The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-17
ROOSEVELT
 IMPROVING
(Continued from page 1) ROOSEVELT RESTLESS
Has Uncomfortable Night, But in High Spirits This Morning, Laughing and Joking With Doctors,
 Nurses and Wife.

Ch1cagO, Oct 11-COi foosSeVeiCS physicians issued a very optomistio after thorough continuation at 9 o'clock this morning.
 While they would not say that the colonel was out of danger, they did had yet been shown and they were very hopeful that their patient would pass the crisis, tomorrow. without such a development
 The colonel was in the highest spirits. this morning and laughed and ioked with his nurses, physictans and the entire morning with her husband. I'm bully, fine. he'd O. good sleep and feel able to start for Oyster Bay. said
 Col. Rooseve3t's physicians promptly told Roosevelt that if the case pro. from Chicago after Sunday.
 Mrs. Roosevelt was very positive on this point and the doctors supported her. Roosevelt finally acquiesced and said he would stay until the doctors S, Mere sure It was n, ps@fscly S wan4sa Sa5s h9 fe get back to Oyster Bay ct the earliest possible minute.
 During the early hours no one was admitted to the room except Mrs. Roosevelt, the doctors and attendants. ! One of the attending pl1yaiciane Iaose Reoseveits e ne resessness lat h1 might was mot indication that he had taken 8 turn for the worse, although him sleep souassiy He said that the broken sleep was probably accounteu for by the fact that the fracture of in his sleep. For the sa1ne reason the colonel was caufioned, this morning, to move little as possible and every l away from him and prevent the a'th- i letic demonstrations with which Roosevelt usually accompanies his The Colonel spent the most unco1n- fortab1e night since the shooting and early today he showed the effects of | sleep1egsness and fatigue incident to the pain caused by his wound He went to sleep aA 11:S0 o'clock ! At 4 o'clock, this morning. he ewoke, turned 'rneasily in his bed and sum
 noned one of the house pnysfcIane. I'm feeling all right said Rooee- welt when the physician hurried into But from that time until he break l lasted at o'clock the patient ezhis bited signs Of extreme restaeasness and 1 Miss May O'Txeefe, night superin- tendene of the hospital, took the first abseryase@s fn ss SE the esesa saao' ns So1
 ature was eS.4. respiration IS and i pulse 72.
 How ao you sesa," Roosevelt ..ya,. va. may bring me three soft boiled eggs. l a little well done bacon, some bread and butter and some tea, not too 1 strong
 l When the Breakfast was drought in ] to his room, Roosevelt ate with relish. 1 feeling fine and expressed a. desire for 1 absolute quiet.
 l Last nigaat, Mrs Roosevelt remain ed with her husband until Tt - 10 ocl1ek; ,9s X, and she withdrew to her own room i which a,djofne that of the colonel Instead of reading, Roosevelt turn- ed over the pages of several books and i then turned off the light and went to sleep. According to the physicians, the patients rest, until o'clock, this house physician came dn response to 1 his call, he rotated the muscles of
 been afrected. Roosevelt had consid- erable pain. As the crisis of the case approaches, the physicians are keep.
 ing a strict watch to determine IT blood poisoning or 1oclxJaw develops. Today, the colonel continued to show the utmost indifference as to the mo
 His name might be C7oigosz or anything else as far as I'm concern ed,'' he said to one of his visitors I never heard of him before and Know | nothing about him.
 | To another caller Roosevelt ex- | pressed the opinion that the man was on the subject of the third term.
 The colonel talks considerably about the shooting, although at first he seemed to avoid discussion of it. ''I felt no pain for the first 15 min | utes,r he said to one of the doc- tors. .It was not untM after reach ed the auditorium and began to speak that the wound began to give me trou- ble.''
 A thousand new messages from all quarters of the globe awaited John F. McGrath and Elbert Martin. Roose- veat's secretaries, when they reach- ed the hospital, this morning, So great was the pile that they could not cope with the task of going through it and help was enlisted
 The practice of giving out telegrans and cajbIegsrarns from crowned heads
 and members of the nobility was dis
 continued. as Roosevelt feared that
 might be offended by the publicity If the great mass of flowers sent
 to the colonel were placed in his room
 the ward, would be converted into g
 ed that most of the roses, carnations
 and other floral tributes be sent to l the rooms of other patients in the hos pfta1
 Bull Moose called at Progressive 1 headquarters, today, and offered to
 provide a nice tenderloin steak from a
 bull moose which he had shot, early
 this morning. The meat, he said, was
 in cold storage.
 pr. Terrill told the colonel that if
 would be all right for him to eat the
 meat if he wished and Roosevelt at | once gave orders for it's preparation | This was the way he wanted it: The steak to weigh five pounds and
 to be cut hunting style. With it he jacks baked on a sheet iron stove
 baking powder biscuits and a pot of ! coffee with condensed milk.
 ! Word was sent at once to Progress sive headquarters to locate the man ! and bring the steak
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