The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-25

Mrs. Cleveland is prostrated and only Q few Of the sympathetic neighbors have been able to see her. When the nearby friends heard of the ex-Presf- dents death, many of them hurried to Westland to render whatever assistance they could. but Professors West and Hibben and the physician had matters well in hand.
 Among the telegrams sent by Mrs. Cleveland to relatives and friends was one to President Roosevelt, and one to Secretary of War Taft. The death of Mir. Cleveland came as a terrible shock to the people of Princeton. who were proud of their fellow citizen. They have always had warm spot for both the ex-President and Mrs. Cleve- land, because they selected Princeton as their home after they left the White House. His death. to them. was not in the least expected and many at hrst refused to believe the sad news.
 Flags all over Princeton are at half mast.
 Illness Kept Secret.
 From another but trustworthy source it is learned that MT. Cleveland became quite i'll yesterday and that his condi- tion was serious during the night though the physicians did not consider him so i'll as to expect death so soon. There seems to have been an effort, perhaps. of the physicians, to keep the seriousness of the ex-President's con- dition from the public. When Mrs. Cleveland was seen last night by a re- porter for the Associated Press, she chatted pleasantly. She manifested no anxiety over her husbands illness. and when the visit of the physician was re- ferred to. she said there was no oc- casion for alarm. Mrs. Cleveland either did not know the seriousness of the ex-Presfdent's condition, or did not desire to tell. Drs. Lockwood and Bryant came here at 4:24 p. m. yes- terday. Mir. and Mrs. Cleveland cele-, brated the twenty-second anniversary of their wedding here. on June 2. The affair was very quiet. because of Mir. Cleveiand's illness.
 When asked for further details con- cerning Mir. Cleveland's death, pr. Bryant said:
 The heart failure which occasioned death. was induced within twenty-four hours of the end; death was due to th&t."
 Sevemty-One Years old.
 New York, June 24--Mr. Cleveland was n years old on March Is last. During the past winter, Mir. Cleveland kept close to his home in Princeton until the approach of his birthday. when he went to Lakewood.--wi his AaAAiAts Llo was A uDN0O OA ehc hQull- able Life Insurance Society of this city and up to the time of his going to Lakewood had attended to correspon- dence in connection with his duties for that society.
 After he went to lakewood. however, he discontinued that work and it soon developed that Mir. Cleveland was sui fering from an attack of digestive trou- ble, which he had experienced many ffraaa hafora Mr Clauala1H uvoa f.. tended by Dr. Joseph D. Bryant. of this city. and pr. c. Rowe Lockwood. e specialist in stomach troubles, was call ed into consultation. pr. Bryant made frequent visits to the distinguished patient at Lakewood.
 The fact that MT. Cleveland remained at the Lakewood hotel after it had long been closed to all other guests and that for many weeks 60 attempt was made to take the> former Presi- dent to his home in Princeton. only a | short distance away, early made 1t evil 1 dent that Mir. Cleveland's condition was regarded as very serious. On May l, | 6 report became current, which was | said to have come from one of the of- | ficers of the Equitable Life Insurance | Society, that Mir. Cleveland was suffer l ing from cancer of the stomach. This | was promptly denied by Mir. Parker. | the Secretary of the Treasury of the | Society, who afterward acted for Mrs. | in issuing statements of con- | ditions of the former President Mir. | Parker said that MT. Cleveland was suf- | fering from one of his periodical at- tacks of stomach trouble and that was | all.
 Mr. Cleveland remained at Lakewood | for several weeks thereafter, and con- stant reports of improvement in his condition were issued from the hotel About a month ago he had sufficiently | recovered to be taken to his home in making the journey in an Yesterday it was reported | again that Dr. Bryant had been called to Mir. Cleveland's home in Princeton. Inquiries made as to the reason for this visit, brought reassuring answers and It was not publicly known until the an of his death today that Mir. Cleveland's illness had again as- sumed a critical phase. The news of his death. therefore. came with great to the public and, it is believed also to many of the friends and admirers of the ex-President.