Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1898, Page 11

x . . - THE GOVERNOR OF ODE ISLAND. Nothing Like Paine’ § Celery Compound For Run Down Nerves. cted Governor of Rhode ed in 1898. r is a graduate from Brown University n University, German; He served as civil war, and was Adjutant 4 from 1SS2 to 1895. He | I havo heard so many flattering statements of aine’s cell smpound has done ihat I feel gure it will be of very great benefit to me, par- ticularly at this time when I have so much anx- fety and ne: Paine’s « upon which so much praixe bas wealthy and in t ingly In- those . is witht land. incalculable amount of good Paine’s mpound Is doing in making sick and even Ing pe 1 Nd compel the attention judicions persen who is out-of-health. reach of the humblest family le we ‘The underlying cause of nervous debility, appar- ent in headaches, dyspepsia, sleeplessness and neuralgia, is faulty nutrition of the entire nervous system. So long as the blood Is pale, watery and ham- pered by bad humors the nerves cannot assimilate proper nourishment, no matter how much food 1s taken into the system. Paine’s celery compound arouses a hearty appetite, regulates the bowels and brings about a normal action of the liver. This is the sweeping and thorough manner in whieh Paine’s celery compound frees. the system not only of rheumatism, eczema, salt rheum and diseases due to impure blood; but also of reuralgia, sleeplessness and nervous headaches and dyspepsia that are brought about by a “run down” state of the nerves. The tse of Patne's celery compeund makes all the difference between impure, sluggish blood and tired nerves; and healthy, energetic bodily condi- ton. MEET NEXT AT CHARLESTON | Confederate Veterans Decide in Favor of the South Carolina City. The Big Parade Occurred in Spite of | the Rain—Reception to Miss Winnie Dav of At- ex-confederates at yesterda: »y a heavy rain,which broke just as the procession moved. { the old sol- by their gallant . passed over the march to the music of the cheers of fully 100,000 d the streets. f the line of march had been veteran was wet to the . Gordon, at the head of the col- he downpour, and led umn, hat in hand, never flinched, and, al- theugh we . in ted upon remain- ing in the saddle. When the reviewing stand was ed and Gen. Gordon dis- mounted, was importuned by every member of staff and many friends omit t of the ceremony, fears being his Ith. The gallant | er, took his place and bar- stood in the pouring rat: man in the parade had pass- houts of thousands had died picturesqueness of the [ yed by the inclement The carriages in which the spon- . closed and the effect on each vehicle was uty of the occupants poured in through the eyances and the spon- | e veterans suffered much everal states cropped out of the p When the rain was at its heaviest for the most part the ve erans alorg until the end was reac Next at Charleston, ual reunion of the veterans held in Charleston, S. C. By a vote ® the convention decided the South Carolina city former’s favor. Bocot of Charleston e of that city before the x1. Gordon of Tennessee sec- nominatio: Hazeirig put “cy metropolis. . tt H. Young’s speech, in which the nomination of Louisville, Was one of the happiest efforts of the day. “We will not only lead you by the stil convention. C or.ded in nomination the waters,” he said, “but by the distilled wa- ters, and every one shall carry home with him a sixteen-year-old bottle of our best Beurben for medicinal purposes only.” Gen. Chaleron of New Orleans added his Indorsement of Loulsville's claims. The Vote. It remained, however, for the young, elo- quent corporal, Mr. Legare of Charleston, to again turn the scales tn favor of his city, which he did in a very able speech. The vote was as follows: Charieston—Tennessee, 136) Alabama, 68; Georsta. 187; Louisiana, 114; Florida, 23%; virginia, 39; Maryland, 20: North Carolina, @0; South Carolina, 310; West Virginia, 124; Distriet of Columbia, 5; Crlifornia, 2; Grlanoma : Texas, 75. Total, 1,064. Louisville—~Alabama, 69; Georgia, Misstssipp!, 116; Loutsiana. 2@%; Virginia, 38; Maryland, 4; North Caro- lina, 80; Kentucky, 108; West Virginia, 1253; District of Columbfa, 8; Missouri, $2; as, 92; Indian Territory, 18; Okla- Texas, 85. Total, 870. the motion of Colonel Young of Louisville the selection of Charleston was made unanimous. The entrance of Miss Winnle Davis was the signal of a remarkable demonstration. She was escorted to the front of the stage by General Gordon, who introduced her as the “child of our immortal chieftain, and our own child.” Miss Davis smilingly bowed her acknowl- edgment to her admirers. ‘he report of the committee on resolu- tions recommended that the dates for the reunion be in future fixed between the 15th of October and ist of May. This evoked considerable opposition from its first reeding, and it was decided to leave the time for the reunion as it has been in the past. By unanimous vote it was dezided to con- demn the expression “war of rebellion” be- ing applied to the struggle of '61-65, and to urge the designation of it as the “civil 124; 28; Florida, war between the states.’ adopted. Upon the recommendation of the Alaba- ma division a resolution was passed calling all of the divisions to aid in raising a hase the “White House” of the at Montgomery, Ala. ented to General a picture of President Diaz of Mexico, who has been instrumental in sav- ing the life of MacStewart, a confederate soldier, who, ortunate altercation, ki 4 Mexican policeman. ution was adopted expressing the anks of the confederates to Major Gen- eral George Moorman, who, as adjutant neral, has served the U.'C. V.’s with snal ability and persistently refusing to accept any compensation for his services. = +o. AT WARM SULPHUR, This was unani- Honoring a Hero of the Santiago Fight—Hotel and Cottage Folks. