The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-11
The DANGER PASSED
NO COMPLICATIONS THREATEN
THE PRESIDENTS LIFE.
M'KlNLEY WILL SURVIVE.
CHANCES IN HIS FAVOR AND DAYS
MAKE THEM BRIGHTER.

ton in Less Than Three Weeks.
The MiIburn House Fairly EN-
powered With Flowers, but None
Penetrates the Room Where the
President Is Lying-Restrictions
Upon Visiting Are still strictly
Enforced.
Buffalo, Sept. 10.-The corps of emi-
nent surgeons and physicians in at
tendance upon the wounded President
to-day committed themselves without
reservation to the opinion that their pa
tient was out of danger and that there
were no complications threatening his
life.
They did not give assurance of his
recovery collectively over their sigma
lures in an official bulletin, but they
went long way toward it individually
and separately 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 the friends of
the President, but publicly through the
agency of the press, that the danger
dent would survive the attempt upon
his life.
"Of course we will all feel easier when
a week has passed." said DR.. McBur-
ney, the dean of the corps. I'VE would
like to see every door locked and dou-
BILE locked, but the danger from possi-
BILE complications is now very remote.
AS an evidence of the supreme faith
he holds, DIR. McBurney, after the
morning consultation, made a trip to
Niagara Falls, and this evening re-
turned to New York He could reach
here again in ten hours if the uneX-
pected should happen, and there
should be a change for the worse. The
little piece of lead in the muscles of
the back is giving the physicians no
concern wha atever. Unless it should
prove troublesome to the President la
ter on he will probably carry this grim
souvenir of the anarchist with him to
the end of his days.
The doctors say that once encystea
it can do no harm. The x-ray machine
is ready for instant use, however, and
if there is the slightest Inflammation
or pain in the vicinity of the bullet
an operation will be performed.
Exodus of Dignitaries.
The Vice President, members of the
cabinet, Senator Hanna and other dis
tinguished friends of the President
who have remained here regard the
physicians report to-day as practically
conclusive and an exodus occurred,
they considering their presence no
lF Il
Roosevelt left this evening for his
home at Oyster Bay Senator Hanna
returned to Cleveland on business, to
be gone two days, and Controller
Dawes went back to Washington to-
night. Abner Mckinley, the Presidents
brother, will remain a few days longer
but his family have returned home, and
Mrs Duncan and several other rela-
tives of the President have gone. Judge
Day. long and closely associated with
the President, returned to Canton this
afternoon. The five members of the
cabinet still here will remain a few
days, rather as friends who have been
Intimately associated with President
Mckinley for several years, than as
public officials.
Strength of the President.
The Presidents physicians have been
impressed with his remarkable re-
operative powers and the rapidity of
mis- Improvement. Ordinarily an in
cision for such an operation as was
performed upon the chief executive
should heal within three weeks, but in
the Presidents case he may be strong
enough to be moved a little sooner
Ihe President will be taken direct to
Washington as soon as it is safe to
move him.
Within the sick room many evidences
OF the Presidents Improvement were
apparent. The President himself be-
gan to show confidence in his ability
TO care for himself and from
Tune to time he would carefully turn
hlrnseH and gain more restful posi-
tlon. Yesterday he took the precau-
tion to ask if he might be permitted
TO move, but to-day he changed his
position of his own volition. without
dift1culty. The nurses naturally OBJ
served with care these evidences of
the growing strength and courage and
We're ready to see that there was no
undue tax on the Presidents strength
or the straining of the the wound.
lhese slight movements from side to
side are all that he has attempted thus
iar' and it is too early yet to think of
MS sitting up in bed or any other
marked used of his muscles.
Takes Nourishment Naturally.
iiOob Important QeNelOpHleHl Ol lHe
Gay was the private determination
reached among those in charge of the
case that food should be administered
10 the patient tomorrow by the mouth.
NOT since the shooting has a morsel Of
1000 been given to the President by
natural means. but the drain on his
system has been met by dissolved foods
administered by injection. This has
oeen period of four days of fasting
from ordinary means of nourishment,
ana tomorrow will be the fifth day.
Inc Importance of this feeding by the
mouth is that it will retsore the nor
MAJ action of the stomach for the first
ulne since that organ had both its
walls peirced by bullet. The doctors
are satisfied that the time has come
70 renew these normal functions. and
tne TOUR days which have elapsed since
lne wounds in the stomach were closed
give every assurance that the sutures
are sufficiently healed to allow nature
10 resume her sway.
Although the house was fairly en-
lowered with flowers to-day. sent as
tokens of sympathy and gratitude
none OF the sweet scented blossoms
was taken TO the Presidents chamber
me most rigid system of simplicity
prevails there and sentiment is not
allowed to qualify the stern require
nents OF the case. The only persons
ddnitted 10 the sick room to-day other