The Osceola times., 1881-12-17
THE DOCTORS' BILLS.
Appropriation to be Asked tor Expenses
Attending General Garfsid's Illness.

Appropriation to be Asked tor Expenses
Attending General oarfisids Illness.
Philadelphia Press
II is expected that a special commit
tee will be appointed by the boust
soon after its organization, to prepare en-
item 81 be inserted in one OF the appro-
priplion bills TO pay the expenses o. the
ex-pfesident's long and fatal Illness.
Mrs. Garfield is the administrators OF
her husbands estate, and in few days
she will probably notify persons having
claims against the estate to present
them. Narious.es estimates as to the cost
oflbe presidents illness have been made
but those in position to Judge of the
probable expenses incurred place the
sum nt 100000. II will not vary greatly
from that amount, although much de.
pends upon the bills of the physicians.
DR., Bliss, it is said, thinks tnat his sery.
ices are worth $4,000. What the charges
OF Drs Agnew, Hamilton, Reyburn and
Boynton will he is not known, Surgeons
Barnes and Woodward, being in the
service of the government, will not pre-
sent bills, but their friends anticipate
congress will grant them something as
substantial as a vote of thanks for their
labors. DR.. Roynton, his friends think
will not present bill to Mrs. Garfield,
because the ex-president was his rela-
tive and friend: but if congress is to as
sumo the expenses of the illness he
should be amply recompensed. A warm
friend of the Garfielas relates a story of
the estimation in which Boynton was
held by the dead president. He says:
Mrs. Garfield, as yo, are aware, Is a
believer in homeopathy and when she
vas taken i'll Dr. Boynton who is a
homeopathic, came to her bedside.
DR.. Boynton accompanied Mrs. Garfield
to Elberon when she had sufficiently
recovered from her illness to be remoy-
ed. He was as attentive during the
perion # her convalescence as when she
was believed to be dying. A few days
before he was shot the president visited
EIberon. Taking DIR. Boynton aside the
president said: 'Sias, you have render
ed me service which | cah never re-
pay. / am not going to ask you for the
amount of your bill, but am going TO
have my way in this matter and insist
that you accept this check 1t was fill-
ed out for a sum not to be counted by
hundreds.
"You have had your own way, James
replied DR.. Boynton, now ] will have
mine. shall not accept a cent of this
money. am only too happy to have
been Of service to you and yours"
The president told this story to my
informant while riding together to the
Soldiers home near this city. His eldest
son, Henry, sat on the front seat Of the
carriage. Turning TO him the president
said Harry, want you to remember
your Uncle Silas rs long as YOU live"
abr. Boynton," continued the gentle
man who narrated the above. sis poor
man. He has had good practice in
Cleveland for many years, but he is very
liberal, good liver and has not saved
much from hi income. His services to
the president during his last illness were
inspired by devotion, lie was regard
ed by the other physicians as a nurse,
not being of the aliopathic school, but
upon him the president relied as child
upon its mother 1t was 'Silas do this,
and 'Silas do that Boynton was the
man that the president knew as his
friend and relative and if Dr. Bliss ser.
vices are worth $500 or $4,000, or
5000 Boynton's services are worth Just
as .nuchr