Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - May 30, 1904, Titusville, Pennsylvania DAILY PN OIL Of rJ VOL 39 NO PA MAY 3O 19O4 THREE CENTS MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY PASSED QUIETLY AWAY Surrounded by His Family the Great Scholar and Statesman Died Without a Struggle Resume of His History BEAVER Pa May Matthew Stanley Quay is dead The end came Saturday afternoon at oclock Twelve hours before the pass ing away he fell into a deep sleep from which there was no awakening Senator Quay had been fighting death lor months Ho had the benefit of rbe knowledge of the best physicians he could not win the battle The doc tors say that he died of starvation For weeks lie could not take strength producing food His ailment is de scribed as having been chronic gas tritis and malassimilation of food is given as the direct cause of death The remains of Senator Quay will be laid away in Beaver cemetery Tuesday afternoon Aside from fixing 2 oclock as the hour and the selection of ilc pallbearers for the services nothing definite has been done toward arrang ing the details of the funeral An effort will be made to carry out what is believed to be his desire in the mat ter of the funeral arrangements The services will be made as simple as pos sible The pallbearers will be Senator Boies Penrose Former Attorney Gen eral John P Elkin William ery Colonel Samuel Moody United States Marshal Stephen P Stone Former United Slates Marshal J H Harrah Thomas S and George T Oliver Telegrams of Condolence From all over the country last came telegrams of condolence for the of Senator Quay These mes sages came from President Roosevelt from Governor and from men in state and national affairs in all parts of the Union The total of these notes of sympathy ruus into the hundreds Colonel Quay had thousands of warm personal friends With the ex ception of the telegrams from the President and Governor Pennypacker the messages are being withheld from the public When it was certain that Senator Quay could not recover R R Quay sent this telegram to President Roose velt Father has but a few hours to live but is suffering no pain and Bleeping away as quietly and peace fully as a child hi a short time Mrs Quay received this message from the Accept my profound sympathy Of and personal throughout my term as President Senator Quay has been ny staunch and loyal friend I have hoped to the last that he would by his sheer courage pull through his illness Again accept my sympathy THEODORE ROOSEVELT After the death of Senator President Roosevelt was by Senator This reply came iron the President to Mr Accept my deep and sincere sym pathy in the loss ol Senator Quay THEODORE ROOSEVELT Last night Governor Pennypacker sent this message to Mrs Quay The nation and commonwealth have lost a statesman of marvelous gift the home a generous and kindly companion My heart goes out to you in your great bereavement SAMUEL W PENNYPACKER Quietly Passed Into Death Senator Quay after 3 oclock Satur day morning lay in a stupor which gradually grew more profound until complete coma followed and this was followed by death Through all I In re was no pain oxygen being constantly administered The end came like a peaceful sleep growing deeper and more profound until the end was death Every member of the family was t his bedside With blanched faces they Stood about watching the heaving of the breast growing less perceptibly Dr J 11 Wilson and Dr Lawrence bent over the hold ing a wrist and feeling the failing pulse throbs grow less frequent When death came there was no strug gle or motion The heart simply flowed down and ceased beating be cause the strength of the starved body had wasted away Mrs Quay was the only one who broke down when the doctor looked n and in a low whisper announced that it was all over She broke down am went She waa prostrated but is now in a calmer mood All had known for several weeks 11ml Senator Quay could not recover nnd the constant suspense and waiting and watching had deadened I heir pain Those who were at the bedside were Mrs Quay and her five children nrd R Quay Major A 0 C Mrs Mary Davidson Miss Coral Quay and Sue Quay Jerome Quay anil his daughter Miss Pride Quay Mrs Dav idson and Senator Quays ren Agnes Davidson Elizabeth Quay and M S Quay Jr Down stairs were Senator Boies and several of Senator Quays relatives The oxygen tube was in the sen ators mouth when he died He had taken ro nourishment since 3 oclock