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Show Friends Watching Roosevelt. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Friends of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt who have been anxiously watching the progress of the affection of his ears which required re-quired an operation at Roosevelt hospital, hos-pital, expressed the belief today that the turning point had been reached and that the noted patient was now on tho way to recovery'. For tho first time sinco Thursday afternoon, when the colonel's condition was declared to be serious, thc attending physicians, in their guarded bulletins, today fixed a probable date for his release from the hospital three weeks hence. This was interpreted to mean that tho danger dan-ger points has been passed. His temperature tem-perature and pulse wero described ns normal and tho symptoms of inflammation inflam-mation of the inner car, the causo of -worry', were declared to havo further subsided. Colonel Still Very III. Thc colonel was said, however, by a person closo in touch with the physicians, 3tlll to be "a sick man," and that his malady needed the closest clos-est watching. Encouraged by the reports of thc physicians today there was a constant stream of callers at tho hospital, but none save immediate members of the Roosevelt family were permitted to see. tho former president. Ho is known to havo been suffering intenso pain, a characteristic of abscessed conditions condi-tions In tho oars. Tho colonel awoke this morning, however, slightly freer from pain after a fairly good night's sloop. Messages from all tho world ox-pressing ox-pressing solicitudo and good wishes , began arriving at the hospital today. |