Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-10-12
WALDO MESSARoS DEAD.
The Well-known Preacher Dies
From the Effects of Drink.

He Had Been Taken to Gold Cure Es-
tablishnent, After Spree, and Died
From Pneumonia--A Mystery About the
Affair.
Mondays Philadelphia Ledger printed
the following:
Rev. Waldo Messaros, formerly pas
tor of the Northwestern Presbyterian
Church, died of pneumonia early yes
terday morning, at the German Hos
pital, where he was admitted last Thurs
day, under peculiar circumstances.
lie had been living several months at
the Washington Hotel, where he was
engaged upon literary work, having
written the descriptions for book
which appeared about three weeks ago,
with photographs of the various ex-
hibits at the Worlds Fair. While liv-
ing at the hotel he was addicted to
drink, and occasionally went on
"sprees," The story told last evening
by his friend, DR.. de Grandchamp, was
as follows:
Mcssaros left the Washington Hotel
Saturday week ago with DIR. Kirby,
who had persuaded him to undergo a
cure for drunkenness. At that time
Messaros was perfectly well and practi-
cally sober. For about four weeks pre-.
ylons to that time DR.. de Graudchamp
had attended him for chills and fever.
w hen Messaros left with DR.. Kirby,
the latter, DIR. de Grandchamp says, told
his patient that he would be cured of
the drink habit in two OF three days.
Messaros treated the matter us Joke,
and laughed. No one at the hotel be-
lleyed he was il earnest about under
going the cure.
Last Monday DR.. Kirby called in
James W. Shepp, Messaros publisher,
and informed him that Messaros was
undergoing q gold cure" DIR. Kirby
promising to Call again on Mr.. Shepp
the following morning, Nothing further,
however, was heard of Dr. KIRBY, and
Mr.. Shepp. becoming anxious, asked DIR.
de Grandchamp to accompany him in
search for the abode of DIR. Kirby and
the whereabouts of Messaros. Thurs
day morning they found him in house
on Sixth street ABOVE Cumberland. The
house was barely furnished, DIR. de
Grandchamp said, there being no carpet
and very little furniture on the first
floor. Messaros was found in bed in a
very dirty condition, with his shirt on,
He looked as If his hands and face had
not been washed in several days. His
pulse, DIR. de Grandchamp says, was
100, his temperature los, and his respira-
ton between IS and 20.
Hehad intervals of delirium. Messaros
said he had felt well until Sunday
night, when, after taking three large
potions, he began to feel very ill. He
could not tell what it was he had taken.
He asked to be removed from the place,
and, when his ability to go out was
questioned, got out OF bed and walked
around the room. That afternoon he
was removed in carriage to the Ger
man Hospital, his friends leaving word
for DR.. Kirby that they had taken
Messaros away on account of the i'm
proper treatment he was receiving and
the condition in which they had found
him.
DR. Kirby had not since been heard
from, DIR. de Grandchamp said, although
0 message was left for him to call either
ut the German Hospital or on DR.. de
Grandchamp.
FRIDAY evening symptoms OF pneu-
monia developed and Messaros con-
hhuSu W SIuW WuIbe uulll yesterday
morning, when he died.
Waldo Messaros was born near Le-
panto, Greece, December 25th, 1869. At
the age of IL years he was sent to Ok.
ford, England, where he spent three
years in study. His father died, and this
necessltated his return to Greece, which
he again left in 1879, to come to this
country.
After a year spent in travel through
the south he Went back to his mother
country, but in 1876 came here again to
visit the Centennial Exhibition. He
began lecturing, and at the same time
some u his writings attracted attention.
In 1880 he was called to the pulpit of
the Northwestern Presbyterian Church,
which he left some years later on &c,
count oil ascandal. He led somewhat
checkered career in New York until his
return here recently. The wife of the
deceased, Mrs. Mana Messaros, entered
suit for divorce in New York courts
some weeks ago.