The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-24
Anxious to FulhIl His engagements,
and May Resume the Trip Next
Month When He Is Better.
INSIDE STORY OF THE DAY
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN TO ALLAY
ALARM AND HEAD OFF RUMORs.
Why the President Changed His
Surgeons Were Summoned.

From a STAFF Correspondent.
RICHMOND. Ind. Sept 2-IOn board
the Presidents train.]-Theodore Roosevelt
is deeply distressed because it has been
found necessary to abandon the tour of
the President to the Northwest" This
pain on account of his illness or any ap-
prehension as to his physical condition.
Both of these he dismisses with a laugh
He has said more than once that were it
not for the fact that he is President of
the United States the abscess would in
volve no more serious consequences than
the grumbling which he would do because
he would have to remain indoors for a
week or two He will be taken at once
to Washington, where he will remain in the
temporary White House. at % Jackson
place. Telegraph orders have been sent
not known whether Mrs. Roosevelt will
come on to Washington. 1t follows in
ferentially true that she has not been sum-
moned and that her fears are allayed.
The Presidents leg first began to give
him painful trouble in Cincinnati last Sat-
urday. He called the attention of his ply
sicians to the fact that all the bruises he
received in the Pittsield accident had dis
appeared except this one. He asked Mr.
Cortelyou If all his black and blue marks
were gone, and the secretary said he was
a whole man again. External applications
fiammation. They were not particularly
successful. When Mr.. Roosevelt returned
from the fall festival afternoon meeting
on Saturday he asked that dinner be de-
layed thirty minutes while he rested, as
he was very tired. This was a most un-
usual request for the President to make,
but no one thought a great deal of It.
The hour taken was devoted to treating the
bruise on the shin Of the Presidents Leg
The ordinary means known to physicians
were applied. When they were through
the President walked around the room a
few times and remarked that he guessed
1t would timber up in a day or so.
BECAME SORE ON MONDAY.
The next day in Detroit it did not give
him great deal Of trouble, although at
the suggestion Of his physician he took
things as easy as possible. He laid down
once or twice during the day, saying that
he was reserving his strength for the last
half of the trip. Monday morning his leg
was giving him a good deal OF pain, and
it was to be noticed that the bruise was
progressing instead of decreasing. DR..
Lung told him then that 1t would be neces-
ence could be placed on local applications,
or whether it would be required to delay
the trip while an operation was performed.
At that time the President sent a long
telegram to Mrs. Roosevelt, advising that
the bruise was causing more trouble than
he expected.
This morning the swelling had increased
until 1t was as large a babys fist, per-
haps little larger. 1t was not large in
extent. being deep. The President ad-
mitted that it caused him good deal of
pain to walk. He said it hurt like an old
fashioned stone bruise. Drs. Lung and
Richardson, after consultation, decided
that it was necessary for an operation to
must be abandoned. Mr.. Roosevelt pro-
tested most vigorously against this He
said that in the first place it would be a
pity to disappoint the people. who had
made extensive and expensive preparations
for the reception of the President In the
second place, so much had been said about
his proposed utterances in the Northwest
that 1t seemed the abandonment of the
trip was of some consequence
CHANGE IN SPEECHES.
From what took place later it was plain
the President did not want it to oe possible
for the public to feel that he had not gone
on record on the tariff question. When he
was convinced that the trip must be aban-
speech to-day which was to have been de-
livered the latter part OF the week. He
was In great pain when he left the train
at Logansport to be driven to the stand
in front of the City Hall. No one would
have known that his leg was paining him
so that he walked with dificulty. There
was great surprise that he delivered this