and no drugs had been administered During the early stages of the stupor the doctors were able to arouse him tut at S oclock the stupor became more profound and from then on he did noc move an eyelash It was at this time that the word was given out that the senator was dying Strict Secrecy Till Then Until then the strictest secrecy had been maintained about his case and the public had no idea the end was near As early as March IS when was at Atlantic City the family was informed he could not live Oxygen had to be used nearly every night but this was never known until today Every night the senator suffered from nervous sinking spells He had a re lapse Thursday night and two more Friday night After midnight the senator never except to ask that he be lifted up or to request a drink Senator Penrose laced across the state from Philadelphia Friday night to see he senator before he died lie reached here at 10 oclock Saturday morning before the end had come GOVERNOR HAS ISSUED A STATE PROCLAMATION Brief Sketch of the Illustrious vania Statesman HARRISBURG May fol lowing proclamation was issued by Governor Pennypacker It is with deep sorrow that I an to the citizens of the common wealth the death of Matthew Quay at his home in Beaver at oclock p m the 28th day of May A D 1901 He was born of ancestry who had lived in Pennsylvania from the time ol settlement and contributed two officers of distinction to the revolutionary army He was colonel of the One Hun dred and regiment Penn sylvania volunteers in the war of the rebellion and he won a medal of honor for distinguished services at the battle of After holding many offices of trust and importance in lie commonwealth he was elected to the United States senate in 1SS7 and remained a member of that body al uninterruptedly until the time of his death To narrate his public service 1 be to write the history of the common wealth and to a great extent that of the nation during this period Few Americans have had a more potent in fluence upon the growth and develop ment of national affairs An erudite scholar versed in all branches of liter ature a brave soldier in the time of hid need a forceful writer P torn leader and organizer of men fir the purposes for Which society is insti the benefits he has conferred upon his fellow citizens will be ever cherished and remembered His funeral will take place at Beaver Beaver county Pa on Tues day the 31st day of May at 2 oclock p m In honor of his memory and in adelphia James M Esler Allegheny Senator Sproul will go himself with the Henry J Hose members of the senate Sum Cassius If Wood Erie uel White of Beaver John M Scott William Wayne Chester Joseph I and John C tirady Philadelphia 1 leister Westmoreland Ira F 11 Warren John S field Beaver John T Taylor Beaver Fisher Indiana Benjamin K Foust Charles X Solby Philadelphia Francis W Balthaser Berks Joseph Mayne hellish Charles A Snyder Schuylkill Andrew A Thompson Fayette Fred crick Phillips Lackawanna Francis C Snyder and John Francies Allegheny Speaker Walton will leave this city with other eastern members of the committee at Monday night on the Pennsylvania railroad He has sent an urgent request to the to meet him o the train THE SENATE COMMITTEE CHESTER Pa May William C Sproul of this city presi dent of the senate of Pennsylvania has appointed a committee to represent the 1nioa John E Fox Dauphin E Woods Westmoreland John W Crawford Allegheny James K B I hill Elk and A G Dewalt 4 THE WHOLE DELEGATION WASHINGTON May has appointed the entire Penn sylvania slate delegation as a commit tee to represent the house or repre at the funeral of the late Senator Quay at Beaver Pa Tuesday next A special car will be attached to the Pennsylvania railroad train leaving Washington at p m Monday for the use of such members of the com of the two houses of congress as may be in this city at that time Other members will senate of Pennsylvania at the funeral of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay be met at Pitts party will Beaver by special train proceed to Principal Events in Life of Senator Matthew Stanley Quay recognition his eminence and dis tinction 1 invoke for his family tiu sympathy of he people of vania and recommend and order that the upon the public buildings be displayed at halt staff and that several departments of he state gov be closed upon the day of his funeral Given under my hand and the great seal of the stale at the city of Harris burg this 