Daily globe., 1881-09-20
The Scene at El6eron.

The Scene at EL6erOn.
NEW YORK, Sept 19.-From the Times: A!
Long Branch dispatch says the president died
lat 1875 tonight. Allevening his condition.
I Twas Thought more comfortable. There was
she escaped another rigor which had
been =, anxiously feared since S
afully, and the people at the hotels prepared to-
aretire at the usual hour, having almo st mo-
4 fear of serious change before morning. At
alO o'clock Secretary Browns cottage was
adark and apparently deserted. A few
7of the more vigilant newspaper men
: sat talking in the Elberon piazza, DR.. Boynton
samong them. At 1920 colored messenger
called DR.. Boynton out in the dark and whls-
: pered to him excitedly. The doctor then,
president is sinking very rapidly, he said, and
disappeared in the gloom across
sthe lawn toward the presidents cot
aiage. In minute the scene
had changed. There was hurrying about the
3housc and word was quickly sent to the end
aof Long Branch that the president was greatly
sworse. At 1880 Capt. Ingalls, came across
sfrom the cottage slowly as if nothing
was wrong, and when questioned, !,
3jusr sent by the officer of the guard
i to send one of my men to camp surgeon for
mustard for application to the presidents
sbody. The reporters went out on the lawn as
efar as the guard lines to wait for tidings. The
Sreport that mustard had been sent for pointed
Ito tine recurrence of another rigor. A voice
Z WAS heard saying
s'IT IS ALL OVER, THE PRESIDENT IS DEAD"
I 1t was Warren Young, one of the secretaries,
: who spoke. In an instant the little telegraph
7ofice in Elberon was surrounded, and there
: was a shower of bulletins thrown on
two paralyzed operators. No more than
1.-THE simple announcement of the death
acould be sent off, as the government at once
] took exclusive use of the telegraph offices at
2Elberon. No personal dispatches were sent.
Warren Young sent the first official announce
ment off to Washington and to Mentor. The
president had been dead half an hour, when at
4l1:l1, Secretarys Window, Hunt and James
ARRIVED from the West End. They went into
sthe hotel office and were met
10y MacVeagh, who led them away to the cot
stage. At 1855 the members of the cabinet
fwere at Franklyn cottage, engaged in consul
StatiOn. A great crowd was outside for fur
lther news, and the excitement is intense.
THE PRESIDENTS WORDS
when he felt the death pang at him were: ''I
Bam suffering great pain, and fear the end is
news of the Presidents death was received,
the principal hotels, clubs, and other places,
where men are accustomed to gather until
Hate at night. Many who heard the news on
1 the streets hurried to the telegraph stations
4and newspaper offices for confirmation.
Early in the evening thousands, tempted by
4 the balmy air, walked on the streets. The in
Sterest centered on the Illuminated banner on
sthe roof of the building at the junction of
broadway and Seventh avenue. The bull
Bvorable as late as 10 o'clock.
At that hour the streets were
Sthronged and the corrodors of the hotels were
sdensey filled. The light of the camera was
sturned of and the crowds slowly dispersed.
/ THE last bulletin shown was encouraging =
he crowds grew smaller and smaller.
fGMitedM's PMnishnaen Letter from Gen.
Sherman.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.-The following isl
Ga letter from Gen. Sherman In the interest,"
sof law and order, In dealing with the assassin,
Guiteau, will appear in tomorrow mornings Isl
Republican:
! WAsHINGroN, D. C. Sept. 19, 3 p. m.-To
/ Hon. Geo. q. Gorham--Mv dear sir: You and Il
have been comrades in California when vigil-|
ance committees assumed the sole control, and
we know, or think we know how good, honest
people have done some acts of violence underl
an honest conviction that they were doing the
right thing, and we believe that time, the
great physician, will cure all things to the
patient.
have occasionally and recently heard some
arguments on the streets, some scraps of wis.,
dom enunciated, and now at this dread hour:
when our noble, beloved president is lying lnl
the very agouies of death at Long Branrh,
and the cowardly, miserable wretch, Guiteau,
is cove ing in his cell at the public Jail, it oc-
ours to me that you and / should,
in our respective spheres, mske
profit of our past experience. No man on earth
holds in higher tenn the noble qualities of
j. A. Garfield than myself. was on the point
of starting to Chattanooga tonight to do