Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1914-08-07

FLOOD OF SYMPATHY
Funeral Will Take Place Monday
Remains Will Probably BE In
tered In Rome, Georgia.

tered In Rome, Georgia.
Washington, August G.-MrS.
Woodrow Wilson, wife of the Presi-
dent of the United States, died at the
White House at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. Death came after 4
brave struggle of months against
Bright's disease, with complications
The President was completely un-
nerved by the shock and his grief
was heartrending. He bore up vel!
urder the strain, however, and de-
voted himself to his daughters.
The end came while Mrs. Wilson
was unconscious. Her illness took 4
turn for the worse shortly before !
o'clock in the afternoon, and from
then on she grew gradually weaker.
Kneeling at the bedside at the end
were the President and their three
daughters. DR.. Cary 7. Grayson, U.
5. n, and nurse were in the room,
and just outside Il door were Secre-
tary McAdoo and Francis B. Sayra.
Mr.. Wilson's sons-in-laws, and Mr..
Tumulty, his secretary.
Both houses of Congress adjourned
when Mrs. Wilson's death was an
nolnced, and for brief time the
wheels of the Government were prac-
ticaIly stopped, while everyone paid
respect to the Presidents bereave-
ment.
The beginning Of the end came at
20 o'clock yesterday morning, when
DR.. 2. p. Davis, If Philadclpllia:
who had been called for consultation.
realized that the time for hope had
passed. He took the President into
he Red Room Of the White House
and there in broken voice told him
he truth Mr.. Wilson's face blanched,
out he bore the shock well. He was
informed that the end was only a
question Of hours.
Mr.. Wilson then took his daugh-
.ers-Mrs. w. G.. McAdoo, Mrs. Sayre
and Miss Margaret Wilson-asidc
and told them of their mothers con-
iition. Until then they had thought
here was chance for her recovery
From that time on the President
md his daughters remained constant
" at Mrs. Wilson's bedside. The
President held his wife's hand, anr
the three daughters were grouped
nearby. Until she became uncon-
scious, Mrs. Wilson frequently nod
ded to one or the other and smile
cheerfully.
During the day Mrs. Wilson spoke
to Dr.. Grayson about the President
whose health she thought more abou
than she did of her own.
"Promisc me-" she whispered faint
lv, "that if I 60, you will take car,
Of my husband.
1t was the same touch of devotio!
which she had so many times repeat.
cd-her constant anxiety having beer
,hat the President might not WORT.
about her or be disturbed.
Mrs. Wilson was the typical Amer
ican woman of that class with whor
/ she spent the greater part Of he
life-the wives Of university pro
fessors who live in small colleg
! towns and in the home cultivate tn
virtues of plain living ard hig
| thinking to their fullest flower. TIL
atmosphere Of motherhood and Q
home fairly radiated from her, and i
he first moment of meeting her on
knew that she and her husband ha
lived in close companionship, SUI
rounded by their work, their daugl
ters, their friends and their book!
striving always toward a realize
ton of their highest ideals.
| The marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Wi
| son had been one Of romance. Sh
was E!lo Louise Arson when NJ
| Wilson met her at Rome, Ga. at t.
home of his cousin, Jessie Woodro
| Bones He had finished his educ:
| ton at Princeton then and had bet
graduated two years before from II
i law department of the Universlt
of Virginia and had been admittt
to the bar in Atlanta, Ga, year b
: fore. ' ~
He and Miss Arson were marrl
: at Savannah, Ga. in June, 1885.