Omaha Daily Bee, October 20, 1908 (page 5):
Alfred Darlow died at his residence, 4032 Izard street, at 6:10 Monday morning of an internal hemorrhage. He had undergone two operations within the last fortnight and had not been in good health for some months. He was suffering from nervousness superinduced by his physical condition proved unequal to the demand imposed upon it by the operations. But the primary cause of death was the hemorrhage. The operations were secondary.
Mr. Darlow's brother, Ruff Darlow of St. Louis; Mrs. Darlow's brothers, Gutzon and Dr. Frank Borglum of New York and Arnold Borglum of St. Louis, will be here to attend the funeral, but it is said Solon Borglum will be unable to attend.
The Union Pacific will pay an official tribute to his memory.
Up to about 5:30 Sunday afternoon Mr. Darlow had talked cheerfully and appeared better than he had been for days. But a relapse came and he developed alarming symptoms. The depression became worse until about 10 o'clock, when he became restful and fell asleep as naturally, it seemed, as if he were in normal health. In the meantime the family, Mrs. Darlow and three children; Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum, Mrs. Darlow's parents and her brother and sister, Mr. August Borglum and Miss Borglum, and Dr. H. P. Jensen and Rev. T. J. Mackay were summoned. When Mr. Darlow was relieved from his suffering by sleep some of the relatives went to their homes, but were recalled about 3 a.m., when he again became worse. From then on his decline was rapid. He as conscious, however, until very near the moment of death.
Mr. Darlow had been far from a well man for many months. He resigned from his position as manager of the Union Pacific advertising department after September 1, the day on which he completed his twentieth year of service. But he really left the company some two weeks prior to that date and went to the Atlantic seacoast for a vacation with Mrs. Darlow and their children, who had spent their summer outing there. When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific he was suffering from nervous strain and on his vacation he failed to obtain the relief hoped for. He would walk up and down the beach and then sit down to rest, saying he was tired. Then, and for months prior, he had complained of a difficulty in breathing and had expressed the fear that his heart was giving him trouble. He was not a rugged man physically.
Friends and associates of Mr. Darlow on the Union Pacific had been planning a banquet in his honor at the Omaha club ever since he left that company. When he went east it was the intention to give the banquet as soon as he returned, but when he returned in poor health it was decided best to wait until he had fully regained his strength. This banquet was to be a testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held by the executive officials and his other associates on the old Overland, which he loved so well.
The grief and sorrow over the death of Alfred Darlow is keen, genuine and widespread. Union Pacific headquarters, his official home for even twenty years, is a house of mourning. Strong men are brokenhearted. In other places of business and social life in Omaha the gloom of grief is deeply manifest, and messages of condolence to the stricken wife and family already have come from other cities and other states, for the news of Mr. Darlow's death was carried out of Omaha early in the day by the Associated Press. Wherever his name is known--and it is known in nearly every part of the country--the sorrow will be felt. For here was a man who found his way into the recesses of men's hearts through the avenue first of their confidence, a man to whom friendship was a thing of sacred worth.
For days prior to his death Mr. Darlow was the object of solicitation to his friends everywhere. The news of his illness had gone abroad, but care had been exercised--at his direction--not to arouse too keen apprehension by magnifying the seriousness of his condition. He believed he would recover and was unwilling to give his friends any uneasiness. But for days letters and other messages of solicitous inquiry from all over the country poured in.
This was a life of impatient activity. Alfred Darlow was a stranger to indolence. Mentally and physically he had to be busy. At least he was. Gifted by nature and cultured by education, he was peculiarly fitted for work to which he gave the best years of his life. He was born in London fifty-two years ago. He took a classical course at old Oxford, then traveled extensively. In early manhood he came to the United States, settling at St. Louis. From there in 1888 he came to Omaha and took up his work with the Union Pacific as a clerk in the passenger department. Rising by steady gradations, he finally became manager of the advertising department and here he made a name for himself and a record for his company which not even the bounds of his own country could limit.
Much has been said and written of Mr. Darlow and his Union Pacific system of advertising, but not too much. He became an artist and made his work an art He set the pace and others followed. He magnified the possibilities of his sphere of endeavor. He became a student and finally an authority on the great western country traversed and colonized by the Union Pacific. It has been said that he wrote more on this vast transmissouri empire than any other one man and what he wrote was interesting, attractive and official. He has compiled volumes, many of which adorn his library at home, which is one of the best in Omaha.
