New-York tribune., 1901-09-09
REJOICING IN BUFFALO.
ROOSEVELT AND HANNA DISCUSS THE
GOOD NEWS-SCENES IN THE
STREETS.
STREETS.
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Buffalo. Sept S.-Senator Hanna is to-day
more confident than ever that President McKin-
lev will live He came to Buffalo on Saturday
morning broken in spirit and fearful that his
almost lifelong friend would die from the eHects
of the anarchists bullet. To-day he is strong
in the faith that the President is winning the
grim fight with pain. Senator Hanna's solici-
tude has been like that of a father for strick-
en- son. Saturday morning the Senator at the
earliest practicable hour sought the Milburn
house All the information possible was laid
before him. and he left the house little more
buoyant. Again and again he sought the latest
details from the sickroOm. At o'clock on Sat
urday night he got hold of DR.. Rixey, and had
his first satisfactory talk with the doctor. 1t
was then that he gave The Tribune correspond
ent the statement used yesterday. Senator
Hanna was one of the earliest visitors at the
house this morning The Presidents compara-
lively comfortable night greatly encouraged
him. He told his friends he his strick-
en- friend would survive. This afternoon he was
again at the house with Vice-President Roose-
welt. When he stepped out on the sidewalk in
Delaware-ave. he looked up at the sky, and then
benevolently returned the inquiring glances Of
the newspaper men.
Il notice" said Senator Hanna. that there
are suggestions that the physicians are coloring
and Withholding the truth in their bulletins and
that the bulletins do not show the President S
real condition. These stories are outrageous
and they should not be circulated. The physi-
clans are giving the facts TO the public.
vice-President Roosevelt. with evident ear
nestness, here laid his hand on Senator Hanna ;
arm
Senator" said he, "iet me put it this way
The doctors bulletins are made with scru-
pulous understatement of the favorableness OF
conditons-a scrupulous understatement,' aooed
Colonel Roosevelt with emphasis.
That expresses the idea" said the Senator
1T is a fact" reasserted Colonel Roosevelt
that the doctors. if anything. understate the
hopefulness of the situation"
Again Senator Hanna asented, and added that
it required from forty-eight to seventy-two
hours for conclusions of an absolutely trust
worthy character to be reached. No physician,
he said, pending such period, would state alb
solutely final conclusions. The doctors were in
spred by the sincerest effort to give the best
judgment that medical science could render.
AS Senator Hanna and the Vice-President
were leaving the house Robert T. Lincoln. son
Of resident Lincoln, was chatting with Mr..
Nilburn In the hall. Mr.. Lincoln soon came out
and expressed a hopeful view of the situation.
MY visit" said he has given me great en-
couragement ! feel more hopeful now than I
have at any time"
Mr. Lincoln reached Buffalo Friday in a
private car with his family and a number Of
friends. The attempted assassination Of the
President deeply moved him, and led him to
postpone his departure.
Senator Hanna returned to the NIilburn house
at 80 o'clock and was there again at o'clock.
lie was intensely interested in the sleep which
the President took in the afternoon. He almost
beamed as he left the house shortly after .
O'Clock.
Now. young men," said he II want to be
conservative Get me straight II the present
conditions continue for the next twenty-four
hours the surgeons will be able to give us news
as satisfactory as we could wish So far as
any human agency can predict. this state Of
affairs will be brought about. The four restful
hours Of sleep the President had to-day is evi-
dence of his almost normal condition. His mind
is clear and his condition is most hopeful.
GRATIFICATIoN EVERYWHERE.
An aged man wearing Civil War veterans
button, accompanied by his wife. walked out
from the New-York Central Station after an all
night ride from the West
IN know. Maggie" said he, Jest as soon as
I see the flag on the fust buildin''
From hotel fagpole foated the Stars and
Stripes.
BLESS the good God. Maggie" he exclaimed.
''there's Old Glory! Look up, Maggie, look up
an she's at full mast, too He amt dead yet,
Maggie: he amt dead yet" sobbed the old man
as he dropped his big satchel and sank on a
horse block lad stopped running to see what
was doing" and began to laugh. He was
checked by a bystander, who told him what 1t
all meant and the little fellow turned red IN the
face and tiptoed away.
on a Nain-st. car were a young husband ana
wife and their little boy. They were discussing
the uppernost topic. Papa said the young
ster suddenly, don't you think If 1t didn't hurt
the President any, that Mrs. Mckinley would
Ta Lind of glad he's sick?" Seeing frown COM
ine the bow continued: You know, papa, Mrs.
WSKinley has been sick. and :he President
tended her; now, don't you think. II 1t dfdn
hurt him she'd be glad he's sick, so she could
tend him. - -,
You're a queer little Dick, was all the
voungster got from his father.
At the IrOquoiS Hotel the bulletins from the
sick room were posted up as fast as received.
1The lowering temperature was quickly noted,
and Iavnen who would find it difficult to tell
+ba difference between rhubarb and arsenic
without tasting talked wisely about tempera-
ture pulsation and respiration prosperous
Ioolxinp countryman heard a newsman shout
The Tribune for sale in front of the Elltcott
Scuare building. He passed the vender, hesi-
tated spoke to his wife, and then went back 10
the newsman. Gimme Try-oune' never
bourht a Sunday paper before" he said apollo
petically but guess it won't be laid up agln
S1e to-day seein' as I want to know how the
Ioraeident is gettin' on" Soon the old couple
I,ara gazing at the picture of the President on
the first page, and they forgot about the Expo
sition for at least ten minutes