Waterbury Evening Democrat

HAY STRICKEN
Boston Specialist Hurriedly
Sent For--Is Some
Better Now

Newbury, N. H., June 26.--Secretary of State John Hay was prostrated by an attack of uraemia at his summer home here last evening, but early to-day his condition had been relieved by a local physician and two specialists who had come from Boston by special train and it was expected that the secretary would soon be in his usual health. The attending physician said at 9:45 a. m. to-day,

"Secretary Hay's trouble has been relieved. He will need attention for a day or two. If no complications arise he will soon be as well as usual."

He stated also that Dr. Charles L. Scudder, one of the Boston physicians had returned this forenoon. The other, Dr. Fred T. Murphy, will remain for a day or two in case unexpected symptoms should develop.

Secretary Hay began to be in pain early yesterday and applied remedies which have given relief on previous occasions. These failed to help him and Dr. Cain was called from Newport. He found that in changing from the climate of Washington to the cooler temperature of the Lake Sunapee region the secretary had taken a severe cold and that organs weakened by previous attacks had been seriously affected.

Upon learning this it was Mrs. Hay's desire that specialists should be summoned at once, and as soon as possible Drs. Scudder and Murphy were on the way here by special train from Boston.

The Boston and Maine railroad cleared its tracks from Boston to Concord, N. H., and the special made fast time between those two cities. The train proceeded then to Newbury by the Concord and Claremont branch. A launch was in waiting to convey the surgeons across Lake Sunapee and the doctors reached the bedside of the secretary at about midnight. A quick but complete examination of the patient was made and it was seen that his condition while it was extraordinarily painful was for the time at least not serious.

Under treatment the patient soon showed improvement and the necessity of an operation which had been discussed was averted. During the latter part of the night Secretary Hay grew steadily better and by morning had regained the strength exhausted by hours of incessant pain. On account of the organs affected by the cold, however, the physicians ruled that the secretary should remain in bed for a day or two, Dr. Scudder then left for home, placing Dr. Murphy in charge with Dr. Cain assisting.

Dr. Cain said to-day that the members of Mr. Hay's family were greatly alarmed because of the fact that the usual remedies failed to give relief.

"I understand," said Dr. Cain, "that Secretary Hay's present illness is of a different kind from that for which he went abroad for treatment and for which he took the baths at Bad Neuheim. Should attacks such as he experienced yesterday recur frequently there is no doubt but that there would be justification for grave anxiety but Mr. Hay certainly seems to have got clear of all danger in the present instance."

Shortly after noon to-day Clarence Hay, son of the secretary said that his father was about the same and that he was resting quietly.