The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-07
SONS ARE INFORMED

l SUNS AXE lNfORM ELI l Gable messages were sent to Major | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Captain | KermitSRoosevelt, who are in service | in France. and telegrams to Mrs Nich-
 olas Longworth to Captain Archie | Roosevelt, who left yesterday with his wife for Boston where his father in-law died Saturday, and to Mrs Ethe : Derby. who is in Aiken, South Caro- | lima, with her two children.
 Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to her hus- l bands cousin, Colonel Emlen Roose- | welt of New York, who started i'm
 mediately for Oyster Bay and to the 1 coloneIs secretary. Miss Josephine Stricker, who also was in New York 1 Miss Stricker gave the sad news to the world through The Associated Press | Colonel Roosevelt was visited twice | last evening by pr. J. A. Taller of this village.
 1 At 1O:SO o'clock when the second visit was made, the patient explained ! to the physician, q feel as though my 1 heart was going to stop beating" Dr l Taller had no reason to believe, how ever, that MT. Roosevelt was in any | immediate danger. So certain was he | that this was true that Mrs. Roose- welt and the nurse retired. | One of Colonel Roosevelt's New York physicians visited him\ FIday, but al- though the former President was suf- l fering some pain from the rheumatism he made light of it, laughing and chat | ting without restraint.
 Colonel Roosevelt called to Sagamore Hill yesterday village barber whose work he liked
 I'm feeling bully, John," he said
 Out sent for you because l don't feel like shaving myself today so get ready"
 Colonel Roosevelt's last illness dated from last February. It was on the fifth
 of that month that, following an opera
 ton on one of his ears. he was removed from Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt hospital in New York. He remained there until March 3, meanwhile undergoing two more operations.
 Two months later he insisted on keep ing speaking engagements arranged for him in many cities and until the fall con- tinued to give from the platform his views on international affairs. In November he was forced to return to the hospital for treatment of rheu- matism. Today. through an announce
 ment by his physicians concerning the
 cause of his death. it became known that three weeks before he left the hospital to return to Sasamore Hill on Christmas Day, he had suffered pulmonary embol- ism which nearly proved fatal. FLAGS LOWERED All flags in oyster Bay are at half
 mast tonight and in windows of nearly every store and residence are pictures of the former President draped with crepe and surrounded with American flags.
 A special meeting of the town board to draft resolutions of sorrow was called
 for tonight, and Mattnnecock lodge of Masons, of which the colonel was a mem
 Der, alsotmet for the same purpose.
 Tonight cable messages and telegTams
 Der, also met for the same purpose. welt poured in in such numbers that the local operator was unable to handle them and three more telegraphers were called from New York to assist him.
 Among the messages made public was one from Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland,
 Preston widow of President Cleveland, in which she asked Mrs Roosevelt to
 accept the assurance of profoundest
 sympathy in this-yours and the country s
 great loss"
 Personal messages also were received
 from William c. Redfield, Secretary of
 Commerce; former United States Senator
 Chauncey M Depew, Maj. Gen. George
 w. Goethals, former Governor Colquitt
 of Texas, and Ebert H. Gary.