothing will be decided de-cided in regard to the funeral until the father is heard from Mrs Browe bears up bravely under the terrible affliction and in her bereavement bereave-ment she has the sympathy of hundreds of sorrowing friends |
