The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-10
BATTLE WILL BE won
PRAYERS OF COUNTRY AND THE
WORLD WILL BE ANSWERED.
PRESIDENTS LIFE is SAFE.
so ALL THE PHYSICIANS IN AT
TENDANCE BELIEVE.

though They Are scrupulousIy Care,
full in Preparing Their Bulletins
and Making Prophesies, Their Ev-
cry Utterance Carries Hope to the
Anxious ThronSs-Fear of Perito=
nitis Is Past-vice President and
Cabinet Ministers Are All Opti-
mistic-Tbeir Devotion Is Touch
fng-No Occasion for Accession OF
RooseveIt-He Declines tc Think IL
Possible.
Milburn House, Buffalo, Sept. o.
Goods contribution to the American
people will be the sparing of the Pres
idents life." AS the evening shadows
were falling tonight John G. Milburn,
president of the Pan-American Expo
sition, reverently uttered these words
as he stood before the house in which
the nations patient was fighting SO
bravely with death.
And all who have been at the Mil
burn residence to-day reflect the view
that the battle will be won and the
prayers of the world will be answered.
Since last night not an unfavorable
symptom has appeared. Every hour had
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 COM
plications is brushed aside and hope
has become conviction.
Indeed, many of the Presidents
friends seem possessed with a super
stitious confidence in the Presidents
recovery which nothing but an abso-
Lutte change for the worse can shake.
And the basis for the confidence 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 attendance
breathes encouragement. The reports
the physicians have given out are facts
as they exist from a scientific stand
point, unniXed with sentiment.
Not Yet Out of Danger.
Still, that the President is by no
means out of danger is the verdict Of
each of them. Not one of them will
risk his professional reputation with a
statement that the President will live.
All they will say is that with every
hour the danger of complications from
peritonitis or blood poisoning de-
creases. DR.. McBurney, the most en-
inent of the physicians in attendance,
expressed the opinion that if the i'm
provement continues it will be week
hof
nouncd out of danger and convalescent.
And some of his colleagues, like DIR.
Mann, place, the limit of danger still
further away.
The fear of peritonitis, it 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 him
self has been cheerful all day
and has expressed confidence
in his recovery. To-day he asked for
a Morning paper, but this, of course,
had to be denied him. 1t is with some
difficulty that he can be restrained
from talking, and Col. Myron T. Her
rick of Cleveland is quoted as author
ity for the statement that he has
spoken at intervals of several things he
proposes to do in the future.
This morning he asked to be allowed
to move his position and when per-
mission was given before the attend
ants could move him he changed to the
position he desired without difficulty
lxS hi
strength and spirits.
Mrs. Mckinley Sees Him.
Mrs. Mckinley saw. the President
again to-day for a brief visit and Sec
retary Cortelyou was admitted for the
hrst time. No one else was allowed
to see him. although he inquired sew
eral times who were below stairs. He
was given nourishment to-day in the
form Of eggs beaten in milk adminis-
tered through the rectum.
The water which has been given
heretofore cold did not appear to agree
With him and since last night very hot
water has been taken into the stom-
ach through the mouth with splendid
results. His bowels moved freely DUR
ing the day and this also was con-
sldered an excellent symptom. If he
continues to improve it will be grad
ually If he should grow worse the
cnange in that direction also probably
VIII be slow. This is the opinion of
Or. Mann. There will be no crisis. If
ne arrives at convalescence DR.. Park
expresses the opinion that it will be
three weeks before 1t will be safe to
move him. 1t is expected that the in
terior wounds will heal first. The SUI
lures of the lacerated tissue were made
SO soon after the bullet passed that
tney are probably healing rapidly.
with the exterior wound it is a slower
process.
The extreme optimism of the Vice
president and members of the cabinet
would be difficult to overstate.
am absolutely confident every
thing will turn out all right" declared
the Vice President, and he said re
passed his confidence on information
Dehind the public expressions of the
physicians.
so relieved are Secretary Gage and
attorney General Knox at the steady
Improvement that they returned to
washington tonight, feeling strongly
mat their chief would recover, but
with the assurance of the physicians
mat If change for the worse occurred
II would be gradual and they would
nave ample time to return. In the
case of Secretary Gage there was a
public reason why he should be at his
post New York financiers have ap-
pealed to him to relieve the situation
IN the money market by increasing de-
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