Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-04

morning dressing, at the request of DR.. Bliss
and on coming out after making an examin
alton, said the change for the better since hi
last visit was strongly marked. The improve
ment has continued through the day, and a
| II o'clock DR.. Bliss told the Western Asso
ciated Press reporter everything looked favor
able. He said the wound showed
J signs of healing. While doing not quite as
well as before the last relapse, still the process
OF repair had been resumed and the granula
| ton was going on. With reference to the
| parotid swelling, he said that though it had
| not yet progressed far enough in the way OF
| recovery to relieve the physicians from uneasi-
ness, 1t was doing WELL A small portion of the
abcess had sloughed off to day, and he had
removed it with the knife. The portion re-
moved was simply dead cellular tissue, an
swering to what in boil would be the core.
The swelling, he said, was diminishing in
size. In answer TO question, he said the
President on his recovery would not be dis
figured, despite statements to the contrary.
The small boil that had made it's
appearance on the Presidents shoulder he
deemed hardly of sufficient importance to be
noticed, for it tends to prevent bad sores. A
dressing of picked oakum had been Laid under
the President.
With regard to the subject of removal,
which has been the topic most discussed here
to-day in connection with the Presidents
case, DR.. Bliss discussed it fully. He said,
after the trip to Long Branch
had been decided upon by the unanimous
voice of the surgeons at their consultation
this morning the President was talked with
on the subject and he was satisfied to 20 to
Long Branch, though only as stage in his
journey to Mentor, and told who of his house
hold he desired should accompany him. These
will include, beside Mrs. Garfield, the Presi-
dents private secretary, Mr.. Brown, Gener-
ais Swain and Rockwell, Steward Crump and
DR.. Boynton and Mrs. Edison, with other
nurses. The members of the cabinet also will
go to Long Branch on the same train with
the President. DR.. Bliss has insisted that
when the removal is made all the attending
physicians shall go. This is not the time, he
says, in which the burden of responsibility
should be shifted from the shoulders of any
one of them. He says he feels that the coun-
try will place the responsibility of the Presi-
dents surviving the trip on the shoulders of
his physicians, and as all have agreed that il is
advisable that the transfer should be made, no
One should shirk the responsibility for it. Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton will make periodical
visits to Long Branch, as they have to Wash
ington.
DR.. Hamilton, on leaving here to-day, said
he did not expect to come back again. This
would appear to indicate that the removal will
be made at an early date. 1t was reported to-
night it would be made tomorrow morning,
but in answer to question by the Western
Associated Press reporter, DR.. Bliss said that
the President was not in condition to be moved
tomorrow. This would seem to settle it.
But in addition it may be said the car in which
the President is to be moved will not be
brought here until tomorrow at midnight.
The transfer will be made over the Pennsyl-
vania railroad and tonight requests have been
sent out all along the line that the public
make no demonstrations as the train passes
the stations or through depots. The railroad
people will have train made up in readiness
make the removal. The vice president of the
Pennsylvania railroad arrived here to-day to
TO superintend the preparations for removal
At Long Branch the President will be
lodged at one of the Elberon cottages, and the
physicians have stipulated that before the re-
mOval is made track must be laid from the
depot in Long Branch to the ioor of cottage.
They do this because they do not wish to take
any risks. 1t might be there would be spell
OF inclement weather intervene on the arrival
there during the continuance of which
1t would be impossible to
move the President out of
the depot and the doctors will not risk it. The
run from here, it is expected, will be made in
about six hours, as the running time of forty
miles an hour will make it easier riding. A
pilot engine will lead the train and stop all
moving trains so as to guard against noise.
All appearances tonight indicate that the re-
moval will probably be made at dawn on Mon
day morning if the weather be favorable. The
President, himself, thinks he is in condition to
stand the trip, and so do the physicians.
at midnight the Presidents sleep continues
and his pulse ls down to 100.