Colonel Resting.

New York Times 100 years ago today, October 16, 1912:
High Pulse Said to Be Due to His Fretting at Inactivity.
WAKEFUL TILL MIDNIGHT
Shaves Himself in Bed and Tells Nurse He Will Soon Go Home.
HE SEES MANY VISITORS
Jokes with Martin and Cecil Lyon About the Man Who Shot Him.
GIVES MISSION TO BEVERIDGE
A Message to the Nation to be Delivered at Louisville, Where He Was to Speak.
ANXIOUS TO SEE HIS WIFE
She Will Reach Chicago To-day — His Daughter, Alice, with Him — Thousands of Messages Reach Him.Special to The New York Times.
    CHICAGO, Oct. 15.— Col. Theodore Roosevelt was wakeful and restless at midnight in his room at Mercy Hospital, to which he was brought this morning suffering from the bullet wound in his right breast, inflicted on him by John Schrank in Milwaukee the night before.
    Precautionary measures against the possible development of lockjaw were taken earlier in the evening. A prophylactic dose of anti-tetanic serum was administered just before the doors were closed to all callers at 8 o'clock.
    The distinguished surgeons would not admit that they feared that blood poisoning would develop. They considered the situation grave enough, however, to warrant taking this precautionary step.
    They expressed the opinion that while the danger of infection had not been eliminated. Col. Roosevelt's superb physical condition would overcome the tendency to pus formation around the bullet and the course of the wound.
    After two thorough examinations in the afternoon, the surgeons decided not to attempt to remove the bullet at this time. Unless a sudden rise in temperature indicates a disturbance from infection in the wound, no attempt will be made to extract the bullet, which imbedded itself in the Colonel's breast a distance of about four inches from the point of incision.
    In the event of infection manifesting itself, an operation will be performed at once, and the entire tract immediately affected by the course of the bullet will be drained.

Passed a Comfortable Day.
    The Colonel's condition throughout the day developed no new manifestations except for the reaction from the excitement and the increase of pain about the wound. This, the surgeons held, was natural.
    A bad cough, which troubled the patient slightly at times, was at first feared as having been superinduced by the wound. It was noted, however, that Col. Roosevelt was bothered with this cough while in Chicago on Saturday, and that, in the absence of any internal hemorrhage it should not be considered in any way serious.
    The development of the cough, meanwhile, with the accompanying pain, a slight acceleration of the heart action, and a noticeable development of temperature, gave rise to wild rumors late in the afternoon that the Colonel's condition was exceedingly grave. The surgeons' last bulletin for the night, however, showed the patient's pulse to be 86, his temperature 99.2, and respiration 18, which practically may be considered normal.
    The bulletin stated that there had been no bloody expectoration, a condition considered very favorable as indicating that the bullet had not proceeded to any vital point, and certainly had not pierced the walls of the chest sufficiently to lacerate the lung tissue.
    The bulletin concluded as follows:
    "We find him in magnificent physical condition, due to his regular exercise, his habitual abstinence from tobacco and liquor.
    "As a precautionary measure he has been given a prophylactic dose of anti-tetanic serum to guard against the development of lockjaw later."
    Col. Roosevelt, when the doors closed on his last caller for the night, said that he felt "bully," and that unless the serum set up a disturbance he expected to have the best night's rest he had enjoyed in months.
    Col. Roosevelt laid aside his book a few minutes after 9 o'clock and switched off his reading light. He was soon fast asleep. Dr. Murphy went into the Colonel's room at 9:30 and found him asleep.
    At 10:20 o'clock Dr. Murphy said the Colonel had a temperature of 99.2 and a pulse of 86. The Colonel aroused a little shortly after Dr. Murphy saw him and seemed somewhat restless.

Restless After Short Nap.
    After having had several short naps, Col. Roosevelt awakened at 10:30 P. M., and called for hot water to shave himself. He sat up in bed with a hand mirror against his knees and shaved, and then was given a sponge bath and alcohol rub down by his nurse. After the bath his clinical record was taken. Temperature, 98.8; pulse, 88.
    He turned on his night light and began to read again, saying that he would do so until he got sleepy.
    Col. Roosevelt told his nurse that he was going home to Oyster Bay on Sunday. He ordered his breakfast for 7 o'clock, and said: "Mind. I want a good one. I'll be hungry."
    He gave directions about his clothes and his room, to have everything in readiness to see Mrs. Roosevelt in the morning.
    "The Colonel acts very eager to see Mrs. Roosevelt," said Nurse Fitzgerald. "He talks about it quite a bit, and is very particular about having everything pleasant for her."
    Miss Fitzgerald said that the Colonel's pulse after his sponge bath was not far above normal, considering his physical characteristics, and a more important fact concerning it was its strong and steady rhythm, she said. Col. Roosevelt after his bath and shave had no ache of any kind, but said he was slightly nervous from inaction.
    At midnight Col. Roosevelt was sleeping soundly. Dr. John F. Golden, assistant surgeon of the hospital, took a look at the patient and reported that there was no prospect of any change in the Colonel's condition during the night.
    "He will sleep till morning. He is all right," said Dr. Golden.

