New-York tribune., 1901-09-10
SOLID GROUND FOR HOPE.
PHYSICIANS STATEMENTS GIVE SCIEN.
TIFIC FACTS THE PRESIDENT
CONFIDENT OF RECOVERY

LIZ ~ faCIS - IRE IkESlDENI
CONFIDENT OF RECOVERY.
Buffalo. Sept Goods contribution to the
American people will be the sparing of the
Presidents life AS the evening shadows were
falling tonight John G. Milburn. president of
the Pan-American Exposition, reverently uttered
these words he stood before the house in
which President Mckinley is fighting bravely
for life. And all who have been at the Milburn
house to-day reflect the view that the battle will
be won and the prayers of the world will be
answered. Since last night not unfavorabla
symptom has appeared. Every hour has been
victory Faith in the outcome grows stronger
and stronger, and hope mounts higher and
higher until in the minds of some the danger
of all future complications is brushed aside and
hope has become conviction Indeed. many OF
the Presidents friends seem possessed with
sort of superstitious confidence in his recovery
which nothing but an absolute change for the
worse can shake. And the basis for the conf
dence that is expressed is solid There has been
nothing but improvement-gradual and slow.
but steady improvement. Every bulletin. every
private and public word of the physicians in at
tendance, breathes encoura cement The re-
ports the physicians have given out present
facts as they exist from scientific point Of
view. unmixed with sentiment
BY NO MEANS OUT OF DANGER
Still. that the President is by no means out
of danger is the verdict of all of them. Not
one of them will risk his professional reputation
with statement that the President viii live
All they will say is that with every hour the
danger of complications from peritonitis or
blood poisoning decreases. DR.. McBurney ex-
presses the opinion that if the Improvement
continues it will be week before the President
can be pronounced out of danger and conva-
lescent And some of his colleagues. like DIR.
Manu. place the limit OF danger still further
away. The fear of peritonitis. il can be said
positively has we'll nigh disappeared With the
expiration of the seventy-two hour period at
o'clock this afternoon danger from that source
was almost gone.
The President himself has been cheerful all
day and has expressed confidence in his
covery To-day he asked for morning paper,
but this of course. had to be denied TO him.
1t is with some difficulty that he be re-
strained from talking. and Colonel Myron T.
Herrick. of Cleveland is quoted as authority for
the statement that he has spoken at intervals
of several things he proposes do in the future.
MOVED HIMSELF WITHOUT DIFFICULTY.
This morning he asked be allowed TO move
his position. and when permission given.
before the attendants could move him. he
changed TO the position he desired TO assume
without difficulty or pain. This speaks much
for his general strength and spirits. Mrs Nc
Kiniey him again to-day for brief visit.
and Secretary Cortelyou admitted for tha
first time. No one else was allowed to see him.
although he inquired several times who were
downstairs. He took nourishment to-day in the
form of eggs beaten in milk administered
through the rectum. The water. which ha0
heretofore been given cold, did not appear to
agree with him, and since last night very hot
water has been taken into the stomach through
the mouth with splendid results His bowels
moved freely during the day. and this also was
considered excellent symptom II he con-
tnues to improve it will be gradually. If he
should grow worse the change in that direction
will also probably be slow. This is the opinion
of DR. Mann There Will be no crisis IL he
arrives at convalescence. DR. Park expresses the
opinion that il will be three weeks before IL
will be safe to him. IL is expected that
the interior wounds will heal first. The sutures
of the lacerated tissue were made so soon after
the bullet passed that they are probably healing
rapidly. With the exterior wound IL is a slower
process.
The extreme optimism of the Vice President
and the members of the Cabinet would be DIM
cult to overstate.
Il am absolutely confident everything will turn
out all right" declared the Vice President, and
he said he based his confidence on information
behind the public expressions OF the physicians.
So relieved Secretary Gage and Attorney
General Knox at the steady Improvement that
they returned to Washington Tonight feeling
strongly that their chief would recover but with
the assurance of the physicians that II a change
for the worse should come ii would be gradual
and that they would have ample time to re-