New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-06
PREPARATIONS FOR THE REMOVAL.

START TO BE MADE THIS MORNING-TEIE PARTY
TO BE AS PRIVATE AS PossIBLG-NECEssITY OF
TAKING THE PATIENT AWAY FROM WASHINGTON.
IBY TELEGRAPH To THE rRIBUNE.l
WASHINGTON, Sept 5.-The White House the
scene of unusual hustle to-nght-one of preparation
for the removal of the President from two-months'
imprisonment bed of pain In front of the
Mansion stands one of the Adams Express wagons
of the largest sze furnished with top and side
tains. In this the President is to take his ride to
the Sixth Street Depot in the morning. The plan
for the removal has been elaborated i'll all its details
and is as follows:
The President will be carried down stairs on his
bed by SIX or eight strong men, feat by no means
difficult, the stairway is very wide and of gradual
descent A platform will be laid from the top of
the stone steps at the front entrance to the
side of the wagon, that the bed
can be taken directly into it without any
jar. All this will occupy only few moments. The
wagon will then be driven directly down the
avenue to the crossing of Sixth-st. Here a track
Will be laid at midnight so that the wagon will not
have to turn down the few rods of cobbestone
pavement leading to the depot. Tho train will
stand the avenue the Presidents being at
the point of approach of the express wagon. Here
movable panel on the side of the car will be taken
out, and the President moved on board, where
there is already stationary mattress over fifteen
inches thick, and oarrauged as not to communicate
All the evening trunks and boxes and mysterious
packages have been hurried off to the depot and
there is a constant arrival and departure of
messengers and working men on errands connected
with the great event. There "A somewhat larger
crowd of people than usual about the bulletin
board at the front gate, but otherwise there was
no indication of public curiosity in the movements
which have so much Importance to the health and
ia Of tha Tf haoh hao, iJoI+ 81,
Presidential party shall consist only of the Pres-
dent, his family the surgeons including DR.. Boyn-
ton and Dr. EdsOn Private Secretary Brown, Stenog-
rapher Hendley, Colonel Rockwell, wife and son,
General Swain and Dan, the Presidents body SER
want, who has been with him for several years. The
members of the Cabinet will 90 on special car at
tached to the regular train which leaves here for
New-York in the morning. 1t is understood that
this arrangement made after consulta-
tion with Mrs. Garfield, and largely in ac-
cordance with her wishes. She did not desire that
any considerable number of people should 20
ON the Presidents train as she feared there might
in such case be additional causes of excitement
There is considerable apprehension, based on the
official bulletins of the last two days. that the re-
moval of the President at this time will be fraught
with great danger. On the other hand the risk he
would run by staying here in a superheated atmos-
phere, suspected of containing or less malaria,
is also conceded to be very great. To-daywas one
OF the very hottest of the season, the seeming
like furnace, while the protracted drouth is every
day laying bare larger area of the pestilential fiat
lying just south of the White House grounds
While to many the removal of the President seems
solemn event, in the nature possibly of journey
to his last restingpace, all feel of relief
that he will be enabled to breath the pure
bracing salt air, and be free from the sitting heat
which is likely to affect the people of Washington
for some weeks to come. Colonel Corbin said to-
night that he did not think the trip could hurt the
President any, " because" he added, he has been
travelling all day." Colonel Corbin meant by this
that the President had been talking and thinking
al day about the trip. This anxiety has character
lied the Presidents moods for weeks and it is
therefore, believed that the realization of his long
cherished desire will have salutary effect upon his
weakened system.
DR.. BOyntOn said this evening that the President
had passed good day and good night last night
The rise i'll his pulse he said was not a matter for
solicitation, as it huctuated or less each day
and sometimes it happened that at the moment of
making an examination the pulse might be little
quicker than it had been little while before or
than it would be little while after He had eaten
well and retained his food well. He had slept well
and his wound was doing we'll The parotid swell
Ing had nearly disappeared, and altogether the
patient was in pretty good condition
Doctor, do you believe the President will oct
well after he has been removed to Long Branch p,
he was asked
hope so, and believe so, but do not like TO
express myself positively. / think it will be a yery
good thing for him TO get out of this air. and ex-
pect to see a marked improvement when he has done
so, but still il must not be forgotten that there Is
yet much danger. The President has been brought
very low, and he has long road to go before he can
be pronounced to be fairly convalescent He is now
very weak, and very little thing might determine
the case against him"
" Do you think the fatigue of the trip will hurt
himsp
No; there will be very little fatigue about it,
lie Will be got to the train without loss of time and
without jolt jar. He will start in the cool of the
morning, and the tram will have free track all the
way. Then his car has been fitted I'D with every
appliance of comfort. There will be no dust, no
smoke, but little heat and no provoking stopparcs
at depots and side tracks. The motion of the
car Will almost entirely be neutralized by the
arrangement of his bed and we expect the people at
.he stations along the road to decent ST.
ienee. L look upon the trip as OF little or no
fsk compared with the danger which would attend
ms remaining here"
>, How long do you think he will stay at Long
Branchp
Only until he has grown strong enough to be
moved TO Mentor. The latter is the great objective
point. IL is TO Mentor that tho thoughts of the
1resident have turned oftenest during his weary ILL
ness, and in his delrinm he talked of Mentor and
o iamliar scenes and recollections of former days
- NC sbould become rapidly better the stay at
long Branch would be quite short 1t is impossible
'"e'er, TO predict with any degree of correctness
the length of his stay thereD
III. Edison said that the President had passed a
'0iy soou aay. "iwatched with him last night