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. WARM SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va., July 21, 1808. One of tha most charming features of life at the \Varm Springs is the absence of the invalid atmosphere. We drink to Aes- culapius in the exhilarating waters of the sulphur springs, but, praised be the gods! we do not compare symptoms. If the unwritten law of the place had not get its inexorable decree against sick-room grumbling we should have been shamed into silence this week by the unconscious self-effacement of one of our wounded sol- diers from Santiago. Lieutenant Sorley of | the 16th Infantry Regulars, who was shot three times in the second day’s fight before Santiago, has been with us. On Sunday during divine service in the little Presbyterian church just without the grounds he entered. Half an hour after service he was at Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis’ cottage surounded by men, women and children eager to hear details of the fighting in Cuba and to grasp the hand of of one of our soldiers. He said: “The privates are the heroes. I cannot If enough about the men behind the the privates, who made a joke of privation and whose pluck, endur- and resistless daring are beyond praise. It will be a beautiful thing in my life always that such men fought under me and with me.” Of the Associated Press Lieutenant Sor- ley spoke with enthusiasm. ‘They are a splendid lot of fellows and they did everything for us. Every mail fa- cility at their disposal they placed at ours as far as they could. Nothing was too much trouble, and our army in Cuba loves them to a man.” Though it is little more than the middle of July, we. already number more than two hundred, and there is scarcely a va- cancy for August. Mrs. J. C. Breckinridge and family have taken a ‘potage here for the season and, owing to deep Mourning and General Breck- inridge’s absence in Cuba, are declining ail invitations. A delicious birthday cake and candles celebrated a family birthday today. Little Margaret Breckinridge excites mild envy among the girls, little and big, by her fine swimming. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Pe have been wel- comed enthusiastically by their many friends. Mrs. Edward Cohen and Miss Porter of Washington are two of the most brilliant end attractive women here. Mrs. Thomas Waggaman {s considered one of the most beautiful women here, and combines an exceedingly sweet voice with a French accent that is irresistible. ‘The latest arrivals from Washington are Mr. and Mrs. Ross Perry, Mr. O. C. Thorn, Miss M. A. McKenney, Miss Edith Heald, Mrs. Breckinridge and family. ——__ LANDING THE PRISONERS. Spain Indicates Her Wishes in the Matter. The Madrid government officially *has recognized the proposed return by the United States of the Santiago prisoners to Spain. This recognition came yesterday in the form of a letter to Gen. Shafter from Gen. Toral, commander of the Spanish troops at Santiago, saying that the Span- ish secretary of war desires the troops landed at Vigo Coruna, on the Atlantic, and at Santander, in the Bay of Biscay. The request of the Spenish government will be complied with, unless something unforseen should prevent. —_—_—-e—_____ Will Meet Next at Quebec. The Americana members of the Canadian commission have a¢journed until August 10, wh21 the reassembling will be at Que- bec with the British and Canadian com- mission. In the meantime the cases will be prepared at the State Department, and a request is made that all communications to the American commission be addressed to Secretary Anderson, care of the State Department. Mr. Charies H. Butlor has been designated an expert examiner to as- dnageticie — THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1898-24 PAGES. THE YELLOW FEVER Something About the History of the Dread Disease. DEVELOPS IN TROPICAL CLIMATES No Race is Wholly Immune From Attack. TREATMENT SUGGESTIONS Written for The Evening Star. It is a fortunate circumstance, no doubt, in view of the situation at Santiago—when yellow jack is superseding the yellow flag of Spain in active hostilities—that Dr. George M. Sternberg, the present surgeon general of the United States army, should be an expert In the treatment of yellow fever. He has been recognized among the medical profession as an authority on this subject for many years, and > one under- stood better than he did, perhaps, the dan- ger from this source to which our armies would be subjected in invading Cuba at this season. The very fact that the head of the medical department of the army had set forth definite views on the treat- ment and to some extent sanitary preven- tion of this dread malady was a stimulus to every surgeon, hospital steward and army nurse to be ready to meet it. Ac- cordingly, careful preparations were made in advance, through medical supplies, hos- pital appliances and immune nurses, which in their way will prove as effective, per- haps, toward quieting the enemy as did the guns of Sampson’s fleet or the charges of our soldiers. Like some other of our social foes, the dis- ease known as yellow jack, typhus icte- roides, haemagastric pestilence or yellow fever, which the French call coup de barre and fievre jaune, and the Spanish vomito negro and vomito prieto, is not so much dreaded as it once was, and this is due chiefly to increased knowledge as to the conditions of its origin and improved ieth- ods of treatment, rather than to any dis- covery of the specific cause producing it. The Germ Theory. Advocates of the germ theory of disease have long held that yellow fever is caused by a micro-organism, developed under con- ditions not definitely known, but those which always include a prolonged high temperature and much moisture or damp weather. It is not a contagious disease in the sense of being transmitted directly from one person to another, but seems to be con- tracted from infected localities, where germs escaping from those possessed with it have developed outside of the human body. Many facts tend to establish this. Ships once infected carry the disease and communicate {t perhaps for years, unless every part of the vessel is subjected to a temperature so low as to freeze {t out. Two cases of yellow fever occurred among British soldier in barracks on the Island of Trinidad. The men were all promptly removed to field tents, while the barracks were cleaned and whitewashed, but no sooner were they reoccupied