Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-04
That He May Escape the Noxious
Atmosphere Of the Potomac
Flats.
He Will Likely be Taken to Long
Branch Early This Week.
Horrible Massacre Of Seven Off
GERS and Sixty-four Enlisted
Men
By the White Mountain Apache
Indians.
WASHINGTON, D. c., September 3.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN


EXECUTIVE MANSION, $50 a. m.-The
President was somewhat more restless than
usual during the early part of the night, but
slept better after l a. m. This morning his
general condition does not differ materially
from what it was at the same hour yester-
day, except that there is slight increase in
the frequency of his pnlse. Pulse 104,
temperature 9S6, respiration 18.
| [Signedl D. w. Bliss, j. K. Barnes, j. j.
| Woodward, Robt. Reyburn, Frank H. Ham
iltOn, d. Hayes Agnew.
! WASHINGTON, D. c., September 3.-The
condition of the President has not material
ly changed since yesterday, although he was
| thought this morning to be little weaker
and less animated There seems to be a
growing impression among his attendants
that he is beginning to be unfavorably af-
fected by the weather and by the malarious
air from the Potomac River flats Immediate
/ ly south of the Executive Mansion Rank
| vegetation, which is fertilized by the city
sewerage and stimulated by abundant wafer
and hot sunshine, covers these flats during
the summer, and is now beginning to decay,
and since yesterday morning faint malari-
GUS mist has hung over the river from the
water front of the Executive Mansion
grounds to the Long Bridge. Almost every
man who has been engaged in the work of
improving the channel of the river has been
move or less sick from malaria Dr. Hamil-
ton said yesterday to Colonel Crook, who
, took him for d drive down the left bank
of the Potomac, opposite the flats,
that the President had not much
chance to live in such an atmosphere as that
carried by southerly winds every day from
these flats to the windows of his room, and
that, i'll his opinion, the necessity of remoy-
al
surgeons said to friend this morning that
the Presidents symptoms had, he thought,
taken on a slightly intermittent character
within the past four days. Wednesday he
seemed brigher and more animated, Thurs
day he was less SO, yesterday again was
good day, and this morning the patient
seemed weaker and more languid. He (the
surgeon) thought that the President ought
not to remain here an hour longer than
necessary; he would vote for speedy re-
moval The risk to be run in taking him
away was not, in his opinion as great as the
risk of allowing him to remain here. The
patients condition has improved a little
since early morning, and is now about the
same as yesterday
DR.. Agnew arrived at II o'clock to-day,
and formal consultation of the full staff of
surgeons with regard to the question of re-
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 1890 p. m-The
Presidents condition has not materially
changed since the morning bulletin was
issued. Pulse 104, temperature 9S.4 respi-
ration IS.
[Signedl D. W. Bliss, J. K. Barnes, j. ].
Woodward, Robert Reyburn, D. Hay es
Agnew, F. 81. Hamilton.
Boynton, who has just passed down Penn
sylvania Avenue, was asked by reporter of
the Associated Press what conclusion had
been reached regarding the removal of
President Garfield from Washington The
doctor replied that he understood it had
been virtually decided to remove the patient
by rail to Long Branch, sometime before
Wednesday next. The proposition is now
under discussion, the doctor said, to lay the
track from the Executive Mansion to the
Washington Monument, there to connect
with the track of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, used for transporting stone. Further
than this, the doctor said, he could not talk,
as the details had not yet been arranged.
In response to the inquiry where the patient
would be placed, upon his arrival at Long
/ Branch the doctor said that had not yet
, been decided upon.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, 2.30 p. m-There
has been no material change in the Presi-
dents condition since the noon bulletin He
seems a little stronger and better than he
was early this morning
At conference of the surgeons this af-
: ternoon it was decided to have the President
removed from the Executive Mansion at the
, earliest possible moment, and Long Branch
was agreed upon as the place to which he
should be taken Details of the time, route,
methods, &c, were discussed, but not set
, tied, and probably will not be settled nnti
tomorrow or Monday.
EXECUTIVE MANSION. 4.30 p. m-
The president has passed a very easily and
comfortably day and at this hour is
doing well. In addition to this usual nour-
ishment, he had this morning good size1
sized piece of toast with the breast of three
red birds minced up an it, and this afternoon
plate of squirrel soup. All his symptoms
continue as favorable as at the last official
report.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, $50 p. m.-The
President has done well during the day. and
has taken with some relish sufficient
quantity of nutriment The parotid SWELL
ing continues to discharge freely and to
diminish in size. The wound shows no
material change. Altogether his general
condition exhibits some improvement over
yesterday. Pulse 102, temperature 996,
respiration IS.
[Signed] D. W. Bliss, J. X. Barnes, J..
J. Woodward, Robert Reyburn, D. Hayes