Warren Goodell Jr. recalls that his grandfather was very careful about his diet. '1 don't know what his medical problem was, whether it was mild diabetes or what, but he weighed everything that he ate. He had a little gram scale. He would weigh it and record it. And he had a very meticulous diary, covering several years, of what he had had at each meal."
"We knew that we were not allowed to yell or run around," Peter Westergaard says. "But you could talk to him. At that time he was in his 80s. We were well aware of that. He was a little bit fragile, but he liked to talk."
"Until his final heart attack in Chicago, he had his faculties about him," says Herbert Gilkey. "Early in the spring of '42, he was at a convention in Chicago, and had a heart attack."
"He had presented to the American Railway Engineering Association his final report on a major train wreck on the New York Central railroad, and during the night he suffered a heart attack," Arthur II recalls.
"He was taken to a hospital on Chicago's north side," says Herbert. "My mother stayed at the Allerton Hotel to be with him." Arthur died there a few days afterward at age 84.