than new cases developed. If the temperature of a town is sufficiently low, either by reason of its elevation or latitude, a visitor or returning resident afflicted with the disease will not cause it to be communicated to others. Thus a resident of the City of Mexico may come down with.this fever after a visit to Vera Cruz, where during the summer months it is endemic, or a visitor from the coast city may develop the disease in Mexi- co; yet, though not remarkable for its cleanliness, original cases of yellow fever are quite unknown in the Mexican capital. The same thing has been observed in Pe- tropolis, an elevated health resort near Rio Janeiro. When the disease prevailed in New York in 1822 it was confined to the lower parts of the city. Those who went into the infected locality were liable to at- tack, but if they took the disease and went into the healthy district they did not com- municate it to others. A Special Bacillus. It seems to be necessary also that the in- fectious agent should find suitable soil for the germ to develop in order to produce any widespread effect. Well-payed, cleanly kept cities, with good sewerage, are not likely to afford lodgment for the Alzease; and in cities where it has become epidemic, as well as endemic centers, such as Ha- vana and Ric Janeiro, it has developed and is maintained in low districts abounding with decomposed organic matter of ani- mal origin. The influence of insanitary conditions has been so potent in propa- gating yellow fever that many physicians have doubted the importance, if not, in- eed, the existence, of a special bac as its cause. Says Dr: Charles Creighton, an eminent British authority: ‘The bacillary of parasitic hypothesis 1s the fashionable one at present, but Jt is much too ambi- tious, a3 ordinarily held, and altogether wide of the mark. The part played by pu- trefactive organisms is a subordinate one. in the general grouping of factors they can only come in after we have found the specific integral of the yellow fever soil in its endemic seats; they cannot elaborate the miasmatic poison of yellow fever with- out a definite pabulum, any more than the ‘lactic bacillus can produce lactic fermen- tation without sugar-milk.’ ” Nevertheless, Dr. J. Sanarelli, super- intendent of the Institute of 'Experi- mental Hygiene at Montevideo, was awarded a prize of $10,000 last year for the discovery of a bacillus in the blood and in- ternal tissues of yellow fever patients, which produced the disease in animals in- oculated with cultures of it, and also in man. The shape of this bacillus is said to be that “of a rod with rounded ends, grow ing in pairs or small groups in the cultur Ceveloping on the usual media, with a spe- cific appearance resembling a wax sea! on a letter, when first developed ten to twelve hours in the oven, and then the same length of time in the ordinary tempera- ture. In the oven the culture develops irf- descent and transparent, while at the or- dinary temperature it forms shining, opaque drops like drops of milk.” This cnl- tivated germ of yellow fever is said to produce @ perlodie disease in almost any animal inoculated with it, lasting from five to twelve days, “analogous to the disease observed in man.” According to the re- ports, SanarcIll has succeeded tn isolating the toxin developed by the bacillus and by directly administering it producing the same disease as with the cultures. Per- sons inoculated with comparatively feeble deses of filtered cultures are. said to have developed clearly marked types of the yel- low fever. As the result of sero-therapeu- tlc experiments, Sanarelli claims now to have produced a serum which is a specific remedy for the disease, Surg. Gen. Sternberg’s Discovery. Dr. Charles Smart states that Surgeon General Sternberg probably discovered this same bacillus some ten years ago, when he was engaged in investigating the. causes of yellow fever in Havana. It corresponded in many respects with the microbe de- scribed by Sanarelli, but as he failed to find it in about one-half of the cases of yellow fever which he examined, and as it was not destroyed when exposed to a freezing mixture of salt and ice for two hours, he did not decide tae “bacillus” to be the specific cause of the disease. This par- ticular microbe appears to have been a very expert and wary fugitive. Various physicians in the past, including Drs. Car- mona, Freire, Gibler and Findlay, have laid claim to his capture, yet subsequent examinations of these special finds have failed to reveal the real criminat. As the reward has already been paid, it is to be heped that this villain in the tragedy of “yellow jack” has now been discovered by the South American physician, as well as the true remedy and punishment befitting his appalling list of crimes. in caring for our soldiers now sick with the disease at St. Jago, preference is given to the Sternberg alkaline treatment, in SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder fot the feet. It cures painful swollen, sirurting, nervous feet and instantly tukes the-sting-out-of corns and bunlons. connection with daily enemata, cool water in abundance, with ag-much fresh air and sunshine as possibleysand with very strict attention to-diet. Tap published prescrip- tion, which contemplates a powerful antl- septic, is as. follows:.dBicarbonate of soda, 150 grains; bichloride ef mercury, 1-3 grain, pure water, 1 quart; doze, 3 tablespoonfuls every hour; to be given ice cold. This mode of treatment has been tested by many phy- sicians in, the United States, Cuba, Brazil and other localities,-and with very gratify- ing results. In 374 gases treated by ten physicians, of 301 white patients, there was a mortality .of, but ,Z2. per.cent, and 73 cases of blacks with (po mortality. Negro Race Not Wholly Immane. It is popularly. supRdsed that the negro race is quite completely, if not wholly, im- mu:e from this disease. The truth seems to be that whenever—an epidemic occurs all persons who are Xposed to it are Mable to its atYacks, blacks’ usually being less susceptible. and developing the disease in milder form. According to an authority, the deaths among