The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC—NO. 10 1. SAN 'F_RANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1901, PRICE FIVE CENTS. JTRIGKEN PRESIDENT 1o PhaalNG THE CRISIS THAT MEANG LIFE OR DEATH IND PHYSICIANS NOW REGARD HI5 ULTIMATE RECOVERY A5 ALMOST GERTAIN o SHIEY SeCRETSERVICE PRESIDENT PASSES A RESTLESS NIGHT, BUT SLEEPS FAIRLY WELL. UFFALO, Sebt. 9., Milburn House, 6 a. m.—The President pissed a somewhal rest- less night, sleeping fairly well. ture 101, respiration 28. GEO. B. CORTELYOU, Secrelary. - CHANGES IN PATIENT'S CONDITION | | ARE ALL TOWARD IMPROVEMENT | R | JORH R BROOKE | Though President McKinley Is Not Yet Out of| D Sympt f Serious C 1 anger Scymptoms 0 erious uom- ! | continuously, remained -steadfastly | throughout the day in the little white- “ walled tents across the street from the | | house where the country’s patient lay \ | and flashed the news over the land and the sea. £ NOT YET OUT OF DANGER. C"““; ‘0(; :]:5‘78“10;' And yet, despite all this optimism, .“'plr.ne imt | v‘ the President is by no means out of ave _M’f he patient 1. | danger. None of his physicians, not one | side fecl strongly that his life | of pig aqvisers who is admitted to the 5 al nner councils, has the temerity to go so night and | g o6 2o declare that he is. But if he ur after hour | continue to improve for one day more . patient. | +he danger of peritonitis, which is most | LT i ¥ 1o | ToR CHARLEY watchiul | 4.9 ded, will have practically disap-| | 5:‘“" 2 peared. | WY PAIRBAN K5 > h Yesterday one of the doctors thought | 2y "\ e oot forty-eight hours would be the limit of | | ed ';’T consy 1 | the danger from that source, but his % e verdict was unani- | yore conservative colleagues believeat | 4 - - change had occurred four hours, possibly thirty- | | six from this time, must elapse before | | DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS WHOSE NAMES HAVE FIGURED PROM- | N premonitory symp- | 41, ssibility of itonitis shal 5 INENTLY IN DISPATCHES BEARING UPON THE BUFFALO TRAG- f per s appeantd’ ol e | it "}fmf’dfz;:)xszg"r'fi “5““”1 O’:;‘e’;‘ EDY. MAJOR SYLVESTER HAS INSTITUTED A FAR-REACHING s with the morning grew | com lications may arise. Blood-poison- | MOVEMENT AGAINST ANARCHISTS. st ad- | ing may set in or an abscess form where | 2 con- d t too sanguine NO UNFAVORABLE SYMPTOM. . the famous ad been sum- n, after a thorough ich hc said he had favorable symp- afternoon bul- ry to the physi- It is not strange, there- inet and other distin- ors who called came away | hearts and buoyant tread on to the most optim- which declared that the President’s | | the bullet is imbedded in the muscles of | the back. Thus far the bullet, which is still in the body, gives the physicians no anxi- ety; but if the slightest inflammation appear in the region of the lead it will be immediately extracted. No difficulty is expected in this regard. | One of Edison’s best X-ray machines and his most skilled and trusted oper- ator, Dr. H. A. Knolls, arrived to-day. | The batteries were charged and the ma- | chine is ready for instant dse. With it ;thc physicians say there is not the | clightest doubt that the ball can be lo- cated perfectly for an operation. They | do not deem j advisable to sap any of | the President’s strength at this time. | All this reserve force is needed now to — BRITISH KING GRIEVES. K IEL, Sept. 7, 1901.—To the President of the United States, Buffalo: yvond words at the dastardly attempton I am horrified be- P E— The encouraging news spread over in me street cars a selves of the h and confidence that | exi k!eu zbout the Milburn house. The stness of the day, with its cool, | osphere, added to the gen- | ess, and when a score of Cflmd into the crowd about 6 | shouting “Extra! The President ve!” it was with difficulty that they ing that arose in their throats. newspaper men, many of whom been at their posts for forty-eight hours d suppress the shouts of thanksgiv- | And the | have | your life. Bly best and warmest good wishes and most earnest hopes for your recovery. EDWARD. — resist the dangcr of peritonitis and sep- on City with great rapi dxly | tic poisoning. Besides, if mflammatmn‘ carriages, in | does not set in around the bullet, it will | afoot to learn for them- | soon become encysted. PATIENT'S MIND CLEAR. All the effects of the ether which was administered when the operation was performed on the exposition grounds had disappeared this morning and the Presideat’s mind was - perfectly clear during the time he was awake to-day. To-day for the first time he enjoyed nat- ural sleep. While he was still more or less under the influence of the anaes- | thetic his slumber was restless and dis- | turbed and did him little real good. Be- tween 9 and 4 o’clock he had the solace of natural slumber for about four hours, and the physicians stated officially that his sleep had been “quiet and reposeful” and had helped the sufferer a great deal. To-day also, for the first time, nour- ishment was administered. It was in liquid form and was injected hypoder- mically to avoid the possibility of ir- ritating the walls of the stomach. The exterior wound was dressed this morn- ing and is progressing satisfactorily. All day the members of the Cabinet and others associated with the President in public life came solicitously and went away almost jubilantly, all reflecting the hopeful outlook at the Milburn house. Vice President Roosevelt received the earlier