Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-05
|BREMNER IS SURE
HE IS Improving
Kindness of Friends, He AS
serts, Is Also Helpful in
Battle for Health.

| BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.-Congressman
Robert G. Bremner, of Passaic, N j..
continues to improve. The Newark
Evening Star correspondent had the
privilege today of the first interview
with the distinguished patient who is
under radium treatment for cancer
in Professor Howard A. Kelly's SAM
tarium, in Eutaw place.
DIR. Kelly is opposed to giving out
any formal statements at this juno
ture, and induced Mr. Bremner to be
as reticent. Thus far the congress-
ment has kept to the compact, but
when your correspondent intimated
that there were hundreds Of friends
in New Jersey and thousands of we'll
wishers who would be pleased to hear
something more definite than the hazy
accounts thus far given out he yielded
the point.
"I am feeling fine" said the idol of
Passaic county. The correspondent
intimated that he would probably say
that under any circumstances; the
patients eyes twinkled and he
emitted a blithesome chuckle and de-
clared, at is the truth, I am feeling
fine, and believe that this treatment
is doing me a lot of good"
Sunny as Ever.
Right here 1t might be remarked
| that the congressman's appearance
bore out his statement. Sunny, san
guine and optimistic ne Is and was
| ever but today he did seem to be
physically improved. He spoke about
the many tender and affectionate
messages he has received from his
many friends, from the President OF
the United States down to some of
the pages of the House Of Represen-
| tatives.
It was at this point that his nurse
called attention to the vases con-
| tanning American beauty roses and
lcarnations sent from the White House
II by the Presidents directions. There
were many more flowers than these, :
explained the nurse, but Mr.. Brem-
ner would think of some friend or
caller who could not see him, and he
would send one of the Presidents
roses. In this way he has given away
most of them"
| Those who know the generous
streak that runs through the patient s
composition will understand how he
would under any circumstances scat
| ter pleasure and gladness when and
where he can. Something like that
was said to him and he replied, 1T
costs very little to share your happi-
ness with others and these flowers
will be appreciated by those who get
them just as I have enjoyed the fine
spirit which prompted their coming
to me.
''I felt mighty rich when they stuck
me UP with so many thousands OF
dollars worth of radium, but I feel
richer still in the discovery Of SO
many friends in unlocked for places.
The sweetest messages have come to
me from far and near, all of them
breathing affection and good will.
IT am particularly touched by the
many fine expressions. many of them
undeserved, from my friends and col
leagues among the editors and other
newspaper men in all parts of the
country. I feel better than I have in
months, and to be frand blieve that
the things said and affectionate mes
sages sent me have had as much to
do with my Improvement as the
radium."
The patient was urged to say some-
| thing further about the general ef-
feet of the treatment, but he de-
INJURED, saying that he must keeI
faith with his good physician.