the whites in Jamaica were 102 per 1,000, and among the blacks 8 per 1,000, while in the Bahamas the mor- tality of whites was 59 per 1,000 and of blacks 5.6 per 1,000..When the epidemic raged in the south in 1878 there were 162 cases among the colored population of Brownsville, Tennessee, with 2f deaths; at Chattanooga there were in all 685 cases, of which 429 were colored, with a mortality of 46, and 256 whites, with 118 deaths; at Decatur, Alabama, there were 28 deaths among 4 whites and'21 deaths among 186 cases of blacks having the disease. In general, the farther north the nativity of the person attacked the greater the danger. AS a result of observations made in Guiana, Dr. Blair says: “The lower the winter tem. perature in the native country of those at- tacked the more severe was there sicknes. so that while the mortality among the n tive West Indians amounted to only 6.) per cent of the sick, it rose to 17.1 among the Italians and French, 19.3 among the English, 20.2 among the Germans and Dutch, and 27.7 among the Scandinavians and Russians. Second Attacks Possible. A single attack of yellow fever does not always render one immune from a sec- ond, though second attacks are compara- tively rare. Dr. Jackson states that twen- ty well-authenticated instances of persons being attacked who had had the disease before came within his knowledge during the epidemic of 1820 in Spain. Dr. Wragg mentions six cases during the epidemic at Charleston in 1854. “Some of the patients were identified as having gone through the fever in the Roper hospital in 1852, thro ing up black vomit on both occasions. Dr. Rush mentions second attacks us hav- ing cccurred at Philadelphia in the case of palients who had previously suffered mild attacks. In regard to the immunity of natives, Gen. Sternberg says: “In locali- ties such as Havana and Rio de Janeiro, where yellow fever has established itself as an endemic disease, the adult natt population enjoys an immunity whieh is almost absolute, and has been supposed to be hereditary. This view until recently was gencrally accepted by physicians re- siding in these endemic foci of the disease. ‘There is, however, accumulating evidence that the immunity enjoyed by ‘creoles’ is not inherited, but results from a mild and usually unrecognized attack during in- fancy or childhood.” As confirmatory of this, Dr. Dowler’s report of -the epidemic of 1853 in New Orleans is cited. “Many creole children had during the epidemic of 1853 a fever, a-slight-fever—yellow fever, if you please, known as such rather by the coexistence of the,epidemic than from any severe symptoms &mong tho children— a Slight fever never yet described, having generally but one paroxysm, lasting from six hours to one, two or three days, scarce- ly ever requiring medication. That a few of these cases acquired an alarming vio- lence and even proved fatal is most true, most deplorable.” Dr, Guiteras regards the immunity among adult creoles as resulting from an unrecognizgil attack during child- hood; and Dr. BlaiX referring to the epl- demic in British Gpiana, says: “Infancy was one of the mogt. savoring causes of the action of yelltiw: Zever poison. ‘The constitution of the? new-born er young white creole was highly suscoptible. He or she was truly in-the category of -new- comers#" Prophylactic Suggestions. It is true, how=ver, that old residents of endemie centers seem to have practical immunity from the disease, and foreigners may reside for,yeams at Havana, Rio Ja- netro, Vera Craz or San Juan without suf- fering any attack. This sugg>sts ‘the in- quiry whether there is any way in which the system may ‘be successfully fortified against it. During seasons of unusual epl- demic prevalence. some residents of th> West Indies are said to take as a proph lactic equal parts of lemon juice and olive oil, while others “abstain from rum and sr.oke strong cigars.” It se2ms.that care- ful sanitary habits and the maintenance of such a degree of physical health as to avert anxiety and fear of the disease are ¥ery efficacious toward warding it off. Many illustrations could be given where, owing to sanitary precautions, nurses and physicians. in no respect immune. and con- stantly employed among yellow fever pa- tients have failed to contract the disease. Yellow fevar has been one of the great scourges of the world, ranking in. this re- spect with smallpox, cholera and the black plague. ‘The earliest authentic accounts re- fer to it as breaking out in the Lesser Antillss about the middle of the seven- teenth century. The first cases were re- ported among the Fwerich colony at Guade- loups in 1635 and 1649, and at Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1647. It was called “nova pestis," and it was supposed to have orig- inated from some vessels which arrived in those ports, but the West Indies have been regarded as the birthplac> and, indeed, guardian of the disease. Ceriain ones who hav2 attempted to trace its origin histori- cally assert that the germs of this disease first originated in a ship engag2d in the African slave trade. “Many facts were brovght together and generalized by Au- douard at Paris in 1825 going to establish this theory, and it has received numerous adherents. Tha Enclycopedia Britannica says: “There is no other thecry of yellow fever to contest the field with the slave trade hypothesis; that alone. satisfies all the conditions of a corract synthesis—h trical, geographical, ethnological, physi logical, and, some would say, even ethical. The points urged by, those’ who advocate this theory are: That yellow fever, has “dogged the steps" of tho slave trade; that the negro race are largely immune to the fever, and that the filthy accumulations and harbor discharges of slave ships af- forded a suitable nidus or hatching place for the g2rm to first develop. Circumseribed Limits. It has been regarded as a very curious fact also, and perhaps bearing favorably |! upon this view, that while yellow fever re- quires high temperatures and hot climates for its development, that it Should have been confired chiefly. to the tropical re- gicns and coasts of the Atlantic, and never