Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-09-13
FAVORABLE REPORTS
Ill the News from Presidents Bedsids
Of Most Reassurins Character.
ALL DANGER is BY NO MEANS PAST

There Is No Present Reason. How.
ever, to Expect an Unfayorab!e
Turn-PubIic Will BE F%reuucntlv
Informed Of Mr.. Mckinlcy's Exact
Condition.
Buffalo,. Sept. "a gentleman who
left the Milburn house Mt 2:3O n. M.
said:
"Ihere has been no CHANGE
buffalo. n. u. Spct. S.-Through this
peaceful Sabbath every word that came
from the big vincclad house in Delaware
Avenue, i'll which the stickcn chief mag
lstraie of the nation lies battling for life,
was rcassniing, and tonight the chances
of his recovery are so greatly improved
that most of those who have kent the
vigil at his bedside feel strongly that his
life will be spared. The Developments
of list night and today were dreaded, but
noun after hour passed and the distin-
guished patient, struggling there beneath
the watchful eyes of physicians and
w LSc llDMCi IOU an unlUvOr1-
bic symptom. Five times during the day
eminent doctors and surgeons assembled
Tor consultation, and each time the ver-
dict was unanimous that what change
had occurred was for the better. Not
the slightest premonitory symptom of
%peritonitis appeared. and the fresh hope
born with the morning grew stronger
and stronger as the day advanced, until
toward evening the confidence expressed
in the presidents recovery seemed all
most too %Sanguine.
Dr. Charles McBurncy, the famous
New York surgeon, who had been sum
moned i'll consultation, after a thorough
examination, in which he said he had
found not n single unfavorable symp-
tom. joined in the last afternoon bulletin
which declared that the presidents con-
dition was satisfactory to the physicians
present. 1t is not strange, therefore.
thai the vice president, the members of
the cabinet, AMI other distinguished Wis
itors who called, came away with n
lighter and more buoyant tread and gave
cNlrpssion to the most optimistic scnti-
mcnts.
The encouraging news spread ovcr the
exposition city with great rapidity, and
thousands came in carriages, in street
cars and afoct to learn for themselves of
the faith and confidence that existed
about the Milburn house. The bright
ness of the day, with it's cool. bracing at
mospherc. only added to the general
checrfulMcss. and when Il score of news
boys darted into the crowd about 6
O'Clock shouting: Extra! The presi-
dent will livc!' it was with difficulty
they could suppress the shouts of
thanksgiving that rose in their hearts.
And yet, despite all this optimism, the
president is by no means out of danger.
Not one of the physicians. not one of his
advisers who is admitted to the inner
councils. has the temerity to go so far
as to dclare that he is out of danger.
Blu II he continues to improve for one
more day the danger of peritonitis,
which is most dreaded, will have prac.
tically disappeared.
All the effects of the ether which was
administered when the operation was
performed on the exposition grounds had
disappeared this morning, and the presi-
dents mind was perfectly clear during
the time he was awake today. Today.
for the first time, he enjoyed natural
sleep. While he was still more or less
under the influence of the anaesthetic
his Slnmbcr was restless and disturbed
and did him little real good. Today, be.
tween y and 4 O'Clock, he had the solace
of natural slumbcr for about four hours.
and the physicians stated unoficially
that his sleep had been quiet and re.
poseful," and had helped the sufferer a
great deal. Today, also for the first
time. nonrishmcnt was administered. 1t
was i'll liquid form and was injected hy-
podcrmically to avoid the possibility of
Irritating the walls OF the stomach. The
exterior wound was dressed this morn
Ing. and is progressing satisfactorily.
All day the members of the cabinet
and others associated with the president
in public life came solicitously and Went
away almost jubilantly. all rejecting the
hopeful outlook at the Milburn house.
Vice President Roosevelt received the
earlier bulletins, and after going to
church hurried to the residence. There
he was Joined by Senator Hanna. They
came away together. and gave express
sion to the most confident and encourag-
ing sentiments. The vice president not
only shared the cheerful feeling, but was
extremely optimistic. Both gentlemen
took occasion to dcnounce in unmeas-
iured terms the statements gaining circu-
,lation i'll some quarters that the doctors
were not frank in their communications
to the public. They maintained that the
presidents favorable condition was even
underestimate by the physicians,
through motives of conservatism, DUR
ing the s%evcnty-hour period. +.
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