Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-04
MALARIA AT WHITE HOUSE.
The President is Said to be Among
 the Sufferers.

Washington, D. O., April 4.-Has the president touch of malaria Officially 1t is declared there is noth- ing wrong with him. Personally he shows about as much vigor and bus, tie as usual, although there Is some times noticeable to his friends a somewhat tired look.
 The malaria idea Is advanced by policemen in the white house who have had abundant ex- perience with the germs of this ex. ertion-killing disease. When they hear that the president is just lit tie "off his feed" they at once ex- press the opinion that malaria is pulling him down. Others who are better acquainted with the president and his daily life believe that he is simply overworked and that his sum- mer vacation at Oyster Bay, where he will go toward the last of June, will refresh him as 1t always has in the past. The truth is that congress left with the president large num- Der of important matters to handle, besides an accumulation of appoint ments and other business, which he had deferred giving consideration to until the daily rush of congressnien during the session had permitted him few minutes to think about some thing else than the wants of senators and representatives. Congress has been gone a month, but many of its members remained around Washing ton for number of weeks and they kept the white house paths warm with their tracks.
 Then came the crash in Wall street and the pessimistic talk in the news papers as to a financial depression. Naturally. the president became con cerned. He cared little about Wall street itself, but the interests. of the street are so closely allied with Legitimate business 1t Is hard to draw the line as to where one ends and the other begins. The president called many railroad men and fnan- cial captains into conference to learn the facts. If possible he wanted to avoid financial gloom and lack of confidence. Then, when everything had settled down somewhat, he came out with statement saying he stood pat.
 There will be no surprise, though, should the president get touched with the dread malaria, and he may be fighting 1t now. He usually does not tire under the hardest sort of work. but malaria is we'll calculated to give an exceedingly tired feeling. The white house is located not many blocks from the swamps of the Potomac and is almost directly north from one of the principal sewers of the city emptying into the river. In recent years much of the swamp region has been reclaimed and the malarial miasma is not as bad as it was. White house occupants who keep indoors during the evenings and early mornings of spring, sum- mer and fall need have little fear. but the president and his family of ten sit out in the evenings on the south portico, facing the south winds coming of the Potomac. The presi- dent frequently plays tennis in the rear of his ofYices until late in the afternoons and comes in contact with the same atmosphere.
 Dozens of policemen in the white house grounds have gone down under this disease in years past. They un- hesitatingly attribute their illness to service in the grounds during the evenings and early morning. Many of .hem have had to take months of treatment before resuming regular duty.