The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-25
PRESIDENT
AT CAPITAL
His Wound Gives Little
Trouble.
STOOD THE JOURNEY WELL
Mrs. Roosevelt GreetS Him on
Reaching Washington.
Executive, While Confined to His
Room, will Be Able to Transact
Some of Business Which
Has Accumulated,
STOOD THE JOURNEY WELL

Washington, Sept. 2A-Secretary Cor
telyou. at 3 o'clock. made the following
statement concerning President Roose-
welt:
THE Presidents physicians report that
he stood the trip home very we'll, and II
is believed that the local infiammatory
symptoms will subside in a week or ter
days. If the leg is kept absolutely al
rest
President Roosevelt retured to Wash.
ington at $50 o'clock tonight via the Penn.
sylvania Railroad from Indianapolis
where he was compelled to abandon his
Northw estern trip because Of an abscess
on his leg which developed as a result
of the trolley accident at Pittsfield, Mass.
He stood the journey from Indianapo-
lis remarkably well. and when he was
carried in wheel chair from the railroad
car to his carriage, he was in excellent
spirits and appeared to be free from any
pain. With Mrs. Roosevelt, the Presi-
dent was driven directly to the temporary
white house in Jackson Place, where,
according to the present arrangements
he will remain until the wound is healed
ana he Is able to again be on his feet.
The President was taken to his room on
the second floor of the house and made
comfortable and his wound dressed. La
ter he was reported to be resting easily
and the expectation is that in ten days
the President will be himself again.
An Uneventful Trip.
The trip home from Indianapolis wa!
an uneventful one lie remained in bee
all day and executive business on tn,
train practically was discontinued. Few
letters or kilograms were written or re
ceivsf A telegram was put on the traiI
at Pittsburg from Mrs. Roosevelt stat
ing that she had left Oyster Bay fol
Washington.
The President slept soundly all through
the night until s o'clock this morning
Even the noise in the depot at Pittsburg
where he remained in the early morning
for about twenty minutes. failed to awak'
en- him. When DIR. Lung went to the
Presidents stateroom shortly before
o'clock he found his patient in rare good
humor and excellent physical condition
barring the wound on his leg
The slight fever which the President
had yesterday afternoon had disappeared
and his temperature was normal In fact
he felt so well that he told the doctor
he would like to get up and go into the
parlor of his car. DIR. Lung strongly
protested against this, telling the Presi-
dent that 1t was absolutely necessary Tor
him to remain quiet and President Roose-
Welt good naturally gave in,
The pain in his leg had practically dis
appeared and sthe conditions there were
so favorable that the doctor did not think
It necessary to redress the limb. The
Presidents leg is tightly bandaged, and
DR.. Lung does not look for a recurrence
of the swelling, although this would be
nothing unusual and would cause no
alarm.
Ate Hearty Breakfast.
During the forenoon's run. in describing
his condition to a caller the President
SAID he could feel that something had
happened when he thought about it, and
that was ALL After eating a hearty
breakfast, the President called for
book, remarking that as he was an inva-
lid, he proposed to enjoy himself He
was propped up in bed with his left leg
on a pillow. The running of the train
was slow so as to reduce the jar as far
as possible. Whenever the train stopped
crowds gathered about the President
car but there wss no cheering.
After dinner the President expressed the
desire to see the members of his party
and they went into his state room, few
at a time. He chatted pleasantly with all
of them and expressed his great disap-
pointment at not being able to continue
the trip. He said he had strongly op-
posed the decision of the doctors to have
the operation performed at Indianapolis
He wanted to continue his journey ana
make the speeches he had planned, but
finally yielded to the strong pleading OF
the doctors who represented that there
was danger If not properly attended to
that the bone might become affected and
an affection result that 1t would take
months to cure. The President yielded
but remarked that in his younger days
he had broken a rib and his collar bone
at sheep herding but had not allowed
it to interfere with his work.
Will Go Next Spring.
In his talk with his callers, the Presi-
dent made known his determination to
visit the Northwest next spring when he
will extend his trip as far as the coast,
during which time he will visit all the
States in which he intended to stop on
the trip just ended. The President feels
very close to tine people of the Northwest.
as many years Of his life were spent in
that section and it was there that he
rased his regiment of Rough Riders at
the outbreak of the Spanish-Americl IN
war. He will allow nothing to stand in
his way of going there in the spring. He
had nothing but kind words to say OF
the treatment he received from the Sis
ters of st. Vincent's Hospital at Indian
apolis where he was operated on. One of
them was a nurse at Montauk when
the great hospital was established on
Long Island after the Spanish War and
she remainded the President of the fact
that she had often seen him there and
had admired him for the way in which
he looked after the comfort of his men.
The President was delighted to meet her
and conversed with her for some time.
When the train bearing the President
rolled into the station tonight there was
large crowd awaiting its arrival, but a
special detail of police and detectives
kept them in the rear so that few were
able to- see him. Mrs. Roosevelt, who
had reached the city during the day from
Oyster Bay. had been one of the earliest
arrivals at the station. She was accom-