The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-20
Stricken in Hotel, Dies
Before Wife Can
Reach Him.
WAS PRESIDENT
OF EQUITABLE
He Had Also Served as Secretary
OF the Navy in Roosevclt's
Cabinet-Did Not Know of
His Danger. Although
Family Had Been
Informed.

'oh' president OF the Equitabla Life
assurance Society. and Secretary ar ,l,c
Na'y under Theodore Roosevelt, dioa
Of cerebral hemorrhage in the Iio,el
! seymour her" tonight Ills wife and
ms elder brother. JOY. were sun,monc %
70 mis- side, but lie was dead al , quar-
tcr To O'clock, a few minutes bororo
thcy arrived. ana an hour after no w.s
httlcken Ills close friend. T. J. Bor-
"ind' arrived few moments earlier
tps ten minutes before he ireatheJ
ms last. but he was unconscious from
the moment Of the stroke. and noi,bn,.
recognized those about him nor smoke
ne coroners office is satisfied ,ha,
the death resulted from natural causes
and there Will be no autopsy.
Dih Not Know His Danger.
Az. Morton himself had no idea that
ms lie was In oanEcr. but his family
ms physicians ana "A few close friends
NHt" that MS condition WAS precariotis
ara that If he dId not take ear, of him,
self grave results would follow low
Morton gave Il full account Of his bro.
thers III health and sudden death lIs
SAID that after he AMI Paul took lunch
con together to-day they parted. the
iattcr declaring that ho would sec his
brother a home at o'clock Joy Nor
ton called at his brothers Office. thing
ing that both would go home together
but Paul had left, Joy went on hone
where he and Mrs. Morton took tea
together.
she knew that Pdul had promised
me to be homo at 6 O'Clock or before.
said Joy. and as II grew late she
turned TO me ana said Joy, isn't IL odd
that Pau's late? He's always so pune
tuaI The words were hardly out OF
u
ana the butler brought bad news Mrs
Morton, he said, the Hotel Seymour
telephones that Mr. Morton has lust
tainted
we jumped into an automobile. q.
were there in jiny. Mr. Edward J.
Berwind was there before us. They
had telephoncd TO the Metropolitan
Gun. 10 Paufs office and TO others Of
mis- friends.
lie was on the nth floor where he
had an apartment with lawyer whose
name I'm not sure OF. They told us
that lie had tainted in the hallway, on
his way to his friends room. and that
they carried him into Il vacant apart
ment."
Joy Morton said that his brother
Paul was examined about December
last for policy in the Equitable, bu,
that he WAS rejected.
"Of course. IL was shock" said 10y.
but Paul never dreamed how serious
was his case. Ii alarmed the family.
however and we had him come on TO
Chicago 10 be examined by DR.. Frank
Billings. That. think, was about De.
cember o. Paul laughed AT us They
are only trying to scare me-, reniem-
Der he said.
of course DIR. Billings didn't tell
Paul ali he found. but he did tell me.
Your brothers blood pressure is TOO
high he said. lie has auto-intoxica-
ton and then he explained that auto
intoNication is condition in which
the body does not I'D itself of the
toxins II secretes, and so posons itself.
In addition, he diagnosed cerebral
thrombosis. My father died OF pre-
cisely similar conditions on April 81,
1902.
Then I came on to New York to
find out what they thought here. DR..
Isaac Adler, the family physician, toid
me that Paul was suffering from kid
ney and arterial condition indicating
Bright's disease. DR. Wells told me
tests showed traces OF albumen. Your
brother he said. is feeling the effects
of what we call an unbalanced ration.
His D.et Unbalanced.
IF tell you n little about Paurs
habits that phrase will explain itself
lie was very temperate man. He ate
sparingly. drank and smoked not ut
all. For breakfast he would cat some
times grape fruit. nothing more. For
luncheon he would sometimes eat a
sliced orange and nibble at sweets. You
see his diet was unbalanced, and his
blood lacked some Of the elements of
strength n man that did his work
needed. DR.. Wells said that he would
have to take the greatest care of him
self and that he ought to cut down on
work
1T was his first illness, and he re-
fused to call himself sick. hut we had
persuaded him TO take vacation as a
theoretical invalid. He would have
CONTINUED on Sixth rage)