The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-10-17

they were driven away several times
by the police, but always returned.
They were considerate. however, and
allowed no sunseemly noise to disturb
the sufferers rest.
Hospital internes and attendants
evidently feel the responsibility OF
having so distinguished patient with
in their walls. They established
dead line" yesterday ana no strang-
ers were so much as allowed to ap-
proach the Roosevelt suite. Only two
persons succeeded in running this
blockade. They were representatives
of hospital accessory firm, called in
to measure the colonels bed for a
head rest. Internes took them through
La score of rooms which, they said,
were fitted out with beds exactly like
lRocsevelt's but the twain refused to
be satisfied until they were allowed to
take their measurements from the
bed in which the colonel lay So in
sistent were they that this was nee
essary, that finally they were admit
| ted.
O.
at progressive headquarters and Of
fered to furnish nice tenderloin
steak from a bull moose which he had
shot early this month. The meat, he
said was in cold storage.
| DIR. Terrill told the colonel that it
would be all right for him to eat the
meat if he wished and Roosevelt at
once gave orders as to how it should
be prepared.
| This was the way he wanted it:
| The steak to weigh five pounds and to
be cut hunting style. With it he ask
ed for one pound of salt pork, flap
jacks baked on sheet iron stove,
baking powder biscuits and pot OF
coffee with condensed milk. Word
was sent at once to progressive head
quarters to locate the man and bring
| forth the steak
Calmly confident that tomorrow
night would see Colonel Roosevelt
out of danger and we'll on the road to
recovery the physicians and nurses
attending the patient this afternoon
awaited tomorrow's crisis.
They admit that the colonel is not
yet out of danger and believe that
/ the courage and vitality of their
patient will pull him through the cru
cial day since his injury and that he
will be able to leave the hospital by
| Monday.
Even now, however, the physicians
\ 10 f,,i,, he al
! but the lion hunters fighting spirit
4 has communicated to all his attend
ants and today's glowing reports from
his physicians have changed the at
mosphere of gloom and restlessness
about the third floor Of the Mercy
hospital to one of confidence. The
physicians agree that If tomorrow
night passes without signs of infec-
ton, there will be little danger and
only unusual developments can delay
his complete recovery.
The colonel himself has been large.
ly responsible for the disappearance
of the nervous tension. His manner
has never changed since his arrival
at the institution and the coming of
Mrs Roosevelt cheered him to such
an extent that everyone about the
sick room has become imbued with a
feeling of hopefulness and confidence.
Today he referred frequently to his
i interrupted campaign trip and said
he wanted TO resume hostilities in a
few days Half dozen physicians
who have kept careful watch on the
/ patient since his arrival renewed the
assurance today that the colonel was
as near normal as man could be
under the circumstances.
There is no significance in the
fact that the morning bulletin said
the bullet would not be removed at
present. said DR.. Lambert, the
Roosevelt family physician. "You
see. when We talk OF the future we
4 must Of necessity be indefinite. The
| bullet will not be removed now. II