Arizona republican., 1904-05-29
Yesterday Closed His Eyes
 to Earthly Scenes
HE EXPECTED DEATH
For Days He Said the End Was Near. Bravery and Good Nature Marked His Last Hours = The Funeral Arr ransements.

Beaver, Pa, May 2S.-Col. Matthew Stanley Quay, senior senator from Pennsylvania, died peacefully at PAS o'clock this afternoon, after an illness which had been more or less persistent for the last year and which took a change for the worse ten days ago and which the doctors diagnosed as chronic gastritis.
 1 The funeral will be at o'clock on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 31, and the remains will be inferred in the family burial lot in Beaver cemetery. Senator Quay's illness was a recur renee of the trouble that beset him during the latter part of 1900 and the early days of January 1901 when he was undergoing the strain of a des- perate fight for reelection to the senate.
 Senator Quay in health was a great eater and his troubles of later years dated from the over -draught on his vital system due to the heavy eating, smoking and great nervous strain, which he underwent.
 Last summer, after the political situ- ation had cleared up in the state Quay decided upon a long outing. Accom- panied by two friends, he went into | ness, travelling miles and living in the iopen. In that time he complained of weakness and continued loss of strength. He began to lose flesh at first gradually. but later pound by pound. His stomach refused to as simulate the food it got and, nutrition failing, weakness followed. On his re- turn from the woods he was bronzed 1OE to live for years. He celebrated his seventieth birthday at Beaver last fall and at the time seemed in excellent | health. His loss of weight, however, distressed him. Day in and day out he went to the scale to see what his weight was. He dropped so persistent ly that the alarm which pervaded his own mind spread to his friends and family. The result was that he for sock his duties in the United States senate and betook himself to Florida, hoping that the mild weather there would bring relief, but Florida failed to restore his vitality
 i The senator went back to Washing ton and soon after was taken to Phila- idelphia, where he was placed under the treatment of two eminent special ists Of that city. They ordered him to Atlantic City, hoping the sea air would aid in his recovery, but the loss continued gradually.
 Finding Atlantic City did nothing itoward reviving the distinguished pa tient, his physicians advised him to return to Washington. There his con ldition continued unchanged.
 Senator Quay constantly expected death, and told his friends so The Hast call he made at the White house he told President Roosevelt he ex- lpected never to recover and would l hardly see him again. To Attorney General Knox, he gave the same in- formation. In order to escape the wor-
 ries of official life and be entirely se- . cure against intrusion, Senator Quay decided to come to Pennsylvania.
 In going 10 Morganza, where his brother. Jerome Quay, was superin- Itendent of the Western Pennsylvania
 reform school, his thought was that
 in that place he could be visited by
 none but his physicians and family
 His condition after arriving there was
 such as to give no hope to the family although he appeared brighter some
 days. The doctors fighting stubbornly
 hoped against hope. It was realized
 the only chance of recovery that Sen
 ator Quay had was to restore some life
 and activity to his stomach, which ab- solutely refused to perform it's func- tons. Senator Quay, himself, told r them all it was useless he had run ' his course and was gradually slipping
 away. Ten days ago. he began the ar
 engagement of his personal affairs, look
 ing toward the end. The last papers
 were not signed until yesterday (Fri- day) morning but arrangements were
 all made.
 In the meantime no relief came and the sapping of his vitality continued. The only food he could take was milk preparations. Sunday last his condi- tion became so alarming the family de- ,, cided to remove him to Beaver It was 4 hoped that the old home and old friends would revive him, but they did
 not. Those who were permitted to see him were shocked. Instead of the little,
 short, stolid figure of yore. there was
 an emaciated. sunken Quay weak as a ! lchild, unable to walk, peevish but f lbrave. For a day or two there was 7 improvement, and hope again pervaded $ the striken family; but 1t was merely
 temporary.
 MT. Quay showed all the stoicfsm ot
 an Indian in his last illness. He held
 out no hope of recovery, and refused tc l behcve il was possible Cooly and
 firmly he took leave of his dearest
 things. Thursday last he asked to be y taken to his famous library, remarking I | to his attendants: ''I want to see 1nS , books once mor ebefore I die" Through l it all his mental energies never Tagged | nt NCas
 cheerful in his comments.
 The relapse which alarmed the family
 on Sunday last at Morganza recurred , again on Thursday night and the alarm f was so serious that the Pittsburg spe- a cialists were called in at midnight 7 On Friday hA rallied again and wa; V able to converse with former Senator J s Donald Cameron for q time. Senator 1 Quay had sent for Cameron, but nevel