Walked from Car to Ambulance.
    The day for Col. Roosevelt began in Chicago with the arrival of the special train which brought him down from Milwaukee at 3:32 A.M. He slept nearly two hours after the train arrived before the surgeons ventured to interfere with his rest.
    At 5:12 o'clock Dr. J. B. Murphy made an examination of the wound, and announced that a series of X-ray photographs would be taken preliminary to a fuller examination. At 6:16 o'clock Col. Roosevelt walked from his bed in his private car, the Mayflower, to an ambulance, and reclined upon a cot with his cousin, Philip Roosevelt, at his side, Dr. Murphy taking a position beside the driver.
    "Oh, gosh! Shot again!" was his comment to the photographers who exploded flashlights all about him. And to the reporters and members of a crowd of 400 persons who had assembled he waved a cheerful "Good morning."
    At the Mercy Hospital Col. Roosevelt came under the personal charge of Sister Raphael, the mother superior, who has been for fifty years a Sister of Mercy. In spite of all her years of service and her long hospital training, the eyes of the venerable Sister of Charity reddened as her distinguished patient came within the confines of the hospital.
    The day nurse assigned to Col. Roosevelt was Miss Blanche A. Welter, a Chicago girl, who was graduated from the hospital's nursing class in 1911, and soon afterward became conspicuously recognized in the hospital for her efficiency.
    The room in which Col. Roosevelt was placed overlooks a large area of middle-class residences and shops. As it is higher than any of the near-by buildings it receives the full sweep of the Chicago winds, and is rated as one of the most pleasant rooms in the institution.
    The only objection voiced by the hospital authorities to the day's activities was a protest against the constant chugging of autos under Col. Roosevelt's windows and the frequent explosion of flash-light powder upon the arrival after nightfall of such visitors as Jane Addams, who returned for a second time to see Col. Roosevelt; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, and Senator Beveridge.
    At 7 o'clock the surgeons insisted that Col. Roosevelt permit an X-ray examination. They completed it at 8 o'clock, and shortly afterward Major E. J. Vattman, a chaplain of the United States Army, who is known affectionately as "Father Vattman" to his neighbors at Willmette, arrived in great haste after a hard automobile drive. Father Vattman insisted to the hospital authorities that Col. Roosevelt had sent for him. and he was greatly surprised when he learned that the Colonel was not in a dying condition. He had concluded that the message for him to come meant that conditions were very serious.

Tells Colonel Bullet Elected Him.
    "Oh, he'll live all right," was Father Vattman's first word of greeting to those he met upon emerging from half an hour's visit as Col. Roosevelt's first caller of the day. With Father Vattman was Dr. George F. Butler, whom he had brought along, not knowing what medical attendance had been provided. Dr. Butler proved to be the first visitor to greet Col. Roosevelt with the declaration that he had "elected himself through the experience at Milwaukee."
    "Mr. President," he said to Col. Roosevelt, "you were, elected last night. It was the turning of the tide in your favor."
    To the crowd outside the hospital Dr. Butler said, with a backward glance at the brick walls to make sure his voice could not reach up far enough to disturb the patient:
    "He jerked his hand out to me and showed his teeth as he greeted me. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the fellow who fired that shot was inspired by the sensational charges that have been published against Col. Roosevelt. There are a lot of insane men in this country that can be incited to just such crimes by sensationalism."
    As the visitors from the Colonel's sickroom made their way back over the city they carried some startling stories to those who had awaited news of one dangerously ill.
    "Oh, I found him kicking his legs and downing toast and tea," shouted one excited visitor as he burst into Progressive headquarters on the fourth floor of the La Salle Hotel.
    Throughout the day visitors continued to clamor for bulletins at the headquarters, and most of the guests of the hotel found it convenient to gather on the fourth floor instead of the main lobby. The jokes that the Colonel made to his visitors and the shocked comment of the visitors on the state of mind and body in which they found him were repeated to the callers.

