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St I Ire legion laito (Slote VOL LXVm-NO 77. BOSTON, FRIDAY MORNING- SEPTEMBER 15. 190S-SIXTEEN PAGES, PRICK TWO CENTS. BOSTON MOURNS THE LOSS OF HER CHIEF EXECUTIVE. WHELTON IS DEATH OF ACTING AYOR P.A.C0L Board Also Chairman of Of Aldermen.

Passes Suddenly al Hot Springs aaaBssBssasaafjsBgamgsaBBaasBaaa Right to Hold Both Positions Likely to Be Disputed. Severe Hemorrhage, With Acute Gastritis. Rev Fr Raftery with the Mayor When the End Game. I Paul Collins, the Son, Will Start Home With the Body at 7 O'Clock This Morning, After Mass in the Little Chapel. GASTRITIS, FOLLOWED BY HEMORRHAGE OF THE BOWELS.

VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS, Va, Sept 14 To the Editor of the Globe: Mayor Collins was taken ill Wednesday evening with gastritis; was doing very well until Thursday morning, when had severe hemorrhage from bowels and died very suddenly. H. S. Pole, M. D.

MAYOR COLLINS' OWN LIFE STORY. MAYOR DANIEL A. WHELTON. Jan t. 1873.

la the West End of Boston. HOT SPRINGS, Va, Sept 14 Hon Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Boston, died at 10:15 a at the Homestead EaWstosl at St Mary's school and Boston evening high Written by Himself for the Globe. hotel from hemorrhage of the bowels The attack was so sudden that the at Employed la hook publishing houses as talesman, and as re cane ganger. Elected to Boston common council from ward 8 la 1804 and I SOS.

Has heen a member of the board of aldermen the present tending physician was unable to anticipate It. The hemorrhage was so violent and profuse that although Dr Henry S. Pole was summoned by the nurse the change, the physician was sum-moned. A hasty examination mdl-cated that the mayor was In critical state, for he was obviously rapid ly losing strength, and Dr Pole sent for several physicians for consultation. It appears that Mayor Collins just before 9 o'clock had sat up In bed and although he was weak did not appear to be In great pain.

Suddenly he showed indications of great suiferlng and said he had been nt tacked with excruciating pains In tbo abdomen. He fell backward upon the pillow and when the physicians reached his bedside the patient was very weak. The doctors appreciated the situation and were able to diagnose the Ward 8s Ascendancy in City Hall when the patient began show alarming symptoms he was unable to check the internal flow of blood. Since Tuesday night Mayor Collins had complained of pains in the stomach, but not until Wednesday night Affairs Shown by Holding Three Patrick A. Collins' autobiography is presented this morning by the Globe, just as this newspaper received it from his hand in 1803, written with a lead pencil on rough brown paper.

None was better fitted to describe those character-building days, the struggles against odds of race prejudice and scant opportunity for an education, than Mr Collins. None knew better than he the work in aid of Ireland performed in this country during the years following the famine of 1879, None could have written the story as he wrote it. When Mr Collins was appointed consul general to London in 1893 by President Cleveland and was about to leave Boston, a member of the Globe staff asked him for a more complete sketch of his life than this newspaper had been able to obtain. Mr Collins wrote it a few days before he sailed for England. As there was no occasion to publish it then Mr Collins' autobiography has been preserved in the Globe archives during the past 12 years until now, when it appears in print for the first time.

did the situation appear to Dr Pole Highest Positions Political Cal culations Upset Lomasney May to be serious. At that time the physician diagnosed the case as acute gastritis, from which the mayor had suffered during previous visits to the springs. While not believing there was any case, but the severity of the attack left them practically powerless to Try to Make Donovan Succeed check the hemorrhage, which appar Collins, if Fitzgerald Should Not Run. to be, and the next morning, after he brought his school books home, he engaged in the ancient industry of New England. He became, by pre-arrangement, a boy-of-all-work in the fish and oyster shop of Nehemiah Rich in Chelsea.

