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Show ed the following to (ho Informal!.. contained in the r, o'clock bulletin: "The mayors condition Is the best today that It has been since tbe shooting. shoot-ing. He speaks well and is cheerful There is nothing to cause alarm. Two weeks Is set as the period -which he must remain Jn the hospital "No whisky or liquor has been administered ad-ministered to the mayor since he was admitted to the hospital. He was of feted a glass of champagne vester-day, vester-day, but refused U. The bullet is lodged in the tissues and easily accessible It can be ox- traded in fire minutes' time, ir necessary. nec-essary. Dut the operation Is regarded regard-ed as unnecessary at present, and would ouly add a now channel of possible pos-sible infection. "The wound has been dressed only with chloride of mercury. No anti-septio anti-septio have been Introduced Into the wound." The afternoon bnlloiln on Mayor Gaynor's condition was as follows: "The mayor passed a comfortable morning and has taken sufficient nourishment, nour-ishment, lie is steadily gaining In strength. His temperature, puis and respiration are satisfactory. (Signed) Arlitz. Dowd." Rufus Gaynor, ton of the ninvo'r, indicated in-dicated today ...at his father did not wish to prosecute James .1. Gallagher, the assassin who shot him. Young Gaynor Intimated that his father was of the belief that his assailant was Insane. PRAYERS FOR II JIM Churches of New York to Observe Sunday as Gaynor Day New York, Aug. 13. Mayor Gaynor continues to Improve, was the early announcement made at St Mary's hospital in Hoboken today. Tho . mayor spent the fourth n.ght of his J illness sleeping like a top, the watch- , ers added optimistically, and nwoky buoyant and cheerful. The windows of the mayor's room ; were dark for the greater portion of tne night, save for an occasional flash of light, when, presumably, a nurso stole In on her regular rounds to see that all was well. ; There was no formal bulletin issued at day break, for the physicians had fo:nd their patient doing so well that i they had retired, with directions that : they werc not to be called unless some i r.larmlng development took place. j Every report from the sick room in- ! d cated that the patient was making steady progress toward recovery. There appears to 'be only one minor feature of the mayor's case which docs not completely fit in with the general scheme of optimistic conclusions. conclu-sions. According to Itolert Adnm-fon Adnm-fon the mayor's secretary, the patient is considerably bothered by coughing This irritation of tbe throat caused the physicians yesterday to renew the spraying with tlncture of benzoin, which had been g.eu up In the boms Immediately following the shooting. The doctors do not appear to bo i'iarmed over this, however. One of them explained the unusual coughing as due probably to a slight paralysis of the muscles in the region of the wound, hut he said not enough to cavse anvety. "Practically all danger has passed now," was tbe declaration of Kdward W. I.ee. who is an export on gunshot wour-ds, aud was one of the surgeons mmmoned io Buffalo when President McKlnley was shot. ''Every hour the mayor lives and his temperature keeps down increases his chances of recovery. recov-ery. He has about a 03 per cent chance of getting well now." ; Health Commissioner Lederb? and i Street Commissioner "Big Bill'" Edwards, Ed-wards, who have kept pretty close t tl)eir chief's side since the shooting, kit so far relieved as to bis condition today that they both ventured out of . town for a week-end resl. Tomorrow will be observed ns "(Jay-nor "(Jay-nor day"' in every church and chapel in Greater New Yoik. In the case of most of the denominations, formal orders or-ders directing prayers for his recovery have oeen Issued to the pastors, uot only in this city, but also throughout through-out the suburban districts, and the petitions thus expressed will represent repre-sent the prayers of practically t,c million persons. In man) churches the sermons will Icar special reference to the mayor's Illness, his attempted assassination, snd his work during his brief term in oifice thus far. Some (io labor organizations have sent resolutions of sympathy to the mayor. Among the most fervent of these are the resolutions adopted by the bootblacks, which declare that Mayor Gaynor Is the best friend the I'-ior man has ever had in the city hall, and he has done more for the I ootlilacks In six months than any one rise ever did In six years." Resolutions by the Central Federated Feder-ated union deplore the "assassin's act committed against labor's filend." and added: "We ferventlv pray for his speedy iccovery, that he may shortly resume iiis official duties." Over in Ward 3 of the Hoboken ?-'ty prison. Mayor Gaynor's assailant, lanieS j Oallagher, is achieving a repiLition ps an unusual prisoner. According Ac-cording to his i.iilers he refers to his act now with regret and mal es no .M tempt to jiiNlify himself. When he car In the papois that his lawyers might elect to prepare a defense of insanity for him he did not seem to t'ilsh the idea. "Any old lawyer or doctor can make vou out to be crazy these Jays," was 1:;h comment to his warden, "if you only give 'cm monev enough to do iO." No move in the piesentment nf Callagher's case to the grand jurv I; anticipated until the maor is re-ricved re-ricved from" St. Mary's hospital Even he continues to gain, it is not ex-If;cteil ex-If;cteil that he can be removed to die Adirondacks in much less than a lortnlght. One of the hospital physicians add- |