New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-28
NCIDENTs AT HOTELs I'D Glue.


INCIDENTS AT HOTELS AND CLUBS.
GATHERINGS IN THE EVENING UP-rowN-sIGHr
HOPE FROM THE LATER DISPATCHES.
The anxious persons who nightly crowd the corri-
doris of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to learn the latest
tidings from the White House showed in their faces
last night that all hope had been abandoned There
was person TO offer any consolation but that of
deep sympa ny and regret. The eight weeks of suf-
feung heroically borne by the President have drawn
the hearts of the people closely him that they
dread the expected announcement that the cord Of
life has been severed. This is shown Enthusiastically
in the faces of the men who gather about the bull
leiins at this hotel Every time dispatch
comes there is an immediate rush TO ascertain its
contents; yet the men who show this anxiety fire.
quently say: Il dread TO hear il read"
The President has suffered almost uncomfortable
agonies with such a magnificent fortltude." said
one person last night, land his noble wife has aided
to bear him up by faith that must have been sun
shine TO his SOUL that il seems To me as though il
cannot be that he must now be taken from u.s. Yet
l must confess, when stop to reason cannot find
any foundation on which TO base hopes of his reeoy
cry. But do hope L may say that brush reason
aside and continue to hope. He is hero of the
uoblest Christian type. The loving care he showed
for his wife when he was first shot by debating
a dispatch TO hers his display of flial love in
writing to his mother when writing was
painful and dangerous TO him: his
affection for his friends, whom he does not forget in
his hour of severest affection; and the moral courage
wthwhich he has contemplated death and separation
from his family mark him as a man of extraordinary
mould, the highest development of our Republic.
If he lives, with the sympathetic relations estab-
lished between HIM and the whole Nation he can
do a work that no other man do His life is Of
inestimable worth to the Republic and | cannot
reconcile myself TO the belief that he must be taken
away. No, will not believe it until know he has
gone"
"Well,' said another person who was a listener
to this conversation, even if he is taken away
now, he has done tine greatest work of his life on his
deathbed. He has set example of manly courage.
love and trustulness that will live in the hearts OF
the people forever 4: and his wife has shown like
traits of character. Read throughout all lands as
inns lesson Is, NJ cannot but be productive
OF mmeasurable good. The lives of heroes
was. The living examples which the President and
| his noble wife set before the whole world to-day
value that anything the President could have done
had he never suffered from the asSassin's bullet.
This maybe one of the nscrutable lessons of Prov
! ideuce."
The crowds at the Fifth Avenue remained thers
| Late dispatches showed slight improvement and
| this news visibly encouraged the watchers. Ex-
senators Conkling Platt Logan and others were in
| the hotcl IN the evening, spending part of their
time also at the house of the Vice President
There We're fewer persons in the Windsor Hotel
| last evening. This was probably due To the fact
that the majority of the freQuentcrs of this busy
evening centre had gone out of town to spend sun
day. Not one of the billiard tables was in use. and
| a small percentage of the few present went anv
| farther from the entrance than To the telegraph
othce where were posted, as soon as received both
oihclal and unofficial dispatches from Washington
| regarding the Presidents condition. The
| official bulletin at $50 D. m Announcing A
discharge from the parotid gland and decline in the
pusauons of the patient seemed TO strengthen the
slender hope that there still a chance for MS
recovery AT $40 an unofficial bulletin announced
that he improvement noted in the $50 D m. bule-
TN still continued, and that "Dr. Bliss says should
the President get through tomorrow as well as he
| mas To-day, there Will be hope of his recovery"
seemed to give much qualification to those present,
ana 10 the numerous passerS-by who came IN 10 OBJ
tam The latest intelligence and after hasty con-
gratulatlons with each other they passed onW ard
10 tell the good news TO others at their homes rst
| having copied the bulletin i'm full
| The members of the Union League Club who were
at the club house last evening seemed TO feel almost
hopeless of any change for the better in the PreSi
dents condition. The evening bulletin and the
later dispatches from Washington caused some feel
mg OF relief and there were a few who thought that
recovery might be vet possible. The bulletin
| board on which the dispatches were posted WAS
| attenuVely watched and differing expressions 81
opnlon were called forth by the news that slight
| change Tor the better observed. The majority
| thought the change could be only temporary.
| lew groups of members in the lobby and reading
| rooms discussed the situation. member OF inc
cluD VINO had some experience in the war toiu
| eI several cases OF recovery from wounds that
| at hrst seemed necessarily fatal. The expert
! ences OF the Prince of Wales and of Charles
OConor, both of whom given up by their phy-
slcians, were also recalled The members IN most
cases remained only short time after reading tho
| puIeuns and looking at the newspapers and were 70
| frequent dispatches were TO be obtained When IL
appeared probable that the President would survive
the night most of the visitors at the club house e1s
| the building.