The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-31
Chief JUSTICE WAITE.
HE EXPIRED YESTERDAY AFTER A
SHORT ILLNESS.


in this city at Go o'clock this morn
Ing.
His daughter. Miss Mary F. Waite,
and his son, Mr.. c. q. Waite (Vict
President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad) were with him
when he died.
Mrs. Waite left Washington for Cali
fornia about a week ago, and is sup
posed now to be in Los Angeles.
The Chief Justice will be buried II
Toledo, Ohio.
Additional particulars Of the Illness
of Chief Justice Waite are obtained
from DR.. Caroline r. Winslow, who has
been the family physician tor the last
thirteen years. The immediate cause
of his death, the doctor said, was nerv'
GUS failure of the action OF the heart,
and it came with such startling sudden
ness as to be absolutely appalling. There
was not the vaQuest symptoms Of hear
complication throughout his sickness.
On Saturday night the Chief Justice at.
tended the authors reception, given by
Senator and Mrs. Hearst, but feeling
slightly indisposed, he left their house
early. About half ar hour after he ar
rived at home he was taken with a chill
and Immediately retired.
At 8 O'Clock In the morning DR..
Winslow was called, and found tht
Chief Justice suffering acute pain In
his back and bones. Later on in the
morning he felt somewhat better, and
rested quite comfortably. AT this time
he said 20 his physician, in a tone Of in
quiry, that he must attend court or
Monday, but was cautioned to take nc
chances. He persisted that he felt
quite well enough to ride to the Capt.
toll and return, and anticipated no un.
favorable results from q little outing.
On Monday, after his return from the
Capitol, the physician called and found
him complaining OF q soreness in his
right lung. and. when asked to take q
long breath, said that the effort caused
him pain. An examination showed
that q part of his right lung. two OF
more inches In diameter, was hepatlzed.
This was accompanied with q slight
cough. He was extremely restless, as
indeed he had been from the first, and
his face was much flushed. He was
very wakeful during Monday night, ly.
ing on his right side most Of the time.
He rested easier on that side, he said,
than on the other or his back. While
his illness was by no means regarded
as critical, his physician on Tuesday
suggested that his son, Nj. @. G.
Waite, be t~elegraphed for, which was
done. HE arrived yesterday afternoon
at 9. 30 O'clock.1
The Chief Justices condition re-
manned much the same during Tuesday
morning. He was very cheerful, and
la%ughingly remarked to those presen,
that he did not know how to be sick,
but later in the day symptoms of acute
bronchitis appeared, and on Wednes'
day symptoms Of pneumonia made
their appearance in his affected lung,
He breathed hard and with q slight
groan, and when asked If he was In
pain smilingly replied he was not In
pain, but he really did mot know how
to be sick" There was no material
change during the day. He remained
cheerful, talking pleasantly with his
nurse and attendants. During the
night Of Wednesday and on Thursday
he was quite comfortable, no one feel
ing any alarm, though naturally an
xious. He was getting along we'll,
every ono believed, and when at II
O'Clock last evening his physician
left him, he responded to her ''good
night" as cheerfully and In as strong a
voice a. he did in health. The nurse
who remained during the night obser.
we'd no change in his condition, not even
In the expression of his face, until G
O'Clock this morning. when he turned
over on his back, and in 10 minutes
was dead. On Monday when he at.
tended court he was accompanied by
his daughter, who took wraps and Q
bottle Of hot beef extract in ase be
should need them, but aside from slight
fatigue he felt comparatively well. AT
the beginning Of his illness the Chief
Justice, fearing to needlessly alarm his
wife, who was on her way to Callfor-
mia 10 company with an invalid sister,
cautioned those about him to keep his
condition from the newspapers. He
not alarmed himself, and was un-
willing that his wiie's journey should
be curtailed or interfered with by his
slight indispositlon. 1t is said by hi,
physician that this was the only severe
illness the Chief Justice ever had in his
life, except that of two years ago, when
he suffered some time from erysipelas
in his face and hands.
Judge Edgerton, President of the
Civil Service Commission. an old friend
of the family. has usually taken his
Sunday dinner at Chief Justice Waite's
since the former became u resident
here, He Was there last Sunday, but
H. t,h,af Justice was not able to ap-
pear at The table. Judge Edgerton.
however, saw him in his room and il
bed. He begged Judge Edgerton to
keep the fact of his Illness a close secret,
remarking that If 1t got into the news
papers his wife would see 1t and it would
destroy the pleasure of her visit. He
also remarked that, unless his doctors
positively forbade 1t, he wouli 60 to
the Court next day. Judge Edgerton
e~ndeavored to dissuade him from the
venture, but the Chief Justice repliet
that he was not seriously i'll and that
if he should be absent from the Court
when the Telephone opinion was de-
livered, his absence would at once be
construed to NEAR that he was ill.
The Chief Justice leaves a widow,
two sons, Edward I. Waite, a lawyer
of Toledo; G. Z. Waite, OF Cincinnati,
President of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad, and a daughter,
Miss Mary Waite.
DIR. Frank A. Gardner, who was
called in consultation last evening, said
to-day that he found the patient suffer-
ing from croupous pneumonia In his
right lung. He was very i'll, but he
did not regard his case as hopeless, by
any means. In cronpous pneumonia,
the doctor explained, there IS always a
well defined crisis. In about five
days after the patient is taken
that crisis comes; the fever sub
sides, and very often at this point
the heart, although hitherto free
from organic disease, suddenly fails to
perform its functions and the patient
Is dead. 1t cannot be foreseen and can
not be anticipated in the treatment.
bad his heart not failed in this crisis,
the Chief Justice, in all probability,
would have recovered from the at.
ck of