ber. Outside of his family, his stenographer, John Martin and the
latter's wife, who boarded the train at Lima, the colonel saw no one.
He asked for quiet, feeling himself that he needed to conserve all the
strength at his command for the long run to Oyster Bay.

"The ex-President started his jaunt homeward by fooling the newspaper
men in Chicago. At Mercy Hospital the tip was allowed to filter out
that the colonel would climb into an automobile at the front entrance.
Camera men adjusted their machines and a flock of newspaper men waited.

"Instead, the ex-President was wheeled to a side door to an automobile
ambulance, into which he pulled himself.

"'I fooled them that time,' chuckled the colonel to Dr. Lambert, who
climbed in after him.

"While the colonel was driven to the train, Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel
and Theodore, Jr., took an automobile. So as to avoid the crowd at the
Pennsylvania depot, the ambulance was taken to the train by way of a
yard, the colonel's private car being drawn up for it. Only a few
yardmen were there to salute the colonel as he stepped from the
ambulance. They raised their hats and one of them cried:

"'Colonel, good luck to you!' Roosevelt lifted his right hand to his
hat and gave a military salute."

Concerning the ex-President's appearance in Madison Square Garden, New
York, on the night of October 30, a press dispatch said:

"Bearing no outward sign of the bullet in his breast, Theodore
Roosevelt tonight hurled himself back into the campaign at Madison
Square Garden. He spoke for forty minutes to the biggest meeting he has
ever addressed in New York and to one of the greatest gatherings ever
seen in that historic auditorium.

"More than 15,000 men and women welcomed him. Another vast crowd waited
all evening outside in the hope that they might catch a word or two
from the colonel as he departed. They were disappointed, for his
physicians, fearing too great a tax on his strength, refused to permit
him to make more than one address.

"The crowd inside cheered for forty minutes when Roosevelt, at twenty
minutes past 9 o'clock led his guards into the Garden, climbed the
steps to the speaker's gallery and stood before them. Bandannas and
American flags waved like a moving forest, the shouts of the crowd and
the drumming of thousands of heels on the floor drowned the band and
every air that has been sung in the campaign from 'Everybody's Doin'
It' to 'Onward, Christian Soldiers,' b