The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-06-26
FORMER PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND DEAD
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President Cleveland will be buried
with as little pomp and ceremony as
the humble citizen. In fact as un-
ostentatiously as he himself could
possibly have desired.
All day long kilograms of condo
lence and sympathy have been coming
in to Princeton. The two telegraph
companies have delivered more than
500 such messages in the course of
the day and they are still coming
from every corner of America and
over the sea. All over the town the
flags are at half mast, and as indeed
they are throughout the state of New
Jersey, where Mr.. Cleveland was gen.
orally loved and honored as he was
in the little university town. Yet
Westland is as quiet as a church.
DR.. Joseph T. Bryant, Mr.. Cleve-
lands old friend and physician, ar
rived in Princeton yesterday after
noon from New York. accompanied by
DR.. George r. Lockwood The two
physicians went at once to West
land, but Mrs. Cleveland said
at eight o'clock in the evening
that no significance was to be attach
ed to the visit of the physicians. They
had made several similar visits she
said 1t was at the same time that
Mrs. Cleveland said that her husband
was improving right along and that
his friends were inclined to be most
optimistic regarding his condition. 1t
could scarcely have been more than
two or three hours later when Mr..
Cleveland's condition took a decided
turn for the worse. 1t was then that
DR.. Carnocahn, the local physician,
who has been in attendance. was sum-
moned. The three doctors worked
over their patient nearly all night
DR.. Bryant never left the bedroom
of his old friend. Mrs. Cleveland
was in constant attendance even after
her husband became unconscious and
she was present when he breathed his
last.
Despite the optimism which Mrs
Cleveland expressed only a few hours
before the eX-president's death the
statement signed by the three ply
sicians make it plain that Mr.. Cleve-
lands health has been in a grave
condition for a long time and that
his death was only a question of time
when his powers of resistance should
cease to be sufficient to the unequal
task laid upon them. His severe ill
Of | a
edly weakened him to the point of
exhaustion and when this last attack
came his recuperative powers were
not sufficiently reinforced to endure
it.
None of tie four children whose
laughter and play have made West
land so merry was here when Mr..
Cleveland died. Several weeks ago
they all went up to the Clevelands'
summer home at Tamworth, N. H.,
accompanied by Mrs. Perrine, Mrs.
Cleveland's mother 1t was planned
that Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland should
follow them hither as soon as Mr.
Cleveland had sufficiently recovered
On the surface the recovery seemed
to be progressing hopefully. The
eX-president had gained few pounds
in weight since his return from Lake
wood and he occasionally stepped out
doors for bit of a walk around the
house. Hence, the news of his death
was great shock to Princeton. So
much of a surprise was it, in fact,
that Dean Andrew F. West, perhaps
Mr.. Cleveland's most intimate friend
of the faculty of Princeton Univers-
ity, was asleep in his home scarcely
stones throw distance a few min
utes before the end came.
1t was announced this evening that
Esther, the Oldest daughter and Rich
ard, the older son. will come from
Tamworeh tomorrow in charge OF Mrs.
Finley, wife OF President Finley of
the College of the City of New York.
Neither Marion nor Francis, the
younger boy and girl, will attend the
funeral President Finley himself
arrived here this evening being
greeted by Richard Watson Glider.
Both are intimate friends of the
Cleveland family and are at Westland
tonight. Cleveland Bacon, Mr.. Cleve-
lands nephew, is the only relative
here tonight. Mrs. Cleveland, while
not prostrated, has seen scarcely any
body all day long. She has however,
kept up and in fact. the funeral ar
rangements have thus far been made
in accordance with her directions, as
sisted by Dean West and Professor
Hibben.
In addition to the message from
President Roosevelt, the shower of
messages to Mrs. Cleveland included
kilograms from Richard Olney, who
was President Cleveland secretary of
state during the Venezuelan affair;
st. Clair McKelway, Judge George
Gray, William F. Sheehan, Governor
Hughes, Vice President Fairbanks,
David r. Francis, Governor Glenn, of
North Carolina; Secretary Straus,
Andrew Carnegie, Mayor Mcclellan,
Senator James Smith, Governor Har-
ris, of Ohio; General e. A. McAlpin,
Robert S. Morris, General Stewart l..
Woodford, George Westinghouse, r. C.
Hoyt, Alton B. Parker, Governor Fort,
of New Jersey; Senator Culberson, OF
Texas; John S. Wise. President But
Ter, of Columbia; Herbert l.. Satterlee,