The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-07
THE PRESIDENT REMOVED TO
LONG BRANCH.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-"It is de.
cided to move the President from the
White House to Long Branch to.mor.
row morning at 6 o'clock. AT this
writing, niue p. M, everything about
the White House indicates that the
removal will be made before six
o'clock tomorrow morning. The ex-
tension track from the main track to
the Baltimore & Potomac railroad to
Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue
is already laid aud ballasted and the
train is waiting. Trunks and boxes
are being removed from the White
House and the Adams express wagon,
in which President Garfield is to be
carried to the train stands at the door
in front Of the house. Without the
house the members of the cabinet are
all in consultation and the surgeons
are not to be seen, being in their own
rooms preparing things for the depart
ure. All the appearances are those
that show the transfer to the train
will be made by daylight"
II was decided at consultation of
the attending physicians to remove
the President to Long Branch, where
it is hoped tho pure, bracing sea-
breezes will have beneficial result on
his system. The important step was
found necessary on account of the
malaria arising from the Potomac
river, and from which the President
was beginning to suffer- 1t is thought
when once comfortably settled at this
lovely sea beach he will improve rap
idly. The train which conveyed the
President started at an early hour
yesterday morning and reached its
destination in safety, without any bad
results to the illustrious patient in
fact the ride seemed to do him good.
at this writing, Tuesday evening, the
dispatches state that everything passed
off without jar, and the President
was feeling good when he reached his
new quarters. The party made good
time, reaching Long Branch at HOO
a. m, and hereafter the news fiom
there will be read with profound in
terest. God grant that the change
may do him good.
From this mornings Derrick we
take the following: The removal of
the President from the miasmatic air
of the White House to the health
giving breezes of Long Branch, has
been successfully and expeditiously
accomplished. There was not the
slightest jar in the well forecasted ar
raugements from the time the bed was
first lifted at the Executive Mansion
and deposited in the Francklyn cot
tage by the sea. All the arrange
ments were so excellent that nothing
was left und0ne nor unthought of.
After an experiment as to the speed
which the President could bear it was
found that mile in a minute could
be run on a straight track without
special trouble and it was run in many
places. Everywhere the train passed,
in the country, in the hamlet, in the
city, people turned out in masses and
with uncovered heads watched the
flight of the locomotive which bore
the hope of the nation and which was
taking him to the spot where the
question of death or recovery will
speedily be settled. Since the an
nouncement has been made from his
present home that his pulse has fallen
from ia in Washington to lO2 at
Long Branch, there is a feeling of sat.
isfaction all over the land--a new ray
Of hope has entered our souls. We
feel like saying, as he has borne the
journey SO admirably it is presumable
that he will be much benefited in the
future. In addition we have another
foundation to build upon, in the
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