The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-08-18
DOCTORS AND NURSES IN CON
SLANT ATTENDANCE HOPE
FOR BEST.
MAYOR RESTS COMFORTABLY
Able to Take Nourishment Regularly
and Swallows Easier, but Throat
is Still Swol'en-Few Visitors Al
lowed.
BULLETIN.
New York.-"The mayor contin-
ues to show improvement He is
sleeping at this time.
William J. Arlitz, NJ D.
George ID. Stewart, NJ. D.

New York--From the best infor-
nation obtainable today Mayor Gay
nor, up to 6 p. m, had neither gained
nor lost over the day before. He
slept at intervals of about an hour
and half through most of the day,
chatted pleasantly with the few per-
sons who were permitted TO see him,
and declared to each of them that he
was feeling fine"
The only persons who saw him
except his physicians were Mrs Gay
nor, who was with him nearly the
entire day, Commissioner Thompson
of the water, gas and electric depart
ment; Rufus Gaynor, his son, and
Private Secretary Adamson. Mr..
Thompson had slept in a room near
the stricken mayor the night before.
He rose at Z o'clock this morning
and stepped across the hall to Mayor
Gaynor's room on the fourth floor.
The mayor had awakened only a
few minutes before after titful maps
of about an hour and a half each
through the night.
Hello, Thompson" was Mayor
Gaynor's greeting to his early morn
ing caller; what brings you here
so soon?"
only to inquire about your con-
di'ion, Mr.. Mayor" replied Commits
sioner Thompson.
"Oh, don't bother about me" said
the mayor, adding I'm feeling fine
Mr.. Thompson left the room i'm
he N a
his chief was getting along finely.
At l o'clock Drs. Arlitz and Dowd,
one of whom had been constantly at
the side of Mayor Gaynor during his
waking periods, issued bulletin de-
claring that their patient had passed
a comfortable morning; that he was
taking nourishment well and rs
steadily improving"
In spite of the highly optimistic
reports given out both by the spe-
cialists who are carefully watching
Mayor Gaynor, and other persons
who are permitted to see him. their
optimism is not wholly unmiXed with
dread. Their faces denote fear
that Mayor Gaynor is still in a des-
perately dangerous condition. Sew
eral of them said privately today that
not for fully two weeks would they
feel that the crisis has been passed.
Although the mayor partook today
of the extremely light diet allowed
him and devoured it with apparent
relish, it does not seem TO build up
his strength notably.
While it was said he swallowed
easier than at any time since Gala
ghers bullet plowed a hole through
his neck and missed, by hairs
breadth the carotid artery and the
network Of delicate blood vessels and
tendons, there was said to be still a
huskiness in his voice denoting a
swollen condition of the throat. While
conceding that the wound inflicted by
the would-be assassin at San Francis
co on Francis ]. Heney was of the
same general character as that which
Mayor Gaynor is striving bravely to
overcome, it is recalled by his at
tendants that Heney was shot down
in November and did not leave the
hospital until February. Heney, too,
had the advantage OF youth on his
side
Don't fool me in the minutest de-
tail" Mayor Gaynor is reported to
have pleaded OF the four physicians
this evening, after the final Conshita-
ton of the day. Il want to know
all about my condition and prospects.
in no other way can aid You in the
treatment that may be necessary.