Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-09
No Hope Of Recovery
Held Out by London
Doctors.
PRUDENTIAL vICE-pREsIDENT
SLOWLY SINKING TO HIS END
Brother Fears Worst After Re-
ceiving Message Today from
Oying Mans Son.

Or. Leslie D. Ward, vice-presideut
OF the Prudential Insurance companv
OF America, is dying In the Ritz Hotel.
London. where he has been stopping
since his arrival there three weeks aea
jacob n Ward and other members
OF his immediate family. who havs
BEEN tn cable Communication with T,~
Wards son. Leslie P. Ware have
abandoned all hope OF his recoveryk
Tne last message received. at 9.A
O'Clock this morning. by Jacob E. Wa.d
read:
1Fssher sinl<isss sffn nm
eonsclousB
Tear that means the end" said Mr.
Ward, '.for suffering as Leslie i fro,.,
uraemio poisoning. Inconsistencies
pressases the end. They seldom Il
ever regain consciousness.
DR.. Ward discovered that he vas
victim OF kidney trouble in an aeeraz
waited form a long time ago. He con-
templated retirement from active bust
ness life fully FIVE years ago, bur
always found something to demand his
attention for little while longer.
As a medical man who stood high II.
his profession when engaged in active
Practise DR. Ward knew his condition
only too well. His personal knowledge
was supplemented by the opinion Of
eminent specialists with whom he was
In frequent consultation in this coun-
try and abroad.
AT least once year DIR. Ward wen1
abroad and iEvariably spent the. sum-
mer and autumn motoring through tile
continent with an occasional visit 10
the British Isles
For several days prior to June last.
when he sailed from New York on The
George Washington, Dr. Ward had
been suffering acutely
DIR. Ward had arranged to leave on
the Mauretania on June 8, but on June
5 his condition was SO alarming he
ordered his arrangements cancelled.
The following day Dr. Ward was so
much improved he regarded the attack
as at an end and arranged to sail on
Thursday. June 8.
Upon arriving on the other side Dr..
Ward wrote Wilbur S. johnson. fourth.
vice-president and comptroller of the
Prudential. that he had suffered con-
siderahly during the trip but seemed
improved soon after his arrival
DIR. Ward was met in London by his
son, and intended to leave for the con-
tinent at once, but was forced to
change his plans because of a second
attack.
His son was averse to alarming his
relatives, and sent no word of Dr.
Wards condition until Thursday night
when, according TO the physicians in
attendance, the condition became
serious.
1t was then Jacob E. Ward received
the first cablegram, --hich read. Father
Ill; doctors consider his case grave"
This was followed by another last
night, which announced that Dr. Ward
had become unconscious. Nothing
further was heard until this morning,
when the oninous cable. Father sink
Ing: still unconscious. was received
While there are instances of patients
in similar cases lingering for hcura.
the members Of the family anticipate
being informed at any moment that
DR.. Ward is dead
DR.. Leslie d. Ward was born at
Madison. n. J.. on July l. 1s45. and at
tended q school In that place until he
entered the Newark Academy. where
he was prepared for Princeton College.
He was graduated from the academy
In 1854 Instead of entering Princeton
College he went to the front with vol-
unteers for thirty days service. Then.
he enlisted in the Twenty
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and
at the close of the war was first ser
geant of Company G..
After returning from the war young
Ward studied medicine with DR. Fisher.
of Morristown, and took a course al
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
In New York City and was graduated
in 1868. He came TO Newark and was
associated in medical practice with Dr.
Lott Southard for two years. IN 1919
he began practice for himself and was
successful from the first He was
elected county physician by the Essex
County Board of Freeholders and was
so efficient in the performance Of the
duties Of the office that he was highly
commended by the board He had 4
large number of murders and suicides
to investigate. An officer of the United
States navy killed himself in the Noun
tain House. at Montclair He left
letter that was a gem of composition
and romantic story OF love and great
disappointment. A bride of five days
daughter OF a law partner of Governor
Leon Albeit. killed herself by firing
bullet into her forehead IN her cots
tage on the Orange mountain and