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27 “This crime is as logically and legitimately”: Cleveland Herald, July 3, 1881.
28 “when a child”: Quoted in Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 354.
29 “Men go around with clenched teeth”: Quoted in Ackerman, Dark Horse, 385.
30 In a New York prison, two inmates: New York Times, September 16, 1881.
31 “While there is no intimation”: “Thunderbolt at Albany,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
32 “that the ex-Senator had asked”: “The Scenes Up Town,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
33 “Gens: We will hang”: Platt, The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt, 163.
Chapter 16: Neither Death nor Life
1 As his train pulled into the station: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 17, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
2 “Everywhere people go about”: “A Cloud Upon the Holiday,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
3 Even the Fourth of July celebrations: Celebrations had also been canceled in nearly every other city in the nation.
4 “Men looked eagerly to the flag-pole”: “The Events of Yesterday,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
5 “down upon the Executive Mansion”: Ibid.
6 “To Mrs. Garfield, a slight token”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 17, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
7 Although his temperature had fallen slightly: Doctors’ notes, July 14, 1881, National Museum of Health and Medicine.
8 “severe lancinating”: Ibid., July 3, 1881.
9 “tiger’s claws”: “At the Patient’s Bedside,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
10 More difficult for Garfield to deny: Doctors’ notes, July 4, 1881, National Museum of Health and Medicine.
11 Garfield had for years suffered: Garfield, Diary, June 15–July 19, 1875, 3:85.
12 Finally, a doctor told him: Ibid., May 24, 1875, 3:85.
13 Garfield had avoided such drastic: Peskin, Garfield, 433.
14 He received a wide variety of rich foods: Bliss’s notes, 11, National Museum of Health and Medicine.
15 “He was nauseated”: Quoted in Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 89.
16 “No sick or injured person”: Gaw, A Time to Heal, 8.
17 “Patients, no matter how critical”: Ibid.
18 The structure had been built into sloping ground: Seale, The President’s House, 536.
19 “packed with vermin”: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 80.
20 “sanitary requirements of a safe dwelling”: “Condition of the White House,” New York Times, September 7, 1881.
21 The plumbing system had been built: Seale, The President’s House, 536.
22 “pest house”: Feis, Mollie Garfield in the White House, 74.
23 “The old White House is unfit”: Quoted in Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 80.
24 “notoriously unhealthy”: Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes, 469.
25 “greatly influenced by the miasma”: Reyburn, Clinical History of the Case of President James Abram Garfield, 578.
26 Four servants in the White House: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 236.
27 In a desperate effort to ward off malaria : Paulson, “Death of a President and His Assassin,” 83; Deppisch, “Homeopathic Medicine and Presidential Health,” 3.
28 “You can’t imagine anything so vile”: Harriet S. Blaine and Beale, Letters of Mrs. James G. Blaine, 229.
29 “Scarcely a breath of air”: “Another Weary Night Watch,” New York Times, July 6, 1881.
30 “Sitting to day on my piazza”: Stephen Upson to Lucretia Garfield, July 3, 1881.
31 Others suggested hanging sheets: Letters to Lucretia Garfield, Library of Congress, Garfield papers.
32 Finally, a corps of engineers: Reports of Officers of the Navy: Ventilating and Cooling of Executive Mansion, 4. Nine years later, Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first system for controlling not only temperature, but also humidity.
33 In the president’s office: Telegram from Joseph Stanley Brown to R. J. Jennings, the owner of a company in Baltimore that had a cooling device, quoted in Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 83.
34 Although the system worked: Seale, The President’s House, 523–24. “They found some kind of compressed air machine,” Garfield’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Mollie, complained in her diary, “& it made a horrible noise when it became full of air.” James A. Garfield Papers, Library