Beveridge His Mouthpiece.
    While a hospital staff of four attending surgeons and three trained nurses fumed and fretted because they simply could not get him to stop talking and enjoy the perfect and complete rest which they held to be absolutely necessary to his early recovery, Col. Roosevelt spent his first day in the hospital holding in rapid-fire order a series of political conferences.
    The most important of these was held at 6 o'clock this evening, after the Colonel had been receiving a stream of visitors throughout the afternoon and reading voraciously from Macaulay's Essays whenever one visitor was going out in order to let another visitor come in. Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge, the Bull Moose candidate for Governor of Indiana, was the other person present at this conference, when Col. Roosevelt took into his own hands the settling of all questions connected with the campaign, just as he had taken into his own hands earlier in the day the settlement of all questions connected with the manner in which he should conduct himself while convalescing. He rejected an offer made by Senator Beveridge that he, Beveridge, step into the Colonel's unfilled speaking schedule and carry it out. Instead, he ordered Senator Beveridge to carry a personal message from him to the American people and deliver it personally to them through the medium of an audience that was to have heard Col. Roosevelt himself at Louisville on Wednesday evening.
    Besides instructing Senator Beveridge as to the exact manner in which he was to convey the candidate's message to the people. Col. Roosevelt handled over to Senator Beveridge the speech he himself was to have delivered at Louisville. He instructed Sena-tor Beveridge to deliver the speech in full, or in part, as the circumstances warranted, and if in part to return the manuscript to the Progressive headquarters in Chicago, so that it might he issued in full as a campaign document.
    Senator Beveridge came from the conference an hour after nightfall as one on fire with a great mission. He hardly glanced at the large assemblage of people, who hoped he would bring out some word as to Col. Roosevelt's condition, and hurried away to a railroad station to keep the Louisville speaking date. He waved aside all persons who attempted to intercept him.
    Except for the speaking date in Louisville there will be no further effort to carry on a personal Roosevelt campaign. Medill McCormick to-day released the Roosevelt special cars, disbanded the Roosevelt campaigning party, and canceled all the dates for Roosevelt speeches except the one date on which Senator Beveridge was appointed to deliver a personal message of his party's leader.

Calls for His Papers.
    The exact nature of the quiet and peaceful ten days, which Col. Roosevelt is expected to spend in the Mercy  Hospital became known to-night when Cecil Lyon, the only armed member of his party when the bullet was fired at Col. Roosevelt Monday night, arrived at the hospital at nightfall with some things the Colonel had especially instructed him to bring. The "things" consisted of a small bale of documents and papers and a stack of several hundred telegrams which Col. Roosevelt had been considering when his campaign plans were temporarily broken up. Col. Lyon went up to the Roosevelt room with his heavy burden and remained with the distinguished patient for nearly an hour.
    Mrs. Nicholas Longworth called at 5:40 o'clock and remained for half an hour. "Mrs. Longworth never grants an interview," was her only comment as she emerged from the hospital and stepped into a waiting automobile. Except for Mrs. Longworth and Philip Roosevelt, a cousin, who remained at the hospital throughout the day, none of Col. Roosevelt's immediate family visited him. Mrs. Roosevelt, it was announced, was hurrying toward Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited from Oyster Bay, but would not arrive until to-morrow morning.
    When the surgeons in attendance issued a bulletin giving Col. Roosevelt's condition at 6 o'clock the Colonel directed that a copy of the bulletin be forwarded over the private wire from the Chicago headquarters of the Progressive Party to George W. Perkins, in charge of the New York headquarters, with instructions to Mr. Perkins to relay the message to Mrs. Roosevelt on board the Twentieth Century train.
    One sentiment expressed by Col. Roosevelt during the day was regarded by those who heard it as highly significant of his attitude toward the man who attempted to kill him and the young stenographer who hurled his bulky body against the assailant and floored him before he could fire a second shot.
    Elbert E. Martin, the stenographer — one of two accompanying Col. Roosevelt — went into the Colonel's room in company with the "Oyster Bay Guard," as Col. Roosevelt referred to the newspaper men who had accompanied him on his trip. The Colonel had insisted that the newspaper men be admitted, in spite of a chorus of protests from physicians and surgeons, and had even insisted that the surgeons withdraw while he talked "confidentially" to his "old guard." His eyes fell upon Martin and they shone with a light of kindly and intense regard.

