Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-21
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Copyright BY Clinedinst)
The body of Walter Wyman. surgeon
general of the public health and marine
hospital service. who died at 1920 o'clock
this morning in Providence Hospital. at
the age Of sixty-three years, after an
illness of four weeks, will be conveyed
for burial to st. Louis by his brother,
Frank Wyman, on a train leaving here at
6:45 o'clock this evening and arriving at
st. Louis tomorrow night. Interment
will be in the family plot at Bellefon-
tame cemetery.
Secretary Franklin MacVeagh and AS
sistant Secretary r. y. Bailey of the
Treasury Department, under which the
public health and marine hospital serv-
ice is conducted. this morning called to
see Mr.. Wyman and offered condolences
Secretary MacVeagh today requested
the President to issue an executive order
closing all branches of the service half a
day Friday. the day of the funeral and
ordering all flags Of the service to be
displayed at half-mast that day as a
mark of respect to the surgeon generals
Past Assistant Surgeon B. S. Warren,
in charge Of the public health and ma
rine hospital service in st. Louis. Will
represent the Treasury Department at
the funeral, at which Rev. DR.. Mckit-
trick will officiate. Floral pieces will
be sent by Secretary MacVeagh and
Assistant Secretary Bailey.
Flags to Drape Casket.
Acting Surgeon General A. H Glennan
and Assistant Surgeons Generals L. +.
Cofer and w. j. Pettus, today ex-
pressed their sorrow at the loss of DR..
Wyman to his brother and arranged
to have the surgeon generals flag and
the American flag draped around the
casket before it Is placed aboard the
train for St. Louis. They will accom-
pany the body to the Union station
funeral
Although Dr. Wyman has been under
treatment for several weeks, the public
was not informed of the serious nature
of his illness. 1t was known when he
entered the hospital that the car
buncle, which was on the right side OF
his face was a serious one, but until
last Thursday his friends did not en-
terrain any grave fears he would not
recover. Up until that time bulletins
from DIR. Wyman's bedside indicated
that he was progressing favorably, but
on Friday 1t was announced GONZALES
cence had been halted and each sue
ceeding day he sank steadily. AT his
bedside when the end came were his
brother and the house surgeon and
nurses.
Dr. H. L. e. Johnson, who attended
Dr. Wyman during his illness, today
said his patient was suffering from the
effects of Bright's disease and diabetes,
of which the carbuncle was one of the
results, and added that death was di-
rectly due to septic Inflammation. DR..
johnson explained that DR.. Wyman
realized the seriousness of his illness
and arranged his effects with the pos
sibility of it's fatal termination in
mind.
Or Wyman was sensitive as to his
Illness said DR.. Johnson, land was
anxious that nothing should appear in
the newspapers in regard to 1t. He
even denied himself to his friends while
in the hospital. 1t was because of DR..
Wyman's express wishes that the ma
ture of his illness has not been speci-
fled until this time"
Mr.. Wyman last night sent a telegram
to his wife in st. Louis, and his brother,
Arthur Wyman, with the Chicago Rail-
way Equipment Company. in Chicago.
notifying them of the death. Mrs. wy
man will apprise the pther brother,
Henry p. Wyman; a sister. Mrs. Flor
ence Richardson, and the mother. Mrs.
Edward Wyman, who live In st.
Louis.
Born in st. Louis in 1645.
DR. Wyman was born in st. Louis In
1s4s. the son of Edward and Elizabeth
Hadley Wyman. his father being noted
educator of that city. He received his
academic education at the University OF