The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-18

Pittsburg. Their physician boarded the
train and came on to this city with MT
Field,
Tuesday night Mr.. Field was taken at
once To the Holland house. New Nork
physician was called. and consulteuot,
in charge OF trained nurses, and later inc
family physician and Stanley Field, MT,
Fields nephew, were summoned from
Chicago.
Thought He Was Improving,
on Wednesday 1t was announced that
while Mr. Field had high temperature
ne was improving. Later In the day
however his condition became more 80,
rious and DR.. Waiter h. James VINO mao
been in attendance. called In p9etors ,
Edward c. Janeway and Austin F Riggs
OF ihis CITY. and after a consultation the
physicians announced that Mr.. Field was
found to be suffering from pneumonia
The congestion, il was said ut that tme'
was slight.
Drafts in the Train.
DIT James said that the severe attack
Of bronchitis that preceded inc pheu-
monia probably was contracted from the
drofts In the train on which Mr. Field
came to this city from Chicago
Fields condition on THURSDAY, according
to bulletins that were issued by the
physicians, and IN tho following two
DAYS there was no intimation that tn"
patient was not progressing favoraby
DR. Frank Billings OF Chicago, Mr..
Fields family physician, had arrived from
Chicago IN the meantime. and his pres
ence seemed to cheer Mr. Field greatly.
Change for the Worse.
on Saturday night however, there came
a sudden change for the worse. That
night the physicians remained almost con-
stantly at the bedside, but despite all
their efforts the patient seemed to grow
weaker. Through the night and Sunday
there was no appreciaole change IN the
sick mans condition except that HE
strength seemed greatly To wane. Mrs
Field William g. Beulc Mr.. Fields per
sonal attorney; his nephew, Stanley Field.
and Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr, were close
During Sunday night Mr.. Field ap-
pcared TO be sinking rapidly, and Monday
morning the physicians announced that
all hope for his recovery had been aban-
doncd
MIR Field himself apparently believed
that the end was ut hand. and by his
request all the members OF his family
were summoned to the bedside. Every
one present regarded the scene as the
death watch, and all had neryed them
selves for the closing OF the hnnl chap
ter In the career OF the great merchant.
For hours there wns no Gpprcciablc
change in the condition OF the sick man,
and the tlny strand which held him was
expected TO break at any moment
Strength Rushes Back.
Suddenly, however. about mid-aftcrnoon
there came . remarkable change Tho
strength which gradually had slipped
away from the patient seemed suddenly
TO be rushing back. He looked up and
smiled, asked for drink, and then sank
into peaceful. restful sleep He was bet
ter, the physicians said, much better, and
there was even hope that he might sue.
cessfully pass the crisis in his Illness II
the Improvement continued
In the evening and again at midnight
issued nhCslTl1nE
ried with them the ray of hope. There
Ing the afternoon. In the early morning
hours today, however. gloom once more
began TO settle over those around the
sick room Mr. Field did not rest well
during the last hours Of the night The
disease spread in the lung and his condl-
ton at n m today was described by
the physicians as worse than last even
ing"
Last Hope Vanishes.
The renewed hope which came to them
With tho rally of yesterday was not
abandoned. however. and they declared
that while his condition was critical
II was not regarded as hopeless
HIS condition continued to be-
come moEo desperate with every moment
however, and by noon the last raw OF
nope was gone At 2 o'clock 1t was an
nounced that the patient was sinking
steadily and a $50 o'clock word came
from the sick room that Mr.. Field had
only a few minutes more to live Death
came at o'clock with the members Of
the family gathered al the bedside
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