Mr. Darlow had a peculiar sympathy for and insight into the newspaper business. He realized the possibilities of its power and in the influence of "printers' ink" he reposed an implicit faith. Other legitimate periodicals appealed to his confidence. It has also been said that no other railroad advertising man, if, indeed, a man in any similar walk of life, had as large and as cordial acquaintance among newspaper men of the United States as Alfred Darlow. Each restless toiler who was true to this man's friendship knew that in him he had a real friend, but the man who abused Alfred Darlow's confidence once never got the opportunity the second time.
When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific to devote his entire time to his private interests, chief of which were the C. D. Thompson Advertising agency of Omaha, the press all over the country took to pay him tribute. He had news bureaus in Omaha and Kansas City. He had made good investments and leaves his family in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Darlow's home life was an example. He was ardently devoted to his family. He had a beautiful home. His family consists of Mrs. Darlow, who was Miss Anna Borglum, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum and sister of the renowned artists, Gutzon and Solon Borglum of New York; his three children, Ida, Clarence and Dorothy.
His library was one of Mr. Darlow's chief source of enjoyment. It was selected and compiled with special reference to the tastes and training of each member of the family. He often remarked that he wanted a library where his son and daughters could go for mental food in their childhood or adult years.
Mr. Darlow was a member of the Omaha, Commercial and Happy Hollow clubs, the Elks and Shriners.
Alfred Darlow died at his residence, 4032 Izard street, at 6:10 Monday morning of an internal hemorrhage. He had undergone two operations within the last fortnight and had not been in good health for some months. He was suffering from nervousness superinduced by his physical condition proved unequal to the demand imposed upon it by the operations. But the primary cause of death was the hemorrhage. The operations were secondary.
Mr. Darlow's brother, Ruff Darlow of St. Louis; Mrs. Darlow's brothers, Gutzon and Dr. Frank Borglum of New York and Arnold Borglum of St. Louis, will be here to attend the funeral, but it is said Solon Borglum will be unable to attend.
The Union Pacific will pay an official tribute to his memory.
Up to about 5:30 Sunday afternoon Mr. Darlow had talked cheerfully and appeared better than he had been for days. But a relapse came and he developed alarming symptoms. The depression became worse until about 10 o'clock, when he became restful and fell asleep as naturally, it seemed, as if he were in normal health. In the meantime the family, Mrs. Darlow and three children; Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum, Mrs. Darlow's parents and her brother and sister, Mr. August Borglum and Miss Borglum, and Dr. H. P. Jensen and Rev. T. J. Mackay were summoned. When Mr. Darlow was relieved from his suffering by sleep some of the relatives went to their homes, but were recalled about 3 a.m., when he again became worse. From then on his decline was rapid. He as conscious, however, until very near the moment of death.
Mr. Darlow had been far from a well man for many months. He resigned from his position as manager of the Union Pacific advertising department after September 1, the day on which he completed his twentieth year of service. But he really left the company some two weeks prior to that date and went to the Atlantic seacoast for a vacation with Mrs. Darlow and their children, who had spent their summer outing there. When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific he was suffering from nervous strain and on his vacation he failed to obtain the relief hoped for. He would walk up and down the beach and then sit down to rest, saying he was tired. Then, and for months prior, he had complained of a difficulty in breathing and had expressed the fear that his heart was giving him trouble. He was not a rugged man physically.
Friends and associates of Mr. Darlow on the Union Pacific had been planning a banquet in his honor at the Omaha club ever since he left that company. When he went east it was the intention to give the banquet as soon as he returned, but when he returned in poor health it was decided best to wait until he had fully regained his strength. This banquet was to be a testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held by the executive officials and his other associates on the old Overland, which he loved so well.
The grief and sorrow over the death of Alfred Darlow is keen, genuine and widespread. Union Pacific headquarters, his official home for even twenty years, is a house of mourning. Strong men are brokenhearted. In other places of business and social life in Omaha the gloom of grief is deeply manifest, and messages of condolence to the stricken wife and family already have come from other cities and other states, for the news of Mr. Darlow's death was carried out of Omaha early in the day by the Associated Press. Wherever his name is known--and it is known in nearly every part of the country--the sorrow will be felt. For here was a man who found his way into the recesses of men's hearts through the avenue first of their confidence, a man to whom friendship was a thing of sacred worth.
For days prior to his death Mr. Darlow was the object of solicitation to his friends everywhere. The news of his illness had gone abroad, but care had been exercised--at his direction--not to arouse too keen apprehension by magnifying the seriousness of his condition. He believed he would recover and was unwilling to give his friends any uneasiness. But for days letters and other messages of solicitous inquiry from all over the country poured in.
