The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-22
Unable to Show Himself, He
Reclines While Crowds
Maintain Silence
DUMPING OF TRAIN
CAUSES SOME PAIN
Everywhere Crowds Congre.
gate and Stand Silently
Hoping to Get Sight
OF Traveller

PITTsBURG, Oct. 21.-(on board
Roosevelt train en- route to New York;
In a mellow autumn day, whose
warmth seemed to breathe II tendess
sympathy, Colonel Roosevelt travelled w
from Chicago today on his way to 1
Oyster Bay. on the most extraorS
binary trip ever undertaken by =
candidate for the presidency.
Unable. because OF sheer, physical
exhaustion, to show himself upon the
platform of his private car, the strick-
en- Bull Moose leader, with blinds
down in his stateroon listened with
throbbing heart, to the soft murmur-
ing of eager throngs as they clustered
at stations along the way. As the
train rolled into Pittsburg tonight the
colonel, shaken up by the jostllng OF
the train. meekly confessed to DE-
Alexander Lambert. hts New forE
physician, who. with DIR. Scurry Ter~
rell, is making the trip with HING
that he was tired out"
TIM going to put fiji a sound fighe
of sleep" he sighed. I'll be all
right again in the morning"
The bullet nesting in tirr colonel
chest, and the splintered rib gave hina
more discomfort than the wounde0
leader had counted on.
Experiences keen Pam.
As the train joited at times. the ex%
president experienced piercing pain
But he bore 1t without q whimper.
When night came the two physi-
clans agreed that although the tum-
bling of the train had caused the coli
onei more worry than he would adj h
init, he would suffer no i'll effects
His rugged constitution they said
would Withstand the ordeal. that 70 (
man less strong would have been
we'll nigh intolerable.
Today Colonel Roosevelt was sehe-
duied in the campaign itinerary maps
ped out before the Milwaukee shoots
ing, to stump Ohio. At night he was
due in Cincinnati, the presidents OWN
home town for scorching talk. -
Roosevelt rode through the Ohio
cities visions of ciamorous thron9a.
that might have been, fitted througiR
his mind. In reality. outside the
train, while Roosevelt could net see
them. were gathered hundreds of anx-
ious citizens, who weighed down with
sympathy for the wounded colone1a
stared at the train in solemn silence.
Crowds in Respectful Silence.
| The ex-president's IiesureIy 1aunt
through Ohio for he is running upon
a twenty-four hour train, was IN
truth an occasion OF tragic quiet. Inc
waiting throngs half anticipated that
they would see the pl cky third party
fighter walk out onto the platform oT
his car and wave his hand to fheMe
stood in respectful melancholy att1-ss
tude, as they learned that the coloneA \
was unable TO see them.
Almost the whole day the ex-prestS
dent lay on soft bed In his state~
room reading or. when that grew irkr
some, dropping into restfui slumber~
l.. % IT,, txra rfn =
pher, John Martin, and the latter,4
wife, who boarded, the train at Lima
the colonel saw no one. He aske0
for quiet, feeling himself that he
needed to conserve all the strenGtAA
a. his command for the long run TO-
Oyster Bay. He seemed to realtzo%
| for the first time that carrying bul-&
| lett on a ragged railroad journey to
| nothing to be regarded lightly Ewes
q Bull Moose, when wounded, has -
| look out.
Fools Newspaper Men. H
| The x-president started his jaunls
homeward by fooling the pewspapeN8
men in Chicago. At Mercy hospttHts
| the tip was allowed to filter out thp~
| the colonel would climb into an autn9
| mobile at the front entrance and 81
| carry out the deiusion, a police aut0$N
mobile wifissed- up after daybfeaAT
Camera men adjusted their machines
and a flock Of newspaper men waltz
ed Tor the colonel. sS
| Instead of coming out that w4x
\ the ex-preSfdent, on a Suggestion O4%
| his own. was wheeled down to q Gi61
| door, Just outside where the neW14@
! paper men could not see II was IT,
| same white ambulance In which 11M}
tcoionei-4~a week ago ,toza9Trow--s
| taken from the depot at Chicago w1fMH
what was then feared to be possinx
h r. 1850