The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-21
COL. ROOSEVELT ON WAY TO OYSTER BAY
Continued from First Page.) ROOSEVELT UP EARLY
Awakes After Sound Sleep, Orders Usual Breakfast at O'Clock, Eats Heartily and Prepares
 to Leave Hospital.

Oh1Nd8O, oSL. El-An hour GaFheT than his accustomed time, Col Roose- welt awoke. today, and expressed his pleasure that he was leaving Mercy Hospital and during the preparations for his departure he appeared in un- usually good spirits.
 At o'clock the colone1's tempera- ture was 9s, his pulse 76 and his res piration IS, all normal. Nurse Mar garet Fitzgerald said her patient had passed 8 comfortable night. The col onel went to sleep at 10:30 and slept soundiy, awakening but once before $40 this morning. He ordered his us- ua1 breakfast and ate it heartily. He was told that he would be taken from his room in a wheel chair and he said to get out of the hospital and back to Oyster Bay
 Mrs Roosevelt was up early, mak- ing her own preparations for departure and overseeing the final arrangements for the colonel's comfort. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Theodore before o'clock and joked with their father while he was being dressed and made ready for his 24 hour ride to his home on Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay. Twenty uniformed policemen and 10 in citizens clothes were assaigned to accompany the Roosevelt party in au- tomobiles to the union station where the colonel's private car was attached to a regular Pennsylvania train. As- sistant Chief Schuettler. who was on the job in front of the hospital, ae- GB1nCQ a. squad or ID fnOCO1-CyCIG OI1lC- CTS to go ahead of the automobile in which the colonel rode. Every precau- tion was taken against cranks who might cause repetition of the at- tempted assassination.
 Col. Roosevelt, fully dressed for the first time since his arrival at the hos ptta1, last Tuesday morning, stepped into the. corridor from his room. al 1920, took off his hat and smiled al the crowd Of nurses, newspapernen and members of the Order of Sisters o1 Mercy, who were clustered about the door.
 s'Good bye, everybody said the col onel, waving his hat "I've had 8 mighty good time here: You may not
 He shook hands with Nurses Fitz- gerald Weller, and Irving Kunbalek with Sister Dolores and the newspaper men.
 Miss welter and Miss Fitzgerald nurses, received especial thanks from Roosevelt He shook their hands. af- ter he had thanked his male nurse Irving Kurnba1ek, and said:
 Girls, I'm leaving you. If it was not for the fact that I'm going home I would want to stay here and have to have you choose anything you want from the things I have with me-"
 'But give us your card,'' said Miss of them. said Col. Roosevelt one of them I want you to keep and the other I want you to carry With you if you come to New 4OrN All you ueeo to do when you come there is to send that card with your name on it to me and I'll be delighted to see you. Should ever become i'll again-fn the White House or anywhere else-I will certainly send for you girls-"
 The colonel was dressed in a new suit which was rushed to Chicago. He had on heavy underclothings and frequently uses
 During the preparations for the de- parture Roosevelt sat on the edge of hls bed and directed the packing of his grips and all the deta1s of the ar engagements for taking the party to the station
 Doctor. if there is not room for you, we can wrap you around these bundles and you con go as shawl strap. Dr. Terrell is not burdened with any over superfuou6 flesh.
 The wheel chair in which the colonel was to ride to the elevator was facing the door. Turn it around that way ordered the patient, and walked steadily around it and climbed aboard unaseisted Dr. Scurry Terrell, his personal physician, pushed the, chair to the elevator.
 1T viii face the door, if you please. doctor" said the colonel, so that he could be wheeled out into the lower eorridor face foremost Seeing Cecil him. By George. Cecil,'' the colonel said, ''have you found my waistcoa yet?'' Col. Lyon explained he had not found it. At the time of the shoot ing in Milwaukee Roosevelt's faVorite waistcoat had disappeared mysterious ly and a search had failed to locate it.
 There was a big crowd at the 18th street entrance of the hospital and a subdued cheer went up when the colonel, in his wheel chair, was wheel ed to the ambulance.
 The procession was compelled to
 move slowly when it reached 18th street, because of the rough pave ment and once the ambulance driver was compelled to crank the machine. He had been running so slowly that his motor stopped.
 physician, missed the party SIS it was leaving the hospital and he was com peIled to hire a taxicab and break the city speed ordinance to catch up with the procession.