Evening star., 1922-06-25
TRIP FASTENED END
FOR ROCKEFELLER
Visit to Birthplace With His
Brother, John D., Brought r
on Fatal Attack.

~ Ss'iS'1 ~S'"' 10y ~"SS
on Fatal Attack. =.
By the Associated Press.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y, June 24.-To
all but relatives and his closest
friends the death of William Rock
efeller today at his estate near here
was unexpected. for while he lay
fighting stubbornly against death be-
hind the guarded gates to his beauti-
full acres, no hint was given that he
even was indisposed.
Death struck down the aged man
of finance just as his own tomb was
nearing completion. A year ago
workmen began building pure white
granite mauSoleum for him on the
highest ridge in the Sleepy Hollow
cemetery, half mile south OF his
estate. 1t is almost complete now.
and in a few weeks the bodies of
Mr.. Rockefeller apd his wife. who
preceded him to the grave, WILL De
placed within the s250,000 tomb.
The two wealthy brothers-John D.
and William-journeyed last week to
the farm on which both of them were
born near. Richford. in Tloga county.
For three days they remained there,
reviving memories OF their Doyhoou.
1t was the exhaustion from this trip,
Mr.. Rockefellers doctors said, that
weakened him lust before his fatal
illness.
Cold Followed Motor, Trip.
The two brothers returned to their
estates from Tioga county last Fri
day night Tired though he was, Will
liam insisted on motoring TO Ne"
York when important business mat
ters arose the following day: He was
INC in
and on the trip home that evening,
and shortly after midnight the cold
which he had caught became serious.
Physicians were called in before
dawn on Sunday. They found Mr.
Rockefeller suffering an acute attack
of INDIGESTION. The next day pre-
existent kidney trouble began 10
trouble him again and the cold devel-
open into pneumonia. Gradually Use
oil magnate grew worse, but all alohS
his indomitable spirit fought against
the disease that gripped him more
strongly each hour.
Are YOU despondent?" he asked
one of The nurses attending him on
NO" she replied.
Refused Liquid Food.
Thursday Mr.. Rockefeller lapsed
into Inconsistencies. and from then
on he was never fully in control of
ms senses. He refused nourishmeat
and toward the end he had to be
forcibly fed. T..
Il don't want it," he said when
LIQUID was offered him yesterday.
The fat tone OF his refusal was com
pared by those who heard 1T to MIR.
Roelrefeller's manner in business con-
ferences, once his mind had been
made up to oppose thing.
He made no final requests, nor
spoke any last words" He faced
l., i, ,<.l a LII mi
when it seemed necessary, and then
but a few words. 1t was said that
one of those at his bedside remarked
upon his taciturnity and -self-posses-
sion to one of his daughters.
Father was never demonstrative." !"
she told him.
Last night Mr.. Rockefeller's breath
ing grew heavier, and from then
until $40 o'clock this morning, when
he expired, oxygen was administered
continuously. -..
Rector to Conduct Service.
Although a Baptist, Mr.. Rockefel-
ler when living upon his estate at
tended services at st. Mary's Epis-
copal Church at Scarborough, short
distance north along the Albany post
Rev. DR.. C. W. Baldwin, will conduct
his funeral services at the home.
There will be no music at the
funeral of Mr.. Rockefeller. .tenta-
lively set for next Monday afternoon.
From the services at the home, which
are to be private, the body will. be
conveyed to the receiving vault in
Sleepy Hollow cemetery. there to re-
main until the mausoleum is finished
The Rockefeller tomb, tall square
pile of granite with four Ionic COL
umns on each side. and pyramid of
stone at the top, overlooks the Hud-
son on the west and the edge of the
east, where the Pocantico hills rise
from the valley. Just a few feet to
the north Is the tomb of John D.
Archbold, another great factor in the
upbuilding of the oil industry. Down
the slope to the. south, are the. re-
mains Of Andrew Carnegie, also with
in rich sheltering walls, and a little
farther on, with only simple head
stone above the grass-covered mound
Of soil, lies the body Of Washington
Irving.
Wall Surrounds Tomb. .
Not far away the Pocantico is
spanned by a bridge which Mr.. Rookie
feller had constructed to replace the
"Headless Horseman" bridge, where
Irving's famed character, Ichabod
Crane, met dire misfortune.
A circular wall of stone, .overlaid
with marble, surrounds the plot from
which the Rockefeller tomb rears its
faw1ess granite above every other
shaft or maS;oleum in Sleepy Hollow
His name does not mark the place he
chose to rest. The only words upon
the tomb are these, cut in two lines
across the front of it:
Thou hast made US for Thyself, and
our heart shall never be at rest until
at last 1t rests in Thee"
DISTRICT STUDENT H0NoRED.
Harry Tennyson Domer, son of the