New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-11
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
HIS CONDITION STILL FAVORABLE.

HIS CONDITION STILL FAVORABLE
THE PROBABILITY OF HIS RECOVERY BECOMING
sTRONGER-THE PHYSICIANS NOT YET PREPARED
TO PREDICT HIS RESTORATION BUT EVIDENTLY
VERY HOPEFUL-THE PATIENT BETTER YEsTER-
DAY THAN HE HAS BEEN SINCE HIS MURDER WAS
ATTEMPTED.
The feeling of confidence in the recovery of
the President has become SO general and so
strong that, his physicians think, the public
needs to be reminded that he is very weak
and still very sick man. Yet the physicians
do not conceal their own growing confidence.
The President slept well Saturday night, awOke
with good appetite and in cheerful frame
of mind, and was better yesterday than at any
time since Guiteau fired upon him. The bull
letins issued yesterday showed continuance
of favorable symptoms. At 10 o'clock last
evening the President was sleeping soundly
and an abatement of febrile symptoms was
noticeable.
A CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO SUNDAYS.
THE CHANGE FROM DESPAIR TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
PHYSICIANS GROWING MORE CONFIDENT-THE
PRESIDENT BETTER YESTERDAY THAN AT ANY
TIME SINCE SHOT, THOUGH STILL VERY
wEAK-EvERY DAY ADDING TO HOPE OF RE
CovERY-A TALK WITH DR. BLISS
lBY TELEGRAPH TRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, July 1O.-The appearance of Wash
iugtOn to-day was very different from the aspect
which it presented last Sunday. A week ago the
streets thronged with people whose fac es
wore looks of anxiety and gloom, and who's
thoughts concentrated intently on one subject
and whose eager inquiries and answers bore upon
the single theme. is he dyinge" &" Is there
any hope of his recovery ?" were the questions to
which all sought answers. In most hearts
fear prevailed over hope. Even the pray
ers which went up in public aud private
from Christian hearts and lips were burdened
with anxious fear. To-day the scene is completely
changed No anxious crowd throng the gates of the
Executive grounds and press upon the scntries
stationed there The large tree upon which bulletins
of the Presidents condition are tackled as soon as
they are Issued, is no longer the centre of dense
and anxious crowd, waiting for and fearing to hear
the next intelligence from the White House. Persons
who come out from the Executive Mansion are
not piled with such questions Is he ?" do
you think there is any hope 7" "What is the very
latest" Lafayette Park, across the way, has been
thronged with people this pleasant Sunday evening
but their faces cheerful and happy, in striking
contrast to the jaded, weary and gloomy
countcnances of the crowds who nervonsy
passed the leafy aisles rested their tired bodies
momentariy on the benches week ago tonight
THE CHANGE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
Ia the White House itself there is a great change
although as a week ago the brave President
lies on his couch of pain nanfully fighting death.
The visitors not so numerous, but
all of them cheerful, and even the most
cautious of the medical attendants do not conceal
the hopes which they cherish of the Presidents re-
covcry, and which one week ago the most san uguine
OF them dared not entertain or express Just one
week ago at this hour the tclcgraphic wires from
this city were bearing wild reports that the
President was dead, and other reports that
the Surgeon-General had been heard to
express the opinion that the patient would die be-
fore midnight. Although persons who took pains 10
inform themselves knew that there no prospect
of fatal result within considerable period the nm
favorable rumors obtained wide currency i'll Wash
ington as we'll as elsewhere, and many thousands
OF its citizens retired that night believing that the
President was dead or dying, and Monday morning
many messengers were sent in nervous haste to see
If the flags on the public buildings were at half
mast.
While the solicitude and sympathy are as great
as ever, the people appear to have made up their
minds that the President is going to live. A good
many of them are not willing to conccdc
any doubt this subject. Speaking of this tonight
in conversation with TRIBUNE correspondent
President Hinsdale said
" | have just written n dispatch for The CIerclaad
Herald, which il read by most of General Garfcld's
neighbOrs, in which have sounded a note OF warn
ing The President is by means out of danger
and do not think il wise for people to settle down
in belief that he is OF we have strong rea-
son to hope that he will recover, but people ought
to remember that the road to recovery will be long
one, besct with dangers"
Itis almost nine days since the President was shot
and the ninth day is to which the surgeons
have looked forward with some apprehen sion. To
their relief it has brought no unfavorable
change i'll the Presidents condition or
symptoms as the official bulletins and the dispatch
to the consulting surgeons will show. Worllncn have
been engaged all day under the Supervision of Major
Powell and Mr. Dorsey in setting up the cooling
tried and 1t is hoped that both will succeed The
plan Off forcing air through fifteen tons of ice by
means of rapidly revolving fan will be
tried Tonight, General Swain's room having been
selected as the upon which the experiment shall
first be tried Three steam fre-engines stand at the
east end of the White House 10 furnish motive
power, and a small steam-engne has also been
placed IN the basement for the same purpose
There was q moderate breeze blowing to-day and
the temperature in the sck-roon has not been op-
prcssive At 10 o'clock this evening the President
was sleeping quietly, and the physicians reported
al abatement of the fcbre symptoms Surgeon
Woodward and DIR. Reyburn will remain in attend
ance during the night
TIE OPINIONS OF DR.. BLISS
" The President is better than he has been at any
time since he shot, said Dr. Bliss the physician
In charge. this afternoon and every day and hour
adds to the hopes his recovery. From o'clock last
night. when he received his morphine he slept in
maps of g half hour each until mdni ,ht and as he
obtained rest his pulse and temperature decreased
From midnight until o'clock this morning he slept
continuously which is the longest period of continu-
Gus sleep he has had. This improvement i'll his rest