Show ENRICO CARUSOS CARUSO'S OPERATIC STAGE VOICE IS HUSHED Friends and Admirers rs Fear That Great Tenors Tenor's cal Organs Are Permanently Injured by P Illness nf S. S NEW HEW Ew YORK Yoni D DC I 31 F Fear Fear 1 was expressed here tOda that the golden voice olce of ot Enrico C Caruso ruso may never again be heard on th the operatic stage Despite unofficial reports from his I bedside that he was better following follow follow- ing a second operation in connection I. with his serious illness illness- ness with pleurisy the feeling grew among his friends and admirers that the series of mIshaps mishaps mishaps mis mIs- haps culminating in his present condItion condition condition con con- I Ithe marks the beginning o of a decline In the musical career of the most brilliant tenor tenor- the world has ever known It is practically certain now that Caruso cannot appear again at this season of the Metropolitan grand grando o opera rL v No one but members of the family the tho attending physicians and the nursing staff has been permitted to see Caruso since his JUness ss b became came admittedly sylous l this I ve 1 But Dut hf hs apartments Hotel Vand Vanderbilt haye baYa hay been deluged with messages messages' o f condolence front all aU parts of ot the world and with great bouquets of flowers including some which represent the greatest self denial by little groups of ot his worshipers in the poorer quarters of the Italian colony here Caruso himself ever an optimist has not at any time conceded the possibility of his permanent retirement retirement retire retire- ment from the stage according to reports reports re- re ports here from the sickroom and has constantly evinced the greatest I cheerfulness despite the severe paInI pain he has sometimes suffered I |