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| President Theodore Roosevelt. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, September 29, 1902.
ANOTHER OPERATION.
Knife Used to Open Wound in President's Leg.
BONE WAS SLIGHTLY AFFECTED.
At Indianapolis a Simple Needle Was Used—Physicians Noted Rise In Temperature—Made Incision to Relieve Swelling—Dr. Rixey Performed the Operation Assisted by Dr. Lung.
Washington, Sept. 29.—Another operation was performed Sunday on the abscess on the right leg of President Roosevelt.
In the former operation a simple needle was used to relieve the trouble but yesterday the surgeons made an incision with a knife, exposing the bone which was found to be slightly affected.
The president's case has been progressing satisfactorily, but it is believed by the physicians that the further operation made will hasten his complete recovery. The physicians say the area of bone affected is very slight and that there is no evidence whatever of any matter that would produce blood poisoning. They expect that the president will be on his feet within a reasonable time and soon be himself again.
Dr. Newton M. Shaffer of New York, who has been acquainted with the Roosevelt family for a long time and has attended the president's children at various times, joined the presidents physicians in the morning consultation.
It was noticed that there had been a slight rise in temperature and an increase in local symptoms The conclusion was reached that the patient's recovery would be hastened by making an incision in the wound for the purpose of relieving the slight tension or swelling.
The operation was performed between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. An application of cocaine was used to allay the pain.
The president stood the operation very well and subsequently expressed his satisfaction at the successful result.
Dr. Rixey, the surgeon general of the navy, performed the operation, assisted by Dr. Lung, the president's regular physician. Dr. O'Reilly, surgeon general of the army, was also present. Dr. Edward R. Stitt, another of those present, is in charge of the naval museum of hygiene and medical school.
The physicians take an optimistic view of the president's prospects for getting out again. He has become somewhat restive because of his close confinement and the physicians are considering the advisability of permitting him to take a ride in a few days. The physicians say the question now is simply one of the healing of the wound and reiterate that this will be hastened by the operation performed yesterday.
Dr. Shaffer called at the temporary White House last night for a social visit and found the president in the best of spirits. At the White House at 10 o'clock it was stated that the president was doing very well and that no additional statement would be issued.
Late in the evening Dr Shaffer, while he declined to discuss generally the president's case, authorized in the most positive manner the statement that there need not be the least cause for anxiety or alarm regarding his condition, but said on the contrary he could give every assurance that the president would soon recover.
BULLETIN BY SECRETARY.
Dr. Shaffer of New York Joined in the Consultation.
Secretary Cortelyou at 3:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon issued the following statement:
Dr. Newton M. Shaffer of New York joined the president's physicians in consultation this morning at 10 o'clock.
The increase in local symptoms and a rise in temperature rendered it necessary to make an incision into small cavity, exposing the bone, which was found to be slightly affected. Thorough drainage is now established and the physicians feel confident that recovery will be uninterrupted.
The operation was performed by Surgeon General Rixey, assisted by Dr. Lung and in conjunction with Surgeon General O'Reilly and Drs. Shaffer, Urie and Stitt.
George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to the President.
PETITION TO PRESIDENT.
Catholic Societies Asking His Good Offices to End Coal Strike.
New York, Sept. 29.—Petitions are being circulated throughout the country by members of the various organizations comprising the American federation of Catholic societies asking President Roosevelt to use his good offices to end the coal strike. The members of the societies making up the federation number at least a half million of persons.
Bishop McFaul of Trenton, N. J., and Bishop Messmer of Green Bay, Wis., are the spiritual advisors of the federation and are interested in the circulation of the petition. The petition does not ask the president to interfere in a political way. It simply asks him to use his good offices as the first Citizen in the land to bring about a settlement.
In several pulpits of this city the scarcity of coal was referred to.
The coal situation was brought up at the meeting of the Central Federated union yesterday. Samuel B. Donnelly, delegate from Typographical union No. 6, predicted coal riots here "besides which the recent meat riots on the east side were nothing."
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| John W. Dwight. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Nominated for Congress.
John W. Dwight, who was nominated by the Republicans of the Thirtieth district at Binghamton on Saturday, is an able and successful business man having his home in Dryden, though his business interests are largely in farming in Dakota. He is a son of the late Hon. Jeremiah W. Dwight who represented his district in congress for three terms and who earned distinction among other things for his aggressive and successful stand in his district as well as in congress during the greenback craze. When the agitation upon that subject became very pronounced Mr. Dwight went out into every hamlet and town in the district and talked the matter over in a conversational style with his constituents, answering all questions propounded in such a convincing manner both in public meetings and in private conversation that he was returned to congress by a majority far exceeding his previous records and far in excess of the head of his ticket.
