The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-16

HooSeve1t said Nurse Fitzgerald. He talks about it quite bit and is very particular about having everything pleas ant for her.
 Nurse Fitzgerald said that the coloners pulse after his sponge bath, was not far above normal. considering his physical characteristics and a more important fact concerning it vas it's strong and steady rhythm, she said. Colonel Roosevelt, after his bath and shave, had no pain of any kind, but said he was slightly nervous from inaction.
 At midnight Colonel Roosevelt was soundly sleeping. Dr. John F. Golden. assistant surgeon of the hospital. and pr. J. B. Murphys chief assistant in the case, looked at the patient and reported that there was no prospect of any change in the colonels condition during the night.
 He will sleep till morning. He is all right" said Dr. Golden.
 Colonel Roosevelts temperature at 12.45 a. m. was 98.2, his pulse had dropped to s4 and his respiration was IS. He was sleeping soundly and had not stirred
 Eats Ravenously
 The patient slept well at intervals dur ing the day, ate ravenously of articles customariy making rp his bill of fare. read lengthy extracts from Macaulay and hinted to his physician that he would not object to ride in the fresh air
 Finally learning that the correspondents accompanying him on his speaking tour, who had left him after the assault in Milwaukee to file their articles, had re- joined his entourage at the hospital. Colo. nel Roosevelt insisted that the edict of his physicians against communication with him be ignored for the time.
 He received the newspaper men with an apology for not arising. tested with them about his condition and told them: ''Fll hurry up and get out of here. so I can keep you busy again.
 In opening the door to his room to admit the correspondents the heavy odor of heaps of flowers banked up in the ante-room flooded the coonel's apartment and he inhaled deeply several times. The extra effort caused little pain, however. and when the doors were shut again he instructed his nurse to present part of the flowers to other patients in the hos pital. This was done.
 Must Rest Ten Days
 His doctors. however. did not feel in of 10 days, so that they might have no break in their minute by minute watch for possible infection from the bullet.
 Unofficially it was made known today that the physicians do not consider 1t necessary to probe for or operate to re- move the bullet. IL lies, as SnOWn by the x-ray photographs brought from Milwaukee by Dr. J. D. Janssen and cor roborated by others taken in Mercy hos pital. not far from the breast bone on the right side. and probably five inches below the collar bone. The missile did not get inside the ribs. but ploughed upward and inward for a distance of some five inches from where 1t entered.
 The flesh along the course of the bullet showed no discoloration toda, and there appeared to the physicians no cause for concern from any feature of the assault now past.
 Colonel Roosevelt, anxious that his friends and particularly members of his family who were route to Chi cago should not be unduly apprehensive at his condition protested against the edict barring callers from his room but ecceded when all the consulting phy- slcians indorsed the plan.
 Anxious to See Family
 He was anxious 10 greet members of his family The first he saw was his daughter, Mrs. Alice Long, worth, whose train arrived from Cincinnati in time for her to have din- ner with her father. His concern all day was not for himself but for those he believed were likely to be too fear ful of his condition.
 He read all of the hundreds of tele grems that poured into the hospital and was particularly delighted with several from men of note he met while abroad. Outside the hospital grounds a curi- ous crowd hung all day. asking for
 
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