The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-01-02
ceAnr.s LAsT DAYS.

room, but got out of sick bed to attend
a Masonic banquet, where he delivered a
short address. In that speech he referred
to his health and said that while the
fever was pulsing through his veins he
thought of his boyhood days and could
see the white pigeons fiuttering in the
air and hear the music of the birds.
He went to Boston against the advice
of his physician, as he was threatened
with pneumonia. In Boston and other
places he visited he greatly exposed him
self and contracted new cold. He was
attended by DIR. Goldthwaite in New
York, and acting under his advice. re-
turned to Atlanta. DIR. Goldthwaite
stated chat he thought all danger OF
pneumonia past. On the journey home
Mr. Grady was respondent and suffering
from nervous depression.
Il am going to be seriously sick,
know" he said to all who inquired about
his health. He complained of nausea
and weakness and refused to take any
food. AT Lula he telegraphed DR.. Orme
to meet him when the train arrived in
Atlanta. For q day and a half he re-
NAMED conscious, but since Thursday
night he was delirious. On Thursday
his son spoke to him and told him of
something 70 be done when he got well.
Your father will never get well, my
boy" was the answer.
'Mr. Grady" said DR.. Frank Orme,
his family physician. was man who
thought so much of doing for others that
he was careless of his health. He went
to Boston against my advice, and when
| told him that it would not do he replied
that his speech was prepared and it was
too late for hina to back out. sent him
off with medicine to take, and in case he
might need medical attention in Boston
gave him names of physicians whom he
could 60 to. His speech was great eff
fort, especially for man in his condi-
ton, and it completely exhausted him.
l learn that afterwards he rode in an
open carriage with Governor Ames, and
during the ride complained Of feeling
chilled by the wind. On the way back
he was taken sick in New York, and
was compelled to consult physician.
In Washington he became quite i'll, and
expressed himself as very anxious to get
back home.
Before reaching Atlanta he tele-
graphed me to meet him at the depot,
and when the train stopped in the car
shed he stepped out, Immediately en-
tered my carriage and was driven to his
home. From the time he left the train
all the way to his home he coughed VIC
lently and had some fever, and realized
then that be wes going to be sick, but
thought that week or SO of good nurs-
ing would bring him around all right.
He suffered from violent bronchial
cough and fever. 1t was on Friday that
the pleuro-pneumonia developed and
this, with a complication of diseases and
an unusual degree of nervous prostra-
ton, proved such determined attack
upon his entire system that he was I'M
able to resist it and could do nothing but
yield.
"Dr. Lucius Morse, formerly of Mem
phis, but now of this city, and DR.. A. S.
Everett, of Denver, Colo, who is now
visiting his brother here, were both called
in by me, and kindly consented to Join
me in informal consultation. We all
agreed on the character and treatment of
the disease, and we realized that there
could be only one result. 1t was Just one
of those cases where the determined
character Of the attack is irresistible and
cannot be COPIED with by human beings"
BOSTON MoURNs FOR HIM.
A Boston dispatch says: The remarka-
BILE fact about Henry w. Grady's death
is that the cold which ended in fatal
illness was aggravated, if not contracted,
while he was making a speech on Ply
mouth Rock, visited by him for the first
time on the morning after he captivated
his audience at the Merchants associa-
ton dinner by his eloquent discussion of
the race problem. This was ON Dec. 13,
when Mr.. Grady and his southern
friends, at President Choate's invitation,
took an Old Colony train and ran down
to the historic little town the Pilgrims
founded.
The morning was raw and damp, and
the east wind made the uuacclimated
southerners wrap their coats about them
more tightly. Even the northern men,
bers OF the party, accustomed as they
were to the coast winds, felt uncomfort-
able
As Mr.. Grady stepped upon the bowl
der there were calls for speech. His
face at once lit up as if by insp' ation.
First he related an amusing anecdote
and then he quoted DIR. Samuel John
sons famous paragraph written on the
Hebrides, that he pitied the man who
could not gain patriotism upon the field
OF Marathon or piety among the ruins of
Iona. Such were his own feelings as he
stood upon this rock.
Il have boy" said he, dearest of all
to my heart, and of all places upon this
earth where would have him go to learn
the principles of piety, patience, patriot
ism and justice is this spot where 1 now
stand reverently uncovered"
Returning to Boston, Mr.. Grady was
entertained by the Bay State club at
Parkers, and the first thing he said in
his speech was that, having contracted a