The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-10-19
Edison Was Ready
 To Die Said Doctor
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view of the man to whom the world is indebted for many of i;s pleasures and conveniences will be granted that privilege in the in- ventor's workshop.
 Among them will be friends of years standing, official representa- tivey of the government, rich and poor, townspeople and neighbors and pilgrims fro:l afar, some of whom have alr> ady paid verbal tribute to the man whose death they had awaited for weeks.
 Their messages have come by wireless, by cable, by telegraph wires-so many of them that tele- graph companies were instructed last night to stop deliveries until this morning. Two secretaries had tried vainly to care for the meg sages transmitted since Edison died in his sleep at SPA Sunday morn- ing.
 Today tie casket was placed in the laboratory library and placed on c bier in the center of the great silent room. The room is in the three story main building of the group that comprise the labor atory. ~it
 It is high ceilinged, some 30 by 45 feet. The 84 year old inventor spent years of research productive of many of the worlds most useful inventions.
 Two tiers of gallery run around the walls, one above the other. These and the space beneath them are divide.' into alcoves filled with books which deal with thousands of scientific problems and techni- cal subjects. Mineral and vege- table specimens also are stored there.
 one Alcove contains a cot where Edison would sleep for an hour or so when tired by his persistent anu dogged labors.
 A desk and several chairs are in one end of the room. That was Edison's own little nook, or study corner.
 one corner is partitioned off for an office for Charles Edison, son of the inventor. president Of the Edison laboratories.
 The center of the room for years had been purposely left bare TOT rs .eption of visitors. There Edt- sons bier, banked with flowers was placed today.
 Police were on duty to control the crowds. And police continued their guard around LLeweilyn Park. to protect the Edison family from the morbidly curious.
 Flags on buildings in the nearby cc-. unities and r West Orange were at half mast. School children, informed of the death of the man who had beei. familiar figure to them all, planned to visit the bies in groups late today.
 Sunda-- the Edisons remained in their home. Contact with the out side world was maintained by Arthur L. Walsh, vice-president of the Thomas A. Edison Industries, Inc. A few personal friends only were received.
 Death of the man whose inven- tions have meant so much to man kind came after a valiant fight a. gainst urs ic poisoning complica:- ed by bright's disease. diabetes and ulcers of the stomach.
 Edison first became seriously III in July. he had been weakened Tor two years tv pneumonia. And last spring he spent weeks recuperat- ing in Florida. When he returned ne was uudpio tO SohtAhtc A.AS N~ tive interest in the laboratories.
 He suffered a collapse Oct and soon thereafter newspapers or America and foreign countries, and news association correspondents began their vigil on the Edison estate that the world might have immediate news of the death.
 That came just before dawn cuuAav. If was flashed to she world by every means of communt- cation, many of which Edison had helped perfect.
 At the. bedside was every mem Der of the family, summoned Sat urday night when Dr Hubert &. Howe, Edison's personal physician. summoned them.
 Edison was ready to die, Dr Howe revealed, as the aged genius assured his family he would rather leave this world than leave his burden of age and illness for his loved ones.
 Dr Howe also revealed cryptic comment of the dying man as he once apparently reused from his fatal stupor. Edison, he said, smil- ed and spoke:
 Tt is beautiful over there"
 Edison often had been attacked as an atheist. Ir an a&nostic. Ills religious beliefs were hot confined to fheologicnl teachings his rela- lives revealed with his death.