Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-31
GRANT AT DEATHS DOOR.
A DAY OF DANGER FOLLOWED
BY A SLIGHT RALLY.

SuENlFaA OI AFTERNOON or Night at One
Time Not Expected-The End PrOba-
bly, not Many Hours Away-CuriOus
Crowds Surrounding the Dying Gene
RAILS Residence.
NEW YORK, March 30.-At 4:30 O'Clock
this afternoon DR.. Douglas returned to
| Gen. Grants house, and after being with
the General about ID minutes issued the
following bulletin: "Gen. Grant is free
from pain and takes his liquid food at
regular intervals and as well as usual.
He is not as strong and is showing more
feebleness of body"
NO CHANGE AT 9:20 O'CLOCK.
NEW YORK, March 80, 9:20 p M.-There
is 40 change in the condition of Gen. Grant.
! He is somewhat weaker if anything. His
| temperature and pulse are normal. He
has taken liquid food in the usual guam
! tity to-day.
DEATH ADMITTED NEAR AT HAND.
After issuing his bulletin in regard to
! Gen. Grant at 80 O'Clock to-day. DR.
Douglas was asked If he thought the end
would come during the night. In answer
he said: 81 think not, but the General is
now passing through the stages incident
to the disease, and, frankly, cannot tell if
the end will come tonight. The General
is growing weaker and weaker" These
words were spoken without reserve, and
carried conviction to the hearers which
none Of the bulletins had done. DR..
Douglas returned from his calls after an
absence of about an hour. He had come
back to remain all night. DR.. Shrady
soon Joined him for the same purpose.
In response to inquiries, Drs. Douglas
and Shrady sent out the following bulletin
at Z O'Clock:
At this moment Gen. Grant is very
quiet. His temperature and pulse are
about normal. He has taken his LIQUID
food regularly and well, and in the usual
quantity. He is more silent than usual,
and has made no eXertiOn of any kind to-
day. He gives the impression of being
weaker, which is not Indicated by the
pulse.
CROWDS OF CURIOUS PEOPLE.
Prompted by curiosity, many persons
strolled through Sixty-sixth street
during the afternoon, stopping in front of
Gen. Grants house to gaze at the building.
The shades of the front parlOr windows
were lowered all day. The inner blinds
of the Generals sleeping room were shut,
with the Stats open. About 3 O'Clock
Mrs. Grant, the Generals wife, stood
Tor some minutes at window on the
third floor, and, after looking some min
utes at the watchers below, drew down
the shade and closed the shutters. The
curtains in the Generals library, or
study, were rolled up all day and the
ladies of the household were several times
seen in the room. Mr. Harrison, the at
tendant, once came out to mail papers
and letters at atSiXty-sixth street and Madi-
son avenue. A watcher inquired as to
tGe Generals condition.
THE ATTENDANTS COMPARISON.
tHe is no better, l fear,' was the reply.
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very much, you know 1t is broken, but
even if the pain is less for a time, the
break is there all the same. The General
has felt easier to-day, but fear that he
is really no BETTER"
Biue-cOated messengers pulled the bell
at short intervals throughout the day.
Personal messages of sympathy and iu-
quiry were constantly coming from friends
and interested persons in the city and out
of it. A gentleman who called at
O'Clock with extraordinary anxiety to see
| Col. Fred Grant or Col. Badeau, was told
that members of the family must DENY
themselves TO all. ''These are our imper-
atiVe Instructions" said a servant at the
door.
ROMERO FEARS CHOKING.
Senior Romero, the Mexican Minister,
VINO called at the house last evening,
made only a short stay. To an anxious
lUlulIG Gi do W us OplulOu III GGn. GEaHb. )
condition and prospects, he said: 'Of
course no one can foretell with certainty.
The disease, until recently, was within
the power OF the doctors, but now it has
gone quite beyond them. The General
may 1--we ten days and he may die in two
hours. i fear that he is going to choke to
death. If the disease reaches an artery
the danger Of choking is increased, and
death by that means becomes almost in
evitable. The members Of the family are
now at the Generals bedside. The doc
tors are there too, but they keep back as
much as possible. / fear that the Gen
eraI will choke to DEATH"
TRIFLE BETTER.
NEW YORK, March so, II 40 P. NAT
1915 O'Clock the doctors announced that
Gen. Grant was easier, and at 10:35
o'cleck little better, but very weak.
BADEAU HIS LITERARY EXECUTOR.
! Gen. Adam Badeau, Gen. Grants
ltormer military secretary, is an inmate
| t Gen. Grants residence. On reliable
| authority it is stated that Gen. Grant has
recently expressed desire that Gen. Ba-
.dtau should become his literary executor.
! Tse family has had stationed before the
! house a policeman to prevent further
! riIgings at the bell and to keep away all
! ln6urers.
Lr. Shrady said this evening that he
! thought that Gen. Grant might rally from
the present attack and live some time, as
| the lecent disturbance was the result of
| trouble in the head, and NOT from an ag-
I grayated form of the disease.
ALL ENCOURAGED AT MIDNIGHT.
NEW YORK, March 81, A. M.-At II :45
o'clock Senator Chatfee left Gen. Grants
residence. He said that the General had
| just been put to bed, and that as compared
with his condition twenty-four hours ago
he was better. When asked if the physi-
| clans Considered the patient out
of danger, Mr.. Chatfee replied
that he could not say that
such was the case, but that his present
condition Was more favorable. At IL 30 DIR.
Douglas and Col. Grant left the house for
the night, it being considered necessary
| for only DR.. Shrady to remain. DIR.
| Douglas said that the General had
| just retired and was very COM
Portable. A little morphine had been
given to induce sleep. The General
had improved all day up to the present,
and the betterment had continued all the
evening. He had been chattY and bright,
conversing with his family and physi-
clans. His pulse and temperature were
nearly normal. He slept five hours within
twenty-four. At midnight the vestibule
doors were locked, and in the next hour
all the lights were eXtinguished except
one on the tOD floor