The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and LettersBrown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
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The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters
Brown, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth)
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Private Secretary Brown gives the following account of the trip to Long
Branch: "Upon leaving the Executive Mansion the President appeared to
enjoy the scenery and looked around inquiringly. All the way from the
White House to the depot the President was very anxious to observe
everything, and in this he was not prevented. He experienced little or
no disturbance in being transferred from the vehicle to the car, and his
pulse, although slightly accelerated, reaching about 115, fell to about
106 before the train started, and shortly afterward fell to 104 and
again to 102. The first stop of the train was made at Patapsco, at which
point the parotid gland was dressed. At half-past nine o'clock the
President's pulse was 108 and of good character. At that hour three
ounces of beef extract were administered. Between Philadelphia and
Monmouth Junction, the special train made several miles at the rate of
seventy miles per hour. Bay View, this side of Baltimore, was reached at
8.05, and a brief stop was made to enable the surgeons to make the
morning dressing of the wound. The wound was found to have suffered no
derangement by the travel. The dressing was soon accomplished, and the
train, after leaving Bay View, was run at the rate of about fifty miles
per hour. The track in this locality is very straight, and in excellent
condition, and though the speed was at times greater than fifty miles
per hour, the vibration of the President's bed, it is said, was no more
than had the train been moving twenty-five miles per hour. The attending
surgeons feel very much gratified with the manner in which the removal
was conducted, and are generally of the opinion that, with the
exception of being slightly fatigued, the President bore the journey
exceedingly well."
"This is a great journey, Crete," he said to his wife, as the train
rushed on at lightning speed. "Let her go! The faster the better," he
added, when the doctors expressed their fears that the rapid motion of
the engine would tire him.
"Don't put down the curtain! I want to see the people! Let them look
in!" he exclaimed, as he caught a glimpse of the eager, anxious crowds
at the different stations.
One of the Boston dailies wrote as follows--
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