The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-15


New York, August 14.-Steadily gaining
strength and free SO far from any taint
of blood poisoning Mayor Gaynor has put
another day behind him. and is one step
nearer recovery from the bullet wound
inflicted on Tuesday by James j. Gala
CHER.
He rested we'll last night, spent satis-
factory morning, took nourishment at in
tervas with satisfaction. had his
wound dressed early and was pro-
nounced looking fne' by his physicians
and resting easily tonight.
During the day his average temperature
was 80 degrees, so near normal and so de-
void of fluctuations that his surgeons are
positive that no blood poison has devel-
oped.
Drs. Arlitz and Dowd remained on duty
near his bedside tonight. DR.. Arlitz said
after the issuance of the 9:3O p. m. bulle-
tin that the cough which had bothered
the mayor was less acute and gradually
subsiding. Nearly all the Inflammation in
his throat has passed away, and DR..
Arlitz pronounced the patient better in
every respect.
ing the day the mayor showed no signs
of frritabilitys and conversed cheerfuly.
| Another Indication of his mood was a
request that a door be opened that he
might hear a choir of orphans singing
| in the chapel connected with the hospital.
At first he could hear their voices but
family and as he listened he called one
of the Sisters to him with the remark that
he should be pleased to have the strains
little louder. The door was then opened
and he lay quietly with his eyes closed as
the children sang.
Two New York fremen were assigned
to duty toby at the hospital They re-
lieve each other in standing guard at the
door of the mayors sick room.
At the Hudson county Jail in Jersey City
Gallagher attended morning mass, then
spent an uneventful day in his cell.
Mayor Gaynor's physicians this morning
issued this bulletin:
$50 a m.-The mayor had a restful
night The improvement continues The
pulse is sS, respiration II. temperature
satisfactory.
satisfactory. "ARLITZ,
"STEwART."
The bulletin issued tonight by the
physicians follows:
The mayor continues to improve. He
has passed comfortable day, and Is
steadily gaining in strength"
Prayers for the wounded mayors re-
covery were Offered universally through
out the city today. Protestant, A'lolic
and Unitarian congregations bowe. heir
heads while clergymen prayed Cat he
might be spared
The Rev. Len G. Broughton of Atlanta,
Ca, at the Fifth Avenue Pres&ck erian
church. concluded his prayers fo- Mayor
Gaynor with a plea for Gallagher. the
would-be assassin.
In an address before political club to-
day former Coroner Julius Harburger an
nounced that he would present bill TO
the next legislature making an attempt
on the life of a public official punisha-
BILE with death or life Imprisonment and
barring the defense of insanity.
DR.. Roswell Park, one of the surgeons
who attended President Mckinley during
the eight days before his death, was a
passenger arriving today on the White
Star liner Cedric.
THE mayor ought to get WELL so far as
can tell from what I have heard" he
said. THE wounds sustained by Presi-
dent Mckinley and Mayor Gaynor were
entirely different In their nature and no
parallel can be drawn