Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-09-13
PRESIDENT
WILL LIVE
Physicians Announce That He
Will Win Grim Struggle
RELATIVES LEAVE FOR HOME
Vice President Roosevelt and SEN
ator Hanna Join Exodus.
WONDERS OF MODERN SURGERY

WONDERS OF MODERN SURGERY =
Vice President, When Told That Gar s
field Relapsed After a Ten Days
Progression, Replied That Present !,
day Medical Science Was Then IN
known-Dr. Mann Would Have Liked
to Escape the Responsibility Of Pres
ldent's Operation.
Buffalo, Sept. 1.-THE corps of emf
nent surgeons and physicians in at
tendance upon the wounded President
yesterday committed themselves with
out reservation to the opinion that
their patient was out of danger, and
that only the possibility of compiled
tions threatened his life. They did
not give assurance of his recovery col
lectively over their signatures in an
official bulletin, but they went a long
way toward it individually and sepa-
rately during the day. Each of them,
with the exception of DR.. Rixey, who
did not leave the Milburn residence,
placed himself squarely on record, not
privately to friends of the President,
but publicly through the agency of the
press, that the danger point had
passed, and that the President would
survive the attempt upon his life.
"Of course we will all feel easier |
when a week has passed" said DR.. |
McBurney, the dean of the corps. 1--WE |
would like to see every door locked !
and double-locked. but the danger |
from possible complications is now
very remote"
The following bulletin was issued by
the Presidents physicians at 1870
o'clock last night:
= ''The condition Of the President is
unchanged in all important particulars.
His temreraure is 1905; pulse, la
respiration, 2S
when the operation was done on
Friday last it was noted the Dul-
let had carried with it a short ol lsealice
beneath the skin a fragment of t.eee
Presidents coat. This foreign material
was, Of course, removed, but a slight
irritation of the tissues was produced,
the evidence of which has appeared
only last night It has been necessary
on account of this slight disturbance
to remove a few stitches and partially
open the skin wound. This incident
cannot give rise to other complications,
but it is communicated to the public
as the surgeons in attendance wish to
$ make their bulletins entirely frank.
( In consequence of this separation Of
y the edges of the surface wound the
: healing Of the same will be somewhat
delayed The President is now we'll
! enough to begin to take nourishment
by the mouth in the form of pure beef
juice"
The vice president, members of the
cabinet, Senator Hanna and the other
distinguished friends of the President
who have remained here to await the
issue accepted the verdict of the physi
clans as practically conclusive, and
there was an exodus of those who con
sidered their presence no longer neces
sary. Vice President Roosevelt left
last evening for his home at Oyster
Bay, Senator Hanna returned to Cleve
land, to be gone two days, and Comp
troller Dawes went back to Washing
ton. Abner Mckinley, the President
brother, will remain few days longer
but his family has returned home, an
Mrs. Duncan and several other rela
tives of the President have gone
Judge Day, long and closely associate
with the President, returned to Car
ton yesterday afternoon. The fiv
members Of the cabinet still here wi
remain a few days, rather as friend
who have been intimately associate
with the President for several year
than as public officials.
So confident is Vice President ROos
welt of the Presidents complete r
covery, that when a question of doul
was put to him he answered it wit
parry. He was asked: do you r
member that President Garfield pr
crossed for ten days, and that the
just when he was ready to get out,
collapsed and finally died?"
Quick as thought the vice presidel
per answered:
AN "Ah! But you forget 20 years
modern surgery, of progress. Fro
what 1 can learn also, the Carrie
wound was much more serious thi
the wound of President Mckinley.
believe that the President will recc
err, and 1 believe it so thoroughly tn
1 leave here tonight"
Questioned as to the mode OF pl
cedure so far as the state was &C
'eo cerned, he said:
81 see no need for the call of
. extraordinary grand jury. The gra
jury now in session, composed
American citizens, will undoubte'
~ take care of the wOuld-be assass
and the authorities of Erie county "
for county, state and national pri
make a vigorous prosecution. Uni
- Governor Odell is asked to interfer'
see no need Of his calling an ex
term or deputizing an assistant at
ney general to prosecute.
Asked as to the enacting Of legt
ton against Anarchists, he said:
have not thought much on the mat
What has disturbed me has been
find q reason for even Anarchists
attack a man like President McKin
Here is the one country where I
n are allowed perfect freedom OF spe'
Here as the ruler is a man, descen
Vim from farmer stock, self-made. +
NV is a man who has no fortune or
MI means other than that which he
II / manage to save out OF his saiaE'