fcund in China, India or the Indian ocean. It has appeared along our Atlantic coast and the Mississipp! river, but never in California or the Pacific coast. Its ravages have been felt in tigg fapst. and river cities of Guiana, Brazil jimi as far south as Montevideo and Bi Ayres, but rarely on the Pacific ‘shops; alt is said that in 1853 yellow fever (pge{red at Callao and Lima, in Peru, an extended among the plantation but this was it Archibald Smith least, so far as was concerned. has been ascribed. Epidemics have ocd of Africa, but ne in some of the in but perhaps the mo! this disease have Spain. Cadiz has s in every one of w! were carried off, Gibraltar and Ma demic centers for Barcelona in the st sierra Tegion, shown by. Dr. it a mistake at _of the sierras Gitbreak at Callao Phinese coolie ship. eon the west coast east, and also itterranean ports, ble seourges from experienced in mer of 1821, not less than 5,000 persons fweré swept away by this dread compleing. It is estimated that in 1857, 6,000 of the inhabitants of Lisbon, Pcrtugal, suffered a: similar. fate. While it seems to be the province and prerogative of the United #tates, just .now to check tyranny and strike a blow for human liberty, tt” miny, ‘mloo” be “taking a step incidentally ‘toward cleansing the con- tinent'and exterminating® ffom- The “world one of the most, virulent of human individual life. at ‘Treatment 8 The literature of yellow voluminous, there being the index catalogue of the Surgeon ganer- al’s brary (Q. coliimns) devoted to that subject, comprising ~ publications to 1883, while some 1,500 books and pamphlets have }been written on the subject since that year. Among these works are some of pocdee ie terest just now. A work by Thomas - cer, M. D., entitled ‘The Medical Assist- ant,”- published at St. Jago -de la Vega (Santiago) in 1809, a presentation copy by the.author to J. R. Coxe, M. D., of Phila- delphia, contains a very intelligent account of “the nature and treatment of the dis- ease called yellow fever,” as then under- stood, and also the regrets of the author that he had not been able to “discover a more successful mode of treatment in this fatal malady.” Perhaps one of the most eccentric works ever printed is entitled “‘Andalusia: Notes Tending to Shew That the Yellow Fever of the West Indias and of Andalusia in Spain Was a Disease Well Known to the Ancients,” and that “they assigneda cause for it and used effective means for the cure of it not hitherto attempted in our time,” by Robert Deverell, Esq. M. P., January 19, 1805. This was printed, but not published, and the basis of the author's ar- gument is Milton's “Mask of Comus, which he appears to have regarded as an inspired symbolical poem, together with Virgil and Homer, defending himself with the quotation: “°Tis not vain or fabulous (Though so esteemed by shallow ignorance; What the sage poets, taught by the hea enly muse, Storied of old in high, immortal verse.” “A piece of fresh meat attached to akite, and elevated a few hundred feet, came down in twenty or thirty minutes completely cov- ered with living, moving, vermiform animal- culae, and this circumstance occurred throughout the whole epidemic whenever the experiment was made, which al- most daily.” (History of Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1853.) A work on yellow fever by Prof. Wm. Aug. Shubert, printed at Savannah in 1860; regards the disease as being of malar- fal origin, abjures the use of all drugs and advocates the use of cold water administer- ed internally and externally as the best mode of treatment. Dr. McFarlane in an essay on yellow fever has this remarkable passage: “Let the acclimated person treat his symptoms as he would a common cold and he i8 weil in a few hours. But call the dis yellow fever and give him a large dose of quinine and who would be answer- able for his safety?” The latest work on “Yellow Fever, clinical notes by Just Tonatre, M. D., for- merly physiclan-in-chief of the French So- city Hospital, New Orleans, impresses one as the work of a careful, observant and practical man. “In yellow fever,” he says, “all Informa- tion is useful,” referring to age, birthplace, former illness, habits, indulgences, oecupa- tion, &c. “Ihave rarely seen a patient beyond his fiftieth year to recover.” He is convinced that Sanarelll has found the pathogenic bacillus of yellow fever. “Still, I would like to see his valuabie dis- covery confirmed and indorsed by the great bacterlologic institutes of Paris and Ber- in.” His mode of treatment is largely hy- gienic, with plenty of air and water, &¢.; also uses calomel if symptoms require. — AT OCEAN GROVE. Chautauquan Assembly, Cold Water and Other Meetings in Auditorium. Special Correspondeace of The Evening Star. OCEAN GROVE, N. J., July 22, 1898. The most success{ul and largely attended session which the Ocean Grove Chautau- qua Assembly has held during its four- teen years’ existence closed today. About 500 students attended the courses of lec- tures, and most of them passed the exam- inations which took place on Wednesday. The commencement exercises on Thure- day attracted thousands of people. Es- corted by several score of flower girls, dressed in white, the Chautauqua of ‘98 marched through the grounds, under the symbolic arches and into the Young Peo- ple’s Temple, where formal _ recognition services were conducted by Prof. B. B Loomis, Ph.D., LL.D., of Albany, N. Y., who is superintendent of instruction at the assembly. Several hundred alumni werg present to Join in the commencement pro- cession, which, headed by a military band, proceeded to the Auditorium, where the commencement address was delivered by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., feunder and chancellor of Chautauqua. The diplomas were presented by Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald, president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. The as- sembly closed in the evening with a violin recital by Signor Vitale of Brooklyn. Young People’s Floral day has come to be one of the most interesting features of the summer program. Rey. C, H. Yatman, the well-known evangelist and