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Show the dead millionaire. I Tanderbilt Leaves His Mansion on Earth for the Mythical Mansion Elsewhere." . Cerebral Hemorrhage Calls Him Suddenly, Sud-denly, Without a Farewell to ' His Children. . . , . i Wall Street Agitated, But .Everything Is Strong Coroner's Inquest and ; Probable Post Mortem. William II. Vanderbill's Beatli. New Yobk, December 9. William H. Van-derbilt Van-derbilt is dead. Without a moment's warning warn-ing the message came for Lim, and he was no more. The gilt iron cros3 over the gate that leads to the grounds of the Eoman Catholio Orphan Asylum, Fifth- avenue, gleamed brightly, under the electriovdamp last night,' and seen f rom' ' " " THE GRAND ENTRANCE OP THE VANDEBBILT ..: MANSION, ' Directly opposite, against the sombre grey of the marble cathedral, it was the only cheerful cheer-ful thing on the wide, deserted avenue, that seemed also stricken as with sudden death. Bays of its brightness were reflected on the windows of the huge - brown- stone pile, behind be-hind whose closed curtains one of the richest men in the world lay dead, stricken saddenly and without warning. The busy hum of traffio and the noise of the street were hushed in the block. Carriages turned out, and passers-by stopped to inquire if it were true that THE MILLIONAIRE WAS DEAD, And being told that they heard aright, went their way sobered and silent, tarrying, mayhap, may-hap, a moment to gaze pityingly on the huge stone pile. InBide, servants and friends tiptoed tip-toed about with grave faces. The door bell was rung almost every minute, and the wide portals swung open to admit other friends who came to mourn with the mourners. ' Up stairs, behind the drawn curtains of the millionaire's bedroom, were sobs and tears. The children of the dead were gathered there about the corpse. None of them had been with him in the hour of his death ; to none had he time to speak a word of farewell, fare-well, as he lay upon the carved bed in the large square- room, the windows of which overlook the avenue from the northeast corner cor-ner from the south wing of the building, to the left of the main entranoe. Mr. Yander-bilt Yander-bilt looked as though he had fallen into a genue sieep. HIS FEATURES WERE PEACEFUL And natural, as if he had just ceased talking talk-ing and laid down to rest. His death had been as painlessj as it was sudden. Mr. Vanderbilt was always an early riser. When in his young days "he worked his Staten Island farm it was his custom to rise with the sun, and he used to say in later life he had often arisen at 4 o'clock to go to New York, and returned to breakfast and his plow at 7. Of late years he had made it a practice to leave his bed at 7 o'clock, or not much later, and throughout his increasing ill health of the last two winters he had adhered ad-hered to this practice. After arising yesterday yester-day he had held his usual morning conference confer-ence with his sons, Cornelius and William K., who were active managers of his railroad rail-road property, and afterward with Mr. E. V. Bossiter, his private secretary, and treasurer of the New York Central Bailroad. ALL OF HIS ESTATE, According tn cood Jinthoritv. hna henn Ipft in trust. The trustees are understood to be his widow and C. M. Depew, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Van-derbilt, Hamilton McK. Twombly and John B. Dutcher. The story was current last night that Cornelius Vanderbilt held a power-of-attorney to act for the estate. This was probably due to the fact that Cornelius has for some time executed such power for his father. There was a good deal of talk at the Windsor Wind-sor Hotel; where the brokers chiefly resort, during the early part of the evening, about the large sales of vanderbilt stocks at heavy declines from closmg . quotations on the Stock Exchange yesterday afternoon. The reports when run down were found to be greatly magnified. There were sales of a few hundred shares of Lake Shore at 8585, but the price advanced before the crowd dispersed, dis-persed, and sales were made at 86 as against 86 at the close of the afternoon. THIS WAS THE PIVOTAL STOCK, But there were two or three small transaction transac-tion in New York Central at 103104. The great crowd present, which far exceeded anything witnessed at the Windsor this season, sea-son, was accepted as an evidence of the wide -spread interest taken by the publio in the death of Mr. Vanderbilt, and a desire to ascertain what the effect would probably be upon the market. As friend met friend, all inquiries related to the one subject the stook market and anxious listeners were constantly on the alert to catoh any word that might give any indication as to what to-dav would brincr forth. The absence of any settled opinion was conspicuous in the talk early in the evening, but as time gave an opportunity for an interchange of views, the opinion became very prevalent that there would be A MODERATE BREAK IN VANDEBBILT STOCKS At the opening to-day, not, however, to exceed ex-ceed 2 or 3 per cent., and that any support which might be found necessary to prevent a more serious decline would promptly make itself manifest. There was a conference outside out-side of the Windsor among leading operators, oper-ators, but it is understood that an. adjournment adjourn-ment was taken until early this morning without coming to any definite arrangement as to what should be done. Attention was repeatedly called to the fact that the death of Mr. Vanderbilt's father had no material effect on Wall street prices, and that it has been generally understood for the past two years that W. H. Vanderbilt had ceased to take a speculative interest in the market. " THE CORONER WENT TO THE MANSION J About 9 o'clockand viewed the body. The j testimony from Mr. Vanderbilt's body ser- j vant, Lewis Maxwell, in regard to the scenes i at the time aDd immediately after death, i were substantially in accordance with the story already told. Dr. J. W. McLean was the only other witness. wit-ness. He said: "I have been the family physician phy-sician of the deceased since 1880. He has had ill turns, but he has never been seriously sick or unwell for any length of time. He nas naa attacks or irregularity oi tne neart s action, which was due to indigestion, and would last generally only an hour or two, and then he would get over them quite readily. read-ily. I saw him alive last on Sunday, December De-cember 6th, and . HE WAS QUITE WELL THEN. I should say unusually so. His pulse beat 72 per minute. In fact, I have never known him to vary one pulsation or beat in a minute min-ute in a month since I have been his family phvsician. His pulse was full and regular. I called again yesterday morning to see him, and learned he had gone to Ward's studio to sit for a bust. I learned that he was quite well then. I was sent for at 250 and arrived ten minutes latere I found Mr. Vanderbilt lying on the floor of his library, on his left side. His face was turned towards to-wards the fire and his head resting on a pillow. - - HE WAS DEAD. His face was livid and his lips purple. I judge from his previous history that he died from apoplexy or cerebral hemorrhage. I always thought that he would die from that cause." - The coroner signed the inquisition papers as follows: "William Henry Vanderbilt, aged 64 years, 7 months, born in Bichmond county, Staten Island. Cause of death, syncope and cerebral hemorrhage." The I coroner may decide later to hold an autopsy. |