New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-12
IMPROVEMENT UNCHECKED
THE PRESIDENT GAINING DATy

DIX BLISS ADMITS HIS EXPECTATION OF THE ,,p
oo'Ehf OF MS PArIENr-A SLIGHT INCREASE
VI ih"fEiATURE NOTED YEsTERDAY-CHEER-
FCL MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY BLAINE.
me PRESIDENT rested well Sunday night. and
ms symptoms yesterday continued to be favor
"oie' except that late in the day slight in
ciease OF temperature was noticed The nhv
siclans expect their patient to recover. and tbe
intimate friends of the President are becom-
ing relieved OF apprehension. Secretary HIaino
yesterday sent very cheerful dispatch TO
Minister Lowell at London. At 10 o,c1ocL
last evening the President was slecnino uiatIv
RECOVERY PRONOUNCED PROBABTE.
EAfECTINd AND PREPARING FOR LONG ILLNESS
AN INCREASE OF THE PRESIDENTS TEMpERA-
IokE' ALTHOUGH ACCOUNTED FOR, CREATES A
ih'iiol'ARf FEELING OF UNEAsINEss AT WASH
iN"loN-APPEEIENSION NOT WELL FOUNDED
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNEI
"ASHINGToN, July 1.-THE Presidents condition
oo'ihues TO DC one of improvements aud his doctors
say la'e tonight that he is better than he was last
night at this hour. DR.. Bliss who is tempororilv
absent for an hour from the Executive Mansion talk
s h'uch-needed rest, said this evening that he now
expected the President would recover but that his
pathway to health would be a long and weary
one.
Arrangements are being made for a long siege
Inc chef feature of interest is that in regard to the
IeiilSeratlhg apparatus. Several fire engines and
i ~ ''sI IRON boilers are in position by the east
o'' ooor, ana Tonight carpenters and machin-
ISIS are putting up apparatus of enormous propor-
tlois connected with the ventilatIng machinery
Locomotive headlights illuminate the scene which
IL as foreign aS possible in appearance to ANYTHING
usually expected III connection with curative
processes. The basis of the rcfr;,,aroti,,
ilca is the Jennings machine but Professor
N'"c"ihp and Major Powell have Jointly assisted in
pc'icc'ing some additional appliances for driving
ana purifying the air TO Le admitted Several other
devices OF an entirely different character have been
Drought TO the attention of the physicians
III attendance, and experimental machinery,
mas been set up to exhibit some of
them but they have not been tried in
'h' PRESIDENTS apartment, nor has he been aware of
the efforts of their inventors to benefit him An
even temperature is being preserved in the sick
room OF 10 Fahrenheit, and the capacity of the
machinery l. said to bc sufficient to reduce the fem
peraturr several degrees lower, if thought nec.s-
sary. The windows of the Presidents room remain
open, SO that the air forced INTO his chamber finds
ready exit
something OF panic was created this evening by
the regular evening bulletin, showing n sliyht in
crease IN the lrcSiden's temperature and although
no crowds assembled at the White House heal,
were shaken orninously and fears were expressed
That the worst was not being made known
TRIBUNE correspondent called nj ;he White
House Mt haf-past 10 and found Drs. Rev
burn and Woodward on duty General Swain
came out of the sick and said that the doctors
pror ounced the Presidents condition even hettor
than last night. There was slight increase in tom,
perature but such fluctuations looked Cor l.,
tho pll9 slcans and were ncccH, cos.sru,u,cs If
the repara'ivc action now IN ,rorrrst. Sncc the
examination upon which the arcfil was based
was made the Presidents temper fur. haa ,. rc,,r,
We tsut ths of
quietly and naturally. Apprehension vas ground.
less, IN fact, and every symptom was prdtu; ra
Aside from the work the rcfrg, rat ,..y machines
the day has been quite nneyentful. Tie Vrai,i,ut
who became aware this forenoon of tho wort IN, n
IN progress upon the machne. y nj lu,. N<l.t 70
have the plans explained t. h', -. III, WIS fo.
biddcn by the physicians. The no.se 4. r,t as if
was, and the efforts to prevent its reaching the !
President, had tendency to Increase his fever. and
o rs somewhat fatigucd III con~nQucncc this EVEN |
W.. but tho effect was s yhi that only tho eX-
ccedng Watchiuncss of the Attendants would have |
noticed it. and il is all past.
The following unofficial bulletin was issued tlis
afternoon: VIM
'Th" condition of the President has not materially
changed since the date of The last official bulletin
ilc coihPIainS niue OF "eariness and muscular |
soIenI7 ana ms once or twice manifested a slight
apprehension that his recovery IGip. 4 leave him in
some way ma'm'd or disabled SO rs 70 incapacitate
HIM Tor active physical exercise. lie said |
recently 10 on of lls attendants: i Wish |
could get NJ on my feet; | would like to see
whether | have any backbone left or not : |
nut whatever doubt there may be in the mind of |
the I,roSldent rs to the existence of hs physical
b"ckbonc, thore is none in tie minisof his friends
~ To ms moral backbone. After ten davs of ycar-
nc~S' dang"r heat and sun, ring he remains as brave
ana cheerful as at rst, and is only rcltiaincd by his
phySi'Ians ora - from talking anratcGly with
those about him."
Dr. Hawkes. Of the Ircsidcnt, household saws that
~ corplpnc with the wish Of She III, Sidcni and
Mrs Garfield, Harry and james their sols together
morning at Colonel RockWcll's residence