The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-21
Left Mercy Hospital This Morning In Good
Shape and Fine Spirits and Will Soon Be
Back at Oyster Bay.
VAS A PATIENT FOR JUST ONE WEEK
Great Precautions Taken During the Trip to
the Depot, to Guard Against Another
Attack from Insane Cranks.

r17n,tad press Leased Wire Service.] I
CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-An hour earlier
than his accustomed time, Colonel
roosevelt awoke today, and expressed
bis pleasure that he was leaving
Mercy hospital this morning, and
during the preparations for his de
parture he appeared in unusually
good spirits.
Al six o'clock the colonel's tenn
perature was SO, pulse rs, and his res
niration is, all normal Nurse Mar
earet fitzgerald said her patient had
nassed comfortable night. The col
onel went to sleep at 1890 last night
and slept soundly; awakening but
once before $40 this morning. He
ordered his usual breakfast and ate
it heartily. He was told that he
would be taken from his room In a
wheel chair, and the ex-president,
who would ordinarily protest at such
an arrangement, said he would submit
to anything in order to get out OF the
hospital and back to Oyster Bay.
Mrs. Roosevelt was up early, max
ing her own preparations for depart
ure and overseeing the final arrange
ments for the colonel's comfort, Mrs.
| Alice Longworth and Theodore Roose-
welt. Jr.. arrived at the hospital be-
fore seven o'clock.
Twenty uniformed policemen and
ten men in citizens clothes were as
signed to accompany the Roosevelt
party in automobiles to the union
station where the colonePs private
| car was attached to a regular Penn
| sylyania train. Assistant Chief sichuett-
! Ter who was on the job In front OF
/ the hospital assigned a squad OF ten
motorcycle officers to go ahead OF
the automobile in which Roosevelt
rode. Every precaution was taken
against cranks who might cause a
| repetition of the attempted murder
| of the colonel at Milwaukee last
| Monday night, which caused his stay
in Mercy hospital here. Detectives
and plain clothes patrolmen were or
duty every few feet along the route
taken from the hospital to the sta
tion.
Colonel Roosevelt, fully dressed fol
the first time since his arrival a
the hospital last Tuesday, stepped In
to the corridor from his room at 1870
took off his hat and smiled on th'
crowd of nurses, newspaper men an
members Of the order of Sisters o
Mercy, who we're clustered about hi
door,
Goodbye, everybody" said tn
colonel, waving his hat. I've had
mighty good time here. You ma
not believe it, but have"
He shook hands with Nurses FIT
gerald, Welter and Irving Klumbale
and with Sister Dolores and the news
paper men,
Miss Welter and Miss Fitzgeral
received especial thanks from Colont
Roosevelt. He shook their hand
after he had thanked his male nurs
Irving Kumbalek. and said
Girls, I'm leaving you. If 1t WASH
for the fact that I'm going home,
would want to stay right here an
have you take care of me. l want
give you something and want you
choose anything you want from amor
the things have with me"
Just give us your card, colonel
said Miss Welter.
Well, I'll give you each two
them said Roosevelt. "One OF the
want you to keep, and the other
want you to carry with you when W
/ come to New York. All you need
do when you come there is to SCI
that card with your name on it to r
and I'll be glad to see you. Should
ever become i'll again--in the viii
house or anywhere else--I will c.
tainly send for you girls"
The colonel was dressed in bra
new suit which was rushed to co
pletion He was dressed in heavy /.
derclothing and wore the big arr
overcoat which he had on at the til
he was shot. The same hat which
had battered on the back rail of
train during the campaign trip viii
ended in the nearly fatal shooting
Milwaukee last Monday night, was
and on his head alternately as he v