The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-10
CONDITION OF GOVERNOR LILLEY
 MORE HOPEFUL THIS AFTERNOON,
At 1:4O He Rallied Suff- ciently to Take Nourish- ment and Recognized the Members of His
 Family.
Dr. Graves, One of the Phy- sicians in Attendance, in a
 Bulletin, Says There is a Possibility He May Re
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Special from United Press)

(Spec1al rom UnlteQ PreSSD
 Hartford, April IDA bulletin was
 issued at 1:4O today by pr. Graves, one
 of the physicians in attendance upol
 Governor Lilley, stating that the Gov
 ernor's condition was more hopefu
 than it has been in the last S6 hours and there was a slight possibility of
 his ultimate recovery. He took sub
 stantiaI nourishment at 1 o'clock ant
 fly.
 Surgeon General Graves and pr. Beach are at the bedside of the exc cutive, as are two trained nurses.
 There is no truth in the report that the Governors condition is that of coma following diabetes and indicat- ing his early demise.
 All Hartford seems crushed today with the sad knowledge that a Gov ernor of Connecticut hoverS just this side of the boarderland while the hand of the Death Angel reaches out for him. Men who have never seen Gov ernor Lilley go about with bated breath and blanched faces, now and then asking each other for news from the bedside of the dying executive and making frequent trips to the newspa- per bulletin boards.
 The executive mansion is many yards back from Pennington avenue, but drivers are careful to walk their horses while passing, and automobil- ists make sure not to blow their horns within several blocks. The entire the house and this includes his mother, Mrs. Julius Lilley of Torrington, his sister, Mrs. c. $. Newcomb, his brother and brothers wife, MT. and Mrs. John A. Lilley of Waterbury, and his three sons, John, Frederick and Theodore. Messages are being received con- stantly by telephone and telegraph and while the latter cannot be answered, Captain c. w. Burpee of Hartford, a close friend of the Li1ley family, who is a newspaper man, is attending to the telephone calls from the press and others.
 Executive Secretary Goodwin spent most ~f the forenoon caring for a mass of routine business in the executive offices of the capitol: Lieutenant. Governor Weeks arrived at, II 0se10ck and is now in the Governors office awaiting any change in the Governors condition.
 WATERBURY GRIEF STRICKEN.
 Waterbury, April IDA feeling of great sadness overshadows the Cover nor's home in the city here. Men are gathering in knots on the street cor ners furtively watching the newspaper bulletins and a constant stream of in quiries is coming into the newspaper At the Waterbury Club many men, who have been closely associated with Governor Lilley during these past years, ar egathered, anxiously awaiting news from the bedside of their friend At the Hotel Elton, which has been the home of the Governor and his fam fly for two or three years back. there Is a hush which indicates that momen- tary expectation of sorrowful news, and the clerks and others of the desk force from Manager Judd down to the smallest bell-boy are hardly able to speak of the situation without break ing into tears.
 All of Governor Lilley's relatives in left for Hartford last night, and the beef houses of Lilley, Swift & Company and Morris & Company of the latter of which MT. Lilley is resi- dent director, will close their doors the moment the news of the Cover nor's death is received.
 SORROW IN NEW HAVEN.
 New Haven, April 1O-Political ene- mics as we'll as his numerous friends unite to-day in expressing their sin cere sympathy and hopes for the ulti- mate recovery of Governor George L Lilley. who is lying at the point of death in the executive mansion at Hartford. Rumors of all kinds fill the air and it has been falsely reported several times that the governor had died. Hundreds of pairs of hungry eyes besieged the front of the newspaper offices and scanned the bulletins as they were issued from Hartford. An air of gloom pervades the entire com as if it were the forerunner of some disastrous news.