New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-05-07

Egan, and then read this statements:
II. +. Dawson died to-day upon the
conclusion of an operation upon an
infltrating tumor in the brain which
could only be partially removed"
Did his heart give out?" Mr.. Egan
was asked
"No, I don't think so. 1t was lust
one Of those impossible things to
operate on"
Mr.. Dawson spent Friday evening in
his home surrounded by the members
Of his family. With him were Mrs.
Dawson and their children, f. Trubee
Dawson, Mrs. Alice Dawson Gates
Harry Dawson and Miss Frances Davi-
Trubee Dawson, formerly Miss Pea
body, and Artemus Gates, the bankers
son-in-law If Mr. Dawson was other
than confident of the result of the ope-
ration he did not permit his family
to know it. He appeared decidedly
cheerful and he still was cheerful yes
tcrday morning when surgeons and
nurses came to prepare him for the
ordeal.
A room on the second floor of the
home had been transformed into an op-
Grating room, equipped with every pos
sible item that might be needed by the
surgeons.
Operating Surgeon Arrives
Early in the morning the banker was
visited by George f. Baker, Colonel Lou
Thompson, D. f. Pomeroy, j. P Nor
gan and Thomas Cochran. These last
two remained until after Mr.. Davisons
death. 1t was 10 o'clock when DR..
Charles A. Elsberg arrived. The actual
surgery was to be performed by him.
He brought three assistants, Dr.. Riley,
Dr., Kenyon and Dr.. Stockey. There
were four other consultants-Dr Fred
Tilney, Dr.. John Z. Weeks, an eye spe
cialst; DR.. Evan Evans, a diagnos
tician, and DR., Medwin Leale, the bavi-
son family physician.
But the surgeons and nurses, in
their ominous white, were not the most
conspicuous arrivals. There were many
young friends of the Dawson children
of the Glen Cove millionaires' colony.
In his conversations with all Of those
Mr. Dawson declined to allow them TO
express a serious view Of his situation
at was Just an incident of a day
said members Of the family.
Shortly before II o'clock Mr.. Davi-
son was taken into the operating room
a chamber that was vivid with sunlight
dustproof and hung with antiseptic
sheets One of the physician, gowned
in white. his head bound, spoke to
MI Dawson. and then placed above
his face a cone of gauZe
Under Knife More Than an Hour
Then Henry Dawson spoke for the
last time. He turned to those about
him and said that "if anything should
happen" he wished to be buried in
Locust Valley He further requested
that if there was need for a funeral
it be as simple as possible
The operation lasted for more than
an hour. No details have been made
public. but it was learned that soon
after his skull was opened at place
above the auditory nerves the surgeons
knew that the case was hopeless. They
found that filaments of the growth had
spread into the brain, An hour and a
half after Mr. Dawson took the anas-
thetic he was dead.
The funeral arrangements were par
tially completed yesterday afternoon.
There will be services Tuesday morn
in1. at II o'clock. in St. Johns Chapel
in I,attingtown, Locust Valley. Mr..
nayison Was a vestryman there. The
Rev. Dr. Charles Hinton will conduct
the services. with the assistance OF the
Rev. Or. Endicott Peabody, of the
Groton School. DR.. Peabody is Trubee
Davison's father-in law. The pall-bear-
ors have not been announced. Burial
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