Show ON THE ROAD TO THE GRAVE John Roach tbtr ShipBalder Succumbing Suc-cumbing to th3 Inevitable NEW YORK January fJIt is k own I that for several weeks John Broach the great shipbuilder has fceen confined to his residence in gradually failing health According to his own desires that his friends should notbneedlessly alarmed and apprenensiveof the effect upon him of learning the real nature of the disease from which he is E > sufleruig his family and physicians have been reticent in regard to his condition 1 Mr Roach however now realizes fully the impossibility of recover and I the reason for concealment no longer exists In view of this fact a representative I represen-tative of Mr Roachs family tonight made the following statement of his I condition Mr Roach is beyond the I reach of medical help save in alleviating I allevi-ating his sufferings which have long been intense His disease is epitbeli oma and its development has been very similar to the case of General Grant the location however being the roof of the mouth instead of the throat All efforts to arrest its progress have failed and only his powerful constitution consti-tution has sustained him so long He has never seen awell day since the entire nervous prostration consequent upon his assignment eighteen months ago From that crushing blow he could not rallyand a cncer began to de velope last January In March an operation was performed in the hope that the disease might be eradicated In the summer the trouble returned and became evident to the physicians that there was no hope Mr Roach is now failing gradually His agony is relieved re-lieved only anodynes |