Milford chronicle., 1893-09-01
The President a Sick Man

! The New YoIk correspondent; OF the Phila
delphis Press on Tuesday night telegTaphed
to that papsTya long dispatch to the effect
that recegtly President Cleveland was Sc
! ri.s' ssl-'~IT and had to undergo a severe
surpica operation, from which he is now
reroveriltz nicely. An epitome of his story
Mr C1eN bud returns to Washington some
day this wS if all goes wefl and there are
unusual fest ls why, when he is again IN the
capitol, lie sHppld receive most tender, con-
sideIate and g6tnile sympathy and support
rot only from tliNase who are ia public life,
Lut also from ting, people themselves. He
takes back to Washington a burden and a
dread which he mightYeTy justly regard of
greater moment than the financial situstion
whice he has requested Congress instantly
to ameliorate.
Il is useless longer to conceal the fact tina,
Mr.. Cleveland is a sick man, perhaps a very
sick man, and that the physicians have fear
that mortal disease is lurking in his system,
Notwithstanding heroic efforts of surgery to
remove i. during the summer Secretary
Lamont who was here last week and whose
anxiety was impressive and pitiful for his
friends to see, said with something of the
tone of sadness in his voice that there would
be and could be no attempt on the part of
the administration to make any interference
in TIE local politics OF New York, and when
d6kGu WY ANlo was so AfuAAouA * pAAGNl sd lr
ing it to Colonel Monroe. THE President
is a sick man. how sick we cannot tell.'
The trouble from which the President suf-
sered was a severe pain in the right jaw,
which was supposed to be the result of de
cayed teeth He concealed his suffering
from his family, and it is probable that no
one excepting Secretary Lamont, knew lhat
he bad physical torture as we'll as mental
anxiety to contend with The pain did not
yield to local and usual treatment. When
the first careful examination was made, or
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 inforr- : y do not know; they do know
that ther g. = time, shortly before the Pres
ident is sng the call for the extraordinary
session OF Congress, when it was determined
that an operation was inevitable, how grave
or extensive could not at FIRST be determined.
There were many things to consideT-the
family, the condition Of tile country, tie
determination 10 call Congress into extra
session and the necessity as it
seemed for preserving professional conf
deuces and therefore silence respecting this
physical condition of the President
THE OPERATION.
Mr.. Cleveland, with Mr. Lamont, whose
faithful attendance to one whom he respects
as President, but regards with another and
a more delightful sentimeut, which ap-
proaches that of 6lial affection aud has been
matter Of much comment during the sum
mer, left Washingtoa quite suddenly upon
the day when the call for the extraordinary
session of Congress was issued. Arrange
meuts were made in this city with celeritY, |
and Mr. Cleveland was met when he arrived 4
here by Dr. Bryant and another physician,
and by DR. Hasbrouck. all of whom boarded 4
the yachtswith him. The baggage Of these
physicians contained the instruments Of
surgery aud the apparatus for anesthetie
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 auesthetic gas
He is employed professionally by most of
the ablest surgeons when it is deemed ad-
visable to use gas rather than ether. DR..
Hasbrouck has been informed that the oper-
alton which called for his professional ser
vices might be a prolonged QUE, that pos
iibly there might be two, and that therefo,e e
K might be necessary for him to be absent
rom the city for several days II is cen.
iition obligatory in the reporting of this
IL alter that the name of the physician who r
accompanied DR.. Bryant sheuld not be pub 5
ished
Mr. Cleveland almost as soon as he
boarded the yacht, retired to his stateroom .
nd fell iutO a heavy slumbei The intima-
ion was made to me that he might have re-
eived a hypodermic injection; certainly it \
5as deemed desirable that he srould enjoy
rolonged sleep before he yielaed himself to 1
he surgeon, aud he did sleep until well =
ito the next day. y
When the time came the President of the !
Tnited States submitted himselfto the sur ,
con as salmly, as geatly and as willingly as 7
iough he were merely lying down for brief Z
umber. yethe knew that possibly from y
Iat operation he might not recover, and p
lat Il night be before many hours had 8
lssed that the people Of the United States g
ouid hef efoverwhelmed by sudden sorrow, =.
hich II perhaps. the most grevious Of any "a
ceptidg war that the country has Hitherto %
en- R75mpelled to endure. s Is
Il &gp deemed advisable TO use gas as as = =
lhic rather than ether because the op- -
"a Ras to be such al would entail severe q q
olfhaeeft whicii raight possibly lead 70 I o.