Arizona republican., 1914-08-06
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Wife of the President, Lies at Point of Death Attacked by Brigh t's Disease
 RELATIVES ARE
 AT BEDSIDE Little Hope of Her Recov- cry and Physicians Say End Seems But Matter of Few Days if Not Few Hours Y
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-At eleven o'clock Mrs. Wilson was resting easily but respiration was assisted by artificial stimulants.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DrsPATcH1

WASHINGTON, August 5.-Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. wife of the presi- dent of the United States. lies at the point of death tonight Four months of almost unbroken illness caused by a complication of nervous ailments and Bright's disease. have sapped the vitality of the first lady of the land The end is regarded as a matter of days, perhaps hours He, three daughters are at her bed side, and relatives have been sum- moned Physicians have been in consultation for days but it is ad- mitted at the White House that hope of her recovery has almost vanished.
 Conscious only at intervals. Mrs. Wilson has been cheerful and called constantly for her husband. At the side of his constant helpmate and adviser, he wrote the tender of good offices appealing to European mon archs to stay their conflict.
 From the sick room he has been giving directions for the relief of the many thousands of stranded Ameri cans abroad. The press of domestic legislation. the European war, the Mexican situation and the furry over financial matters throughout the country weighed heavily upon the president as he maintained his day and night vigil.
 One day last March Mrs. Wilson slipped on a rug in the White House ard injured her spine. An operation nf valescence she finally rose from her bed, but the burden of the winters activity at the White House. togeth- CT with charity work in the city'S siums brought on nervous prostra ton. She was well enough to attend the wedding of her second daughter. now Mrs. William G. McAdoo, but her recuperative powers were not lasting
 Yesterday her pulse stopped beat ing for few moments and oxygen and other restoratives were applied, Stomach trouble added to her ner- vous ailment and Brights disease de- veloped. Three weeks ago she seemed | to rally well enough to walk. supported 1 by her nurse, in the White House grounds. She watched with satisfac- tion as the gardners laid out the last 1 of the Italian gardens which she ] planned for the south front of the ex- ecutive mansion The marble statue Of a boy playing flute was placed at her 1 direction in the gardens near the eX- 1 ecutive offices.
 1 With her taste for the artistic. de- veloped in many years of landscape ! painting, she had practically rear ranged the gardens around the White House in symmetry of hedges and | flowers
 1 With her apparent recovery, the | president urged his wife to go to . cooler climate. The heat in Washing | ton was particularly oppressive but she steadfastly declined to leave her hus- band. Day and night the family has watched anxiously over her for the past few days. Yesterday her pulse stopped beating for few moments. and oxygen and other restoratives were applied. Early today she seemed somewhat bet
 ter but late today grew worse
 The president, always most sensitive about exaggerated reports about mem bers of his family, authorized no off
 cial announcement of Mrs. Wilson's health. He hoped she might yet re-
 cover. Today. however. there was a
 change. White House officials ack-
 nowledged the gravity of the patients
 condition and revealed that while they | -