Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — C. T. YERKES IS DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

C. T. YERKES IS D EAD.

■tree* Car Mngnnte Passes Away fg New York. Within a few weeks of the day he returned from Europe to Aeoure a divorce from Ids wife, Chari eg -T/ Yerkes, the greatest traction magnate of the'.wQrld, died In a rooifi in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in- 1 New .York Friday afternoon. In nil ante room 6at the woman from whom he. sought release. As lie-lay dying she haaconsented to see him for the' last time. When'she reached, the hotel he was unconscious and died without knowledge of her fireseuce: — That Mr. Yerkes and his wife had been estranged for years was known to many of his friends, but few were aware qf the bitterness of feellng which-find developed, and which kepi Mrs. Yerkes away from the- side of her husband even to the moment of his death. It-was not until Mr. Yerkes had sunk Into the state of lethargy that immediately preceded his end that Mrs. Yerkes consented to go to the Waldorf-Astoria, and even then she refused to enter the room in which her husband lay dying. She sat In an

ante room during the entire time, while Charles T. Yerkes, Jr., and Mrs. Charles Rondamiller, children by bis first wife, were with Mr. Y'erkes. A complication of ailments, with Bright’s disease underlying, brought the multi-millionaire’s life to a close after weeks of suffering. The stormy career of the traction magnate of two hemispheres, made up of a mixture of shadows and successes—a romance of financial triumphs nnd bitter battles for social prestige—culminated in a deathbed scene made additionally tra» gic by the note of domestic discord. Although nominally a New Yorker for the last eight years, Mr. Yerkes had spent much of Ills time in Loudon, where ho had successfully launched and engineered one oLlfae most stupendous urban transportation projects the metropolis has known. For twenty years or more Chicago was his home, and it was in Chicngo that he garnered the fortune which made possible his achievements.

CHARLES T. YERKES.