Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-06
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not to hove conc until lat night
IN announcing Colonel Rooscv.l's
death Miss ~irickcr aid
Mr. Roosevelt caHel mr. on Tire
telephone shortly bcfore O'Clock sa--
Ing that the colonol M dicd carlv fods,
ohc fiId not gvc mc any particular and {
an leaving y oncc FIR O,--tcr Bav
The attack muet have bccn -cf-. e..J-
den On Now Iear' Dav nnararna-o-
rheumatism developed Colonel Hoos,-
volts right hand hich hocarnc ,o-
uuch swollen Mrs Rooserctt -ent for
nurse ~ the village and 'hc colonel ra
made as comfortable az possible II dM
not occur to me at 'h9t tirac that he m
seriously III
Miss Stricker wont p OYSTER Ba~ 4st
SATURDAY p pay tho colonel p ,ist he
said
-l' -ha' time the colonel was .iecrur
ln hl- room and ! did not -ar hrn .1l
tnere ras nothing "a The rIrcIratance- ~,
tis lincsS at that lame t0 indicate fr NV
-ha' death w1s ncqr. When Mrs i;ooss-
veit called me 'his morning and told me- y.
the colonel7 death, I could hardly bo-
llavc lt
ILLyESs Brttv rER. ;
Colonel Roosevelt lazr illness nav ~
Fchriarv > ID we.s announced thar hc
had bern removed from his home IFS
oyster Bay 70 the Roosevelt Hospital n
Tins CITY. following an operation On me
q nis cars. soon after his arrival ~ the
hospital he underwent two more operations
Tor The removal IF diseased tissue Ia his
Injected ear, and IT was admitted az the
time that he was seriously III. he remain
cd at the hospital until March 3.
During May and June the cOlonci
made a number OF addresses, speaking az
Springfield. Mass, and IN New York
In june he made Il tour Of the west dur
ing which lie suffered 2 slight attack III
erysIpelas IN one If his legs but refused
% ave IN his engagements Early in
November, the Colonel Was taken 10
Roosevelt Hospital IN this city for treat
ment oi rheumatism ana sciatIca. While
lie vas IN the hospital reports became cur
rcnt nat the colonel was more seriously
Ill than his physicians would admit.
Colonel Roosevelt returned 70 MS home
N Oyster Bay On Christmas Day, re-
marking a. he stepped 20 the porch that he
was feeling bully
EXPECTED 10 DE OUT soon.
Iorty-eight hours before MS death the
former President had been visited bv one
OF his physicians who stated he found the
coIone! apparently IN good condition and
spirits. The cotonci, he said, laughed and
joked with MIN and SAID he expected soon
10 renew his housekeeping expeditions
on ms Sycamore Hill estate
On the day before Christmas when
Coiouc. Roosevelt left the hospital here
to spend he holiday IN Oyster Bay, Miss
>tfichcI said he was in slght pam %
inter1 as, but was apparently TAR from
being seriously Ill. ON the sunday pre-
v!ouS 90 his ,.eparture .or his homo. be
had dictated articles for the Kansas Cify
star and other publications from J & u
until p. n. lie ate we'll an slept aSc
ghId.
WAs CU$l A1t-SCfSG BAPIDLt.
20 marked bad nceu Us Improvement
under The regimen provided ST the hos
pltal that Mis-. Roosevelt who, al hc
beginning, remained El.h heI husband
continuously, WAS importuned by hun g.
rest She vent to OYSTER Bay. returning
two or three times Il week 70 visit him
and bring him table Gehcacies oi which he
was espccia ly fond.
Two separate blood tests haa leea
made AZ the hospital. enc by Dr. Richards
and the other by Or HsrtWCl, atcE nI
which. i was said, Indicated that he
co,onc was entirely free from amy organic
disease and that his only troubic ws, 'hs
ufammatory rheumatism This almcns
was pronounced only in his lrit .eg but at
.imcs i affected one q his hands snd
arms
'If vou could see the trauu! - food
that is sent ii to Colonel Roosevelt
room it dinner time said fncnd Of he
family, YOU would think he was certainly
on the mend tie has the appetite Of
vigorous, healthy school hoy"
Blood pressure tests, il was said, showed
that the patient had arteries Of , man az
lorty instead Of sixty wears.
DEATH or son a BLOW.
One Of the things that Is believed %
have contributed moro than any other
ia the colonels breakdown vas the death
last fan Of his son. Lieutenant Quentin
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