leader of the young people’s meetings, originated this service two years ago. For the floral day of 1898 the immense Auditorium has been transformed by flowers and palms into a veritable flower garden. In the evening Mr. Yatman will have the “Ninety and Nine” told in song. Eminent soloisis and a choir of three hundred voices will assist. ‘The order of King’s Daughters held its annual convention cn the camp grounds yesterday. The president of the order, Mrs. Margaret Bottome, is in charge, and there are nearly five hundred delegates present from the various parts of the country. During the coming week there are to be three important conventions on the camp ground. The Women’s Christian Temper- ance Union of New Jersey will hold tts an- rual meetirg on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday comes the annual jubilee and reunion of the African Methodist Epis- copal Church of America. Brethren and sisters from all parts of the east, esne- cially from New York and Philadelphia, will come by the car load to enjoy their ennual old-fashioned sing and shout in Ocean Grove Auditorium. Bishop J. M. Turner, Bishop Herrick and several other leading officials of the church will be pres- ent and make addresses. The white people at this and the nearby resorts always turn out in such large numbers to attend the jubilee that the colored visitors themselves have difficulty in finding seats within the Auditorium, which accommodates 10,000. The white people congregate all over the camp grounds within earshot of the soul- ful singing and stirring eloquence. The other convention of the week is that of the National Temperance Society. Some of the lecturers who are announced to speak are Col. George W. Bain of Kentucky, whose subjects are “Among tha Masses” and “Foundations of Cities and Governments:” Rev. Dr. Charles H. Mead and Rev. Mad- ison C, Peters of New York, Joshua IL. Bailey, esq., of Philadelphia and other cold water advocates of national reputa- tion. The music will be in charge of the famous Silver Lake Quartet. Miss Nellie Truby of Washington is a leading belle at the Alaska this summer. Dr. John F. Goucher of Baltimore spent a few days at this resort a week ago. Rev. Henry M. Wharton, D.D., and wife recently arrived at the Majestic from Bal- timore. ——_——-__. WITH THE CLIFF DWELLERS. Society Doing Its Very Best for the Italian Prince—Bootblack War. Spectal Correspondence of The Evening Stai NEWPORT, July 22, 1898. Gayety reigns at Newport, and society is doing its utmost to wine and dine the Count of Turin; drives, dinners, receptions and dances follow in quick succession. On Monday night, in anticipation of his presence, the Casino hop took on a gala air of unwonted brilliancy. The “beau monde” was there in smart- est of costume, and it was difficult to say whether the dancers on the floor or spec- tators in balconies presented the gayer ap- pearance. The Count of Turin was, of course, the cynosure toward which all eyes were turned, as about 10:30, accompanied by Major di Carpeneto, his ald-de-camp, he entered the room with Mrs. Spencer, whose guest he had been at dinner. Mrs. Grant and Miss Julia Dent Grant were among those presented, and with the latter the count, who greatly admires the Ameri- can ‘style of dancing, danced. The Marquise de Merinville, formerly Miss Caldwell, will entertain Archbishop Keane of the Vatican household during his stay at Newport. Judge Davis’ family of Washington took possession of the Pinard cottage this week. While the gay world is dancing, receiv- ing, luncning and driving, the bootblacks have been ‘having their own troubles. “Rates were cut,” and “shines” could be had for a cent. Crowds of excited urchins gathered about the corners, and finally those who had worked below rates were obliged to “pull down their signs.” The trolleys and travel facilities have rendered the beach very popular with ex- cursionists, and the residents are pro- pounding the question whether the “trip- per’ is a blessing or a bane, to be smiled or frowned. upon. — z Two French-Canadian women became hysterical in the surf on Sunday and were taken to the hospital. ‘The churches are well filled on Sunday mornings, but the-evening services are sparsely attended. See “Want” ads. in The Star pay-because they RED CROSS CUBAN WORK Nurse Janet Jennings Relates Experiences at the Front. Sharp Criticism ef Officials Who Fall- ed to Make Proper Hospital Ar- Fangements for the Wounded. An interesting account of Red Cross work in Cuba ts given in the New York Herald today as follows. Miss Janet Jennings, the Red Cross nurse who sailed from Siboney on the Seneca and did efficient work in caring for the sick end wounded on board, came up from Hoft- man Island yesterday with others who were released from quarantine. She reported to the Red Cross headquarters and afterward went to the St. Denis Hotel, talked about. her experier she would say little about the Seneca. “It must be understood now,” Miss J: nings said, when I saw her at the hot last night, “that members of the Red Cro where are not permitted to criticise cither. cur Army or Navy I artments. What I tel! you is simply a plain narrative o condition of things we found Sibone when we reached there. If taches to any depart geon gener: seid of the cer ent it Nothing but avy Department an! its cf he State of Texas, with Miss Baric and our party on board, ieft Key We The vessel was under naval auth when we reached Santiago Admiral scn’s fleet was there, and we him. Admiral Sampson told Miss would be impossible to land our of supplies in that neigh! time, and told us to go bay, forty miles east of mural believed we couid co with the insurgents. Our tended for the refugees, and, strange may appear, the supplies really went to the assistance of our own men—that is, the hospital supplies. Back to Siboney. “While we were lying in the bay a news- Paper correspondent came on board the State of Texas and told Miss Barion that the hospital at Stboney was in great need of assistance, that men were sick and nee ed attendance. Miss Barton at once order- ed the State of Texas hack to Sihoney. When we arrived there on Sunday evening