The Washington herald., 1908-06-25
END COMES
TO CLEVELAND
continued from Pnge Ono.

land in January 1904 Doubtless the ex-
treme privacy with which the funeral will
be conducted is owing in part TO the fact
that the university is in recess President
/ Wilson being on the ocean on his way
10 Scotland. and the faculty trustees. and
students widely scattered throughout the
country. Had the university been in ses-
/ sion il is likely that there would have
been a demand for an academic funeral
so strong that even Mrs. Cleveland would
| scarcely have felt like resisting t. AS il
/ is. eX-President Cleveland viii be buried
with as little pomp and ceremony as the
/ humblest citizen; In fact as unostenta-
| tiously as ne himself could possibly have
desired
Many TeIegrHms Come.
All day long kilograms of coincidence
and sympathy have been coming into
Princeton. The two telegraph companies
have delivered more than 800 messages in
the course Of the day. and they are suu
coming in from every corner of America
and from over the sea All over the town
the flags are at half-mast. as indeed they
! are throughout the state Of New Jersey.
where Mr Cleveland was as generally
/ loved and honored as he was In the little
university town.
Yet Westlands itself is as quiet as a
churchyard At the entrance 10 the drive
that leads up from Bayard lane 10 Cleve-
land house stands a solitary policeman.
stationed there 10 see that no mere curl
! Osity-seekers have access 10 the house.
Now and then. in the course Of the day
a solitary carriage would drive UP with
neighbors or friends on errands Of sym
pathy. Otherwise, Westland to-day is
precisely as it was yesterday dignifed
single oldfashioned mansion, retired
from the road. sheltered by beautiful
trees and surrounded by velvet lawns
Twenty-four hours ago Mr.. Cleveland ap-
peared 20 his wife and friends TO he still
well on the road TO measure OF good
health. Tonight he lies dead in the big
room on the story looking toward the
east.
DIR. Bryant Arrives.
Dr. Joseph T. Bryant. Mr.. Cleveland's
old friend and physician. arrived in
Princeton yesterday afternoon from New
York accompanied by George r. Lock-
wood. The two physicians went at once
10 Westland, but Mrs. Cleveland said at
S o'clock in the evening that no special
significance was to be attached to the
visit Of the physicians. They had made
several similar visits, she said. II was
az the same time that Mrs Cleveland
said her husband was improving right
alonS and that his friends were inclined
to be optimistic regarding his condition.
Ii could scarcely have been more than
two or three hours later when Mr.. Cleve-
lands condition took a decided turn for
the worst.
Local Physician Summoned.
1t was then that DR.. Carnochan. the
| local physician. who has been in at
tendance. was summoned. The three
doctors worked over their patient nearly
all night DR. Bryant never left she bed
room of his old friend Mrs. Cleveland
was in constant attendance. even after
/ her husband became unconscious. and
she was present when he breatned his
/ last
| Despite the optimism which Mrs. Cleve-
| land expressed only a few hours before
the ex-President's death, the statement
signed by the three physicians make II
| plain that Mr.. Clevelands 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 re-
sistance should cease to be sufficient 10
the unequal task laid upon them.
| His severe Illness at Lakewood last
May undoubtedly weakened to the point
| Of exhaustion. and when this last attack
came his recuperative powers were not
sufficiently re-enforced to endure it.