A DAY OF LESS SUFFERING. GENERAL GRANT SHOWING MARKED IMPROVEMENT. MORE COMFORT AND STRENGTH ENJOYED AFTER A NIGHT OF ANXIETY FOR THE FAMILY

It was an anxious household that watched with General Grant through Monday night. Everyone felt the end would come should the General suffer another attack of choking. The doctors tried to quiet their apprehensions. They succeeded only in small part, for all night long lights burned in nearly every room. Care was taken to avoid annoyance to the sufferer by manifestations of this fear, and the sick room was accordingly left to its usual occupants with Dr. Shrady, who was on night watch. But within easy and quiet cal were all of the family, and once or twice in the night they gathered around him.

He had been put to bed a little before midnight with a dose of morphine. The drug operated for about an hour, when it was overcome by the accumulation in the throat similar to that of Sunday night. Breathing became very difficult, and it was necessary to help the General to a recumbent position in his chair. This was the first alarm of the new day. The family had hardly become quieted when, at 8:00, General Grant started from his sleep with a violent fit of coughing. The secretions were again gathered in his throat. The family again hurried to the sick room. Symptoms of suffering were alarming. The General was induced to gargle, and after a strain of 15 minutes, attended by retching and piecemeal dislodgment of the throat obstruction, the General sank back in his chair with all the gathered strength of the night gone. Daybreak found the family still lingering within whispering distance of the sick room. At 7:20, the General awoke finally, and expressed himself as feeling much improved, and the tired out family was persuaded to rest.

From this time on, the day was one of steady improvement. The throat was quiet, though very sore, and the glandular swelling became less angry. Cocaine was generously applied to the throat and glands, the pain being allayed somewhat. The General passed the morning dozing and waking. At 11 o'clock Mark Twain and the publisher Webster called in relation to the publication of his book. At 2 o'clock Dr. Shrady examined the patient's throat and this was difficult, because of the pain that it caused. After this, the General asked to get some fresh air through the open windows, and he thought it would do him good. The General's gown was tied around him and with his skull cap and cane, he trudged up and down the hall and through the rooms of the second floor for about 20 minutes. The General seemed very proud of his fancied ability to recuperate rapidly. The turn about the room certainly had the effect of raising the General's spirits.

Dr. Shrady left the house today at 8:30,the General still being on the mend. He felt safe in leaving him for a bit and the General smilingly excused him. He was in excellent spirits, and the Doctor left him reclining in his easy chairs by the fire, with his family, except, Colonel Fred, about him. Dr. Newman told reporters: "The General's wonderful will power has done him wonders the past 24 hours. Few people know how close he came to death on Saturday night. His will then became for the first time submissive pt physical infirmities. It nearly gave way altogether last night, but then, by a supreme effort again, assumed mastery and today I was astonished by his appearance.

The change since last night was extraordinary and gratifying. The General did throw himself upon the bed once this afternoon from sheer exhaustion, but he couldn't retain the position. Whenever he attempts to lie down, the mucous gathers in his throat and he attempts to get rid of it and it weakens him and frightens his friends. We talked tonight quite freely. At one point he rose from his chair and walked through the hall, with a rapid, quick step. It is his wonderful nerve that enables him to do this and to withstand the constant, terrible drain upon his system. He has no appetite, he eats because he is ordered to do so, not because he has any craving for nourishment. His face is not an index of his condition. His suffering is the most constant I have met with in my career, but in reference to it he never makes more than a bare statement of facts. All the members of his family, including his three sons, are with him. Judging from the tone of his voice, it is my opinion that the end will not come within several days."

Newman told about Sunday night's crisis. The physicians arrived none too soon. They found the General exhausted with choking. He could scarcely breath. The accumulations in the throat left hardly more than a pin-hole passage for air. So serious was the impulse of the doctors that they considered opening the neck. That would have been done had the other measures not offered relief through less heroic means. They saw then that it could hardly be possible for the General to resist another similar attack. The alternative has been presented,and has since been under consideration, of opening the neck at the next severe attack, or allowing death to relieve the sufferer. None of the doctors believe that he can muster the strength in the muscles of the throat to relieve the secretions when they gather in force. Of course there is no thought in attempting at this stage of the disease, to remove the cancer by an operation.

In the late evening, the General lay back in his chair, with a robe of down covering his knees, and for a time watched the air filtering through the sunbeams in the sick chamber. Then his daughter Nelly joined him, and for an hour she read to him from the newspapers, he laughter over some of the descriptions of what was happening in the house stirring the General also to an occasional expression of amusement. The General enjoys nothing better than his daily hour or so with his daughter and the newspapers. Late in the evening General Dan Sickles called and stayed 10 minutes.

Dr. Shrady told reporters near midnight that if General Grant should continue to improve overnight as he has since yesterday, there would be no reason why he might not go driving today if the weather were pleasant.