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OBITUARIES, FOREIGN. (LAGO LECKY.) 



capital, including his share in other enterprises, 

 at the time of his death was estimated at 500,000,- 

 000 marks, his income at 20,000,000 to 40,000,000 

 marks. The policy of his father toward his 

 workmen was to furnish them with sanitary 

 dwellings, medical attendance, and means of edu- 

 cation and recrea- 

 tion, and insur- 

 ance, keeping them 

 out of the labor- 

 unions, benefit as- 

 sociations, and po- 

 litical organiza- 

 tions. This patri- 

 archal system was 

 greatly extended 

 and developed by 

 the son, who pro- 

 vided model homes 

 at the lowest rent- 

 al for the fam- 

 ilies of his 43,000 

 workmen, with 

 hospitals, schools, 

 and casinos, or- 

 ganized for them 

 a system of cooperative stores, and gave them 

 retiring pensions on more favorable tei-ms than 

 the Government or the mutual insurance societies. 

 He was simple and retiring in his habits, but his 

 society and advice were valued by the present 

 German Emperor, who would have liked to give 

 him a title of nobility. He spent his winters at 

 Capri and carried on investigations of the marine 

 fauna of the Mediterranean, of which he collected 

 preserved specimens, and he had an immense 

 aquarium for studying aquatic life and left mate- 

 rials for a book on the subject. The Socialist press 

 of Germany constantly attacked Herr Krupp, and 

 his death is supposed to have been hastened by a 

 slanderous, degrading charge against his private 

 character made in the chief organ of the Social- 

 Democratic party, the Vorwarts of Berlin. 



Lago, Carlo, Italian impresario, born in Italy 

 in 1830; died in Milan, in March, 1902. He had 

 been connected with the production of grand 

 opera in all parts of the world, and was manager 

 of the Italian Opera in St. Petersburg for several 

 years. He also gave several seasons of opera at 

 Drury Lane Theater, London. He first visited this 

 country as musical conductor with Adelina Patti, 

 when she was under the management of Henry 

 E. Abbey and Maurice Grau; and in 1901 he 

 traveled in the United States as conductor of 

 Mme. Sembrich's concert company. He was one of 

 the best known of the old school of Italian opera 

 impresarios, and was familiar with every detail 

 of the production of an opera, from conducting 

 the orchestra to training the chorus. 



Landesman, Heinrich, " Hieronymous Lorm," 

 an Austrian poet, born in Nikolsdorf, Moravia, 

 Aug. 9, 1821; died in Brunn, Moravia, Dec. 3, 

 1902. He lost his hearing at the age of fifteen, 

 and his sight failed not long afterward, but he 

 invented a kind of finger language, which en- 

 abled him to communicate his wants and to dic- 

 tate his poems and other works. His poetry is 

 markedly pessimistic. His writings include Ab- 

 dul (1843); Wiens poetische Schwingen und Fe- 

 dern (1846); ErzJihlung des Jahres 1848 (1855); 

 Am Kamin (1856) ; Erzilhlungen des Heimgekehr- 

 ten (1858) ; Intimes Leben (1860) : Philosophisch- 

 kritische Streifziige (1873); Gefliigelte Stunden 

 (1875-78) ; ToteSchuld (1878) ; Spilte Vergeltung 

 (1879); Der Abend zu Hause (1881); Ein Schat- 

 ten aus vergangenen Tagen (1882) ; Vor dem At- 

 tentat (1884); and Die Schone Wienerin (1886). 



Latey, John, English novelist, born in London, 

 Oct. 30, 1842; died Sept. 26, 1902. He was the 

 son of John Lash Latey, a former proprietor 

 of the London Illustrated News, and after being 

 educated at Barnstaple, was for forty years con- 

 nected with the Penny Illustrated Paper, which 

 he edited almost from its beginning in 1861. For 

 a long period he contributed the parliamentary 

 sketches that appeared in the Illustrated News 

 under the signature of " The Silent Member," and 

 in 1899 he became editor of The Sketch. Mr. 

 Latey was the author of a translation of Alex- 

 andre Dumas's Mohicans of Paris (1875), and of 

 Paul Feval's Fils du Diable, to which he gave 

 the English title of The Three Red Knights. In 

 original work he produced the comedietta The 

 Rose of Hastings; The Life of General Gordon; 

 The Showman's Panorama (with W. Mackay) 

 (1880); and the novels Love Clouds (1884); The 

 River of Life (1886) ; A Daughter of the People; 

 A London Prima Donna; The Queen of Hearts 

 Mine; Diamonds Led; and Hearts were Trumps. 



Latham, Henry, English clergyman, born in 

 Dover, England, June 4, 1821 ; died June 5, 1902. 

 He was educated at Cambridge, and entered the 

 Anglican ministry as priest in 1850. His life 

 was spent almost entirely in Cambridge, where 

 he became tutor in Trinity Hall, and fellow of 

 the same institution. He was vice-master of the 

 hall from 1850 to 1888, and was master from 

 the last-named year until his death. He pub- 

 lished Geometrical Problems in the Properties 

 of the Conic Sections (1848); On the Recom- 

 mendations of the University Commission 

 (1857); On the Action of Examinations (1877); 

 Pastor Pastorurn, or the Schooling of the Apos- 

 tles by Our Lord (1890); A Service of Angels 

 (1894); and The Risen Master (1901). 



Laurie, Mrs. J. Werner, English author, died 

 in Cannes, France, in December, 1902. She was the 

 wife of an Edinburgh educational publisher, and 

 some of her books attained a wide popularity, 

 their circulation reaching into the hundreds of 

 thousands. They include Henry's History of 

 England (1868); Dramas for Children (1869); 

 Henry's Scripture Lessons (1869); Maxwell's Ge- 

 ographies (1869); The Queen of the Mice; Tales 

 and Adventures for the Young; and A Trip 

 Round the World. She edited, also, a popular 

 anthology entitled Playtime with the Poets. 



Leake, George, Australian statesman, born in 

 1868; died in Perth, June 24, 1902. He belonged 

 to a family that played a prominent part in the 

 political life of Western Australia, and a year 

 after his admission to the bar in 1880 he became 

 Acting Crown Solicitor. He rose to be Acting At- 

 torney-General and a member of the Executive 

 Council in 1886. In 1890 he was elected to the 

 first Legislative Assembly of the colony, from 

 which he resigned so as to retain the post of 

 Crown Solicitor. In May, 1901, he formed a 

 ministry; when it was reconstructed he became 

 Attorney-General as well as Premier, and he died 

 while in office. 



Lecky, Squire Thornton Strafford, English 

 ship captain, who died at Las Palmas, Canary 

 Islands, Nov. 23, 1902. He had made running 

 surveys of Patagonia, and for personal service- 

 to the King of Portugal had received the Holy 

 and Military Order of Jesus Christ, lie \va- a 

 fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and 

 of the Royal Geographical Society. For some 

 years he served as captain in the Inman Line 

 of steamships, and later in the Pacific Strain 

 Navigation Company. Capt. Lecky published 

 Wrinkles in Practical Navigation, a much val- 

 ued work (1881); The Danger Angle and Off- 



