Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-06
Nervous Breakdown, Accom-
panied by Bright's Dis
ease, Makes Recovery lmr
possible and Death Certain,
PRESIDENT IS BOWED
WITH BURDEN OF GRIEF
Daughters at White House At
tending at Bedside of Pa
tient, Who May Succumb
at Any Hour,


Washington. Aug. 5.-Mrs. Wood
row Wilson. wife of the president oi
the United states. lies at the point Of
death tonight
-Four months of almost unhroken
Illness. complications of nervous all
ments and Brights disease have
sapped the vitality Of the first lady OF
the land. The end is regarded as a
matter of days. perhaps hours. Her
! three daughters are at her bedside
land relatives have been summoned.
/ Physicians have been In consultation
for days. but it was admitted at the
j White House tonight that hope for
her recovery had almost vanished
Conscious ut Intervals.
Conscious only at intervals, Mrs.
/ Wilson has been cheerful and has
called constantly for her husband.
Every spare moment that could be
spared from urgent official duties
has been devoted by the president Ia
his wife AT the side of his constant
helpmeet and adviser. he wrote the
tender of good offices appealing to
the European monarchs to stay their
conflict. From the sick room he has
been giving directions to the various
department heads for the relief OF
thousands of Americans stranded
abroad. The press of domestic legis-
lation, the European war and Next
can situation, and the furry over
financial conditions have weighed
heavily on the president as he has
maintained his day and night vigil.
Slight Hope Remains.
For several days 1t has been known
TO those in closest touch with the
White House that Mrs. Wilson was
gravely i'll and that hope for her re-
covery was slight. The president him
self has clung desperately to the hope
that she might survive the crisis but
her frail constitution, drained by
months of never lending illness, mas
been unable to Withstand the battle,
one day last March Mrs. Wilson
slipped on rug at the White House
liniuring her spine. An operation was
necessary. After weeks of convalesc-
ence she finally rose from her bed,
but the burden of a winters activity
laf the White House. together with
charity work in the sums of the city
brought on nervous prostration. she
was well enough to attend the we'd
ding of her second daughter, now Mrs
William G. McAdoo, but her recuper-
iatiye powers were not lasting
Brieht's Disease Develops.
stomach trouble. added to her ner-
vous ailment, and Bright's disease de-
veloped. Three weeks ago she seemed
Ito rally and was well enough to walk,
ls,lpported by a nurse, in the White
House grounds. She watched with
satisfaction as gardeners laid out the
last of the Italian gardens which sire
had planned for the south front oil
lthe executive mansion. A marble
lstatne of boy playing flute was
plaeed at her directions in the gardens
near the executive offices. With hel
taste for the artistic developed In
many years of landscape painting she
; had practically rearranged the gar
Idening at the White House in sym
metry of hedges and flowers.
Remained i'm Washington.
with her apparent recovery, the
nresident urged that his wife go te
n cooler climate. The heat of Wash
ington was completely oppressive, but
she steadily declined to leave her hus-
hand. who took an active interest IL
the contest over the confirmation oi
Thomas y. Jones as member of the
federal reserve board. and called fol
lmany a document on congressman III