Miss Barton sent.members of her stulf the Siboney hospital to see what was nc ed When Miss Barton’s representati returned they reported that everything necessary for a well equipped hospital was needed. There was nothing there for men | suffering with fever, dysentery and other complaints. Miss Barton ordered supp to be unloaded, bedding, clothing and food. “The next morning (Monday) the supplies were sent ashore. Cots were left where they could be taken ashore at a moment's notice. Two of the Red Cross surgeons, with five nurses, or, as we call them, Sis- ters, went to the hospital building. It was a small affair. When they entered they found that the four or five rooms it con- tained were in the filthiest condition imag- inable. Seventy of our soldiers were lying on the dirty floors. The men had on their uniforms. ‘There wasn’t a bed or cot in the place. Some of the men had been lying there four days. Some of the men had fevers and others dysentery or measles. Two men had been wounded on the day the Rough Riders had their fight. “The Red Cross representatives at once offered the society's services, but the as- sistant surgeon in charge, Dr. Winters, de- clined the offer. He told our people that he did not need their services, but perhaps he should in a few days. He would let them know. Seventy men were lying there sick with only army rations for food. The Red Cross surgeons and nurses urged Dr. Win- ters to accept them, but to no purpose. They wanted to stay and make the place comfortable. Dr. Winters would not yield. Cubans Accept Help. “Our party then went over to the Cuban soldiers’ hospital. Here they found some patients in bed. The Cubans accepted the offer of assistance at once and very will- ingly. There were six rooms in this hosp!- and these the Sisters at once cleaned. y did the work of servants as well as es. With pails of water and cloths got down on their kne floors. The plac to G anilago. 2 anamo The ad. to d- the proper food was prep: 3 I went ashore and went to the Cu pital. I saw what the Sisters had . “I went to the American hospital and saw the four or five filthy rooms. I found the hospital steward there. He told me he had two men to assist him, but nothing with which to make the patients comfort- able. Then I saw Dr. Harvard, who is the surgeon there. “Addressing him, I said: ‘You declined the service of the Red Cross today. Can you afford to let this story go back to the United States, that you have nothing here in the way of supplies or nurses, and still the help at hand? He replied that ad not declined our services, as he needed help very much. Then I said thei must have been some misunderstanding, and I asked him if the Red Cross could come in the hospital to do what {t had been doing for the Cubans. He replied: ‘Yes.’ “With that I rushed down to see In- spector General. Breckenridge in his tent, near the shore, and told him the story. He was very nice to me, and I asked if there were any hospital supplies on the ships. He did not know. He introduced me to a colonel on General Shafter's staff. He could not answer my question, either. Then I reported to Miss Barton on the State of Texas, and the next day about one hundred cots were carried ashore in small ats. The Awful Situation. “The Red Cross nurses had been in the Cuban hospital two days when Dr. Lagara the surgeon in charge, came back from the front. He saw the awful situation at once and sent a formal letter to Miss Barton ing for the services of the Red Cross. The order came for ‘he troops to move on Santiago, and Dr. Lagarde turned over the hospital to the society. We got a better building, and the sisters, after cleaning it thoroughly, put the patients there and the Red Cross flag went up. “You remember the attack was made on July 1. In the afternoon of that day the wounded began to ‘come down,’ as we call it, from the front, a distance of eight or ten } ce in Cuba, but | * carry the wounded soldiers a greater dim tance than some of them should have beet carried. The Red Cress people pps on the States of Texas, as they could fot ‘get proper accommodations in Stboney “I said the Red Cross never criticises, What I have said is not in criticiam, but simply a story of our experiences. Of the navy to much cannot be said, and what- ever fault ts to be found with the army regulations so far as the hospital arrange- ments are concerned is due perhaps to the surgeon general's department.” Dr. and ‘Mrs. Lesser. Miss Jennings said that Dr. and Mrs. Lesser had yellow fever in a mild form. The others-stricken with“them who were attached to the State of Texas were Mrs Trumbull White of Chicago, and a M:nna. Sisters Anna and Isabelle escaped. Dr. Gutteras, the yellow fever expert, diag- nosed the case When I asked Mits Jennings about the condition of the transport Se . on which she came from Cuba, she manifested some nce. “The 1 was never intended for the use of sick and wounded nnings ou remember the men t troops we the ndage pstrume to me of the they n th stench wer excep hur the State ndages and medl- Id be needed of the air, te. k or not 1 any exe the Sene- 5 ness the It was not a wounded m y any m to me that there eration in the reports about condition. aT +o+ LONG BRANCH. President McKinley Expected to Take a Vacation at Elberon Spectat Ever ar LO 1898. This resort {s about t ome once more the summer outing e of the President. Ever since the days when Gen. Grant used to sit on the Elberon bluff and with leading politicians and pub the country, make history, th: has, until within a f2w years, been on’ oke the most popular seaside watering places for the country chief executives. Presi- Gent Harrison spent two summers as @ Monmouth Beach cottager, but President Cleveland never came to this cording to’ present arrangement McKinley will spend a week the Elberon Hotel during the 1 of August. Mr. Abner McKin ily have taken rooms at the the first week in August, and, if war allows him to leave Washington for any length of time, the President will follow n after the horse show excit2ment ts over. The El- nere he will stay, is within a few yards of the famous Francklyn cottage where Garfield died A