Evening star., 1901-09-10
IN FINE SPIRITS
Presidents Visitors Are
Greatly EIated.
THE CALLERS TODAY
Cranks Begin to Poster the
Physicians in Charge.
JAMES B. PARKER'S EXPERIENCE
Man Who Knocked Assassin Down
Sells Many Buttons.
JAMES B. PARKER'S EXPERIENCE
HERO OF THE HOUR
Special From a staff Correspondent.

Special From a staff Correspondent.
BUFFALO, N. Y. September 1O.-For
twenty-four hours every report that has
come out of the Milburn house has been Of
progressive Improvement in the Presidents s
condition. There has not been even a mo-
mentary relapse, but a steady gain right
along. The doctors this morning would not
publicly admit that the danger point had
been passed, but every one believes that
they regard the President as even now en-
tering upon convalscence.
The physicians are amazed at the recu-
perative powers of the President as they
also marveled at his courage and self-pos-
session at time when all thought that he
was at the very portals of death. The doc
tors do not expect a relapse or unfavor-
able conditions. On the contrary, they are
anticipating the day when the President
may sit up and figure it to be about four
weeks hence.
Had n Good Night.
The President had good night by far
the most comfortable one since he was
shot. His pulse was somewhat erratic and
irregular. but that occasioned no alarm nor
particular concern; in fact, DR.. McBurney
called soon after o'clock this morning
anu WdS wen pledSeU WITH the progress
the patient had made during the night
The surgeons are deluged with commune
cations, some Of them of very queer ma
ture. There are letters from almost every
section of the country and from practically
every state in the Union. Some are not
content with the promptness of the malls
and have been bombarding the surgeons
with kilograms. In two instances, it is
said that bIrlky acka paS uara ranaiyod b,y
express containing not only specially pre-
pared nourishment. but a complete chart
for treatment. with accompanying medi-
cines to be given to the President One
correspondent called attention to the fact
that the doctors in working to save the
President also are working to save the life
of the miscreant who shot him. Several
typewriter pages said to be devoted
to q philosophical analysis Of the problem
Of how the recovery of the President means
that the man who sought to kill him will
escape the death penalty himself
Considerable of the President.
The writer concludes, however, that the
first thing to be done is to save the life of
the President. and adds that 1t is his firm
conviction that If the Presidents assailant
lives through a trial by a jury of twelve
American citizens he will not soJourn at a
penitentiary or prison any longer than is
necessary TO fit him to become an inmate
of an institution for the insane.
The writer trusts that the surgeons will
take the same view of the matter as him
self, particularly with reference to the
character of the institution in which CZol-
golsz eventually shall be confined, pointing
out that thereby he would undergo servi-
tude for life. In that way, the sentence Of
ten years for assault with intent to kill, the
limit prescribed by the penal code, would
be extended to life Imprisonment for in
sanity.
Hundreds of doctors have been unable to
restrain expression of their interest and
solicitude for the welfare of the President
Some have written telling what to do In
this emergency or what to do in that con-
tirgency, or above ALL what to do if GER
tain symptoms were manifest. Others have
advised whom to call into consultation.
1t is intiniated that one or two letters have
not been quite temperate in their tone, but
have intimated dire disaster if the Presi-
dent should fail to recover The fervor OF
the writer's Of these letters Is properly at
fributed to their anxiety over the condi-
tion OF the President and their great hope
for his recovery.
1t has been impossible for the surgeons
TO answer. or even attempt to answer any
part of the many queries they receive from
all over the country, particularly from
physicians asking for the latest informa-
tion or TO details OF the treatment.
Many OF the queries relate to the nour-
ishment taken by the President. The
writers want to know what food the Presi-
dent receives
Out OF the national gloom caused by the
attempted assassination of President Nc
Kinley. is to come an occasion for national
and the Pan-American exposition the eli
max OF IL.
Director General William A. Buchanan
made the formal announcement that plans
are under way for national demonstra-
tton, patriotic, reverential as a thanksgiv-
Ing, so that all of the people of the United
States and the whole world can simulta-
neously rejoice. Orators, statesmen, d.
vines and public-spirited men from every
state in the Union are to be invited to par
ticipate.
Arrangements are to be perfected so that
at a certain hour of the day set apart
click of the telegraph will set the whole
country ringing and reverberating with
bells, whistles and the shouts OF people
To He International I'm Character.
1t will not merely be happy day for this
country. but for the people of all countries
South American republics will be partic-
ularly prominent In the festivity, and the
effect will reach Europe.
OF course, the plans are tentative and
conditional upon President McKinleys re-