The Sentinel=record., 1919-01-07

 Stewart Davidson, chairman of the General Citizens committee, appoint ed to welcome returning soldiers i1 New York announcing that the col onel would accept the honorary chairmanship of the committed
 It was at 4:15 o'clock this morning that the former president died in ms sleep, painless,y. Ills death was due directly to blood clot lodged in one lung. the result of inflammatory rheu- matism.
 Put out the light, please" were his last words.
 They were addressed to his per- sonal attendant, James Amos, a young negro who had been in his servics since he left the white house.
 Some time later Amos noticed that the patient was breathing heavily, and became alarmed lie left the room to call the nurse, who had been summoned from Oyster Bay yester day. When they returned Colonel Roosevelt had Dreathed his last They called Mrs. Roosevelt the only mem ber of the family who was at home.
 Cable messages were sent to Major Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. and Captain Kermit Roosevelt who are in service n France and telegrams to Mrs Nicholas Lon2worth and Captain Archie who left yesterday for Bos- ton where his father-in-law died Sat urday ans to Mrs Ethel Derby, who is in Aiken, South Carolina with her two children.
 Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to her husbands cousin Colonel Emlen Roosevelt of New York. who started immediately for Oyster Bay. and to the colonels secretary Miss Jose phine Stricker, who also was in New York
 Miss Stricker gave the sad news to the world through the Associated Press.
 Colonel Roosevelt was visited twice last evening by Dr J. A. Faller, of this village. At 10:30 o'clock when the second visit was made, the pa- tient explained to the physician, "I felt as though my heart was going to stop beating"
 Dr. Taller had no reason to believe however. that Mir. Roosevelt was in any immediate danger. So certain was he this was true that Mrs. Roose- welt and the nurse retired.
 One of Colonel Roosevelt's New York physicians visited him Friday but although the former president was suffering some pain from the rheuma tiem lie made lisht of it. laughing and chatting without restraint
 Colonel Roosevelt called to Saga more Hill yesterday a village barber, whose work he liked
 Pm feeling bully, John,' he said 'but I sent for you because l don't feel like shaving myself today, so get ready"
 Colonel Roosevo E final illness dated from last Feb ary. It was on the 5th day of that month, that, fol- lowing an operation on one Of his ears. he was removed from Oyster Bay to the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. He renamed there until March ,. meanwhile undergoing two more operations
 Two months later he insisted on keeping speaking engagements made for him in many cities and until the fall continued to give from the plat form his views on International af fairs.
 m November he was forced to re turn to the hospital for treatment of rheumatism Today, through an an rouncemcnt by his physicians con corning tho cause of his death, it be. came known that three weeks before he left the hospital to return to Saramore Hin. on Christmas day, he had suffered a pulmonary embolism which nearly proved fatal. Tonight cable messaFes and tele grams of sympathy. addressed to Mrs Roosevelt poured in in such mum ters that the local operator was un- ahlc to handle them and three more telegfaphers were called from New York to assist him
 Among the messages made puhia was one from Mrs Frances r. Cleye. CONTINUED ON PAGE TIEREEl