benefit mu for the fers’ and Sailors’ Famill ctive Associat n was given at the W nd Amusement Hall last evening. A handsome sum was realized for the charity, and among ( I-known artists who contri > were BS Blanch W . Thropp, Miss Marguerite St. John, Lillian Longmore, Miss Vivian Dill, Eloma Laymen, Edwin Milton Royle, and Selina Fetter. The ilaries to the Red Cross Society which have been organiz>d at the Elberon and at bright are good-natured rivals in the work of raising funds for the so- Since the $1,000 was subs ia nda half ago at the m the fliary, which was prosided over ident Harrison, about $4,300 have About seventy-five young la- id i re! been raised. meeting daily and sewing for an hour making for the soldiers. A larg> box of things will be sent to the week through the Red ractions for the sport- tion of geon shooting, which under the Jr. this se a thi on at Elicwood Park nt of Mr. Phil. Daly ‘y Wednes at whieh m country cont handicap will be sh y the Bra: ond garden parts the Hollywood Hotel the t Ther Saturday 2 crack Wedn 3 and a week The at Saturfay evening on will which surround that famous Long Branch hestelry. Ever since the days of John Hoey the Hollywood garden parties have been celsbrated as the finest social events of the kind cn the north Jersey coast. Saturday night the grounds will be brilliantly illum- inated and beautifully decorated with n tional flags and streamers of bunting. Hu dreds of incan: nt lights will be str from various pcints from the hotel through tres. The most elaborate party of the season Manager Dunlap announces he will give on the last evening of the horse s Pleasure Bay, situated two mil of this resort, on the beautiful Sh river, is the rendezvous pf thousands o! people every day this summer. It is a fa- vorite resort specially for driving and trol- ley pe who eat a midnight supper on the n Italian troubadour band plays catchy selections. A high-class vau- deville p2rforman ach evening on a floating is called an “aquatic circ he river in front of the nchored in immense grand stand, which extends along the river's bank. Besides the vaudeville entertainment there are exhibitions of acrobat ats, high, diving and: trained dogs and horses. Jean’ P. Wietzman, the high wire walker, bas been one of the star attractions this week, Pair's Fireworks Company gives the “battle of e Saturday evening, when the destruction several forts and a Spanish fleet makes a scene thrilling and _realis At the Elberon- Hotel jay evening very pretty german will be given in the Casino. The dancing will be led by Elisha Dye well-known New Y¥ cotillion 1 and Mrs. of San Francisco. Ther? is to be a big garden party at the Elberon Hotel some eyening next week. Music will be furnished by Conterno’s Four- teenth Regimeat Band of New York Presid-nt George Blanchard of the inter. Mr. ork Frederick Kohl miles. Some were in wagons, others were on foot. The only accommodation the army had in the field was straw thrown on the ground with blankets thrown over it. Dr. Lagarde asked Dr. Lesser of the Red Cross to come in and take the place of an army surgeon. Mrs. Lesser, with three sisters, went in and assisted the surgeons. In twenty-four hours they operated on and dressed the wounds of 475 men. The nurses worked without stopping for meals. Coffee was served to them. “Dr. Lagarde came to me on Saturday, the day after the attack, and had an order from General Shafter authorizing Miss Bar- ton to seize any army wagons for the pur- pose of sending supplies from the State of Texas to the front. He said he had no food for his troops and very few bandages. I asked Dr. Lagarde, ‘Where are the hus- pital supplies for the army? Where ts your service? Have you brought twenty thou- sand men to Cuba and hurried them to the front to fight without any preparation for the wounded? Dr. Lagarde’s Distress. “Dr. Lagarde was distressed. He was des- perate because the situation was so terri- ble. He had very little to say, but he did reply, ‘I don’t know; I don’t know.’ The tears rose to his eyes as he said, ‘God knows what we could have done down here without the help of the Red Cross, and our only hope is in you and the help you can give us, and if you can get supplies and send them to the front you can do more good than I can tell.’ “Dr. Hubbell of the Red Cross came in, and he reported the situation io Miss Bar- ton on the State of Texas. We got the sup- plies out of the ship's hold that night, and at daylight landed them. We seized state commerze commission, with some cther members of the commission, will give a dinner the first of the week at the Elber- on to Presidsnt Maxwell of the New Jersey Central ratiroad. Mrs. Wm. F. Sheehan, wife of ex-Lieut Governor Sheehan of New York, and Mrs. Maguel Mendoza of New York chaperoned a driving party over the Rumson road Tu2s- dey evening from the Elberon Among the members of the party, whica participated in dancing after arriving home, were Miss Florence Pancosst of Philadelphia, Miss Lilly Hidalgo, Miss Etta Ro>bling, Miss Catherine McCann, Miss Myra Bien, Miss Maclay, Miss Lillian Rigney, Miss Bessie Leonard, Ferdinand Roebling, Carlton Cur- tis, Robert Maclay, William Maclay and John T. McCann. ig is The California Rangers. A question of great interest’as to the ac- ceptance by the government of volunteers raised on the Pacific coast has been re- ferred by the war authorities to Attorney General Griggs. Gen. W. H. H. Hart of California raised a regiment of California Rangers. consisting of mounted riflemen, two regiments of infantry and three bat- ‘teries of light artillery. The administra- tion has decided to accept these troops if Attorney General Griggs should agree that the law permits their enlistment. ———————— Gen. Corbin’s Son TL. Adjt. Gen. Corbin has received a cuble- gram from Gen. Shafter, informing him that his son, “Rud” Corbin, who accompa- ries Shafter to Cuba, is in the hospital with yellow fever. He has been ill for sev- eral days, but his diserse was not until yesterday diagrosed definitely as yellow fever. While the attack ts serious, there are hopes of his recovery. Headache speedily cured by the use of Horsford’s Acid