This was a life of impatient activity. Alfred Darlow was a stranger to indolence. Mentally and physically he had to be busy. At least he was. Gifted by nature and cultured by education, he was peculiarly fitted for work to which he gave the best years of his life. He was born in London fifty-two years ago. He took a classical course at old Oxford, then traveled extensively. In early manhood he came to the United States, settling at St. Louis. From there in 1888 he came to Omaha and took up his work with the Union Pacific as a clerk in the passenger department. Rising by steady gradations, he finally became manager of the advertising department and here he made a name for himself and a record for his company which not even the bounds of his own country could limit.
Much has been said and written of Mr. Darlow and his Union Pacific system of advertising, but not too much. He became an artist and made his work an art He set the pace and others followed. He magnified the possibilities of his sphere of endeavor. He became a student and finally an authority on the great western country traversed and colonized by the Union Pacific. It has been said that he wrote more on this vast transmissouri empire than any other one man and what he wrote was interesting, attractive and official. He has compiled volumes, many of which adorn his library at home, which is one of the best in Omaha.
Mr. Darlow had a peculiar sympathy for and insight into the newspaper business. He realized the possibilities of its power and in the influence of "printers' ink" he reposed an implicit faith. Other legitimate periodicals appealed to his confidence. It has also been said that no other railroad advertising man, if, indeed, a man in any similar walk of life, had as large and as cordial acquaintance among newspaper men of the United States as Alfred Darlow. Each restless toiler who was true to this man's friendship knew that in him he had a real friend, but the man who abused Alfred Darlow's confidence once never got the opportunity the second time.
When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific to devote his entire time to his private interests, chief of which were the C. D. Thompson Advertising agency of Omaha, the press all over the country took to pay him tribute. He had news bureaus in Omaha and Kansas City. He had made good investments and leaves his family in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Darlow's home life was an example. He was ardently devoted to his family. He had a beautiful home. His family consists of Mrs. Darlow, who was Miss Anna Borglum, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum and sister of the renowned artists, Gutzon and Solon Borglum of New York; his three children, Ida, Clarence and Dorothy.
His library was one of Mr. Darlow's chief source of enjoyment. It was selected and compiled with special reference to the tastes and training of each member of the family. He often remarked that he wanted a library where his son and daughters could go for mental food in their childhood or adult years.
Mr. Darlow was a member of the Omaha, Commercial and Happy Hollow clubs, the Elks and Shriners.
Omaha Daily Bee, October 20, 1908 (page 5):
Alfred Darlow died at his residence, 4032 Izard street, at 6:10 Monday morning of an internal hemorrhage. He had undergone two operations within the last fortnight and had not been in good health for some months. He was suffering from nervousness superinduced by his physical condition proved unequal to the demand imposed upon it by the operations. But the primary cause of death was the hemorrhage. The operations were secondary.
Mr. Darlow's brother, Ruff Darlow of St. Louis; Mrs. Darlow's brothers, Gutzon and Dr. Frank Borglum of New York and Arnold Borglum of St. Louis, will be here to attend the funeral, but it is said Solon Borglum will be unable to attend.
The Union Pacific will pay an official tribute to his memory.
Up to about 5:30 Sunday afternoon Mr. Darlow had talked cheerfully and appeared better than he had been for days. But a relapse came and he developed alarming symptoms. The depression became worse until about 10 o'clock, when he became restful and fell asleep as naturally, it seemed, as if he were in normal health. In the meantime the family, Mrs. Darlow and three children; Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum, Mrs. Darlow's parents and her brother and sister, Mr. August Borglum and Miss Borglum, and Dr. H. P. Jensen and Rev. T. J. Mackay were summoned. When Mr. Darlow was relieved from his suffering by sleep some of the relatives went to their homes, but were recalled about 3 a.m., when he again became worse. From then on his decline was rapid. He as conscious, however, until very near the moment of death.
Mr. Darlow had been far from a well man for many months. He resigned from his position as manager of the Union Pacific advertising department after September 1, the day on which he completed his twentieth year of service. But he really left the company some two weeks prior to that date and went to the Atlantic seacoast for a vacation with Mrs. Darlow and their children, who had spent their summer outing there. When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific he was suffering from nervous strain and on his vacation he failed to obtain the relief hoped for. He would walk up and down the beach and then sit down to rest, saying he was tired. Then, and for months prior, he had complained of a difficulty in breathing and had expressed the fear that his heart was giving him trouble. He was not a rugged man physically.
Friends and associates of Mr. Darlow on the Union Pacific had been planning a banquet in his honor at the Omaha club ever since he left that company. When he went east it was the intention to give the banquet as soon as he returned, but when he returned in poor health it was decided best to wait until he had fully regained his strength. This banquet was to be a testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held by the executive officials and his other associates on the old Overland, which he loved so well.
