The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-10-13
Fails to Recover From Attack
Which Caused Collapse at
Fusion Meeting.
WAS IN COMA - HOT RS
Doctors Expected End Long BE-
fore II Came at Gals o'clock
Last Night.

avenue anu FOTtN -SeNtUtu stTert, ~ y -" ,
last night. He had been unconscious for .
twenty -four hours and the doctors ex- |
pected his death before II came.
With him when he died were his wife. !
his son. John T.. Woodruff. and his wife. |
Mrs. Rodney Ward. a daughter and her !
husband.
Fifteen minutes before the end came |
the son had spoken over the telerhone
to newspaper men downstairs.
We have been expecting the end for !
three or four hours" he said The Gov !
ernor has been totally unconscious :
since 2 o'clock last night. We gave up
all hope at that time. From then until
alive by the use OF stimulants and oxy-
gen. The use of these was discon. |
tinued at 6 o'clock because there seemed
to be no hope or need Of them His
heart action seemed unusually strong, his
breath was fast and short.
Or Norman +. Ditman. who has been
In constant attendance since o'clock
saturday night. is amazed that father is
s,ill alive. Only his wonderful vitality
is keeping him alive. Father is very
low we have abandoned all hope. ana
his death is only matter OF a short
time. The only thing ~e can do Is TO
await the end"
stricken at Cooper Union.
Mr.. Woodruff was stricken with
paralysis on September 20 while ne was
speaking at the meeting held in Cooper
Union to notify the fusion candidates Of
their nominations. II was thought the
next day that his illness was only a
matter OF few weeks rest in the noun
Ia ms but he became worse. A week ago
yesterday he went into a coma which
lasted for thirty hours. The arteries on
the right side OF the head had hardened.
causing paralysis. From then on II was
known that his condition was serious.
The body will be taken this morning
TO the home Of Mr. Woodruffs sister.
Mrs. Rodney 4. Ward. at 3is Garfield
place. Brooklyn. where the funeral will
be held on Wednesday The hour has
not yet been set. Burial will be in Green
wood.
The tentative list of pallbearers pre-
pared last night follows: Comptroller
william A. Prendergast, William II. Eng
llsh. Chauncey NJ Depew. ex-Gov. Hor-
ace White. George H. Barnes, William
Berr Lorenzo Benedict Phineas L,
i.ounsbury. Ex-Governor OF Connecticut !:
c. c. Human. Supreme Court Justice Al
met F. jerks william q. Gilmore and
Theodore Douglas Robinson.
McAneny Pays Tribute.
John f. Woodruff gave out the follow
ing statement shortly after his father
died;
| MIR. Woodruff died at 9i5 OF an at
tack OF apoplexy. complicated from thron.
bosis Of the cerebral vessels
George McAneny lives at 10 East For
4 ty-seventh street. across the street. and
was Informed Of Mr.. WOodruff's death
by newspaper men almost Immediately.
Although We have been in some meas
ure prepared" he said, the news OF Mr.
Woodrun's death comes as a great shock
He was speaking for Mr. Mitchell Mr.
I PrenderRast and me when the attack
came. ! never saw finer exhibition OF
courage than he showed. persisting to the
end In finishing what ne had to say. al
though ne knew that his strength was
fast leaving him.
MIR. Woodruff will be remembered as
great figure In the political life OF this
state. He was keen OF method. wonder
fully familiar with the details Of politi-
cal organization and persistent In get
ting results. The part he had taken in
the present municipal campaign was a
most important one, and to him belongs
the credi: in a very considerable degree
for the working out OF the complex and
troublesome situation. Personally he was
lovable man. and there are host of
people to whom mourning for him will
he personal and deep"
Lleutenant-Go Three Tim...
Timothy Lester Woodruff. Lieutenant
Governor OF New York for three terms
us97-I9O3), was born at New Haven,
Conn., on August I. 1858. He was the
son of John Woodruff who was a Con-
necticut Congressman from 1855 to 1866
and Harriet j. Lester. He traced his
descendants on his fathers and mother =
side to the earliest settlers Of the Nutmes
state.
His parents died when he was 10 years
old. He prepared for college at Phillips
Exeter Academy and after being gradu
ated from Yale in 1879 took a bushes,
course at the Eastman College. Pough.
keepsie.
Mr.. Woodruff became a clerk for a yea,
and in 1881 he entered the firm OF Nash
Wilton Co. now the Worcester Sal
Company. OF which he was treasurer
Six years later he WAS proprietor OF thu
Franklin. Commercial, Nye and Waverl,
stores and two grain elevators. The mex
year the Brooklyn Grain Warehouse Com
pany was organized by ]. s. T. Stranahan
David Dows. A. Il. Orr and others. ant
Mr.. Woodruff became a director and tn
secretary Of the company.
: In 1889 he became one OF the pro
prietors Of the Maltine Manufacturing
Company. He was later elected presi
dent Of the concern. serving In that capaC
ity for many years.
director - Many Conpsaies.
Mr. Woodruff rapidly increased his in
trrests in various business activities boil
In America and abroad. and In 1918, he