He remained there some months, opening oysters, dressing cod and haddock, keeping books and delivering goods. Rich was the business man, he was the factotum. atfe of Mavor Collins brines of aldermen at the beginning of the present year. Although be was the last chair of the chief executive of man on the ballot he received the high- tr chairman Daniel A. Wbejton cat vote for alderman, approaching heard of aldermen.

a ike news of XUror Collins reached dtr ban yesterday he Office Boy for Lawyer. air neiton oegan nis career as chairman of the board of aldermen by in the battles, word 1 1 111 aw laaUIr and be put la an uc aooo after at the calling the board to order prompuy at 2 on the day the board meets and has uniformly carried out his program ever since an innovation at gather acting mayor Me far Comas' departure for Hot lags of the board of aldermen. He has made a good presiding officer and is prompt In the discharge of all of his vtafbty affect- metal duties at city hall. of th "APPRECIATED WHAT HE OWED TO FELLOW CITIZENS," Grover Cleveland; Deeply Grieved, Pays Warm Tribute to His Friend. SANDWICH, Sept 14 Ex-President Grover Cleveland was deeply grieved by the announcement of the death of Mayor Collins, having been for many years his very Intimate friend.

Mr Cleveland' paid the following tribute: "I am very much distressed to hear of the death of Mayor Collins, and I am grieved for his loss as that of a warmly attached friend. His death will cause sadness in the hearts of many who have not had personally as intimate associations with him as were mine. "In public life he was strictly honest and sincerely devoted to the responsibilities which office-holding Involves. It is rare th a man of his great ability and with the reward of high statesmanship within his reach, succeeds so well and for so loutf a time In the discharge of duties pertaining to the executive head of the city of bis home. "He was an excellent mayor because he appreciated what he owed to his fellow citizens, and this conscientious appreciation of official responsibilities was the key to his valuable services and usrfm achievements." rath hi 4 Collins sad Ward 8s Big Influence.

a About this time young Collins was "confirmed" in the Catholic faith by Bishop Fitzpatrick at Lynn, then a part of Chelsea parish. He was 12 years old, and was given a class to teach in the Sunday school at Chelsea, and was made an altar boy by the pastor of Chelsea and Lynn, now Rt Rev Mgr Patrick Strain. Among the worshipers in that old wooden church in Chelsea were Dr O. A. Brownson, and the negro lawyer, Robert Morris.

The latter took a fancy to Collins, and asked him to be his office boy, and arranged that he should be the office boy also of C. Judson Merrill, a deputy sheriff, who had the adjoining room in the Railroad Exchange building in Boston. Collins went, and remained there until the spring of 1857. He had, as all office boys have, the "run of the courts" and lawyers' offices, and went on errands all over the city. He thought a lawyer, black or white, was a favored being, and a judge like the "great white czar." In those days he did not think it possible that ever he could be the one or the other.

His elevation to the office of Chief executive of the city for the next four the acting month- emphasises the Influence of ward In the political complexion of anill the first Monday la Janu-baa the candidate chosen at the the city. By the death of aajrv Collins, the Hendricks club of ward now controls the Important offices of mayor, chairman of the board of aldermen and city The Youngest Incumbent. Patrick A. Collins was born at Ballinafauna, near Fermoy, in the county of Cork, Ireland, March 12, 1844. His father, Bartholomew Collins, was a "strong" farmer, as the Irish phrase and came of a family of farmers, all of intense national spirit.

Ho built the house in which Patrick was born on land leased from the art of Mountcashel, some 200 acres on the high range overlooking the Blackwater river, and commanding a vast view of Water-ford, Limerick and the Galtee mountains of Tipperary in the distance. The large stone building still stands, and children of Mr Collins have seen the liouse and the room in it where their father was born. The lease has many years yet to run, though the landlord is gone. It passed by assignment from Mr Collins' mother the family that now occupies, after the death of Bartholomew Collins in 1847. His mother was fond of telling how Daniel O'Connell, his father's friend, one day his guest at the house at Ballinafauna, took the small boy in his great arms and kissed him and hoped he would grow to be good anfl useful to his native land.

