Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-08

| dence at II 40, and were received in
the drawing room by Secretary Cor
telyou. Secretary Root was accom-
panied by his physician, DR.. Dixon,
who came to Buffalo with him from
Southampton.
IL 40 pm. Senator Fairbanks
has just left the Milburn house. and
is full of hope. He said that the
physicians feel certain and confident
of the Presidents recovery.
DIR. McBurney, after a thorough
examination of the President, report
ed that he had not found single un-
favorable symptom. There was not
the slightest indication OF peritonitis.
This opinion of the famous physician
carries much weight.
A local physician, specialist with
whom DR.. Parke has consulted, told
Representative Alexander that DR..
Parke was exceedingly hopeful. He
said to Mr.. Alexander: Il feel GER
tain the President will get we'll This
is not 1881, but 1901, and great
strides have been made in surgery in
the last twenty years"
Vice President Roosevelt arrived
at the residence at IL AS. He walk
ed over from the First Presbyterian
Church, on Pennsylvania street,
where he attended service this morn
ing. He was accompanied by Ans
ley Wilcox, whose guest he is. Rep
resentative Alexander and Judge AL
bert Haight entered Immediately
after the Vice President.
Senator Fairbanks and Senator
Hanna arrived just before the noon
bulletin was issued, and joined the
distinguished company gathered be-
low stairs in the drawing room. All
were overjoyed when the good news
came down from the sick room. The
lower temperature and decreased
rapidity of pulse were particularly
gratifying, and increased the hope
that the crisis would be safely passed.
The sermon at the First Presby-
terian Church, where Vice President
Roosevelt was in attendance, made
frequent reference to the calamity
which had fallen upon the nation.
At its close the pastor, DR.. S. S.
Mitchell, delivered a fervent prayer,
in the course of which he said:
Unite, 0 God, the hearts of all
lovers of righteousness in sternest
reprobation of the anarchistic fury of
'reprobate lives and whip from the
temple of public life men who are
willing to temporize with this mad
ness in city and state"
After hymn the entire congrega-
ton united in singing the national
anthem.
Shortly after I o'clock Vice Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Senator Hanna
left the house. They stopped on the
corner to tell the newspaper men of
the high hopes they had for the
Presidents recovery. The Vice
President said, with great emphasis,
that he felt satisfied of the Presidents
recovery, and Senator Hanna inter-
jected the statement that the Presi-
dents condition, considering the cir
cumstances, could not be more favor
able. Complications might arise,
said the senator, but there were no
indications of them up to the present
time
Bulletins Not Fnvorably Colored.
Senator Hanna then spoke of the
newspaper statements that the re-
ports of the physicians were being
colored, and did not show the Presi-
dents true condition.
'It is outrageous that such stories
should be circulated" said he. The
are giving the facts to the
public"
At this point Vice President
Roosevelt, with great earnestness,
laid his hand upon the senator's arm.
Senator, let me put it this way"
he said. "The doctors bulletins are
made with scrupulous understate-
ment of the favorableness of condi-
tons, a scrupulous understatement,"
he repeated emphatically, adding en-
phasis with his uplifted gloves.
THAT expresses it well" said Sem
ator Hanna.