Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-19
ROOSEVELT WILL
co HOME MONDAY
Time of Departure From Chi
cago Hospital Definitely
Fixed by Physicians.
PREPARATIONS FOR START
PLANNED IMMEDIATELY
Police Will Guard Patient Until He
Reaches the State Line.
CRISIS REGARDED AS PASSED

Last Night One of Almost Unbroken
Rest-Tells the Nurse He Feels
"Bully" on Awaking This
Morning.
CHICAGO. October 19.-"Col. Theodore
Roosevelt will leave Mercy Hospital for
Oyster Bay Monday forenoon at S:15
O'Clock over the Pennsylvania"
This was the announcement made today
by DIR. Alexander Lambert. the colonel $
family physician, after the examining
physicians had issued the following bull
letin describing his condition:
''9:O5 am. Saturday, October 10.
pulse. Sc; temperature. 9s; respiration.
20 Breathing easier. Resting well, con-
dition good. Convalescing satisfactorily.
JOHN B. MURPHY, NJ. D.
ARTHUR d. BEVAN. NJ. D.
''ALEXANDER LAMBERT. NJ. d.
''SCURRY L. TERRELL. NJ. d.
Col Roosevelt declared the news to be
the best he had received since he first
was assured the wound would not be
fatal.
1T has been very tedious waiting
here he told the physicians. lin spite
of the fact you gentlemen and the
Sisters of Mercy have provided for me
in a royal way.
1T is no fault of the care and at
tention 1 have had. that's certain, but,
as you know, this is just the height of
the campaign, and every Gay lost means
golden opportunity of calling new at
tention to our cause gone beyond recall.
Mrs. Roosevelt so for the first time III
the hearing of the nurses since she came
to the hospital, iii be pretty good
while I'm here, so that there won't be
any reason for delaying our start home.
OF course, l can't help being impatient,
but Ill do as you say now with as
little protest as possible
Plans for the Departure.
Preparations for the start began at
once Theodore Roosevelt, jr., obtained
from his parents the general instruc-
tions as to the departure. and arranged
with members of the progressive party
in Chicago to look to train arrangements.
Reservations were ordered on the train
by the contingent of newspaper men
and physicians accompanying the colonel.
and the hospital authorities prepared to
take up with the police department the
question of providing adequate guard
about the building when the noted
latient was to leave.
Tentative plans provide that he shall
leave the hospital not in an ambulance,
but in limousine automobile, which
will drive slowly to the Union station.
a wheel chair probably will be there, in
which he may be carried down the long
flight of steps to the train floor. He
Will have private car and guard of
Chicago policemen will be asked to ac-
company the train to the Illinois state
l-ne.
Secretaries McGrath and Martin gath
eied in bales the letters tina, have been
received from all over the United States
ard arranged them Tor shipment by ex-
ress 10 Sycamore HILL Less than 2U
letters nave Teen answered and tie
others VIII be taken up by a special
corps OF s,ecretaries when the Roose-
Welt family has re-eStablished itself In
oyster Fay.
Mrs. Roosevelt sighed with relief when
she was informed by the doctors that
IL would be safe and advisable that she
bI eak UP her temporary household at
Mercy Hospital. Sne had only one brief
ride In the open air since she arrived
ednescay and her close watch has
fatigued her considerably.
Practically Out of Danger.
think it is safe to say Co. Roosevelt
practically is out of danger" announced
Dr. Lambert, the Roosevelt physician,
ana Dr. w. b. McCauley. who has had
charge of dressing and caring for the
wound agreed.
SO satisfied We're the physicians as to
COL RooseVelts condition that they no.
titled the inferno who appeared to extract
drop OF piood tor ascertaining it's con-
dition he need not make the test until
evening.
Last night was one of almost unbroken
rest for Col. Roosevelt. He fell asleeu
shortly after II o'clock last night. and
he awoke only once between then and
after O'Clock today. when he announced
himself ready for breakfast The wound
the colonel received at the hands of a
would-be assassin at Milwaukee several
days ago gave him little trouble. The
crisis in his illness now is believed to
have been passed. and his rapid recovery
is confidently expected. Blood poisoning
no longer is regarded as a possibility by
his attending physicians the only danger
to be feared now being tetanus, or lock-
Jaw. but even this is believed to be re-
mote.
throughout the night Col Roosevelt
was awake only once. That was at
O'Clock and then for only few moments
in which Night Nurse Fitzgerald had
only time TO obtain a clinical record His
record at tina. time was normal and he
said lie felt exceedingly we'll His tenn.
perature was 9S, pulse 40. and respira.
tiOn -.
For the first time since his confinement
in the hospital Col. Roosevelt was per
mitted to sit up for a shart time yes
tertiay IL is believed this relief will b,
prolonged today.
Awoke Feeling Bully
When he awoke- this morning he wa:
asked by Nurse Fitzgerald If the bulIa
was causing him any Inconvenience
Not a Bit he replied. I'm feelin,
bully
The regular morning clinical recort
showed temperature, 3S; pulse. 40 an.
respira ton. IS. This is practically wher.