The evening world., 1909-01-07
DR., BULL DEF|ES
GALE IN OUTING
ON HOTEL ROOF
Surgeon Doomed to Death by
Cancer Insists on Ride in
Wheeled Chair.
WELCOMED COLD WAVE.
Laughs at Protests of Nurses
and Returns to Room
Much Stronger.
WELCOMED COLD WAVE.

Science seems utterly unable to &C.
curately guage the condition Of Dr.
William T. Bull, Day by day. not only
are the fears OF his physicians set at
naught, but at the moment when It Is
estimated that the famous surgeon Is
certainly and finally on the ebb. he be-
comes terminated with an unac-
countahle vtgor.
DR.. Bull Is preparing to return to his
home. az 40 81 West Thirty-ffth
street, whence he was taken to the
Plaza Hotel two months ago, To prove
70 the nurses and physicians In at
tendance that lie had strength enough
to make the tourney, he insisted on be-
ing taken up to tie roof of the hotel
last night and wheeled about.
The braclng air. said the sick man,
was just what 10 needed. The
atmosphere Of Monday and Tuesday had
been enerratins His strength had
Seemed to decline, hut tie sutriness was
made doubly difficult to hear by being
confined in a sick room
Welcomed Cold Wave.
From time to time the surgeon had
been wheeled about the corridor Of the
hotel hy hts valet or nurses, but ut no
time since hts condition was pronounced
past hope had he been exposed 20 the
rigors of winter weather
Or. Wynkoop Informed his patient
last evening that cold wave was
sweeping across the Eastern States
that the mercury was descending In
6-point drops, and that bitter north
west gale was promised the wind
would be keen and the air penetrating
on the roof.
Fine" exclaimed the man whose
death sentence science passed half a
year ago, That was Just what ne want
ed-keen wind and cutting air. He had
crared for that for weeks, pent up In a
sick room,
What Il his hedchsmber was Ven
tia,ed by electricity and tempered hy
an automatic device. It was sick room
Just the same. and, as sick chamber.
necessarily stury. What he wanted
was air. and he wouldn't seriously OBJ
ject II blizzard was thrown In.
There was no denying Or. Bulls COM
mand. so wheeled chair was brought
and he was bundled UP and taken by
elevator TO the roof. The sky was
cloudless and there was a food OF brill
liant moonshine. Also there was a
thirty-mile gale fresh from the blizzard
factories of Medicine Hat
Revealed In the Gale.
High up on the Plaza roof this gale
howled about corniCes and chLmneys.
flashing out in eddies and swirls, the
sort OF wind that Will try the patience
OF a VOL man and cause him to scurry
to shelter
But tie great surgeon revealed in II
Ike hoy In his first snow storm. He
insisted on being wheeled all about the
roof so that he could obsefve the moon
from various points OF vantage, taste
the wind In his teeth, feel it driving
at the back OF his neck or biting at his
ears
When II was necessary to conclude
this strange nocturnal outing Of a man
doomed to death by cancer that same
doomed man was as ruddy-faced and
fresh looking as II he had never known
an III In his l!fe.
When DR.. Bull was taken to the hve-
room suite he insisted on occupying n,
the Plaza Il was not thought that he
would survive more than a week Such
was the verdict Of a dozen experts
And now, after an interval OF tive
months. the sick man Is going home
He left home Tor change and he will
return home for chahge, The move
surgeon retains tho strength he dis.
played during his outing on the hote
roof last night he will return home a
far stronger man than when he left.