Empress Theater
-TONIGHT AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 27
C. Aubrey Smith
C. AUBREY SMITH,
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“The Builder of Bridges"
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DETAILS DEATH
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BLUM
Sam Blum, probably the foremost
merchant and banker of Alaska, lost
his life when he fell from the window
of his office on the third floor of the
Pacific block, at Occidental avenue
and Yesler way, early last evening.
That recurrence of a fainting spell, |
experienced four days before, found
the sufferer at the window, fighting
for air when the fatal plunge occur
red, Is the opinion of the coroner's
office and friends and business asso
ciates of the dead man.
A man possessed of a family to
whom he was devotedly attached,
owner of a fortune approximating up
wards of three-quarters of a million
dollars; respected by everybody in
Alaska and in Seattle, and with no
cares, save a few imaginary ones, the
idea of self destruction is scouted by
all his friends.
The Alaska banker-merchant, whose
business interests were bound up in
the fortunes of Valdez, Chitina and
Cordova, had been talking to James
j M. Lathrop, president of the Valdez
Dock Company, who has a desk in
| the Blum offices, when he abruptly
left the reception room and entered
| his private office about fLMu last even
j ing.
A short time had passed, probably
I less than a minute, when Lathrop,
arising from his desk, went to the1
j door of the private office to consult
j with Blum on a subject they had just
I been discussing. The door was stand
| ing ajar. Failing to see Blum, Lathrop
j turned to Miss Laura Lawson, Blum's
stenographer, whose desk command
ed a better view 01* the inner office
than the Lathrop desk, and he said:
"Why, whero'8 Blum?”
"Isn't he there?" replied the steno
grapher. "He certainly did not leave
through this office. He must have
gone out that window," she added,
pointing to an open window, which
Blum had had raised all day, because
he had said that the offices appeared
stifling hot.
Lathrop dashed downstairs and ar
rived on the street as the dying man
"as being carried away.
Blum expired before medical atten
tion could be given him. The body
was removed at once to the Bonney
U atson establishment.
Deputy Coroner Frank Koepfll made
an investigation of the Blum death
• Ills morning, and ufter an examlnn
tion of witnesses and friends of the
dead man, including Nathan Kcksteln,
Leo Schawabacher, J. M. Lathrop. Ja
fet Llndeberg and Miss Lawson, the
stenographer, he expressed himself as
satisfied as to the accidental, or un
intentional, character of the death.
He declared that no Inquest would lie
hold.
Blum had never, in the most remote
w«y. hinted at suicide, his friends de
i lared unanimously.
The merchant-banker was not well
had been suffering from a nervous
trouble for several months, with two
physicians attending him — when a
lire occurred at Valdez, Alaska, on the
morning of January 2, that seemed to
aggravate his illness. From tlie re
ceipt of the news of tlie fire lie began
to worry and suffer from insomnia.
His first concern was relative to
the probable loss of his cousin, Meyer
Blum, who was associated, in a small
way, financially, with him in a store
in the burned district. When it was
learned that the relative’s loss was
nominal, the hanker began to worry
about the possibility of damage done
the records In the vault of the First
llank of Valdez, an institution of
which he was president. Kventually,
when the vaults were opened, it was
discovered that everything was in
tact.
ills own personal loss in the fire
did not total more than $16,000. He
had suffered one of far greater con
sequence a year ago. when Valdez had
a fire, and had laughed away his loss
es. Then he was normally himself
the calm, deliberate, keen business
man that made him one of the fore
most, if not the foremost, banker and
merchant in the northland.
Although he did not have a cent’s]
worth of interest in the steamship
Stanley Dollar, when that vessel was
reported ashore in the Times last
night, he worried because his friend,
Jim r.athrop, had about 1,000 tons of
freight aboard the vessel. This was
the last subject he discussed with
Dathrop before he went to his private
office—and his death.
The mental condition of the suffer
ing man Is further illustrated in the
statement of Deo Schwabacher, a cou
sin. On Thursday night, sharing the
solicitude of Ilium's many friends,
Schwabacher invited Ilium and his
wife for a motor ride. The spent
a long time in the open air, but Blum
returned home to another sleepless
night one of almost a dozen passed
consecutively without sleep.
When the Alaska bunker went to his
office yesterday morning he opened
a window in his private office, com
plaining of the heat of the office, al
though his associates all shivered
from the draught. All understood his
linens, and none objected.
Four days ago, while talking to Ba
hrop over business matters, Blum
iiiililenly exclaimed that he wanted
resb air. Before his companion
•ould open the door or take him to
he window he sank in a faint into
-athrops arms.
On this incident, supplemented with
t general consideration of the man's
Illness and the dazod state of mind In
which he was living, the coroner's
tffice is satisfied that when Blum en
tered the private office he was Strick
lin with an attack similar to that of
four days ago, and that he had reach
ed the open window — and fresh sir
when he swooned and fell to his
leatb.
Blum was president of the First
Bank of Valdez, sole owner of S. Blum
& Co., mercantile house which re
nently was destroyed by fire, hut
which was well covered by Insurance;
president of the First Bank of Cor
dova. owner of a majorlt of the stock
in the firm of Blum, O'Neill * Co., of
Cordova, and owner of the mercantile
firm of S. Blum & Co. of Chitlna. Ills
credit In the north Is the best, as was
lemonstrated In offer, c i,aditlg |
bankers to lend him money on pm !
tonal security to repair his tire
OSBCB.
Tho former Alaskan was 40 years
rid. He startl'd bu-ine for himself
when 21 years old He was a native
of S»n Francisco and received his
early education in that city. })e p,.
catod In Juneau in I'd* and two year
later in Valdez He came to Seattle
first in 1.101 and in l’.in.j returned t ,
tho north.
Blum leaves his widow and thr ,
children, two sons, John and Alien,
and a daughter. Klualn-th l ie ,,|.li- t
John, is nine jreart old, and the d t
ter the youngest, is four yeui old
Blum's widow formerly was Mi, i;,
telle LOofteld ol Beattie Beattie
Times, January 1.:
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