New Britain herald., 1924-02-01
WILSON IS LYING AT DEATHS DOOR.
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.Dr. Grayson, Son his return |.
 Washington yesterday confirmed tha
 diagnosis and said he did not at tha
 time regard the attack as serious uI
 less it should fail to yield to treat
 ment
 Change During Night
 The change during the night, how.
 erer manifestly aroused grave tear.
 in the minds of Dr. Grnyson and Mrs
 Wilson, who has been the faithful ;t.
 tendant of her husband since she frs,
 symptoms of his collapse became
 manifest during the western trip four
 and half years ago. Today She no.
 titied all the members of Mir Wilson.s
 family of his condition at the sng.
 gestion CT Dr. Grayson. None of his
 three daughters is in Washington.
 For brief time this mornirg ;,r
 Grayson left the bedside of his pa
 tient and made a hurried .rip to his
 home. He did not leave the Wilson
 nome even then, until he had sum
 honed pr. H. A. Fowler, q Washing ton Kidney specialist, who he'd treat ed hr. Wilson previously. to remarn on watch. Dr. Grayson said the step Was taken "as a precautionary ,nt as ure"
 News Of the change for tie worse spread rapidly throughout Washing lon. as alarming rumors werr disse nI mated over the whole country turing the hight by radio broadeastin2 sta tons. Early this morning before Dr. drayson, had issued his bulletin, In.s sages of sympathy end encourage ment began arriving by the thous- ands.
 me messages Of concern came from the lowest as well as the highest among the fellow citizens of thc-for mer president. as did the great pres sure of telephone inquiries that be- seiged newspaper offices as soon as the news spread. Washington and the country had heard many rumors here. toiore, about supposed reapscs but this time there seemed 10 be n mi Nefsai realization that something stase had occurred. From admirers or me wartime president in dlstnncf states, from friends Of Woodrow Mi. son Tn his youth. and his coIlcciato days. as well as from public officials throughout all the branches of tbo government the inquiries and cx- tr.ss'ohs oi regret poured in a great ude Of public sympathy and appr,. hcnson.
 Although al first unrelated 10 tle dlrcct cause Of Mr. Wilson's collapsr. m 1919. inc digestive disorder I,.,l lliade such inroads on the strength of thc patient today as to derplop anew some Of the old symptoms tbit hnd suceumbed 10 treatment and atar. ntt,- ste others that had ciung on ,lcsoita sll that thc best medical ptluntiun md thc tcnderest care could do. If was these old symptoms that. IS ti,e day wore on. cam. to b. tar .r.3i, ,t source of worry to thor at the bed. side.
 There were rpmors that i. ryIHs lnight ne expected before the day was over and that an opattion mig b. 'mr'asarN. To inaui,iug on t., .,. lets ti" attending physician t, .... hook their nuads a. ir to say ",.ho ,an tell"
 e Years Old ...
 MT. Wilson ws bi years old on hiy asi birthday Dcctsabcr x, II Ina ,oen little o.or four years all iu,n mouths since hc eoiippeed On h, .p.. 1al train in Colorado lter u,ii.rr- ns forty speeches in dctpIminaJ mort 10 -ten, the tide of saiti ncrl 5 hat had risen so higa pgali ur 'caeuc of Nations in la' .cn f. The I lcws of his breai;ilorn vut 20 lo | 'c world tacn. oa iIt o. | u. Sep. |, enber 2G. 1919. 'lt wa niabr ip | rave his tfa n 10 deliver an a, lirss a { Nich!ia. ka9. over a clpur tiarE f he preaidentiai sprcinl rpcd back 10 he Capital 'ity and although he was Il blc to walk ort of the Union Sta Il ion and Mafc his hat to d sunday q iorning crowd that had gathered 10 b ec him com home there was II rave development few days later nd since then he has been abl only |, pr short periods at a time To appear al public. ii -fic never again has lett Washing ti ,n. From the spccial train it Nas al by lp. Gio.son that tht Of the distinguished railcnt oi as due to oNerwork. following on thc ci tels Of an attack of inhuanza. while ic president was at the Paris peace ,nfcrtr rec in the early spring Of 1919. ven then Mr. Wilson was suffering fe om nervous exhaustion: 1t was said in , must remain quiet for consider cd jlc limo; and out of this grew tha re ore sclioIs por@r0tie nf.s.s that bay. at