Rush Hawkins

     GEN. RUSH C. HAWKINS
       DIES OF HIS INJURIES
    Organizer of Famous Civil War
     Zouaves, Hit by Auto, Was 89---
       Writer and Bibliophile.

 Bri. Gen. Rush C. Hawkins, organ-
izer and Colonel of the famous Hawkin's
Zouaves in the civil war, died yesterday
morning in St. Vincent's from injuries
suffered the previous night when he was
struck by an automobile in front of his
home, 42 Fifth Avenue. An unavailing
operation for fractureof the skull had
been performed earlier in the morning.
 For some years General Hawkins's
eyes had been weak and he became con-
fused when starting to cross the avenue
and stepped backward from the path of
one car in front of another. The driver
of the machine that struck him was not
blamed.
 General Hawkins was born at Pomfret,
Conn., on September 14, 1831, and went early
to the wars, serving in Mexico until dis-
abled. Settling in this city in 1851, he
became a lawyer and practiced for sev-
eral years. The Ninth New York Volun-
teers, which he raised, was christened
Hawkins's Zouaves, and was one of the
most popular and picturesque organiza-
tions of the Northern armies. In the
Army of the Potomac re rose to brigade
and then division commander, and was
retired with the rank of Brigadier Gen-
eral.
 In his later life as a civilian he was
active in the cause of political reform
and a noted collector of rare books, also
writing many articles on fifteenth cen-
tury printing and various subjects in
American history. He bought in 1886
the Henry C. Marquand house, at 21
West Twentieth Street, and lived there
until the advance of office buildings
forced him to sell in 1910. He was a
member of the New York House of Rep-
resentatives in 1872 and Art Commis-
sioner to the Paris Exposition of 1889.
He twice gave the sum of $100,000 to the
University of Vermont.
 General Hawkins will be buried in the
memorial building he erected on Brown
Street, Providence, in memory of his
wife, Annmary Brown. Funeral serv-
ices will be held at 42 Fifth Avenue, at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.