28th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four I Seal By the Governor SAMUEL W PENNYPACKER PENNSYLVANIA HONORS REPUBLICAN LEADER Speaker Walton Names Committee to Attend Funeral of Senator Quay PHILADELPHIA May Henry Walton of the Pennsylvania house of representatives has appointed Iho following members of that body to attend the funeral of HIP laic Senator Quay at Denver on Tuesday Henry K Walton Philadelphia Dan 1 Shorn Philadelphia Theodore Philadelphia Robert McWhin noy Allegheny lames Clarency Phil adelphia Frank R McClain Lancaster Fred T Columbia John 0 Philadelphia Lawrence B Cook Allegheny Colin IT that the reunion he not hold Born Sept 30 1833 Graduated from Jefferson college in 1850 Taught school in Texas Admitted to the Beaver bar in 1854 Appointed prothonotary of Beaver county in 1855 Elected prothonotary in 1856 and reelected in 1859 In 1860 he assisted in the management of the campaign which re in the election of Governor Curtin In 1861 he resigned the prothonotaryship to become a lieutenant in the Tenth Pennsylvania reserves In 1861 he was made assistant commissary general of the state with rank of lieutenant colonel In 1862 he was selected to command the One Hundred and Thirty fourth Pennsylvania volunteers and remained at the front until stricken with typhoid fever During the remaining years of the war he was state military agent at Washington was private secretary to the governor of vania was chief of transportation and telegraphs and was military secretary to the governor of Pennsylvania In 1865 he resigned the military secretaryship to take his seat in the house of representatives at Harrisburg as a member from thti district serving from 1865 to 1867 In 1867 he fathered the law which relieved real estate from tax ation In 1869 he founded the Beaver Radical From 1873 to 1S78 he was secretary of the Commonwealth under Governor Hartranft H in 1878 he resigned to become recorder of During the same year he was chairman of the Republican state committee and conducted the campaign resulting in the election of In January 1S79 he resigned the recordership to become secretary of the commonwealth under Governor Hoyt serving until 1832 when he resigned Elected state treasurer in 1885 resigned in 1887 Elected United States senator in 1S87 In 1888 he was elected chairman of the national Republican com and conducted the campaign resulting in the election of Presi dent Harrison He resigned the chairmanship before the end of his term Reelected to the United States senate in 1893 Elected chairman of the Republican state committee in 1895 Was delegate to all national conventions since 1872 Was member of the national committees of 1888 1896 and 1SOQ In 1896 was balloted for by the Republican national convention for president In 1899 failed to secure a reelection to the United States senate the legislature adjourning without an election In 1901 was elected United States senator to serve until March 3 1905 In 1902 was elected chairman of the Republican state committee conducting the Campaign which resulted in the election of Governor Pennypacker Died May 23 1904 I I J 4 I 4 President Roosevelt cannot attend the funeral Governor will arrive here Tuesday and return to ini after he funeral services MANY PROMINENT PEOPLE VIS BEAVER SUNDAY FINAL FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Grand Army Will Participate But Ma sons Are Without Ostentation DALNY PRACTICALLY EVACUATED BEAVER Pa May promi nent people visited this place today for e purpose of sympathizing with the family of the fate Senator M S Quay hut only a few of the most intimate friends were permitted to view the re mains oC the dead man H was announced by the family that carrying out the dyin re quest there will be no ostentation in connection with the funeral This pels the refusal of n request by the Masons for a Masonic funeral The final arrangements made today are that the body shall remain in the senators bed room where he died until Tuesday when it will he carried to the church in charge of Post C A R of which Senator Quay was a member and lie in stale from 9 n in until 1 p m The church will hen bo cleared and at 2 oclock the funeral services will then be conducted iy Hcv J S of the Presbyterian church assisted by Rev Basil IX IX of the Meth odist Episcopal church There will be 10 honorary pall bearers and the active isl ns announced hist night will not be changed 1 S Clarkson surveyor of the port New York