Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-29
WHILE ON THE YACHT
An Operation Said to Have Been Per-
formed on Mr.. Cleveland's Jaw.
RELIEVED OF 4 PAINFUL MALADY
A New Story About the Presi.
dents Sickness.
HIS HEALTH IMPROVING

HIS HEALTH WING
There has been some question about the
nature Of the indisposition which led ths
President to leave Washington suddenly or
the day when the call for the extra session
| OF Congress was issued and compelled
him again to reluctantly leave Washington
| after Congress met at time when h
recognized that pressing public duties made
1t important that he should remain here
The very difficulty Of obtaining satisfactory
Information as to the Presidents physical
condition gave rise to a number Of stories
some Of which were quite alarming. The
New York correspondent Of the Philadel
phia Press gives today what purports tc
be detailed explanation Of the case. This
statement Is in effect that the President
suffered from a malady which caused him
much pain. besides greatly facilitating him
When the President went away on Mr.. Bene
diets yacht he was attended by surgeons
and while on the trip was subjected to 9
difficult operation, involving the excision Of
a part Of the jaw. which it is believed re-
moved the source Of the trouble.
| The Press says:
| 1t was in the late spring that Mt. Cleve
land began to be tormented by palm which
|
| dured 1t like a hero. Many times when
Congressman and others were consulting
with him his face was racked with pain
| while the struggle to endure IT without
suggesting emotion caused him to appear
| to them Indifferent, phlegmatic and unim-
| pressed by the gravity Of the political sit
| uation. The President endured "a only q
| hero can; the pain cost him sleep, and
doubtless did much to lower his vitality
| as to develop the rheumatic trouble which
has always lurked in his system.
He concealed his sufferings from his
family, and 1t is probable that no one, ex-
| cepting Secretary Lamont, knew that he
had physical torture as well as mental
| anxiety to contend with. The pain did not
yield to local and usual treatment. When
the first careful examination was made. oil
when the suspicion was created that this
trouble was due to no exposure OF a dental
nerve or to any usual disease Of the teeth
my informants do not know; they do know
that there was a time. shortly before the
President issued his call for the extraordi-
| nary session Of Congress, when II was de-
termined that an operation was inevitable
how grave or extensive could not at first be
determined. There were many things to
considerable family, the condition Of the
country. the determination to call Congress
into extraordinary session. and the neces-
sity, as 1t seemed. for preserving profess
sional condolences. and therefore silence re-
specting this physical condition Of the
President.
1t is probable that the decision TO perform
the operation while the President was upon
Mr. Benedicts yacht was due 20 several
| reasons-one. perhaps. that the family. be-
ing in ignorance. might not be overwhelm-
| ed by anxiety and suspense; another. tina,
II the operation was performed with sur
gical success the country might not be
alarmed since 1t was only too well under
stood that the ablest business men Of both
parties looked with confidence upon Mr.
Cleveland. rather than his party, and con.
templated any contingency by which the
anCCQQGiOn Wnllld N 4.
most anxiety.
The Operation.
Mr.. Cleveland. with Mr.. Lamont. whose
faithful attendance to one whom he re-
spects as President, but regards with
another and a more delightful sentiment.
| which approaches that of flial affection
and has been a matter of much comment
during the summer. left Washington quite
suddenly upon the day when the call for
the extraordinary session Of Congress was
city with celebrity. and Mr.. Cleveland was
met when he arrived here by DR.. Bryant
and another physician, and by DR.. Has
with him. The baggage Of these physicians
contained the instruments Of surgery and
the apparatus for anaesthetic administra-
ton.
DR.. Hasbrouck had this latter apparatus
IN charge. He is physician here who is
regarded as perhaps the most expert in the
city In the administration of anaesthetic
gas He is employed professionally by
most OF the ablest surgeons when IL is
a atSnn advisable s to use gas rather than
| that the operation which called for his
professional services might be a prolonged
one: that possibly there might be two. and
that therefore 1t might be necessary for
him to be absent from the city for several
days. 1t Is a condition obligatory in the
reporting OF this matter that the name of
the physician who accompanied DR.. Bryant
should not be published
MI; Cleveland; almost as soon as he
boarded the yacht retired to his stateroom
and fell into a heavy slumber The init
nation was made to me that he might
have received a hypodermic injection: Ger
s tainiiy was deemed desirable that he
yielded himself to the surgeon, and he old
sleep until well into the next day.
United States submitted himself to the
surgeon as calmly. as gently, and as will
ingly as though he were merely lyiag down
for brief slumber Yet he knew that pos
sibly from that operation he might not re-
cover. and that 1t might be before many
hours had passed that the people of the
sudden sorrow, which is. perhaps, the most
grievous OF any excepting war that the
dure. " en
He knew that a wife. beloved Of all ,bs
people. was waiting in eager expectancy
Tor his coming. but he did not know nor tiid
IN o1e ,s sargeons what might be the revelation
| who have seen Mr.. Cleveland i'm trvine
emergencies have realized how perfsctiy
the master Of himself and OF his emotJons
ne Is His physicians have thus seen hin,
oelore, but they were amazed by the tende,
confidence and resignation to whateye,
might happen with which he composed him.
SELF Tor their ministrations
1t was deemed advisable to use Gas a. an
anaesthetic rather than ether because m.
operation was to be such as wound entail
severe hemorrhages. which might possibly
lead to the flow Of blood into The wind ni,s
by using gas recovery would be almost In.
stantaneous, whereas ether entails much
slower recovery, so that in case OF such
hemorrhage there might be suffocation. The
PRESIDENT yielded easily to the anaesthe,ic
ana the surgeons then began their tssk nj
aw1ul responsibility. The operation did no;
require very long, but II entailed the cuttinu
away OF considerable part of the unne7
Jaw bone upon one side, the INSTRUMENT
boring through the bone and tissue as fa
as the orbital plate A0i
Inc operation was thorough. The pbv.
siclans believe they have removed Ali Of tbe
diseased tissue and bone, although in doins
II the removal of SO much of the Jaw as tba;
was entailed. OF course in doing this teeth
were extracted. so that the physicians were
truthful when they afterward said thar ths
Fresioent had had some teeth pulled GU,
while ne was on Mr.. Benedict's yacht. They
were also well within the rules of profes.
sional diplomacy when they denied that q nv
other operation than that of oriinary ,,en tls
surgery had been performed and they NV
oeIend these statements and are lutte hi, civ