The son is said to inherit many of the qualities of the father. He has not been so well known in this county as in the others of the district because Cortland is this year new to this district, but he has represented the old Twenty-sixth district for several years upon the state committee, and will no doubt be highly acceptable to all. Cortland county will hope to get better acquainted with him as the time comes on, and in the meantime will give him a cordial and hearty support.
SOME LOCAL BEQUESTS
From Joseph Thomas Williams, Formerly a Resident of Truxton, N. Y.
Word has been received in Cortland of the death at 18 New Road, Llandeilo, England, on June 27, after an illness of fourteen days of Joseph Thomas. Williams, formerly of the town of Truxton, Cortland county, and that he had left a number of legacies in his will to Cortland county churches and people. The two churches thus favored are Grace Episcopal church of Cortland and Calvary Episcopal church of Homer. The former receives $3,000 and the latter $2,000. Bequests are also made as follows: To Thomas Morris of Cortland $2,000; to David Morris of Cortland $500; to H. B. Hubbard of Cortland $1,000; to Miss Hattie Morris of Syracuse $4,000; and to Miss Lizzie Goddard of Syracuse $1,000.
Mr. Williams was a native of England and a bachelor. He had lived the greater part of his life in Truxton, but returned to England some four or five years ago. For a long time he had manifested an interest in the two churches to which he has now made bequests. He had contributed toward the erection of Grace church and the purchase of the rectory and for a number of years prior to his death had been accustomed to send to the two churches a Christmas and an Easter gift.
TWO DIRECT WIRES
For Cortland Upon the Western Union—New York and Buffalo.
A new nineteen wire cable is being strung from the main line of the Western Union Telegraph company along the Lackawanna railroad to the local office in Brown's drug store, where it will be connected with a new switch board. As soon as this work is done the Cortland office will be a test station between Syracuse and Binghamton. Under the new system Cortland will have a direct wire both to New York and Buffalo. John Hughes of Schenectady is here to install the new switch board.
Victims of Cholera Infantum.
Henry Llewellyn, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn D. Gardner, 46 Railway-ave., Cortland, died yesterday noon from cholera infantum, aged 11 months. The funeral will be held from the house at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and burial in Marathon, N. Y.
The Grange Started It.
Nine thousand new rural free mail delivery routes began operation on the first of July. No other public improvement has ever made such rapid progress in growth and population. Applications for new routes keep coming, and they will continue until the entire country is served. The grange was the originator and promoter of the system, and grand success is a credit to the order.—Utica Press.
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| Ginseng root. |
POINTS ABOUT GlNSENG.
The Root Which it Now Taking the Attention of so Many.
Mr. Robert R. Freer of New York, formerly of Cortland, has for some years been making a careful study of the cultivation of ginseng and has come to be recognized in the metropolis as an expert upon this valuable article of commerce.
Mr. Freer was probably the earliest raiser of ginseng in Cortland county. While a small boy he used to go off into the woods with the children of an Indian family that for some years lived on Port Watson-st. in Cortland not far from his home. The Indians would dig ginseng and Mr. Freer would bring it home likewise. He put out some roots of the plant and raised it quite successfully in his back yard on Port Watson-st.
In studying into the cause of the popularity of this root among the Chinese it appears that somewhere in the teachings of Confucius he taught his followers that he would after departing this life make himself manifest to the faithful by having his spirit return to earth through both the animal and the vegetable kingdom. The ginseng root is thought by the Chinese to come the nearest to looking like the human being of anything in the vegetable kingdom, which is one of the causes of its popularity among the nationality.
That Mr. Freer has come to be known as an authority upon the subject of ginseng is evidenced from the fact that the New York Times in its issue of Sunday, Sept. 14, published an article by him upon the growth of ginseng. This will be read with eagerness in this vicinity not only because it is the production of a Cortland county boy, but also because of the general interest in ginseng.
BREVITIES.
—At noon last Friday the total number of students registered at Cornell university was 2,213.
—A business meeting of the Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will be held at the church tonight at 7:30.
—Cortlandville lodge, No. 470, F. & A. M., will confer the third degree at their regular communication Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—Wilbur J. Sheldon and Grace P. Cogswell, both of Cortland, were married on Monday, Sept. 15, by Rev. J. H. Blue of Marathon.
—New display advertisements today are—Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; G. H. Wiltsie, drygoods, page 6; Warren, Tanner & Co., drygoods, page 6; S. Simmons, Overalls, etc., page 6; Opera House, "Jolly American Tramp," page 5.
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