New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-12-19
IN DANGER.
PERTTONITTS SETS IN.
Doctors at HIS Bedside for the Night
4tfer Consultations.

The condition of Cornelius Vanderbilt was so
grave last night that DR.. Austin Flint. jr., and
DR.. Brown did not leave the house. and his
brothers. Reginald c. and Alfred G. Vanderbilt,
were recalled, they reaching the city last night
No bulletin issued. and few minutes be-
fore 10 o'clock the butler said he authorized
to announce that no bulletin would he Issued for
the night DR.. Janeway called at the house late
and remained fifteen minutes by the bedside OF
the patient. leaving the house about midnight.
He said:
There has been change in Mr.. Wander
bits condition. He is in no immediate dan
ger"
Mrs. Ogden Goelet, Miss May Goelet and Rob
ert Goelet left the house late.
Reginald and Alfred Vanderbilt did not go to
the house. but remained within call if an emer-
gency shonId arise
The following bulletin issued at 316 p. m.
by Drs. Flint and Janeway:
Since the issue of the last bulletin 0ast night
Mr.. Vanderbilt's condition remains about the
same. with tendency of his temperature to
decline. and thirty-six hours ago he developed
a small of Inflammation over the spleen.
This subsided. and it showed tendency to
spread till to-day. when 1t developed a gen
eralized peritonitis. His condition is of course,
grave. FLINT.
"JANEWAY.'
After consultation at p. among DIR.
Austin Flint, jr.. DR.. DeIafeld and DR.. Janeway.
the following bulletin was issued at o'clock:
Mr. Vanderbilt SO far, is standing the COM
plication as well as We can reasonably expect
He is no worse than he at noon"
It was apparent early in the afternoon that
crisis had been reached and that grave fears
were entertained as to the outcome. There were
four physicians in the house and several differ
ent incidents led the watchers to the belief that
there had been a change for the worse. DIR.
Flint reached the house at II a. m, looking
much concerned. Soon afterward DR.. Janeway
arrived. and after that young physician from
whose pocket stethoscope projecting. All
three doctors remained in the house, and at 1:3O
they were Joined by DR.. Delafeld. He came in
an automobile from the Holland House. and all
the indications were that he had been hurriedly
summoned.
At 3 o'clock son of the late Ogden Goelet
drove up to the door and hurried into the house.
carrying with him some sort of a medical ap
pliance 1t was learned that Mr. Goelet had
left the Knickerbocker Club. Thirty-second-
and Fifth-ave.. called coach and had ordered
the driver to go to drug store at Forty second
st. and Sixth-ave., where the medical appliance
was bought. Mr.. Goelet only stayed inside the
Vanderbilt house long enough to deposit the
package. Then he hurried again and
tered his carriage. An organ grinder play
Mr. Goelet's carriage had reached the place
where the instrument was he ordered his coach
man TO stop Mr. Goelet alighted and, pressing
a few coins into the Italians hand requested
him to go away.
Soon after Mr. Goelet had departed District
Messenger boy reached the house a run
The boy was quickly dispa tched to another drug
house in Fourth-ave. for another medical ap-
pliance. When the boy left the house after de-
livering the package he said he did not know
what he had been sent to get. but that he had
been ordered to run all the way"
The situation apparently became grave enough
late in the afternoon for another consultation.
Drs Flint Janeway and Delaleld consulted.
DR. Brown was in the house also, but whether
or not he Joined in the consultation could not be
learned. The result of the consultation could
not be ascertained, the doctors refusing to tell
anything about it. but they issued the Z o'clock
bulletin.
Frank Folk friend of Mr.. Vanderbilt who
has been giving information of the patients
condition to the newspaper men, said there was
nothing to add to the bulletin. He was asked a
number of questions to one of which he an
swered
Mr. Vanderbilt is in very grave condition"
Carriages in great number rolled up to the door
of the house all day. and there immense
heap of cards on the table in the front room
where the bulletin given out
DR.. Janeway left the house at o'clock. ac-
companied by R. T. Wilson. father of Mrs. Van
derbilt Dr. Janeway refused to discuss the
case or the condition of the patient. Both men
looked serious DIR. Delafield departed at the
same time.
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