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Show ENRICO CARUSO GRADUALLY GAINING IN DEATH HANDICAP TBIUS Fill CII Physicians . Say If Today's To-day's -Crisis Shall Be Passed Singer May Get Completely Well NEW YORK. Fab. 17 (3:20 p. m.) "Csruse's temperature ia lower, hia pule belter and hi mind clearer," Dr. Franeia J. Murray atated iuet after leaving the aiokreem this afterneen. NEW YORK, Feb.' 17. Enrico Caruso, grand opera tenor, held his own during the night in his valliant battle against disease, his : physician announced early today. While not minimizing the gravity grav-ity of hi lllnea. the physician Indicated, Indi-cated, that if he paaed the crlala today, to-day, he had a fair chance of recovery. The tenor waa able to sleep some last night and his temperature waa lower than any time ainc he Buffered the serious heart attark, following pleurlay Tuesday night. He waa also able to take light nourishment. His grim determination de-termination not to die, as expressed to those at his-bedside, helping prolong life, thn physicians declared. Measagee of sympathy from all quarters quar-ters of the globe continued to pour into the hotel and the offlora of th Metropolitan Metro-politan Opera company today. Italian Ambassador Rlccl called to present the greeting of King Victor Kmanuel and the Italian cabinet. Medical Science Reaches Limitations i By HAROLD D. JACOBS United Press Btaff Corespondent. NEW VOKK. Feb. 17. Knrlco Ca-Funa' Ca-Funa' a fate rested -4a his own hands today. Medical science has reached Us limitations. lim-itations. Whether th famous tenor succumbs or recovers from the plet , rlsy nnd heart attack from whlci ha! Is suffering depends almost sol iy upon his strength of will. I Time and a train during; tha periods! of cnaclnuancKS following; his relapse lata Tuesday Caruso assured his wife snd (lie physicians that he ha J "no Intention of dvina." This determination, his uncommonly uncommon-ly robust physique and hia unwavering unwaver-ing chceifuliiers were all thai had kept him niive after the five nhysl-clans nhysl-clans had performed their conventional convention-al riles, it was tacitly admitted by them today. BABY IS HEROINE. The real heroine of the sing-er'a critic"! illness has been his 18-month-old daughter Gloria. Whenever he has experienced a rally, Mrs. Caruso hus brmipht the baby Into his chamber, cham-ber, legardletfl of the hour of nipht or day. The little girl has always greeted her daddy with a laugh, as an accompaniment to a prattling, one. .sided conversation, bringing sn ;tn-swerlng ;tn-swerlng smile from the pain tightened lips of the great tenor. "And a smile I veritable elixl- for the putient at this stage." one of his physicians said. FRIENDS HOPEFUL. ' Caruso's optimism appeured to have 1 been communicated to his friends. Despite De-spite the knowledge that the crisis was expected hourly, those who remained re-mained nt the Hotel Vanderbllt appeared ap-peared cheerful though It was somewhat some-what utr.Une.l and declared their faith In his recovery. YVopl reached th newspaper ntn that the singer had rallied from a j second rda;it ealy this morning, put was attain ry weak. Twelvii tar.ks of oxygen. It was h-arned. were wnt up to the Caruxo apartments thtrir.g the night. 80N ARRIVES. M Caruso's Iff-year-old son, Enr'co Jr., who was called home from school at Oliver Military" academy, Indian, arrived at the hotel shortly before 10 o'clock. Enrico Jr. went Immediately to his father's sit k room. He forced a smiS as he entered his fHther's room 'arid Caruso greeted him with a feeble ; hsnd.-hnke. I |