The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-16
MAYOR MITCHELL RALLIES QUICKLY AFTER OPERA TON
Kew York Executives Prime Physical Condition Stands
 By Him.
NICTIAT OF ACUTE
 APPENDICITIS
Was In Excellent Health and Spirits Few Hours Be-
 fore Operation.


 Mayor Mitchell who was operated on yesterday for acute appendicitis. was reported this morning as satisfactory. The surgeons expect that he will make a quick recovery
 The mayors attack was even more sudden than that which seized J. P. Morgan recently. On last Saturday best of health. went with his wife to the country homerOf Robert Gpe1t at Goshen, N Y.. for the weekend. He spent Sunday there, riding horseback part of the day. and returned in the evening to his home in the Peter Stuyvesant apartment house at River side Drive and Ninety-eighth street.
 Shortly after his return he talked over the telephone with his secretary, Theodore Rousseau, and was remind ed by MT. Rousseau that he had an appointment to preside at O o'clock yesterday morning at the hearing by the board of estimate on the proposed new bus routes. The mayor replied that he would, beNon hand when the hearing opened. He was still feeling free from any aiIment.
 Before daybreak yesterday morn ing MT. Mitchell awoke with a sharp pain in his right side which kept him awake most of the night. His suffer ing was intense and at 10 o'clock he
  Hall that he would be unable to at- tend the hearing, but expected to be in his office later in the day. Mrs. Mitchell summoned pr. Post, the fam fly physician, from his home at BIO West Ninety third street. Dr. Post diagnosed the case as appendicitiss and at once called into consultation Dr- Brewer and Dr. Peek, who were among the surgeons who attended Mayor Gaynor when he was shot in Hobokengy Dr. Peck is a Specialist in appendicitis. and operated on Mrs. Mitchell for that complaint four years ago
 The three surgeons held confer ' enee and decided. at 8 o'clock in the necessary Mrs. Mitchell telephoned this announcement to MT. Rousseau, who. notified Henry Bruere, the City Chamberlain, and George v. Mullan Of 55 Liberty street. the mayors former law partner. All three of these men went to the Mitchell home to assist in the preparation for the. mayors removal to Roosevelt hos pftaI They arrived at the house at about the same time as Mrs. John Mitchel, the mayors mother. and Miss sPurroys ais aunt. F7ssz zt fzIs
 The mayor was taken to the hospital in n nsulance at 5 o'clock. his wife,
 
 ing in his automobile MT. sMitche1 was placed in Room 2. on the second floor of the private pavilion, and his wife was assigned to Room 4 adjoin- ing it. She spent the night there and will remain at the hospital until the mayor has recovered.
 MT. Mitchell was placed on the oper- ating table at 5:s0 o'clock. pr. Peck performed the operation, with Dr. Post present. The operation was over at 6:04 and the mayor revived from the influence of the a,nesthetic a few minutes later
 Among those who called on the mayor early in the evening were Fire Comn1issfoner RobeSt Adamson, George McAheny, president of the board Of aIdernenS MT. sRosseau, and Dom Barber of 125 West Seventy fourth street, who had an appoint znent to dine with Mir. and Mrs. 8Iitche1 last evening and learned of his illness when he te1ephoned to the sNTitchel apartment 1n the afternoon Mir. Barber is an old friend of the mayor with whom he had been on several shooting trips.
 Mayor Mitchell had an engagement to preside last evening at the opening of the Military Show in Madison Square Garden, but Police Conllnfs- sfoner Arthur Woods took his place
 The mayor suffered from pain in his right side Last spring, a few days before he started for San Francisco to represent the city at the opening of the Pana1na-Pacific Exposition. Dr. Peek was called in, and the mayor explained that his trip would be an stop on the way to the coast at the ranch of A. A. Anderson near Cody, Wyo. The surgeon. after an examfna- tion, said that the patient was in no immediate danger MT Mitchell rel turned to New. York six weeks later without having suffered a recurrence of the. pain.
 A fortunate circumstance of the present attack is that MT. Mitchell is in prime physical condition. His exer- e1se as a rookie at the Plyattsburgh camp recently put him in splendid shape. and since then he has ridden horseback and taken other exercise. surg cons, can in no way be attributed st6 the mayors occasional headaches the jungle fever he contracted in South Africa about 10 years ago. or to the attack of typhoid fever he suffered six years gJo.
 The accuracy and promptness with which the mayors condition was made known to the public last evening was due in large degree, to Charles B Grfmshaw, the superintendent of Roosevelt hospital, who did all in his power to facilitate the preparation and publication of bulletins Mr 0yrinshaW permitted newspaper re- porters to use his private office all night and extended them many other favoFs.
 The nurse in charge of the mayor is Miss Elizabeth Law, who has been at the bedside of several members of she Mitchell family She was in charge when Mrs. Mitchell had appendicitis, and when the mayor was i'll three years ago. The night nurse is Miss Margaret Armstrong
 The windows of MT. NTitche1s room overlook the lawn of the hospital grounds and from them one may ob- tain an open view. of the Hudson river Both the mayors wife and