Show DEATH Cl CLOSES SE SElONG lONG CAREER OF BERNHARDT Famous French Actress Succumbs to Illness at atHer atHer atHer Her Residence in Paris After Gallant Struggle MESSAGE SENT TO AMERICAN FRIENDS I Am Deeply Touched With the Sympathetic I Interest Is Last Statement Statement Statement State State- ment Given to A. A P. P PARIS March 26 By A. A P PM Pj- Pj M Mme me Sarah Bernhardt Bernhardt is dead Mme Bernhardt died at p. p m m. expiring in the arms of her herSOn herson son Con Maurice who entered the room at ot that hat moment PARIS March 26 By Dy A. A PI P. P P.- P. I SI am deeply touched touche-d with the sympathetic interest of my beloved American friends This was Sarah Bernhards Bernhard's message message message mes mes- sage to her friends overseas given the Associated Press at o'clock this evening by her secretary Madame Normand PARIS March 26 26 By A. A P. P P.- P. Sarah Bernhardt's condition has grown worse during tile the last las few tew hours and the household considers that the end is near The week-end week was one of ot tense I anxiety In Bernhardt's home on Boulevard and a a. flood of ot messages bidding her to have courage courage cour cour- age came from her many friends friendson on the continent and In America This counsel was waa scarcely needed for tor Bernhardt's determination to live which so often otten has hs found round ex expression expression expression ex- ex In her ber positive assertion that she Intends to die in the tile harness harness har har- ness again came to her hep assistance and daybreak brou brought ht from the I fl word ck of a improvement im Im- im- im provement Bernhardt this this' morning still re retained re- re tamed her mental alertness astonishing astonishing aston aston- I those about her with h her het t comments Sometimes she caused them much pain b by speaking of ot the agony she Was as undergoing At times also she Insisted on talking of ot her own funeral funer 1 She was anxIous anxious ious bus to know yesterday whether the the rosewood coffin cottin she bought thirty years ago ago was still sUU preserved preserved pre pre- served saying that she wished to tobe tobe tobe be burled buried in It As her son deeply moved mechanically mechanically mechanically me me- crumpled up a scrap of ot paper and nervously threw It out of ot the window the patient found strength to tell him Jokingly to be careful or he would be called to account for tor throwing things on the street which Is contrary to a I city ordinance r I 1 |