bulletins, and, after going to church, hurried to the residence. There he was joined by Senator Hanna. They came away together and gave expression to the most confident and encouraging sentiments. The Vice President not only shared the cheerful feeling, but was extremely optimistic. Both gentlemen took occasion to denounce in unmeas- ured terms the statements gaining circu- lation in some quarters that the doctors were not frank in their communications to the public. They maintained that the President’s favorable condition was even understated by the physicians, through motives of conservatism, during the seventy-two hour period. BULLETINS TRUSTWORTHY. Later Secretary Cortelyou took oc- | casion to emphasize this very point by issuing an official statement assuring the public of the complete trustworthiness of the bulletins sent out by the physi- cians. Senator Hanna came azaimr- ing the afternoon and was seldo far removed from the Milburn house. Sec- retary Root has taken up quarters im- mediately next door and was in frequent consultation with those inside. He and Secretary Gage, Secretary Hitchcock and Attorney General Knox called to- no precedent to follow. gether about noon, and, indeed, there was no time during the day when some member of the Cabinet was not in the house where his stricken chief lay. Even those most prominent in public life did not see him, as the doctors would not relax the ironclad rule they have laid down to prevent the least drain upon his energies and vitality. Thcse who came and went moved silently and rev- erently, receiving the latest statements from the doctors and departing. All of the members of the Cabinet are here ex- cept Secretaries Hay and Long. The former telegraphed to-day that he would start from Newbury to-morrow and would probably be here to-morrow night. Secretary Long telegraphed that he was coming but did not specify the time. The Cabinet officers feel it to be their duty to be here in this crisis to meet any emergency. They are holding no formal meetings, although there are some matters of public business which they daily discuss informally, and the possible contingencies should the Pres- ident grow worse are also thoroughly canvassed. They do not believe that there is the most remote possibility that Vice President Roosevelt will be called upon to exercise the functions of chief magistrate under the disability clause of the constitution while the President lives. EMERGENCY MAY ARISE. Vice President Roosevelt will not hear of such a course. Still, in the event of grave international complications an emergency might occur, and the ques- tion has arisen in their midst as to who should proclaim the disability provided for by the constitution. That instru- ment is silent on the subject. There is During the protracted illness of President Garfield before his death Vice President Arthur was not called upon to act. The consensus of opinion among tle members of the Cabinet is that, should General condition unchanged. Pulse 120, tempera- P.M. RIXEY, M. D., MANN. ABNER M RANLEY — the occasion arise, they themselves would have to decide and proclaim the existence of the disability. The Supreme Court, they say, could not do so, as there would be no way in which (hf: question could be raised before that tri- bunal. The members of the Cabinet are mak- ing their headquarters at the Buffalo Club and there the interchanges take place. They are to remain here for the present, and the plans of departure are indefinite and not even thought of while the President is not entirely out of dan- ger. If he should pass the danger point, however, they will return at once to Washington. Vice President Roosevelt's attendance at the morning service of the First Pres- byterian Church gave occasion for a heartfelt expression of the sorrow uni- versally felt over the calamity and the detestation of the assassin’s methods. A fervid prayer by the pastor, Dr. Mitchell, invoked the sternest reprobation of an- | archy and asked that the temples of pub- lic life be scourged of men willing to temporize with the madness of anarchy. The interest in the President’s condi- tion was such across the Canadian bor- der that the press was asked to furnish a bulletin this morning to be read in the churches in Quebec and Montreal and many requests of a similar character came direct to Secretary Cortelyou from different parts of the United States. MESSAGES POURING IN. The messages of sympathy from all over the United States and all over the world, in fact, have fairly overwhelmed Secretary Cortelyou. Two more White House stenographers have been sent for and, upon their arrival, perhaps to- morrow, some of the:more important messages will be made public. Almost every Government in the world has been heard from; most of the crowned heads of Europe sending personal messages. Among the latter are King Edward, Emperor William, the Kings of Portu- gal, Ttaly and Sweden and the Sultan of Turkey. President Loubet of the re- public sof France has cabled his sym- pathy direct. One of the most touching messages thus far received was from ‘Madame Labori, the wife of Maitre La- bori, who defended Dreyfus in his fa- re.ous trial at Rennes. Mrs. McKinley continues to bear up bravely and her fortitude under the cir- cumstances is regarded as remarkable. Onie of her dearest and closest friends, Mrs. Rand of Washington, has arrived herc and will probably remain with her during this trying period. Secretary Cortelyou, in