Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-09
ALL FULL OF HOPE
Those Nearest Presi-
dent Feel Happy.
HE SEES MRS, MCKINLEY
Latter Goes Out for a Drive
Today.
MANY SYMPATHETIC CALLERS
All Receive Cheering News and
Go Away Rejoicing.
TIL Z d AY IN ID E 7 A L
Special From Staff Correspondent.

Special From a Staff Correspondent.
BUFFALO, n. Y, September o. 1901.
When the sun went down last night the
anxious crowds that had hung around the
rope barricades all day, went away with
lighter hearts. The gloom of the early
morning had been dispelled by the opti
mistic reports that fairly poured from the
Milburn home all the afternoon Not only
had the doctors asserted with postiveness
that the Presidents condition was salts
factory, but eminent personages coming
out of the house had added the weight of
their personal assurances to the joyful
budget of good news.
The night watch was set early In the
Milburn home. The day had been rather
a trying one for everybody and all We're
anxious for rest. Visitors were excluded
earlier than usual and preparations made
TO give the household as much privacy
as possible.
Before the house closed Commissioner
MacfarIand called and spent some time in
conversation with Secretary Cortelyou.
Every one is encouraged by the pros
pect,' he said when coming out. II have
talked with DIR. RiXey and he assured me
that he is very hopeful of continuance of
the favorable conditions"
Abner Mckinley. the Presidents brother,
arrived at 1924 o clock last night.
Bulletins were given out at. 10 o'clock,
l am. and am. The soldiers were on
guard all night and in the newspaper tent
a squad of correspondents kept an all night
vigil.
Presidents Sick Room.
The sick room in which President Nc
Kinley lies, and in which the bulletins find
Ineir basis in his actual condition, is one
of the largest and quietest rooms in the
Milburn house. 1t is at the northwest cor
ner of the house. in what might be termed
~ 1hHrrt l,,tlr
an addition to the north side of his house,
making fine library on the ground floor
and over Ii cOmmodious bed room, in
which the President lies. The room is di-
vided from a front room by entrance
on the left of which is bath. The only
entrance used to the Presidents room is
from this front room, which opens into the
main hall on the second floor of the house.
1t is very large room. 1t has three
windows, one on the north side and two
the west side. These windows are
shaded and screened and the room is part
ly darkened. The President lies on a bed
TO the left Of the entrance in the south
east portion of the room. The bed on
which he lies is a high iron, hospital bed,
painted white, with the regulation hospital
springs and mattress. Its duplicate may
be seen in the Emergency Hospital at the
exposition. as the bed on which the Presi-
dent lies was taken from the exposition
hospital to the Milburn home in an auto
mobile shortly before the President was
transferred in ambulance. The bed was
sent to the Milburn home by Drs. Parke
and Mann, as it is the only kind on which
physician can manage a person success
fully. The other furniture in the room is of
the ordinary bed room furniture.
The STAFF of Attendants.
The full staff of attendants on the Presi-
dent consists of DR.. p. NJ. Rixey, who IS
the Presidents physician, and Drs. Mat
thew D. Mann, Roswell Parke Herman
Minter, Eugene Wardin, and since yester-
day morning DR.. Charles McBurney. There
are two nurses and three orderlies. The
nurses are the most experienced and skilled
women in their profession. The chief of
the two nurses is a high graduate with
long experience in the Roosevelt Hospital
in New York, and her associate is equally
trained and competent. The three orderlies
all were detailed from the hospital, and are
known TO the doctors for their fitness and
fidelity. There is one more nurse in the
house TO give special attention to Mrs. Nc
Kinley.
Acting Steward Elliott. Privates Hodg-
kinS and NOllmeyer, the three expert men
nurses attending President Mckinley were
chosen from the United States army hos
pital corps at the exposition, principally on
account of their wide experiences in cases
OF this description. Two of them. Elliott
with the United States army in the recent
war.
Elliott Washington Man.
Acting Steward Elliott is from Washing
ton; Vollmeyer. who is of German extrac-
tion, is from New York city, and Hodg-
kins is a native of Bellevile, Ont. The
latter has been in this country for seven
teen years, and is a naturalized American
citizen.
Mrs. McKinley's room Is across the hall
the south side of the house from her
husbands room If at any time it should
be deemed desirable that Mrs. Mckinley
should be in the presence of her husband
II would be but a matter of seconds TO
transfer her from her own room into that
of the President. She, too, is most com
fOrtably situated. Her room is commodi-
and exceedingly pleasant. Perfect
quiet reigns in the house and through the
neighbOrhood. The home is as If il were
the Presidents home or q house standing
In the center of the spacious ground in
which no noise could be found to disturb.
MIR. Miburn is living at the home of Geo.
L. Sawyer, on West Ferry street. although
he spends his days, and as much of his
nights is necessary at his own home
contributing in every way in his power to
the comfort of the President
Other Occupants of the House.
Apart from the attendants the chief occu-
pants OF the Milburn home, in addition to
the President and Mrs. Mckinley are Dr.
Rixey and Secretary Cortelyou. The Presi-
Gent does not complain and tries to keep
Gp brave front
A characteristic incident which indicates
ehe cheerfulness and courage of the Presi-
6ent occurred at his bedside yesterday DIR.
Roswell Parke and two or three others of
the physicians had entered, and after fin
tshing taking the Presidents temperature
pulse and respiration, the President, who