Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-14
YeSteIday at Long Branch.


LONG BRANCH, September l3.-The
weather to-day was charming. The air
was perfectly pure and bracing, in fact
Just such weather as the Presidents at
tendants have been LOOKING fn- M"
patient to-day made gosd progress ON
the road to recovery. Reports from
the sick room throughout the entire day
have been Of the most reassuring char
acter. and in fact the surgeons and at
tendants are all in the best possible
spirits, which tends 10 convey the idea
that recuperation has again fairly
commenced. Nothing unfsvorable
can be said. To-day's bulletins tell the
whole story. Shortly before noon there
was Quite a scene at Elberon. Messen-
oars from the cottage in which the
President is quartered were dispatched
for the surgeons and attendants. Vi
course the instructions given were to
make haste as it was the Presidents 8
dasire that they come Immediately. The
order was faithfully complied with, and
svery one who witnessed the messen-
| gers running became excited for lear the
| President had
Become Suddenly Worse.
Suspense for few moments was great.
| The surgeons and Colonels Swain and
| Rockwell at once answered the sum-
| mons. After q few moments Doctor
| Hamilton returned from the cottage
| with the remark: Gentlemen, you
| need not be alarmed, the President
wished to be placed in his reclining
chair, and We have just moved him
The chair, however, is about as reclin'
ing al his bed and it cannot properly be
called setting up" The chair
was placed IN COMMANDING
view Of the ocean, and the President en-
loved the change very much. The
President expressed his admiration o.
the beauty Of the ocean, while Mrs
Garfield sat near him aud DR.. Bliss re-
msined in the next room. Alter re
manning in the chair about half houl
he asked to be put back to bed. DR.
Bliss went into his room and asked hiu
IL he was wearyP mo" said the Presi
dent. "not at all, but do not think Il
will do to oyerdo the matter" Tit
attendants were summoned and th'
President s-
Was Replaced in Bed.
The moving did not cause accelertior
of the pulse beyond beat or so, ant
his temperature stood the same as befor
ne was removed. Two sections OF tn
balcony of the Presideut's cottage ha
been removed 10 give him ar unlnter
rupsed view OF the ocean from his be-
in two directions. He Is said greatly L
anioy ths scene. apd frens.sr'i'",r- i
Gutnk him. Some comment wa
caused this morning By the publication
of what purportsd to be q protest b,
Coils. Swain and Rockwell against tn
concluding paragraph in Attorney Gen
eral MacveaSh's cable dispatch to Min
lister Lowell last night. Asa matter @
tact. there was no protest entered
/ On the contrary, in the presenc
of the writer, Coils. Swain and Rockwell
assented TO the contents Of the dispatcl
without hesitation, and when Attorney
General MacYeash after having twic
revised it, read the dispatch the .hirI
time, he remarked: "tientlemel
is that perfectly correct ant
true" To this inquiry all interestet
including Swain and Rockwell, reptile,
in the affirmative. DR.. Bliss to nigh
gave an interesting description of tn
Presidents present condition. He an
syered all interrogAtories. ard was in
perfectly peaceful frame Of mind-proo
that the patient is doing weh.