a member of the Republican national which Senator Quay committee of was chairman when President Harrison was elected asked he privilege of calling a in 111 Ion of the survivors of commit len on Tuesday at Under the I he family was forced to Few People Remain in Warship Is in Danger May p has been practically evacuated accord ing 10 the of Sikli and Rus sian refugees arriving here today by junk All valuables ammunition and most of the troops nave been taken to Port Arthur The only civilians re maining are the electrical engineers in charge of the mines hud in the harbor nnd also those set to destroy dock and piTS One large warship prob ably the armored cruiser Payan and three torpedo boats reached bay on Tuesday last the 21th inst from Port Arthur and it was doubtless his vessel which attacked the lapan ese left wing during he battle of Kinchou on the 2iili inst The just arrived hen on way down passed fourteen Japanese war vessels nino miles outside of Dalny so that the will likely fie captured The United Stales gunboat now here will go to in case that town is by the Russians WONDERFUL CAVALRY RIDE ST May a correspondent of the Russky Invalid the army organ with General division of trans Cossacks sent to Korea to keep in touch with the enemy detailed account of a des tined o become classic in cavalry an The command rode 100 miles in a fortnight They approached to with in a days inarch of Seoul and wore anxious to capture flic town which would have boon an exploit Iho cor respondent says to Europe but imperative orders reached them to ro ll re and Ihoy reluctantly rode back to THE CHARGE OF NINE TIMES THE JAPANESE CHARGED ON DEADLY BAYONET ENCOUNTER Then the Flag of the Rising Sun Float ed Majestically Over the Heights of Story TOKIO May p de tails of the silling at Kinchou em the heroic tenacity of the Jap anese in their conduct at hill Nine times the Japanese charged he heights in the face a storm of missiles and in their last effort they carried the forts and trenches only after a bayonet to bayonet conflict with the Russians A MAN AND HIS SON KILLED BY A TRAIN wuo made a despairing strug gle to heat back the oncoming hordes The tinal assault of the Japanese in which they at last succeeded in taking was marked by the most desperate hand to hand encounter that has thus far characterized the war The Japanese left throughout the entire action of the night was exposed to an enfilading fire from the Russian infantry a gunboat on bay and four nine centimeter guns posted at At a critical moment the ammunition the artillery ran low and it was de to cast the remaining ammunition into one final desperate assault Fortu however at the moment this was reached the Japanese squadron in Kinchou bay which had cased bombarding when the Infantry ind first moved forward suddenly re the shelling of hill Then it was that the issues of the day a moment when lie outcome was fluttering between and defeat for that was an almost certain repulse into victory so successful hat the forces ot the czar were swept nto confusion and disorderly retreat Vita every Japanese gun centering its fire on forts and trenches the Japanese infantry sprang over the bodies of their dead comrades who had sacrificed their lives hi the previous fruitless charges The entire line rushed forward toward the Russian left where the fire of tlic Japanese squadron had proved most deadly and which was the first to weaken under bombardment And it was there that the first breach was made in the human stone wall that all day had been an invincible barrier to Hie impetuous assaults ot the brown men It vos the fourth division of the Osaka men that stormed the Russian left It had once been said that Osaka men were not bravo It will never be said again The first division of Tokio which had the center and the Hard division of occupying the left and which had been exposed all day to the Rus sian lire against the front flank uov the the Osaka men and rushed forward and the battle be came transformed from an artillery duel into one of personal conflict with I he bayonet as the instrument of war fare On every parapet the restless Japanese forward in in creasing numbers nnd hustling the Russians from their entrenchments swept over the hill At oclock as the sun was sinking beneath the horizon the flag of the land of the Rising Sun floated above the blood sudden hill while the shouts banzai swelled from hill to hill and reechoed from squadron to fort The Japanese