Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-17

clinical record was tanen: Temperature,
9s.S; pulse. Ss.
He turned on his nightlght and began
to read again saying that he would do
so until he got sleepy.
IS GOING HOME SUNDAY
Colonel Roosevelt told his nurse to-
night, as he picked up his book for a
second spell of reading, about eleven
o'clock that he was going home to oyster
Bay on Sunday He ordered his break
fast for seven o'clock and said. Mind.
want a good one. III be hungry
He gave directions about his clothes
and his room to have everything in readi-
ness to see Mrs. Roosevelt in the morn
ing.
Nurse Fitzgerald said that the colonel's
pulse after his sponge bath was not far
above normal considering his physical
characteristics and more important fact
concerning 1t was its strong and steady
rythm. 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
DR.. j. b. Murphy's chief associate In
charge Of the case, took look at the
patient and reported that there was no
prospect OF any change in the colonePs
condition during the night.
HE will sleep till morning, He is all
right" said Dr. Golden
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth ar
rived in Chicago from Cincinnati at
can. b,,pV icA h. 1cid of
her father, Col. Roosevelt. at Mercy
hospital. She Travelled alone and was met
at the railway station by Mrs. Medill
Mccormick and George +. Porter. as
sistant treasurer of the Progressive
party who accompanied her to the hos
pital.
MESSAGES FROM EVERY BODY.
The kilograms received at the pro-
gressive headquarters here to-day ran
into many hundreds. sympathy, In
dignation, encouragement. admonitions
to the colonel not to give up his fight
and good wishes from political adver-
saries formed the miscellany of mes
sages stacked deep on a long table
in the inside office
cablegram from Kermit Roose-
welt. his fathers hunting companion,
came from Brazil. James J. CorbetA
Col. Henry Watterson, w. ]. Bryan,
all the justices of the United States
Supreme Court. governors of States,
heads of associations and civic bodies,
persons unknown to fame and men of
world wide prominence were among
the signers of the dispatches.
Many of the kilograms were held at
the headquarters but the personal mes
sue in Mercy hospital where his pm,
s.cians permitted him to read them when
he was not sleeping.
| The one which the colonel held longest
| In his hand was from his son. Theodore
! Eleanor and ] send love with deepest
hankfulness for your escape. I will be
with mother Ted
MRS. ROOSEVELT ON THE WAY.
New York. Oct. 15.-Mrs. Theodore
Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt and DIR. Alcxan.
der LamberV the Roosevelt family
physician. left New York for Chicago
on the Twentieth Century limited a,
/ four o'clock this afternoon.
| On the same train were George G
Priestley. chairman Of the fnanc,
committee OF the Progressive party
and Richard r. Quay of Pennsylvania
DR.. Lambert explained that he wa.
going at the request of Mrs. Roose
welt and not because he thought the
colonel's condition was serious.