Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-07-03

rapidly down Bayard avenue to the
Cleveland residence.
Mr.. Stead as he stepped on the porch
hung the customary knot Of crepe beside
the door and then entered the house.
Mrs. Cleveland is Frustrated and only
few of the sympathetic neighbOrS have
been able to see her. When the nearby
friends heard of the ex-President's
death many of them hurried to West
land to render whatever assistance they
could.
His Long Illness.
Mr.. Cleveland was II years old on
March IS last. During the past winter
Mr.. Cleveland kept close to his home
until the approach of his birthday, when
he went to Lakewood with his family.
He was a trustee of the Equitable Life
Assurance society of New York and up
to the time of his going to Lakewood
had attended to correspondence in con-
nectiOn with his duties for that society.
After he went to Lakewood, however,
he discontinued that work and it soon
developed that Mr.. Cleveland was suf
fering from an attack of digestive trOu-
Bile which he had experienced many times
before.
Mr.. Cleveland was attended by DR..
Joseph D. Bryant of New York, and DR..
George r. Lockwood, specialist in
stomach disorders. was called into consul
tation. DR.. Bryant made frequent visits
to the distinguished patient. Mr.. Cleve-
land occupied a suite of rooms on the
second floor of the Lakewood hotel at
Lakewood and was constantly attended
by DR.. GARDENER, the physician at
tached to the house in addition TO the
visits of DIR. Bryant.
The fact that Mr.. Cleveland remained
at the hotel after it had long been closed
tn oil of M fhnt ma nv
weeks no attempt was made to take the
! former President to his home here in
Princeton. only a short distance away,
carry made it evident that Mr.. Cleve-
| lands condition was regarded as very
serious.
End Comes as Shock.
On May 1 a report became current
! which was said to have come from one
of the officers os the Equitable Life AS
| surance company that MIR. Cleveland was
| suffering from cancer Of the stomach.
| This was promptly denied by Mr.. Park
| eT, the secretary of the trustees of the
society, who afterwards acted for Mrs.
| Cleveland in issuing statements of the
| condition of the former President. Mr..
| Parker said that Mr.. Cleveland was suf-
| ferir.g from one of his periodical attacks
of stomach trouble, and that that was all.
| Mr.. Cleveland remained at Lakewood
| for several weeks thereafter and constant
reports of Improvement in his condition
| We're issued from the hotel. About a
| month ogo he had sufficiently recovered
| to be taken to his home here, making the
| journey III an automobile.
| Yesterday it was reported again that
| DR. Bryant had been called to Mr..
| Cleveland's home. Inquiries made as TO
the reason for this visit brought reas-
surfing answers and it was not publicly
known until the announcement of his
| Il. Il
! had again assumed a critical phase
The news of his death. therefore, came
with great unexpectedness to the public
and it is believed also to many of the
! friends and admirers of the eX-President.
Princeton in Sorrow.
The death of Mr.. Cleveland came as
! a shock to the people of Princeton, who
were proud Of their fellow citizen They
! have always had a warm spot for both
| the eN-president and Mrs. Cleveland.
| 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 first refused to be
| lieve the news. Flags all over Princeton
are at half staff.
From another, but trustworthy source,
! it is learned that Mr.. Cleveland became
quite i'll yesterday and that his condi-
| ton was serious during the night. though
! the physicians did not consider him so
! i'll az to expect death so soon.
Death Not Expected.
There seems to have been an effort
! of the physicians to keep the seriousness
! of the ex-President's condition from the
! public. When Mrs. Cleveland was seen
last night by a reporter for the AssO-
| ciated Press she chatted pleasantly. She
manifested no anxiety over her hus
bands illness, and when the visit of the
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| significant. she said there was no Occa-
sion for alarm. Mrs. Cleveland either
did not know the seriousness CT the ex-
| Presidents condition or did not desire to
| tell
Drs. Lockwood and Bryant came here
at 4:24 2. m, yesterday. Mr.. and Mrs
! Cleveland celebrated the twenty-second
anniversary Of their wedding here Oh
June ,. The affair was very quiet be-
cause of Mr.. Cleveiand's illness. \ large
wedding cake containing twenty-five can
! dies was sent to them by some of their
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