The grief and sorrow over the death of Alfred Darlow is keen, genuine and widespread. Union Pacific headquarters, his official home for even twenty years, is a house of mourning. Strong men are brokenhearted. In other places of business and social life in Omaha the gloom of grief is deeply manifest, and messages of condolence to the stricken wife and family already have come from other cities and other states, for the news of Mr. Darlow's death was carried out of Omaha early in the day by the Associated Press. Wherever his name is known--and it is known in nearly every part of the country--the sorrow will be felt. For here was a man who found his way into the recesses of men's hearts through the avenue first of their confidence, a man to whom friendship was a thing of sacred worth.
For days prior to his death Mr. Darlow was the object of solicitation to his friends everywhere. The news of his illness had gone abroad, but care had been exercised--at his direction--not to arouse too keen apprehension by magnifying the seriousness of his condition. He believed he would recover and was unwilling to give his friends any uneasiness. But for days letters and other messages of solicitous inquiry from all over the country poured in.
This was a life of impatient activity. Alfred Darlow was a stranger to indolence. Mentally and physically he had to be busy. At least he was. Gifted by nature and cultured by education, he was peculiarly fitted for work to which he gave the best years of his life. He was born in London fifty-two years ago. He took a classical course at old Oxford, then traveled extensively. In early manhood he came to the United States, settling at St. Louis. From there in 1888 he came to Omaha and took up his work with the Union Pacific as a clerk in the passenger department. Rising by steady gradations, he finally became manager of the advertising department and here he made a name for himself and a record for his company which not even the bounds of his own country could limit.
Much has been said and written of Mr. Darlow and his Union Pacific system of advertising, but not too much. He became an artist and made his work an art He set the pace and others followed. He magnified the possibilities of his sphere of endeavor. He became a student and finally an authority on the great western country traversed and colonized by the Union Pacific. It has been said that he wrote more on this vast transmissouri empire than any other one man and what he wrote was interesting, attractive and official. He has compiled volumes, many of which adorn his library at home, which is one of the best in Omaha.
Mr. Darlow had a peculiar sympathy for and insight into the newspaper business. He realized the possibilities of its power and in the influence of "printers' ink" he reposed an implicit faith. Other legitimate periodicals appealed to his confidence. It has also been said that no other railroad advertising man, if, indeed, a man in any similar walk of life, had as large and as cordial acquaintance among newspaper men of the United States as Alfred Darlow. Each restless toiler who was true to this man's friendship knew that in him he had a real friend, but the man who abused Alfred Darlow's confidence once never got the opportunity the second time.
When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific to devote his entire time to his private interests, chief of which were the C. D. Thompson Advertising agency of Omaha, the press all over the country took to pay him tribute. He had news bureaus in Omaha and Kansas City. He had made good investments and leaves his family in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Darlow's home life was an example. He was ardently devoted to his family. He had a beautiful home. His family consists of Mrs. Darlow, who was Miss Anna Borglum, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum and sister of the renowned artists, Gutzon and Solon Borglum of New York; his three children, Ida, Clarence and Dorothy.
His library was one of Mr. Darlow's chief source of enjoyment. It was selected and compiled with special reference to the tastes and training of each member of the family. He often remarked that he wanted a library where his son and daughters could go for mental food in their childhood or adult years.
Mr. Darlow was a member of the Omaha, Commercial and Happy Hollow clubs, the Elks and Shriners.
Alfred Darlow died at his residence, 4032 Izard street, at 6:10 Monday morning of an internal hemorrhage. He had undergone two operations within the last fortnight and had not been in good health for some months. He was suffering from nervousness superinduced by his physical condition proved unequal to the demand imposed upon it by the operations. But the primary cause of death was the hemorrhage. The operations were secondary.
Mr. Darlow's brother, Ruff Darlow of St. Louis; Mrs. Darlow's brothers, Gutzon and Dr. Frank Borglum of New York and Arnold Borglum of St. Louis, will be here to attend the funeral, but it is said Solon Borglum will be unable to attend.
The Union Pacific will pay an official tribute to his memory.
Up to about 5:30 Sunday afternoon Mr. Darlow had talked cheerfully and appeared better than he had been for days. But a relapse came and he developed alarming symptoms. The depression became worse until about 10 o'clock, when he became restful and fell asleep as naturally, it seemed, as if he were in normal health. In the meantime the family, Mrs. Darlow and three children; Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum, Mrs. Darlow's parents and her brother and sister, Mr. August Borglum and Miss Borglum, and Dr. H. P. Jensen and Rev. T. J. Mackay were summoned. When Mr. Darlow was relieved from his suffering by sleep some of the relatives went to their homes, but were recalled about 3 a.m., when he again became worse. From then on his decline was rapid. He as conscious, however, until very near the moment of death.
