Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-18
ColoneI's S Running
Mate Visits Leader.
Told to TX eep
Boys Working.
ROOSEVELT ANXIOUS TO
BE HOME AT OYSTER BAY
Surgeons Believe Bullet Is
Gradually Being Isolated by a
New Growth of Tissue-Dan-
ger Not Yet Passed.

CHICAGO, Oct. Is.--"Keep the hght
going full blast, johnson; don't let our
boys slack mp in their work because I
can't be with them for few days, Tell
the people you speak to wish I could
be out there working with you myself,
and that l certainly will be as soon as
my doctors will let me-"
This was Colonel RooseveIts partiux
Injunction and ncouragement to Cover
nor Hiram johnson, Progressive capdi-
date for ice-President, when the latter
left the Presidential candidate at Mercy
Hospital today.
MERCY HOSPITAL, Oct. 1S.-
I'm getting anxious to get back to
Armageddon, boys was Colonel
Roosevelt's jesting greeting to his
physicians when they appeared. The
remark epitomized the whole situa-
ton at Mercy Hospital. His anxiety
10 get back into the campaign was
sharpened by the continued favora-
BILE tone of the bulletin issued after
the examination.
The trend of the situation was
toward the desire to know when win
he leave the hospital?r
The following bulletin was issued
by Colonel Roosevelt's surgeons at
$50 a. M:
Pulse 70; temperature. 9s4; res
piration, Is. Pain in chest dimin-
ished Breathing freer. General con-
dition so good that he will be allowed
to sit up for an hour today. His
convalescence is progressing favor
ably and unless some latest infection
manifests itself his progress should
be rapid.
"Dr. John r. Murphy, DIR. Arthur
r, Bevan. Dr. Alexander Lambert
Or. Seurry l.. Terrell"
CHICAGO, Oct. 1s.--Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt awoke at Mercy Hos
pital today shortly before Z o'clock
full of yigor His nurse fastened into
the eolonelis room and was assured
he had had a perfectly bully night"
His temperature then was normal.
Last night brought Colonel Roose-
Welt more sleep than he has had since
he was wounded. Shortly after IL
o'clock last night he dropped the
book he had been reading, Mrs.
Roosevelt retired to her room. the
lights were extinguished and he fell
asleep, not to awaken until 4:30 this
morning, when his clinical record was
taken for the only time during the
night
In all Colonel Roosevelt slept more
than six and half hours which Ire
declared on awakening was more
than he had been accustomed TO in
all his life. The colonel felt fine He
not only said so himself, but he
showed it in every way. His color
was good. His eyes were bright and
his manner was animated. He joked
and laughed with his nurse during
the process of taking his clinical
record.
No Anxiety Is Felt.
During the entire night quiet
reigned near the coloners quarters.
No anxiety was felt for the morrow.
DR.. Scurry L. Terrell, who travels
with the colonel. retired to his room
at 10 o'clock and did not visit his
patient once after that Not once
did Mrs Roosevelt awaken to find
how her husband was faring. She
~''o Ne'S SeAtiSieu llidl dll WAS wen.
The colonel is said to suffer no pain
because ofs pressure of the bullet
against his fractured rib The RIB
itself is now believed to be mending
rapidly. When he awoke this morn
ing he wondered whether the doctors
would decide ITO remove the bullet.
He said if 1t was extracted he would
have 1t gilded and made into a pocket
piece.
Danger Not Passed.
Another consultation will be held
when the surgeons arrive at the hos
pital about 8 o'clock. While, in the
opinion of the experts, all danger of
sepsis is not altogether PASSED, the
chances that it may develop are not
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