Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — ROOSEVELT WILL AGAIN VISIT WEST [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT WILL AGAIN VISIT WEST

Intends to Make Tour Later On in Order to Fulfill Promises. FORCED VACATION IRRITATES President Is Annoyed That a Shin Bruise Should Force Him to Abandon His Trip, but He Will Complete His Journey. / Washington special: ‘ President Roosevelt reached Washington in an unhappy frame of mind because a slight abscess had forced him to abandon his western trip. The train reacaed here on time, and President Roosevelt was borne from the train by his physicians. The president has abandoned all his trips planned for this fall, but ne stated that as soon as congress adjourns he will go to tne Pacific coast and visit every city he intended to visit during the trip just abandoned. When the president was dressed. Dr. Lung lifted him bodily from the bed, while Dr. Rixey and Dr. Urey supported the patient’s leg. In this way the president was carried out of the car down the steps to the platform, where he was placed In a wheeled chair and conveyed to his carriage, in which sat Mrs. Roosevelt, and wks driven to the temporary White house. , Makes Light of Illness. There was a large crowd on the station platform and the president watched it with the utmost concern. He looked into the anxious and sympathetic faces, shook his head, and laugher. “I’m not nearly so bad off as I look,” he said. Mrs. Roosevelt was the only occupant of the carriage besides the president. The cabinet ofiicers and the surgeons followed in other carriages. Except for a guard of half a dozen bicycle policemen there was nothing to attract any attention to the president’s carriage as it went through the persons had gathered in Lafayette persons had gahered in Lafayette square and watched the president carried up into the temporary White house. Must Keep Quiet. After reaching the temporary residence the president was made comfortable. He was suffering no pain and his greatest discomfort seemed to be that he was required by his physicians to remain quietly in a reclining position, and was not allowed to move about the apartment. Mr. Cortelyou emphasized the fact, in answer to a question, that the president’s condition is no worse than has been represented, and that the whole truth has been told in the official statements. Attorney General Knox called, add he chatted for some time with the president. No other person was admitted. President Roosevelt made the journey from Indianapolis in great comfort of body, his leg being bolstered up on pillows. Regrets Abandoning Trip. During the long ride across Pennsylvania and Maryland he spoke to his traveling companions again and again of his annoyance that so trifling an injury as a shin bruise should have kept him from fulfilling his engagements in the far western states. He said he had looked forward to that trip with the most pleasant anticipation. The northwest has particular ties for him; he spent much of his youth there; he raised the nucleus of his Spanish war regiment there; he feels that the western states were more than any other responsible for his nomination to the vice presidency, and therefore for his present eminence. He speaks almost irritably of the disappointment that the abandonment of the trip had caused him.