The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-09-13
PRESIDENT
WILL LIVE
Physicians Announce That He
viii Win Grin Struggle
RELATIVES LEAVE FOR HOME
Vice President Roosevelt and SEN
ator Hanna Join Exodus.
WONDERS OF MODERN SURGERY

Vice President, When Told That Gar.
field ReIapsed After a Ten DAVIS
Progression, Replied That Present.
day Medical sceince Was Then Un.
known-Dr. Mann Would Have Liked
to Escape the Responsibility of Pres.
dent's Operation.
Buffalo, Sept. 1.-THE corns. .of ani.
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 complica.
tious threatened his life. They did
not give assurance Of his recovery col
Iectiyely over their signatures in an
official bulletin. hu- they went long
way toward it individually and sepa,
Tately during the day Each of them.
with the exception Of Or. Rixev who
did not leave the NtIburn residence
placed himself sCuareIy on record. not
privately 10 friends of the President
but publicly through the agency OF the
press. that the danger point hal
passed, and that the President would
survive the attempt upon his life.
"0t course we will all feel easier
when a week has passed" said Dr.
Mckinney the dean Of the corps "We
would like to see every door locked
and dou5le-locked but the danger
from possible complications is now
very remote"
The following bulletin was issued bv
the Presidents physicians at 1880
o'clock last night:
The condition of the President is
unchanged in all important particulars.
His Temperature is 1905; pulse. ia;
respiration, 2S.
When the operation was done on
Friday last it was noted that the bull
let had carried with it a short distance
beneath the skin fragment of the
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. 1t has been necessary
on account of this slight disturbance
to remove 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
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 Cieve-
land, to be gone two days, and Comp
troller Dawes went back to Washing
ton. Abner Mckinley, the Presidents
brother, will remain few days longer,
but his family has 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 Can
ton yesterday afternoon. The five
members of the cabinet still here will
remain a few days, rather as friends
who have been intimately associated
with the President for several years
than as public officials.
So confident is Vice President Roose-
welt Of the Presidents complete re-
r0Vor~~ n -tri- p or 4aE E,N