Mr. Darlow had been far from a well man for many months. He resigned from his position as manager of the Union Pacific advertising department after September 1, the day on which he completed his twentieth year of service. But he really left the company some two weeks prior to that date and went to the Atlantic seacoast for a vacation with Mrs. Darlow and their children, who had spent their summer outing there. When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific he was suffering from nervous strain and on his vacation he failed to obtain the relief hoped for. He would walk up and down the beach and then sit down to rest, saying he was tired. Then, and for months prior, he had complained of a difficulty in breathing and had expressed the fear that his heart was giving him trouble. He was not a rugged man physically.
Friends and associates of Mr. Darlow on the Union Pacific had been planning a banquet in his honor at the Omaha club ever since he left that company. When he went east it was the intention to give the banquet as soon as he returned, but when he returned in poor health it was decided best to wait until he had fully regained his strength. This banquet was to be a testimonial of the high esteem in which he was held by the executive officials and his other associates on the old Overland, which he loved so well.
The grief and sorrow over the death of Alfred Darlow is keen, genuine and widespread. Union Pacific headquarters, his official home for even twenty years, is a house of mourning. Strong men are brokenhearted. In other places of business and social life in Omaha the gloom of grief is deeply manifest, and messages of condolence to the stricken wife and family already have come from other cities and other states, for the news of Mr. Darlow's death was carried out of Omaha early in the day by the Associated Press. Wherever his name is known--and it is known in nearly every part of the country--the sorrow will be felt. For here was a man who found his way into the recesses of men's hearts through the avenue first of their confidence, a man to whom friendship was a thing of sacred worth.
For days prior to his death Mr. Darlow was the object of solicitation to his friends everywhere. The news of his illness had gone abroad, but care had been exercised--at his direction--not to arouse too keen apprehension by magnifying the seriousness of his condition. He believed he would recover and was unwilling to give his friends any uneasiness. But for days letters and other messages of solicitous inquiry from all over the country poured in.
This was a life of impatient activity. Alfred Darlow was a stranger to indolence. Mentally and physically he had to be busy. At least he was. Gifted by nature and cultured by education, he was peculiarly fitted for work to which he gave the best years of his life. He was born in London fifty-two years ago. He took a classical course at old Oxford, then traveled extensively. In early manhood he came to the United States, settling at St. Louis. From there in 1888 he came to Omaha and took up his work with the Union Pacific as a clerk in the passenger department. Rising by steady gradations, he finally became manager of the advertising department and here he made a name for himself and a record for his company which not even the bounds of his own country could limit.
Much has been said and written of Mr. Darlow and his Union Pacific system of advertising, but not too much. He became an artist and made his work an art He set the pace and others followed. He magnified the possibilities of his sphere of endeavor. He became a student and finally an authority on the great western country traversed and colonized by the Union Pacific. It has been said that he wrote more on this vast transmissouri empire than any other one man and what he wrote was interesting, attractive and official. He has compiled volumes, many of which adorn his library at home, which is one of the best in Omaha.
Mr. Darlow had a peculiar sympathy for and insight into the newspaper business. He realized the possibilities of its power and in the influence of "printers' ink" he reposed an implicit faith. Other legitimate periodicals appealed to his confidence. It has also been said that no other railroad advertising man, if, indeed, a man in any similar walk of life, had as large and as cordial acquaintance among newspaper men of the United States as Alfred Darlow. Each restless toiler who was true to this man's friendship knew that in him he had a real friend, but the man who abused Alfred Darlow's confidence once never got the opportunity the second time.
When Mr. Darlow left the Union Pacific to devote his entire time to his private interests, chief of which were the C. D. Thompson Advertising agency of Omaha, the press all over the country took to pay him tribute. He had news bureaus in Omaha and Kansas City. He had made good investments and leaves his family in comfortable circumstances.
Mr. Darlow's home life was an example. He was ardently devoted to his family. He had a beautiful home. His family consists of Mrs. Darlow, who was Miss Anna Borglum, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Borglum and sister of the renowned artists, Gutzon and Solon Borglum of New York; his three children, Ida, Clarence and Dorothy.
His library was one of Mr. Darlow's chief source of enjoyment. It was selected and compiled with special reference to the tastes and training of each member of the family. He often remarked that he wanted a library where his son and daughters could go for mental food in their childhood or adult years.
Mr. Darlow was a member of the Omaha, Commercial and Happy Hollow clubs, the Elks and Shriners.
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