The brave mother, Mary (Leahy) Collins, a woman of the strongest and sweetest character, who died and was buried from Mr Collins' house at Mt Ida. Dorchester. In 1890. sold the lease of the Mountcashel farm and gave to her brother-in-law the lease of another near by, and set out with hor throe children and the children of her late husband by a iormer marriage for America. The UtUe group arrived in Boston In the month of March, 1848.

She remarried, stod her youngest child is John H. Burke, a judge of the Boston municipal court, UnUl her death the three groups of children gathered about her, and all called her mother. The family finally settled in Chelsea, and In time Patrick Collins want to the primary. Intermediate" and finally to the grammar school. Of Which D.

C. Linscott, since an eminent member of the Boston bar, was then master. Forced to Fight Early. Nothing especially distinguished the boy at school. He learned fairly what was taught; nothing more; he was shy, and not a show boy." and never declaimed anything.

He was tall, slight, by no means strong, but healthy; he never wanted to fight, but he had to. When he was 11 years old the knownothing times came. He was in the grammar school. In one of the lower classes. In a school of more than 100, he was one of less than 10 "Paddy boys," as they were called.

He had to light to get to school, at recess, to get home, to go anywhere. The majority, with few exceptions, were tyrants. Among the exceptions he remembers the chivalrous boy, Charles J. Brooks, who long after, as a man, ended a life that ought to have been better, by suicide. To escape boy persecution, he left school one forenoon, as it chanced clerk.

what Interests the noHHessns the is the poll tic si status of Wheltoa today. The new city here. He now Uvea at 01 I charter In case of a vnoaacy the earns of the city council UuUl if sach the asst six Start fa of said term order an eleoBen ctuh. nvd rs tamons no-n for mayor to serve for the unexpired hall not cause for alarm, Dr Pole retained a trained nurse, who was in constant attendance upon the mayor. In Knownothing Times.

At that time there arrived in Boston the "Angel Gabriel," a Scotch fanatic, who came to fan the flame of knownothingism. He was a crazy man, but caught the mob. One Sunday afternoon after "Sunday school" in the Catholic church in Chelsea, some of the teachers, including Collins, and nearly all the children, went up on the high hill to the northeast and to the fields about just to see the country and bask in the sun. They saw toward East Boston a long winding serpent of people coming. It was the "Angel Gabriel" and some 2000 in his train.

They came toward the hill. The leader preached a little, and some disturbance occurred. Then the mob marched to the church, and somehow no one knows how a number of them mounted to the roof and tore the cross off the apex and threw it into the crowd. What became of the pieces no man knows. But more was to come.

The mob. reinforced by Chelsea men. marched through the town where the Catholics were and smashed This morning, when he made an early visit to Mayor Collins' room. not fee OoWsdta, Flass Co. booaBjwUar veto power.

They con Dr Pole believed that his patient wan easier and thought the disease was yielding to the treatment. But about to such a rf Helton as of the board would be acting ently was due to an ulceration or to the rupture of vein in the bowels. Mayor Collins lost strength rapidly and half an hour after the first sym-toins of the attack were apparent be was unconscious. While the physicians were endeavoring to relieve him he gradually sank and after a period of about half an hour of unconsciousness he expired. Paul Collins, the mayor's son and the only relative with him, was summoned to the bedside a few minutes after the serious condition of his satO arteser.

Va. I as a Hiainr ox ine ieistane ana ea-. irculive branches of the dty govern they argue to tow. Others contend that A Merman wnei- act aa chairman of the hoard aad also mm sen tig mayor. Those 9 o'clock this morning the mayor's condition assumed an alarming as pect.

It was evident there was a serious and unexpected oompllcatloa. The nurse wbb alone with the mayor at 1 he time, but Dr Pole was within reach. Immediately the nurse noticed th latter contention say the taw. which provides that with lived stones the windows and doors of all the houses where Catholics The fury lasted for weeks. Every "Irish" house was a fortiflca- Continucd on the Sixth Page.

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