The sun., 1901-09-14
nov THE CRISIS ItYT.
tn wss urixht on Thurs'is, Mornins. tn
Then the Had signs HrEAn To Appear.

BtfFAlo, N''Ih IL lN' iF'N- ' 'l'
presid.nr~ culap-~ wa 49, lightning from
AN absolutely cloud"s~ ~ky u produced
q shock -e,und IN intensity only tn ih" n"ws
II the assassination rt-''lf
The only m.mber- of th" cabinet here
W-rr Serr~'aric- Htchoork and Wilson
secretary Root left a. o'clo"k yesterday
. afternoon Pustma-t"r-Grn"ra Smith got
away early last evening Secretary Hay
went Wednesday night senator Hanna
/ went awav several day ago Vie" prr-l-
} dent Roosevelt Wa M IN the Ad,rondsckS
All had gone away absolutely s"rrr'
IN their confidence that IN" chances of q
fatal issue were too ramoi" to lo considered
Dr McBurnev. when D." l"fi on th" train
with Secretary Root was enthusiastic
IN his eNprc--ions of satisfaction ~ the
President, 90 dition The Thursday morn
ing bulletin had had clear. firm ring Of
confidence which made the sanguinc pre-
dict that the doctor would formally pro-
no,inc- the President ou' 80 =. niger within
'he rept fp- y-egh hour-. Over N"~s-
paper Row. as the group - tents across
the way from the house " called, there
had fallen an atmosphere 81 peac~ and
security which had not hecn known he-
fore since tho n"wsgsther"rs pitched their
camp ou the -c-ne
Their was the bulletin saving that the
President felt better than a. anv tune up
10 that time The same bulletin said he
had taken -nhd food aud had rrli-hed It
/ II seemed 10 isa a clear ease ~ convals-crnce
Tha, this was the view taken hv Secretary
Root and Dr NcRurucv -.-smei to h. ~uf-
dciently cvidrn,~d hv their going IN about
their huSnes- SECRETARY Root - the bed
side of hi. sick son IN Now work, and Dr
McBurney to Albany on his way 10 Ma~~a-
chusetts
rur PutsF .tw.rs n.p FF.rrRF rs
THF CasF
And vc' 'here was ono thing that secret vi
I troubled some ~ those Who were CLOSELY
! watching tho case That wa~ the Pr"si-
dent's pulse u fuctuGted 80 ,7Iriously
|, took such sudden runs up 20 high figures
Tho temperature was all that could b."
wished A. 10 the respiration the d'ctors.
4 FOR some reason. had not gwen that f"r
two davs There was n liitic wonder a.
tn this. hut no explanation was forth
looming They simply did not give u. and
with tho absolutely positive r"assuranoc
4 lin tho supplemental statements that they
flN'1f W "hN'l'' w '''''' 'f'f'7''''
,ion was not pressed
i Rut tho pubs. wa an"'hrr matter Therr
were rtimors thai tho Pi"-,drnr' = heart va
MOI al that cpIld - desired S-S'rrtarv
! Wilson SAID that never ~ all the vear- lee
+ had known tho President had he ever heard
word to give ris,' tu the fear that Mr
Mckinley had a weak heart Dr. RNey
T. who had attended the President for vrsr
had said repeatedly since th" President
" a. stricken down that u must bc horne n
mind that he normally had a high pulse
and thai 1t wa an unccrt ain, fuct uat ulg
pulse
Vet all this did not quite rrassure every
body. Il was known thar IN" president
had been for vears heavy smoker That
his heart Wa more ~ less a -tobaN>o hear
" ~ no, doubted How far would a tobacco
heart enter into the case a compile alton {;
. How far WAS II responsible for tho high
sp.-Si and the varying spe"d 81 the puls.
heats7 These were ih" questions more than
M. r~n4on was a-king himself for hour
Yesterday h.forr the first morning sign 1ls
Of the alarming events To come were hung
out.
AsN A NJ the pulse was i?c A. aO
/, was i-o AtaP VI II had lesIrd up tu
l,o. During all this time ih" t"mpcra-
lure remained fixed at ono poin, i"?
rIRsr HrSr oF THE CRISIS
II wA- not until the y. VI hullriin thai
the fret hint of tho gr'al crisis came ln
stree, tsilletin~ th-f" N.- a new word
one that had ~, appeared heiorr The
word Wa fatigue Translated from doc
tnr lansuagr Ia Law laneuag" fatigue
meant weakness Heretofore there had
,,,m. frnin the sickrroin nothing hut rrati-
living AssutAnCss, of III" Pre- -id"ii. rrtufi.-
inx strength ui how be tutucd himself iu
his b.-i and Of how b. Would Ice abb Vol
sit up wcr- Il MT for M" mes'hAnicAI facts
Involved in the abdominal iurision
The fact thai there was 'faiigu" and thai
fatigue meant Neaau"~- va di-auir' ing
Bun after all the President had h--n "a
day- m b~i With the possibility of changing
la- POSITION only m v~ry narrow limits
s~-id-~ ths, the dsv vas v~fy warm ard
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