The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-01-08
he will be at your service by spring

Time"
1t was at Ais o'clock this morn
ing that the former President died
in his sleep, painlessly. His death was
due directly to blood clot lodged in
one lung, the result of inhammatory
rheumatism.
"Put out the light, please" were
the former Presidents last words,
They were addressed to his personal
attendant, James Amos, young
negro who had been in his service
since he left the White House and
who was sitting at che foot of his
bed.
Breathing Heavily.
Some time later Amos noticed that
the patient was breathing heavily and
became alarmed. He left the room to
call the nurse who had been sum
moncd from Oyster Bay yesterday.
When they returned Col. Roos avcit
had breathed his last. They called
Mrs. Roosevelt, the only member of
the family who was at home. There
had been family gathering Christ
mas day, but as no alarm was felt
over the colonePs condition, the chill
dren who were able to spend the hol-
iday with their parents had gone to
different parts of the country.
Cable Me ;sages.
, CaDle messages were sent to Major
Theodore Roosevelt, who are in service
IN France, and kilograms to Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth, to Capt. Archie
roosevelt, who left yesterday with his
wl1e Tor Boston where his father-in-
law died Saturday, and to Mrs. Ethel
Derby, who was at Aiken, S, G.. With
her two children.
Mrs. Roosevelt telcpnoncd to her
husbands cousin, Col Emlen Roose-
welt, of New York, who started i'm
medlately for Oyster Bay, and to the
colonePs secretary, Miss Josephine
Strlcker, who also was in New York.
MISS Stricken gave the sad news TO
the world through the Associated
Press.
Col. Roosevelt was visited twice
last evening by DR.. j. A. Fallcr of
this village.
Complained of Heart.
At l0:30 o'clock when the second
visit was made, the patient explained
to the physician, 81 feel as though nv
heart was going to stop beating" Dr..
railer mad no reason to believe, how
ever, that Mr.. Roosevelt was in anv
immediate danger. SO certain was he
that this was true that Mrs. Roose-
Vclt and the nurse retired.
One of Col. Roosevelt's New York
physicians visited him Friday but all
though the former President was suf-
fcrlng some pain from the rheuma-
tlsm, he made light of it, laughing
and chatting without restraint.
Col. Roosevelt called to Sagamorc
Hill yesterday village barber whose
work he liked.
-, Pm feeling bully, john" he said
buI ! sent for you because | don't
1eel IKE shaving myself today; SO get
ready" -
Col. Roosevelt's final illness dated
from last February. 1t was on the
nth OF that month, that following an
operation on one of his ears, he was
removed from Oyster Bay to the
Roosevelt Hospital in New York. Ue
remained there until March 3, mean
whlle undergoing two more opera
tions.
Two months later he insisted ON
Keeping speaking engagements ar
ranged Tor hlm in many cities and
until the fall continued to give from
tnc platform his views on interna-
tional affairs.
In November he was forced to re-
turn to the hospital for treatment of
rheumatism. Today, through an an
nouncement by his physicians con-
corning the cause Of his death. it
oecame known that three weeks be-
Tore he left the hospital to return to
Sagamorc Hill on Christmas day. he
had suffered a pulmonary cmbolism
"hlch nearly proved fatal.