His Praise Touches Martin.
    "Say, Martin," he called out, "Cecil Lyon is going to have a permanent grudge against you because you got in the way so he couldn't kill that fellow," and the Colonel laughed as he always laughed when in the heartiest of good humor, and nobody among the correspondents would have guessed that he had been wounded or was in anything but the finest fighting spirit.
    Cecil Lyon was armed, but when he turned around to face the man who fired the shot, he saw Martin's body sprawled out on top of him, while four pairs of hands were scrambling for the smoking revolver. There was simply no chance to get in a shot without hitting Martin, and Col. Lyon had said some rather vitriolic things about that before he had entirely reconciled himself to the slower process of the law.
    The little tribute of praise given to young Martin by Col. Roosevelt in his jocular reference to Cecil Lyon's grudge against him touched Martin very keenly.
    Col. Roosevelt turned his attention from Martin to the Oyster Bay correspondent, but Dr. Terrell urged him merely to look them over and not to say a word to them.
    "Now, these men," said Col. Roosevelt, "are my friends. You let me handle them," and the Colonel did so, much to the disgust of the surgeons. What he said was not for publication. But when the correspondents turned to leave he would not shake hands with Martin, although he did so with all the others. "I owe you a deeper debt of gratitude than a handshake can ever repay," he remarked.

Jane Addams Turned Away.
    The surgeons did not give up to Col. Roosevelt and his strenuous ways of enjoying his quiet and rest without a strong protest. At 1 o'clock, an hour before the afternoon's activities in receiving callers commenced, the attending surgeons gave out a rather alarming bulletin, which they hoped would scare visitors away. But it failed totally in its intended effect. Col. Roosevelt called for reading matter, and when the surgeons turned Jane Addams away on the grounds that Col. Roosevelt was too ill to be visited, the Colonel insisted that the noted leader of the Hull House Settlement Work be invited to return later in the day.
    The first word brought out of the hospital early in the morning, while hundreds still stood about wondering if Col. Roosevelt were fatally injured, was that he was sitting up in bed kicking his legs vigorously over the edge of the bedstead, while eating a breakfast of bacon and eggs and tea.
    Very shortly after the 1 o'clock bulletin was issued, Alexander H. Revel, a Bull Moose leader in Chicago, drove up in an auto and the surgeons tried to keep him from the Colonel's bedroom. But Col. Roosevelt insisted that Mr. Revell come in for a visit. "I wouldn't have called," said Mr. Revell, "but Col. Roosevelt sent me an insistent message. The first words he said to me were that he was feeling fine — just like his old self — and was going to come out all right. While, of course, the surgeons are there to tell how he is getting along, I can say in an unofficial way that he looked mighty good."
    The visit of Mr. Revell opened the flood gates for the enthusiastic Bull Moosers who waited to pay personal visits. And also it opened a way for stacks and stacks of flowers. A buoyant mood seemed to come over the people of the city after they became aware that Col. Roosevelt insisted upon joking the hours away, and they insisted on expressing their joy by visits to the floral shops.
    While strings of automobiles chugged under the third story window where the Colonel's room is located, a series of florists' wagons kept the opposite curb jammed to its capacity. As the visitors from the autos made their way into the hospital through the main entrance the boys from the florists' shops entered incessantly through the entrance for servants. Some of the flowers went to Col. Roosevelt's room. The rest, by his orders, went to the rooms of other patients.

"Bully," He Says of Wilson Message.
    Among the telegrams received by Col. Roosevelt and one of the few which he read with enthusiasm came from his opponent in the Presidential race — Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey. It said:
    Please accept my warmest sympathy and heartiest congratulations that your wound is not serious.
    The Colonel's eyes lighted as he read the words. "Bully," said he. "Wilson is of the right American blood, notwithstanding the fact that he and I are opposed in a political sense."

Mrs. Longworth Praises Martin.
    Mrs. Longworth arrived in Chicago from Cincinnati at 6:46 P.M., and, accompanied by Mrs. Medill McCormick and George P. Porter, Assistant Treasurer of the Progressive Party, who met her at the station, hurried to the hospital. She was detained in the anteroom outside his apartment for several minutes until a consultation between Col. Roosevelt and John C. Shaffer relative to future engagements was finished.
    Mrs. Longworth met Martin, and warmly thanked him for saving her father. She asked calmly that he tell her just how it happened.
    She listened attentively as he described in detail the positions of the principals in the attempt at assassination, and what each did. Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas interjected occasional explanations.
    "It was a very wonderful thing to do," she complimented Martin, "just wonderful. I am proud of you. You couldn't have had much time to decide, and you took a great risk in doing what you did. I am as grateful to you as one possibly can be."
    Martin blushingly displayed the torn and perforated manuscript and spectacle case which helped to lessen the force of the bullet, and disclaimed any heroism, but the daughter of the ex-President would not have it so. She examined the exhibits carefully and noted that the Colonel's spectacles had not been damaged. She appeared deeply interested, almost amused, at the divergence in the stories as told by different persons, and said :
    "I supposed it is difficult to tell just what happened, everything was over so quickly. And each has a different picture on his memory. But it was wonderful the courage you all showed."
    Before she went into the Colonel's apartments he was told she was without, and he called out to her to "Come in." She was closeted with him for some time.

