The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-19
VANDERBILT NEAR 7ODEATH
nv ms PFRTTONTTTS VOW. IS
HTTI - TyPHOyD TEyFP.
Condition Grave. Though. 80 Far. He stands
the Complication Well. Doctors Say
Pour ~ rhrm Are IN Attendance
Re,stiyes Hurry Here From Newport

Th" expected crisis in the attack ~
typhoid fever from which Cornelius Van
derbilt has been suffering az his home.
p Park avenue. came Wednesday morn
ing With IL there came the complication
Z general peritonitis. making hi case a.
serious a. j. possible
Tho announcement Of this change in
VIZ Nanderbilt'S condition was made in
fhi- bulletin. issued A. 3 p VI
since the issue % the last bulletin Mr.
Nand"rb.lt's condition remains practically
'0a same v+h % tendency Of hi temperature
- de- Inc and thir'y--iN hour q 20 he de-
v@loT-d -mall area n inflammation over
'He spleen This ~Ib-ided and -hoved no
tendency 70 spread until to-day. when he
Developed yruersli7"d pertorrIs HI
condition =. 81 course grave
AUSTIN FLINT Jr
Misunderstanding the grave nature u the
ca~e. one - Mr Vanderbilt nearest rela-
tiv@~ said AT night that the patient still
had good chance. This assertion he
made on the authority q one Of the attend
Ing phy-iCiars
~ FLINT spant most 81 the dav az the
Vanderbilt house and made ARRANGEMENTS
rar'y IN the evening 10 spend all or most
y The night there. In consultation with
nm yesterday were. a. usual. Drs. Jane
way and Brown. Later DR. Francis Della
te6 vs- called into consultation
A. =. NJ after the doctors had bAan
''ge'Ler Tor som" time. this bulletin was
male public by Frank l.. Polk who was
t>>t nan A. Mr. Vanderbilt marriage TO
Nl-- Grace Wilson:
hr Vanderbilt = 90 FAR standing the com
At Ali
l--t. re = no worse than At noon
l'r Jan~way called AZ II ~ o'clock and
vent away az u IS he said that Mr
Nar.d"rniit'- condition vas unchanged and
That there Wa no immediate danger. DR..
Flint rerrains~i all night
VIZ Vanderbilt. according 20 his physi-
oian~. va al no time unconscious yesterday
or .aSt night, despite reports To the con-
'rarv
Ea-.y N he evening a relative II
th- younger Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt
-aid that none u Mr. Nanderbilt's relatives
ha' Zen ~urumoned 10 his bedsid. While
~ va -ayIEs his Reginald & Vanderbilt
Mr.. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Miss
tatnl--n N-ii-on We're alghtins from 4.
-F-ciai car which had brought them from
N-vpor' They we're met n the Grant
Central station by Alfred Gvynn- Wander
bar. Who Informed he party u his brother,
cOnditIon
W n. Vanderbilt went 20 the house q,
p ". but merely read tn. latest bullet in
and -opn went away Alfred Gvynne
Vanderbilt did not e. "a th, house yestcr-
LAY. buf was kept we'll Informed az 20 hi,
orOth@r'- state
Among ,h"~- who called a. the Wander
ult b. u Yesterday were the Pev DIR
ErLs--t VI StIr's, rector of 81 Thomas
Prot---tanr Episcopal Church. who went 10
th- horI-.- merely a. an ACQUAINTANCE. Lady
Michael Henry Herterf wife - III. British
tmha--adlr. and a sister II Mrs Wander.
bllr Mr. Wht-iav R.id. Mrs. Odgen Goelet
RDuer- Gn-l--r Miss MAY Co.la-. Major
Creighton Webb. p Stuvvesant Pilot. anil
Mr. - sloane
Lsdv H-rber-, N-s Ogden Coele' and
her -on Robsrr. and O-rne Wilson spent
rr- g ming AZ m. r0rI-s