Evening journal., 1912-10-19
ROOSEVELT
TO GO HOME
ON MONDAY
Almost Fully Recovered, the
Colonel ReiterateS He
Feels Bully"
CANDIDATE MAY
RESUME SPEAKING
BY The United Press.

Fti pilyhlCldnS announced this
morning that he would be taken from
Mercy Hospital to oyster Bay a.
1925 O'Clock, Monday on twenty
our hour train of the Pennsylvania
road. AT 925 the physicians attend
ing the colonel issued the following
bulletin:
Pulse Sc, temperature 9S and res
piration 90
Breathing easier. resting we'll,
general condition good and GONZALES
cling rapidly
tSignedl
MURPHY,
BEVAN.
LAMBERT,
TERRELL.
BY The United Press.
CHICAGO. Oct 10 Colonel Roose-
welt spent the most comfortable night
since lie was shot and awoke at Z
o'clock, today, with the remark that
he still felt bully" The physicians
are agreed that the colonel has safe
ly passed the crisis of his trouble
and that every hour will now find
him more rapidly advancing toward
complete recovery
Noon yesterday was the point to-
ward which and from which the doc
tors based their calculations Up to
that time the colOnel's condition was
largely a matter of conjecture, as the
bullent wound was not old enough to
warrant any precise forecast as to
what would be the result of it.
The cOlonels restlessness on the
second night was a cause of alarm,
in spite of the fact that prophylactic
serum had been injected into the
wound to prevent the possibility of
blood-pOisoning and every other pre-
caution had been taken to forestall
the pieural affection likely to develop.
The confident manner of the physi-
clans and their statements that the
patient was in a most favorable con-
dition, today created the definite be-
lief that Roosevelt had safely passed
the danger mark
Last night the colonel talked with
Mrs. Roosevelt and read until i1.3l
O'Clock when he went to sleep and tho
nap continued until o'clock this
morning AT that hour. he awoke foI
few moments and dropped off again
sleeping soundly until o'clock He
ordered the usual breakfast and ate
heartily Roosevelt was. told that
Schrank. the man who shot him, had
made a will in which he claimed the
bullet and requested that it be given
to the New York Historical Society.
81 don't think such a claim will
hold good, laughed the colonel.
According to law, when a man
sends a letter to another man thai
letter belongs to the sender until il
reaches the recipient and then nc
power can take it away from the re-
cipient.
hot h,1 - Ceof,. al
when It was i'm his revolver. anC
while it was on its way to me, bur
after IL reached me it was mine, Be
sides, I have a personal interest il
that bullet and intend to keep it."
Colonel Roosevelt apparently has
passed the point where he feels impa.
tience toward the would-be assassin
as an instrument which checked his
c0mpaign. He expressed a desire tC
leave the hospital Monday if possible
tuesday in any event, and said iha
he hoped to be able to get into the
campaign during its last week
But that is up to the doctors anC
Mrs. Roosevelt" he said. The uncer
tainty today in reference to the ox
act time of the COlOnel's removal L
Oyster Bay is caused by the doctors
statement that there is. still some dan
ger of secondary infection Of thu
wound, or of a development of pneu
monia in case Of too early exposure
If such secondary infection should in
cur. II will probably be confined L
a small area. However, this would
result in a setback and the recover,
of the Colonel would be delayed a few
days. The Colonels attitude today in
dicated that the words of the medica
men had at last awakened him to
realization Of the serious result whicl
might follow a too hasty departure
from the hospital
Dr. Alexander Lambert. for year
the Roosevelt family physician, desir
ed to leave today for New York on ur
gent business. After a consultation
with Doctors Murphy. Bevan AM
Terrell. the other physicians VIII
have charge of the COlonel's case. D1
Lambert decided to remain and vii
! probably go east with the patient
The local doctors told Lambert tha
while at this time there is no indica
ton OF such developments they wer
apprehensive that some lung troubl
might result from the wound Lam
bert is a lung specialist and probabl
hHCNo AnRAt dnOuA Aut AOAOltl = NOAl
stitution than any other doctor and il
case of pneumonia or kindred attac
they wanted him on the spot
The present plans of the physi
clans is to have Roosevelt leave Chi
cago on one Of the regular Pennsyl
vania trains Tuesday He will take
slow train and go directly throug
the tunnels at New York to his Oyste
Bay home The doctors will at
tempt to conceal the exact time of tn
Colonels departure as it is feared
crowd would excite Roosevelt an
complicate his recovery.
DR.. Lambert said the patient woul
not be able to make speeches 70
some time. but that he would be al
lowed TO take an active part i'm tn
campaign before IL was over
AT present" said he, "the onl
thing we are worrying about is tha
fourth rib 1t looks all right and
II knits properly the Colonel may re
>Ame his speaking"