Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-24

more hopeful feeling. Here large crowd
was collected during the morning and
such reports as could be gotten from
attendants and others going in and out OF
the gate were quickly passed from mouth
to mouth Some way the reports from the sick
room reach the crowd outside the gates very
quickly and generally these my ysterious messages
to the people are very accurate Cabinet minis
tiers. newspaper reporters and others going to and
from the mansion were waylaid, and as a rule sur
rendered all the information they had at once
The anxious appeals for. news being irresistible.
For the past fortnight there has been no unusual
appearance
IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE,
except the presence of the soldiers with their
white helmets and FURNISHED G ms. Occasional
ly pedestrians would stop to con over the sheet
of paper, tackled upon one of the large trees in
front giving the latest official report from the
sick room. To-day this was changed. The
guards had to keep the throng from pushing
their way into the gates. People chung to the
iron ratings and peered steadily at the White
House as if they expected to see something
which would satisfy them. The neighborhood
as on a week day.
tORPS tF> NEWSPAPER MEN
were actively engaged in sending away bulle-
tins. Messengers were hurrying hither and
thither. The report that an operation had been
performed which had relieved the President and
given new hope to those about him was quickly
disseminated. The expediency of having this
operation performed was discussed by the crowd.
The bulletin which it was announced would be
issued about noon was watched for with re-
newed interest, because the people were eager
to have their hopes confirmed. When it made
its appearance little before noon, however,
and it was seen that it did not announce de-
cded change for the better, the old anxious
expression crept over the faces of the watchers.
Last Night at the White House.
Crowds were assembled about the places
where bulletins were posted until late hour
last night, and general feeling of uneasness
pervaded the whole city, the cautious wording
of the bulletin issued at seven o'clock rather
tending to excite anxiety. The consulting sur
geons-Drs. Hamilton and Agnew-a arrived at
eight O'clock and were at once ushered into the
sick chamber.
Reports from the sick room later at night in
dicated that the President was resting comfort
ably and that the physicians were reassured by
which had given rise to fear were attributed to
the stOppage of pus. The physicians decided
not to disturb their patient during the night,
the two consulting surgeons deeming his condi-
tiOn very satisfactory considering the events of
the day. At 10 o'clock last night Secretary
Blaine cabled as follows to Minister Lowell at
London:
''At 10 o'clock tonight the Presidents symp-
piratiOn improved distressing nausea has left.
and there is no temperance of chills."
The Postmaster General telegraphed to Thur
low Weed, the Union League Club and others
the following:
sat this hour. TO p. m, the President is sleep
ing quietly. Pulse. 100. There is a manifest
subsistence OF the disquieting symptoms of the
day"
At half past ten o'clock the Cabinet ministers
and all the physicians left the Executive Man.
sion except Drs. Bliss and Woodward. who re-
manned to care for the patient during the night
Later unofficial reports indicated that the Pres-
dent passed the night quietly. At midnight his
pulse was reported at 100, temperature 1909 and
respiration 81.
DR.. REYBURN ON THE CHANGE IN THE PATIENT.
DIR. Reyburn said yesterday afternoon: s'The
situation is serious more serious than at any
time since the President was shot. We do not
know what grave complications may arise, but
the wound looks well, and there is no glazed
appearance, as there generally is when pyamia
is to be feared" Being asked to what he at
trbuted the change in the Presidents condi-
tiOn. h>Observed 1T undoubtedly is due to
change i'm the condition of the wound There
must be some new cause Of irritation. There is
evidently a retention Of pus, stoppage of some
sort. A sac depot or cavity may be forming in
the track Of the wound at point where there
may be adhesion, between the bullet and the
mouth of the wound, or a sac of pus may be
forming about the bullet itself, preliminary to
an abscess." He also said there was change
in the Presidents appearance; that his face has
assumed dnsky color; that the chill was Sc
we're. There was shiyer throughout the Pres
ident's entire frame, and the pulse increased at
one time to 125. 1t fell in two hours to no,
and the temperature fell nearly two degrees,
DR.. Reyburn, being asked whether the President
was strong enough to resist such shock as two
chills, said: ''The President is certainly not
strong He is very weak Indeed. He is not 80
strong as he is generally supposed to be- He has
to be lifted on sheets, and whenever we wish to
give him glass Of water we have to raise his
head"
MORE HOPE LAST EVENING.
DR.. Reyburn said last nights ''The Presidents
condition tonight is very much improved> He
is very much easier. OF course there is room for
apprehensions, but we have every reason to hope
that the danger will pass away. He yomited
three times this morning. He is. of course.
taking very little food, but we are increasing the
quantity now. We have to feel our way along
In order not to overload the stomach The tenn
perature was the most important symptom: that
has now fallen from 104 to 101.7. The pulse has
gone down to lis, and respiration is 25 The
vomiting has stopped. The condition of the
patient was really threatening in the middle of
the day. Wewere fearful at first that there was
blood poisoning-pyamia; but that is pretty
| much past now. The President has cou,plained
good deal of fatigue, and although handled
with the tenderest Of care, yet this sense of
fatigue has not abated." DR.. Reyburn said that
the rumOr current in New York that the physic-
ians had been probing for the bullet and had
thus brought On the fever and accompanvino
dangerous symptoms. was false. The unfayor-
able symptoms are entirely due to the forma-
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