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Show CARUSO, FAMOUS SINGER, DEAD iVorld'a Greatest Tenor Succumbs After Second Operatlcn. Naples Knrlco Caruso, the world's greatest tenor, died here nt I a. m. Tuesday. Ills golden voice was st'lled for ever when he failed to roiw from n relapse following an opera 1 1 it for at. alters. Caruso's death wns cxp-ed fen several hours before the end me. lie never had completely recovered fron the effects of an operation ' ir pleur Isy which he- underwent In New Yori, last winter. Another operation was r'rformed 'n nn effort to remove the n '-11111111111. Jd pus, but It left Caruso badly weak-aned weak-aned and ho rapidly sank. Lnst Thursday Uie famous tenor nnd his wife, the former Dorothy Benjamin, Ben-jamin, went to a sanctuary In the Pompeii valley, where ho offered prayers of thanks to- the Virgin: for the recovery of his voice, heard a mass nml gave 20,000' f.ines as a thanksofferlng . Afterwards Caruso visited' the excavations ex-cavations at Pompeii. On Saturday he felt pains in his abdomen. There were tile llrst warnings that the flnnl Illness was at hand. He called a physician, who- advised him to go to Nnples nnd consult specialists. Arriving in Naples on Sunday night, Caruso called' Profes. sors Sorgl, Caroan.odo and' Moscati. After n long consultation the- specialists spec-ialists diagnosed his case ns- ncutu perltoullls, with n tendency ro-sprcud. They decided to operate. Caruso, whose fortitude when stif. ferlng great pain was considered' re-mnrknble, re-mnrknble, roiiilnueil' to. keep, up- his good spirits. However, he sank steadily r his ngony Increased; his strength waned-. Injections (,f camphor were required every two liouiv to .stiinuhittf hi trailer! trai-ler! ng heart Ills breathing wn difficult anil became be-came Increasingly labored Ills wife, who also, maintained: her courage remained' at his hedslife until the last. |