Thinks He'll Enjoy a Rest.
    The Colonel's room is on the third floor, in the southwest corner of the building, and at the south end of the corridor. It is number 314, and that next to it, 312, serves as an ante-room and consulting room. No. 310 is occupied by Dr. L. Terrell, the Colonel's personal physician, and by J. W. McGrath, Col. Roosevelt's Secretary.
    Col. Roosevelt talked little to-day of the assault. Most of that discussion was in jests with those who called on him. When the physicians turned back the covers of his bed the better to examine his wound, Col. Roosevelt exclaimed, forgetful of his condition:
    "Don't lose my place, doctor; don't lose my place."
    He referred to a book the physician had laid to one side, and which, containing the essays by Macaulay, had furnished him an interested hour.
    He asked seriously how his wound looked, and leaned his head forward from his half-sitting posture and surveyed it himself
    "That doesn't look bad, doctor," he said. "What do you think?"
    "That, as it is, doesn't bother us." responded Dr. Murphy, nodding to his fellows, Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, and Dr. Terrell, who accompanied him. "It is what you do to it."
    The patient raised his eyebrows interrogatively and was informed that the doctors, by way of precaution, felt he had better see no one, so that the rest would remove further any possibility of a setback. He was disappointed for a few minutes, but the examination being over and a pint of buttermilk having been ordered, he reached again for his books and smiled "All right."
    An hour's sleep kept up his good spirits, and he said it had been the most refreshing rest he had enjoyed for a week.
    "This will give me a good rest up any way," he said, "and if I must stay here, I suppose I might as well make the most of it." The wonderful physical condition of Col. Roosevelt came in for extended comment. "I never saw a man so well built," remarked Dr. Terrell to a visitor early in the day, and the remark was repeated scores of times before nightfall.
    "He has phenomenal development of the chest," continued the surgeon, "and it is largely due to this and the fact that he is a physical marvel that he was not fatally wounded. He is one of the most powerful men I have ever seen on an operating table. The massive muscles of the chest stopped the bullet instead of permitting it to penetrate to the lungs."
    At midnight to-night the Mercy Hospital looked in the darkness much like an armed camp. Policemen in uniform stood about in squads in all the near-by streets, while detectives were bunched in the main hospital entrance and at the foot of the elevator leading to the floor on which Col. Roosevelt was resting.
    It was the determination of the Chicago police not to let any precaution go untaken that might permit, if neglected, a second attack upon Col. Roosevelt. Many policemen in the squads grouped about the hospital insisted that if the Milwaukee police had been more careful the assault on Col. Roosevelt could not have been successfully carried out.

SOCIALISTS DEPLORE ATTACK.
But Colonel Is a Victim of His Own Teachings, Says the Call.
    The New York Call, the Socialist morning newspaper, prints an editorial this morning regretting the attack on Col. Roosevelt in Milwaukee and emphasizing the fact that his assailant is not a Socialist and that violence is opposed to Socialist teaching. The editorial rebukes The New York Press as the one New York morning newspaper which called Schrank a Socialist The editorial says:
    "It went ahead, without knowing the facts, and tried to implicate in this dirty assault over 2,000,000 men and women in this country."
    Of the assault itself The Call says:
    "There is not a Socialist who does not deplore the assault made on Theodore Roosevelt, even though it is just such an action as he himself has time and again advocated. It was an individual, strong-man attempt to set right the problems of humanity. It was thoroughly Rooseveltian, thoroughly in keeping with Rooseveltian teachings, thoroughly in keeping with Rooseveltian ideas.
    "These many years Socialists have struggled valiantly to combat the idea of killing. They knew all along Roosevelt was and is in favor of killing. He has been a hunter, a ranchman, a 'soldier' in a most limited way, assistant in the Department of the Navy, Governor, President. When and where and how was his voice ever lifted against killing? In all his writings, when and where and how did he oppose individual action? Never at any time, and he never opposed it in any way. We deplore sincerely the fact that he has fallen a victim to his own preachings."