paid for their victory in killed and wounded To the Russians Hie humiliation of defeat intensified by the loss of sixty eight cannon and ten machine guns while lying dead in the forts and trenches Wt re men the victims of the accuracy of Japanese long distance and of close range Were Walking on Tracks Between Warren and WARREN May Henry Woods aged 50 and his Boa Harry aged 18 residents of were struck by a south bound train to Oil City at 8 oclock Saturday evening and both were killed The man and hoy were walking from War ren to following the road bed At a point known as Red Brick yard the line is doubletracked for home distance They heard the ai Broaching passenger train but evident ly supposed that it was on the other track from the one they were follow ing The engineer discovered the mis take of the men but not until too tu bring his train fully under control The boy was struck by the breast beam of the pilot thrown some dis tance from the track He was dead when help reached him The fatter was thrown down upon the rails and dragged under the train His body was badly mutilated A younger soil of Mr Woods was one of the first spec tators to reach the place not knowing who had been killed He identified the bodies and they were taken home MR BATES WILL GO MEADVILLE May Hon Arthur L Bates congressman from the district lias been appointed as a member of tlie congressional committee to attend the funeral of the late United States Sen ator Matthew Stanley Quay which takes place Tuesday The notification came today in the form of a telegram Irom Speaker Joseph Cannon of the house of representatives The appoint ment was immediately accepted and Mr Bates will leave Monday for Beaver to be in attendance at the ob UNKNOWN MAN BURIED MEADVILLE May The body found in French creek near Shaws Landing Friday morning was supposed Saturday to have been fully identified but this proved later to bo entirely misleading The stranger waa buried today in taking place from undertaking rooms There is not slightest clue to his identity EVENTS OF TODAY i Memorial Day services at the opera house at 10 oclock Knights of Columbus conven tion both day and evening end ing with a ball High school vs at Carter field game called at oclock A 0 H Titusville vs A 0 H Oil City Carter Athletic park at 10 oclock this morning Gillen Bryner vaudeville at Armory hall this evening I O O F dance at McCoi loughs hall Hydetown tonight J Browns orchestra Union hall to this afternoon Hydetown golflinks match be J the Warren and Titusville j teams beginning after dinner At a race in England nearly everybody hot on Admiral Togo to win But ho was not oven placed MEMORIAL DAY year has passed we a fragment of that once mighty army of the Union are called upon by the beautiful custom of Memorial Day to pay our tributes of love and de votion to the memory of our honored dead During the past year over 15000 of our comrades have passed over tho starlit line to join that other Grand Army on the other side who have pitched their tents alongside the ban ners of our Great Commander high in The roll call so familiar to ii becoming the roll call of the dead While we render our simple tribute the nations dead there come voices that hallow tins Memorial Day and crowit it with the sweetness of a benediction Now therefore by order of the na tional commander of the G A R and tho commander of the Department of Pennsylvania G A R Post No 59 Department of Pennsylvania G A R on Monday May the 30th inst Post No 50 Department of Pennsylvania G A R will assemble in full uniform at the Post room at 9 oclock a m in readiness to take part in Memorial services at the opera house at 10 oclock a m All honorably dis charged soldiers or sailors and Sons of Veterans and the general public are cordially invited to join in the serviced By order of JAMES L DUNN Post Commander BASEBALL National League At Brooklyn R H B Brooklyn 3 10 1 New York 7 11 t Batteries Poole and Ritter Wiltse and Warner At Cincinnati R H E Cincinnati 2 5 1 St Louis 1 6 2 and Peltz Nichols and At Chicago R H B Chicago 3 6 Q 1 53 Batteries Weimer and Lae vcr and Phelps a Standing of the Clubs W L PC Chicago 23 10 657 Now York 23 10 697 Cincinnati 25 11 691 St Louis 16 17 16 18 471 Hoslon 12 20 375 13 22 371 Philadelphia 5 25 187 American League At Chicago R H Chicago 4 4 lt Cleveland 3 Altrock and J less ami Abbott Standing of the W L Boston 23 Cleveland 39 Philadelphia 13 New York 18 Chicago ID St Louis Dot
