Just before he went to the operating room in the Emergency hospital Col. Roosevelt directed the following telegram to Mrs. Roosevelt and gave orders that if the telegraph office at Oyster Bay was closed the message should be taken to Sagamore Hill by taxicab. "Am in excellent shape, made an hour and half speech. The wound is a trivial one. I think they will find that it merely glanced on a rib and went somewhere into a cavity of the body; it certainly did not touch a lung and isn't a particle more serious than one of the injuries any of the boys used continually to be having. Am at the Emergency hospital at the moment, but anticipate going right on with my engagements. My voice seems to be in good shape. Best love to Ethel. "Theodore Roosevelt." The first bulletin issued by surgeons at the Johnston Emergency hospital was: "The bleeding was insignificant and the wound was immediately cleansed, externally and dressed with sterile gauze by R. G. Sayle, of Milwaukee, consulting surgeon of the Emergency hospital. As the bullet passed through Col. Roosevelt's clothes, doubled manuscript and metal spectacle case, its force was much diminished. The appearance of the wound also presented evidence of a much bent bullet. The colonel is not suffering from shock and is in no pain. His condition was so good that the surgeons did not object to his continuing his journey in his private car to Chicago where he will be placed under surgical care." (Signed) "Dr. S. L. Terrell. "Dr. R. G. Sayle. "Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood, _of the faculty of Johns-Hopkins University_. "Dr. T. A. Stratton." The following bulletin was issued just before Col. Roosevelt was taken to the special train which carried him to Chicago: "Col. Roosevelt has a superficial flesh wound below the right breast with no evidence of injury to the lung. "The bullet is probably lodged somewhere in the chest walls, because there is but one wound and no signs of any injury to the lung. "His condition was so good that the surgeons did not try to locate the bullet, nor did they try to probe for it." "Dr. S. L. Terrell. "Dr. R. G. Sayle." CHAPTER IV. CAREFUL OF COLLAR BUTTONS. Miss Regine White, Superintendent of the Johnston Emergency Hospital, cut the gory shirts from Colonel Roosevelt and, after he had been attended by surgeons, tied the hospital shirt, with "Johnston Emergency Hospital" emblazoned across the front, about him. Miss White, describing the ex-President's stay in the hospital, said: "Col. Roosevelt is the most unusual patient who ever was ministered to in the Johnston Emergency Hospital, in that he was absolutely calm and unperturbed, and influenced every one about him to be so, although excitement and unrest were in the very atmosphere, and he was suffering much.