whose hands the management of everything seems to be, was able to take some rest this morning for the first time since the tragedy. The great confidence which the President has in his secretary could not have been more strikingly illustrated than at the exposition hospital, when he was about to be placed upon the op- erating table. The President realized that the sooner the operation was per- formed the better, and he was perfectly willing to submit himself to the knife. H's only solicitude was as to the com- petency of the surgeons who were to perform the operation. Just before he was placed upon the table he called Sec- retary Cortelyou to him and asked * PREYDENT MAJOR RICHARD DYLVE CAATION oF POLICE CHE MATIONAL ASH0 SURGEON MANN SAYS RECOVERY OF THE PRESIDENT IS CERTAIN Patient Himself Declares He Will Live When One of His Physicians Tells Him That He Has a Fighting Chance. Special Dispatch to The Call. UFFALO, Sept. 8—While Vice President Roosevelt was looking over his mail at his rooms in Ansley Wilcox's home this morning and be- fore he had breakfasted, Dr. Matthew D. Mann, the Buffalo specialist, who has had a large practice here in abdominal operations and who has been with the President much of the time since he was shot, called. Dr. Mann said he had come to give the Vice President the lat- est news from President McKinley and he came all the more gladly because his news was thoroughly encouraging. | He said to Colonel Roosevelt that there was every reason to believe the President would recover. “Speaking as a surgeon effect, “and disregarding for the moment the personality of the patient, I would say that to me his recovery seems al- most as certain as anything human can be. Let me explain: If the dis guished patient in Milburn’s home were known to me merely as a man who had received a gunshot wound and I knew nothing more of him than what I could see as a surgeon, I would say there was absolutely no doubt of his recovery. My apprehensions are now based not in the least upon my views of this case as a surgeon, but because of the vast im- portance of the life of the patient to all of us and to the nation.” Dr. Charles McBurney of New York, one of the most famous surgeons in this country in dealing with wounds of the nature of that inflicted upon the Presi- dent, made a thorough examination of the distinguished patient and reported that he could find no trace of peritonitis. In response to the President’s inquiry | he told him that he had more than a fighting chance. + ,” he said, in “Then I will recover,” was the Pres- ident’s determined reply. Dr. McBurney's statement, tor The Call to-night, follows: “In regard to the present condition of President McKinley I would call your attention to the fact that it is but a little over forty-eight hours since the shot was fired. It is yet too soon to speak confidently of the outcome. At the present hour, however, and giving due consideration to the severity of the injury and the importance and extent of the operation required, the patient’s condition is entirely satisfactory. It is gratifying to find that up to the present time none of the numerous signs of in- flammation or septic conditions have appeared. The temperature is not too high. It is lewer to-night than it was this morning® The pulse is better, the facial expression is entirely satisfactory, the mind is clear, thefe is no pain or tenderness, no nausea and no distension of the abdomen. “The crisis will have passed Tuesday. By that time we ought to be able to tell with a reasonable degree of certainty whether he is going to recover. Peri- tonitis has not developed. It will have developed by Tuesday, probably, if it is going to come at all. The wounds have entirely closed. - They were closed im- mediately after the operation. There has been no subsequent exploration of the wounds. The presumption is now that the bullet is lodged in the muscles of the back. Ii it is lodged there it is harm- less and there is no need to take it out.” The doctor added that if the President lived until Tuesday he ought to be so far recovered in three or four weeks as to resume his ordinary duties. dictated dent of the United K how I and the whole of country has to pass. KAISER SENDS SYMPATHY. OENIGSBERG, Sept. 7, 1901.—To the Presi- deeply distressed by the news of the das- tardly attempt on your life. for you and the anguish through which your May the Lord grant you a sure and speedy recovery. States, Fuifalo: I am I express to you the German people feel WILLIAM, L R. + whether the surgeons were all right. Mr. Cortelyou assured him that he had made inquiries and that they were reputed to | be among the most skillful in their pro- l fession. The President accepted the as- | surance instantly and immediately an- nounced he was ready. The members of the Cabinet are do- ing everything in their power to prevent the sensational exploitation of Czolgosz, because he undoubtedly craves notoriety | and because his fellow anarchists l ——p | @t e i @ throughout the country love it. They do not desire to place any stone in ths path of the authorities who are laboring to unravel the plot, if any plot existe 1, and all the machinery of the Govern- ment secret service will be used to aid the State authorities in the prosécution of their investigation. But by the direct request of Secretary Root, on behalf of his colleagues, the District Attorney and the police will not permit the pris- oner to be seen or interviewed.