White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-08-09
DEATH OF WIFE OF
PRESIDENT WILSON

president OF the United states, d1eu
at the White House at 5 o'clock
Thursday afternoon. Death came
after a brave struggle of months
against Bright's disease with compli-
cations.
The president was completely I'M
nerved by the shock and his grief
was heartrending. He bore up we'll
under the strain, however, and de-
voted himself to his daughters.
The end came while Mrs. Wilson
was unconscious.
Kneeling at the bedside at the
end were the president and their
three daughters. DR.. Cary T. Gray
son, U. s. N. and a nurse were in
the room and just outside a door
were Secretary McAdoo and Francis
b. Sayre, Mr.. Wilson's sons-in-law,
and Mr.. Tumulty. his secretary.
Both houses of Congress adjourn
ed when Mrs. Wilson'S death was
announced and for a brief time the
wheels of the government practically
stopped. while every one paid re-
spect to the loss of the president.
The beginning of the end came at
10 o'clock when DR.. E. P. Davis of
Philadelphia, who had been called In
for consultation, realized that the
time for hope had passed. He took
the president into the red room OF
the White House and there in a bro
ken voice told him the truth. Mr..
Wilson's face bleached, but he bore
the shock well. He was informed
the end was only a question of hours.
Mr.. Wilson then took his daughters
oside and told them of their mothers
condition. Until then they had
thought there was a chance for re-
covery.
From that time on the president
and his daughters remained constant
ly at Mrs. Wilson's bedside. The pres
idcnt held his wife's hand and the
three daughters were grouped near
by. Until she became unconscious,
Mrs. Wilson frequently nodded to
one oil the other and smiled cheer
fully. She spoke to DIR Grayson
about the president, whose health she
thought more abut than she did of
her own.
Promise me- she whispered faint
ly, that If ! go. you will take care
of my husband"-
1t was the same touch of devo-
ton which she had so many times
repeated - her constant anxiety hav-
ing been that the president might
not worry about her or be disturbed
in his official tasks.
Prof. Stockton Arson, her only
brother. was en- route east from Ore
gon on a Union Pacific train and
was reached by telegraph at Pendle-
ton, Ore, with the news.
From many humble homes came
flowers. as Mrs. Wilson had made
many friends in the slums and city
generally in her endeavors to help
the friendless and poverty-stricken.
She had told the president shortly
before her death that she would
more cheerfully "go away If the
bill for the improvement of alleys in
Washington was passed by Congress.
A word to leaders from Secretary
Tumulty and the measure was adopt
ed in silence by the Senate and soon
reported in the House. She learned
that the measure would be a law in
another day or so and expressed her
satisfaction.
Mrs. Wilson took an active inter-
est in the caree of her husband. in
his contests with Congress over leg
i~slation and the nero official
duties with which he was burdened.
Throughout life she has been his con-
slant helpmate ard companion. Her
clear judgment on political affairs
and broad views of educational
questions had been a source of graft
f~ication to him for years.
With her help he wrote his books
and on her Judgment he relied. Her
devotion to him, according to those
who have known the family intimate
ly. was of remarkable depth. Her
one thought was of him. Every
morning and every evening during
her illness she cautioned DIR. Gray
son not to tell the president If she
had spent an uncomfortable hour.
Her anxiety was that he should not
be worried or disturbed. However,
painful her suffering. 1t was her
enc aim to keep the president from
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