The daily gazette., 1881-09-05
The PRESIDENT.
HIS REMOVAL DECID-
ED UPON.
..HE WILL DIE IF HE REMAaNs.' >
Te Go by Rail to Long Branch
Will Go Through Wilmington
To day or To.Morr0w.
WAaUINar0N Sapt r. 1891


cided upon. It is the forlorn hope in
his treatment, At the consultation
to-day DR.. Frank II. Hamilton said -
"He will die If he remains there is
chance If he is taken away" Any one
who has followed the treatment of the
Presidents case and the variations of
his maladies can see how desperate the
alternative is. 70 night the President
is 30 weak he can barely turn his head
on the pillow, and since Monday he
has not gained one particle of strength.
To-day his physicians decide that he
has indeed inhaled the malarial poisons,
which now add their virulency to the
irrepressible py@mic poisons in the
blood. Meanwhile the suppuration
in the face and the flow of pus from
the wound are eating-awa the tissues
and exhausting the remh ant ofstrength
that the force of excessive stimulation
can only little longer bolster up
The question now is, can that fictitious
strength be maintained until the
change Of air and scene are tried ? No
thinks and hopes that 1t can.
A CRITICAL UNDERTAKING.
1t would be folly to disguise the fact
that this change is the most critical
stage In the treatment, and that while
there are no chances at all that the
President can live if kept here, there
are only few that he can survive the
removal.
1t 10 admitted now that for the last
seven days he has been kept alive by
stimulation only. Even Mr.. Bliss,
whose adroitness in reporting favora-
BILE symptoms when the situation gave
ground for none, has said as much,
and has further confessed that stimu-
lants must carry the President to some
place where their obvious necessity
shall end or the patient himself exc
pire.
ELBERoN THE PLACE SELECTED.
long Branch, or rather Elberon, II
the objecIIve point OF tho President'
| trip. He Is of course to travel BY tht
Pennsylvania Railroad, and Attorney
General MscVeagh has immediate
charge of the arrangements. His long
connection with the company as its al
torney enables him to do this with pc
culisr facility.
NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
The train on which the President will
| be carried is now In the Altoona shop
of the Pennsyivania Railroad. Th,
| plan OF usiug the late Thomas A. Scotpi
car for the President has been abandon
ed. and car constructed with wide
| door opening In the side will be used In
stead, This Is to enable there President
bed to be put into 1t just as he is. Th.
car that Is now being fixed Is one sucf
as Is used partly for baggage and partly
for passengers. 1t is to be mounted on
two trucks of eight wheels each and Il
be carpeted with cushions. A force o
men are at work on 1t now and 1t will b;
ready to leave the car shop by noon to
morrow, and is TO arrive; here In th,
evening. Next to the engine will b
drawn parlor car for the President'i
family aud members OF the household
The Presidents car will be second on
the train, and behind that will be 9
| Pullman hotel car fer the surgeons and
for their hospital stores.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TRIP.
General Manager Thompson, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, has charge o.
the details, aud he has advised the doc
ters that the tram can be run at higi
rote Of speed, say forty-fve miles Al
hour, with greater ease to the patient
the road being 90 smooth, than he c0ult
| be moved At say fifteen or twenty mile
an hour. Six hours is therefore name,
as the time for the trip. As it has beef
thought possible that the weather q
Long Branch may be rainy, even
pleasant here at the time of departure
an idea suggested by the near approach
of the equinoctial season, 1t has been de
cided to build track from the ElberoI
depot to the Elberon Cottage, where tn
President is to be taken.
Il A guard of twenty soldiers to de pc
lice duty will accompany the train.-
They will occupy the platform and on
end of The surgeons car. From Wash
iupton to Baltimore Superintendent Z
| q. wilkins, Of the Baltimore and Potc
mac road, will have charge of the train
| From Baltimore to Philadelphia he vii
be assisted by General Agent william
Crawford, OF the fhiiadelpnIa' WI WI
/ mlnQtO0 Auu DaAbh oa0 ~
a PhIiadelphia superintendent James Nc
!. | Urea, of the New York division or To
. Pennsylyania Railroad, will run th
. train to the end of the journey, and tb
q road will be- kept clear for its movemen,
now THE PATIENT WILL BE REhovKT
The car to be used will be brought o
!, the tracks that bring stone 10 the Wash
: inoton monument, within one-third Of
miie of the White House. The Pres
dent will then be taken on htte
! throuoh The main or south door Of th
Executive Mansion down across th
lawn to the car. 1t Is estimated thi
= he can be carried that far aud landed
n the car within fifteen minutes from th
1 tune Of starting. 1t is not intended
Iive any Information Of the time. but
Ia expected that he will be removed
the early hours of the morning. Th
: re.t OF the plan Is only formulated to Il
t olude lsisutely journey to the Branc
a The distance is ~ follows:-To Bali
more. 43 miles, to Philadelphia, ~ Mo
mouth ) Junction, AZ, Elber0n, "a. Tots
23S miles, II the train ware ruo at .
a average of fifteen miles an hour Il
tourney would require something Ill
:, fifteen hours. Il 10 not thought like
!, tha, any effort n f.st time VI
o be made. The emergencies OF the 1ou
> ney oaunot, Of course, bs provided e
y there are too many possibilities In 1t 4
that, and they will have to be met