The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-10
STAYS AT THE
BEDSIDE OF SON
President Roosevelt Decides to
Remain Near the Invalid.
CONDITION OF BOY SERIOUS
CROWD IN BOSTON GETS L
GLIMPSE OF EXECUTIVE.

L
GLIMPSE OF EXECUTIVE.
NROTON, Mass. Feb. 9.-President
Roosevelt, upon his arrival at the
- Groton school this afternoon. did
not find his son, Theodore, jr.. alarm
ingly i'll with pneumonia but the boys
condition was not sufficiently reassur-
ing to warrant the presidents imme-
date return TO the national capital.
Young Roosevelt, with two school
mates, Horace b. Potter and William
G.. AmmelI of Providence, both having
pneumonia, lies in a large, airy room
on the second floor of the college in
Urinary. Mrs. Roosevelt has been with
her son for two days.
Young Roosevelt greeted his father
cheerily this afternoon. Tonight it
was stated that the Joys condition is
unchanged and he is holding his own
well. The school has been dismissed
and the $50 boys have scattered to their
homes upon an enforced vacation.
All the sick boys are having the best
medical attention and nursing. The
presidents stay here is indefinite, al
though it is not believed it will be pro-
longed much after Wednesday unless
the boys condition takes a change for
the worse. Although the boys cOndi-
ton is not alarming, the president has
thought it well to stay here until he
has had some assurance of the boys
recover The president arrived here
at $40 this afternoon. He came on
the private car Rambler, arriving in
Jersey City soon after a. IN. The car
was Immediately transferred by boat
across the Harlem and left Mott Haven
as d special train at 500 a. m. A stop
MS made at New Haven, where a dis
patch was handed to the president,
stating that the boys condition was
encouraging.
No othel stops were made until Prov
idence was reached, where there was a
slight delay on account of an accident
TO the engine. The train pulled into
South station in Boston at 12:45 p. m,
but was Immediately .reuied out and
around the city through Cambridge 10
the Grand Junction station of the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad. The run from
Boston to Aver Junction was made in
little over forty minutes, and there
the car was transferred to the Wor-
cester, Nashua and Rochester division
of this road, the train arriving in Gro
ton at 2:30 o'clock.
There were no crowds at any of the
stations except al Aver, where there
was gathering of about $780, The
president came out from his seclusion
and bowed to the crowd from the back
platform, his appearance being greeted
with cheers. Rev. s. EndicOtt Peabody
principal of the Groton school. was at
the Groton station to meet the presi-
dent, and with him was Rev. Sherrand
Billings, his assistant.
The president, with Secretary Cor
telyou, Immediately jumped into a two
seated wagon, and Mr.. Billings drove
the party rapidly up the hill to the
school building. Mrs. Roosevelt was
at the window a. the president drove
past IN the yard, and greeted him as
ne mounted the stairs. The two imme-
dlately went to the sick boys room.
and the president was delighted to find
that his sons head was very clear. The
president did not remain long. however.
although he spent several hours in the
Office on the ground floor The presi-
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt together with
Secretary CortelyOu, are being enter
tanned at the house of William Amery
Gardner, brother-inlaw to Mrs Jack
Gardner of Boston. Gardner is very
wealthy man, but, nevertheless. one OF
It appears that quite a number of the
boys have contracted colds during the
past three or four weeks, probably from
strenuous exercise and lack of caution
afterwards. 1t is said that ii had been
the habit of some of them to play hanu-
bah in the closed court. and then. while
perspiring freely, dash across the cam
pus to the gymnasium, clad only in
the lighter clothes. Only four, however,
contracted pneumonia, although one
case resulted fatally, that Of Edward
Hodges, who died here about ten DAYS
ago. The other boys contracted severe
colds, but were able to return to their
homes when school dismissed last
week
The physician in charge is DR.. VIII
liam B. Warren of this town, the regu-
lar attending physician of the school.
but DR.. George 3. Shattuck Of Boston
has made almost daily trips here since
the three serious cases developed
Boston. Feb. 9.-President Roosevelt,
on his way to G~OtOn, came to Boston
today for the first time since assuming
his Office. His visit was a BRIEF one.
for ne did not leave his car, and. in
accordance with his own plan. through
familiarity with the situation here, was
transferred from one railroad system to
dNOL1el Dy means OF Il connecting link
over the tracks of a third railroad.
This plan rendered unnecessary the
arrangements of the police to look after
his safety in crossing the city, and OF
the railroad officials who had prepared
another special train for his use on
the last stage of his journey.
When the shifting engine was at
tached TO the car the president came
TO the platform. Then every hat worn
by men in the crowd on the station
platform came off, and the president
removed his in acknowledgment of the
courtesy. As the car moved President
Roosevelt again raised his hat, say
ing: Il thank you"
In anticipation of seeing President
Roosevelt, many people had gathered
outside the train shed gates at both
the south and north stations, ana az
both places also were squads of Of
ficers to maintain clear passage Tor
him to and from his carria ge 1t was
long time before the expectant people
learned that the president had made
his own plan for getting around Bos-
ton.
Fiddled With Heels on High.
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