The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-22
A DECIDED GAIN.

A DECIDED GAIN.
Hopeful Condition Of the President on
the 13th-At His own Request He II
Placed I'm q Recllning Chair, and
Experiences No Apparent Inc0nven.
fence Therefrom.
LoNa BRANCH, September IL
The patient to-day made good progress
on the road to recovery. Reports from the
sick-room throughout the entire day have
been of the most reassuring character, and
the fact that the surgeons and attendants
are all in the best Of spirits tends to confirm
the idea that recuperation has again fairly
commenced.
Nothing unfavorable can be said to-day.
Shortly before noon there was quite q
scene at Elberon. Messengers from the cot
tage in which the President is quartered
were dispatched for the surgeons and at
tendants. OF course the Instructions given
were to make haste, as it was the Presidents
desire that they come Immediately. The
order was faithfully complied with, and ev-
cry one who witnessed the messengers run
ming became excited, and feared the Presi.
dent had become suddenly worse. The sus.
pense for a few moments was great. The
surgeons and Colonies Swain and Rockwell
Immediately answered the summons. After
. few minutes DR.. Hamilton returned from
the cottage, with the remark: "Gentlc.
men, you need not be alarmed. The Presi.
dent wished to be placed in his reclining
choir ma horyo Of ~.
chair, however, is about as reclining as his
bed, and it cannot properly be called sitting
up"
The chair was placed in o commanding
view of the ocean, and the President en-
joyed the change very much. The Presi-
dent expressed his admiration of the beauty
of the ocean, while Mrs. Garfield sat near
him, and DR.. Bliss remained in the next
room.
After remaining in the chair about half an
hour he asked to be put back to bed. DR..
Bliss went into the room and asked if he was
weary. "No," said the President, 90 not at
all; but do not think it well to overdo the
matter" The attendants were summoned,
and the President was replaced in bed. The
moving did not cause any acceleration of the
pulse beyond beat or so, and the tempera-
ture remained the same as before he was
disturbed.
Two sections of the balcony of the Presi.
dents cottage have been removed to give him
an uninterrupted view of the ocean from his
bed in two directions. He is said to greatly
enjoy the scene, and frequently refers to the
great good the salt air is doing him.
In an interview DR.. Bliss says the glandu.
lar affection is practically well, and no
further trouble will arise from it. The
wound is in splendid condition. The local.
ity where the bali entered the body down to
the point where the incision was made is
nicely healed, and the granulation along the
track of the wound progressing finely. The
cleansing catheter entered to-day about the
same depth as it did yestcrday-about nine
inches-and it was plainly distinguished to
strike against solid substance at the end of
that distance. The ball is no doubt thor
oughly cncysted, and no apprehension
whatever is felt about it. The Doctor added,
in this connections: "Were it known ex.
actly where the ball lies, and if it was not
half inch from the surface, and could be
readily removed, We should not think Of
cutting for it at this time."
The lung affection is the only prominent
and, in fact, the only unfavorable symptom
in the Presidents case to-day, and that has
passed the crisis, and is now mending slow
~, but apparently surely. The doctor de-
tailed the circumstances surrounding this
complication, and referred to the knowledge
Of the attending surgeons that it had been
gradually developing for from two to three
weeks. He said: eve knew it would reach
q crisis, and the crisis came Sunday last.
On that day there is no doubt the symptoms
became so pronounced that fears were en-
tertained they would result in pulmonary
abscess; but fortunately the trouble passed
over satisfactorily, and the complication has
been getting better, though slowly, ever
since.''
The depression caused by the crisis of
Sunday ohviated any gain by the patient
that day: but, as heretofore maintained,
the President lost no ground, merely expe.
riencing a stand still until the symptoms
developed and passed by.
With the exception Of the first forty hours
after his arrival and Sunday last the evil
dences are very conclusive to those con.
stantly with the patient that he has made
daily gain ever since he reached Long
Branch.
Abiding to the position taken by him
that the President is convalescent, DR..
Bliss said some persons may draw line at
point different from that drawn by him;
but his idea of convalescence is in substance
that when patient has passed successfully
through such dangerous conditions as Presi-
dent Garfield has, without serious results,
and afterwards repaired with every indica-
ton repair would be continued, he called
it convalescence. "Some people. " said he,
''misht prefer to wait until the President is
walking around before they would admit he
is convalescing, but do not; hence nay
opinion is that he is convalescent.''
DR.. Bliss says the liver and kidneys are in
hrst-class order. The fractured rib, which
1t was suggested might yet cause trouble,
DR.. Bliss considered entirely healed. The
President does not experience so much
WEAKNESS as for some time past, showing q
gain of strength. Formerly he would say,
"Oh, am so tired" To-day he said he did
not experience that weary feeling any more.
Hason's Attempt on the Life Of Guiteau.
WASHINGTON, September Ia
Guiteau has told ten different stories about
his position when Sergeant Mason fired into
his cell last night. At first, and when under
excitement, he said he was lying on his bed
when the shot was fired. Subsequently he
said he was standing at the window, but it
is believed that his first statement is true,
and that he concocted the second with the
idea that it would give him more notoriety
If he made it appear that he had very mar
row escape. This Is not the first time that
Guiteau has given reason since he was inn
prisoned to believe that he does not always
tell the truth.
Sergeant Mason is said by the officers Of
the battery to be the best shot in the COM
pany. He says that he had observed that
every evening when the guard arrived
Guiteau took the same position ut tho cell