The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1899, Page 23

THE SUNDAY OCALL 28 Beneral Toods” Tew TRIN of Wlartare, The Soldier Who Fought % Hopes to Save Thousands the Spaniards So Well of Lives by Stamping Is Now Fighting Out the Frightful : Yellow Jack. Cuban Scourge. PR RN T [ BRSNS HEN yellow fever is wiped out ter months of 1898 were really victims of Santlago since General Wood assumed early symptoms of a severe case. There is O Cupa, aepecially out of Hu. the dread vellow scourge in a more or charge is & matter of common fame. intense pain in the back and shoulders a less mild form. The fact that thelr hos- There are some men who might have felt temperature of 105, stricture in the throat pital papers bore the words “perniclous discouraged when confronted with the and black vomit—" i ... memanisyoy motiseryo to lessen HNiparil ftask {bat facel GenaraliWood last JUly: eirave that man removed to the fsland s oh du:-mcrl‘«)r:nncn::v; > of the patients, but it prevented the It only spurred him on. within an hour or I will put you in the b Rooun et bear QenEeniof & paniciand helved riacerallys STt ey Yollow HI0VEE S NS must fight, cabildo,” Interrupted the general sternly. started by the importation of cases from I} the reconstruction and purification of Hanna,” he said to his afd as the two ‘‘And remember—it is malaria, do you un- puiaaedin Al siore. thelcity. took thelr first ride through the city. derstand?” than a thousand lives a year for many _And that was why General Leonard “We have a foe here which is going t0 When the man left the hospital con- ¥ Y Wood, military and civil Governor of San- &lve us a life and death struggle. He valescent several weeks later he carried & ars, and often ten times that number Quring one single visitation. The money tago de Cuba, knowingly and with pre- IS there in that heap of refuse, and In certificate wrung from the surgeon bear- vana and Santiago, it will be wiped out of the United States. expenditure which has been necessary to meditation, successtully concealed the that adobe shanty over there, and here ing the significant words, “Discharged keep up national quarantines and “tne fact that yellow fever existed within the beneath our feet. We must fight him cured of yellow fever.” commrercial loss which has resulted from Cccnfines of the province. with brooms and shovels, with soap and 1 Qctober General Wood drew up an State quarantines have amounted up in _That General Wood fully anticipated the water, and with new rules that will turn ejaporate plan to be followed when the the scores of millions. present outbreak is beyond question. He this town upside down.” antleipated return of the fever in epi- This indicates the immense. importance knew that fever would return in 1"’:&“ One of the first precautions taken by demic form occurred. It was now that of the work which is now being done by (hs sutimes deeplea e E‘e‘?l“ skill the nervy, cool-headed American was to his training as a physician proved invaju- ol A Mean % e inl Oube vnd sanitary precautions cou 0 to pre- decry the fact that yellow fever existed able. < 5 2 D8 ‘vent it. in Santiago. Experience with human na- fje understood the diseass in all its out of the di: existed in toward the wi Yellow feve It is as impossible to carry American ture told him that the widespread pub- - 3 - phases and he knew just what precau- troops and civilians through the hot trop- Jication of the fact would serve no good fmns e rattolidl sndiumdient Thave Cuba ander the m! bt ical months of June, July and AUgUSt cause, but that it would possibly creats were thres principal points as outlined. nic ..,,,:, 'mm,“ ‘5“\,.‘4‘ e sur without a number of fatalities from yel- 4 panje, cause demoralization and prac- These were, first, the immediate .break- the city s "'}"r" low fever as it would be to stop a Mauser tically put a check upon his plans for re- ing up of S Fal s ious i tegbiants’ o and ci afed of bullet without being hurt,” he sald. deeming the city from its centurles of small squads and their being kept con- i filled the fever b say it is imp from Santiago, a he added, ssible to ""'«”E;Y e- fith. Good work cannot be expected from stantly on the move from camp to camp ut, please God, W€ nan who feel that they are walking cheek outside the city; second, the absolute es a plenty cape,’ (h\u‘v.‘:-"\‘: n sent hc ::-‘1;"“'1\4“(‘!:‘-; “,;1‘ .1)0 c-\'rv;.\mir:ft :"\ 'h*fqpf’“'&‘; of "‘:;“ by jowl with Yellow Jack. malntenance of sobriety among all Ameri- e e ostice i ofeame e (n\;u?r\:‘xzc(h:sr:w: His second precaution—seemingly a cans; third, the estabiishment of a rigid slble s 1t L : as the conversion of a small Qquarantine. paradox island in Santiago Bay into a hospital for “I look upon rum or any alooholic bev- the treatment of contagious fevers. Build- erage as the greatest factor in the gon- ings completely equipped with medical traction of yellow fever,” he said in ex- facilitics were erected and everything plaining his plan. “Heating the blood provided for the very visitation now oc- with bad whisky Is simply creating a hot- annual record of deaths one-half, or s ma a byword. It is now even one-fourth, I shall be satisfled.” * wn there fully 6 per cent of That everything “in the power of man” those who suffered from it during the lat- has been done to keep the scourge from In Santiago nowadays the term “per- curring in the city. bed for the propagation of the germs. Shortly after the hospital was in readi- A man cannot drink and face the fever ness so many cases were sent there that unscathed.” attention was attracted to it. One Ameri- It is this rule that General Wood Is can connected with the Postoffice went to now enforcing so strictly in Santiago. His the palace in alarm one day. General action in closing the saloons and sum- Wood smiled grimly when the man stated merily arresting any American found un- his er der the influence of liquor is simply & part 1lly arranged plan of cam- vellow jack. course of treatment followed is on s adopted in all tropical and. low fever?” he exclaimed. ‘Non- ! The reports say pernicious ma- laria, and I gu the doctor knows what Th he is talking about.” 3 the ger o countries. patient is immediate Each day the one paper then being pub- : : lished in Santiago e it p lven s Al then, after being S eh il Musens tr solgiew tromy DLaosd (0 DG LS dORRTIRCr ty ML IO p(rfi’m e e resortaexoitedl of an infusion made from orange little or nc s a fa- ia,” at least wond produces profuse per- the result desired. , if the subject sur- generall atjon, which is e third da d at to the Am all it foy coidcouid hat critical period, a tonic having @ carry off ho many. 1 bearing on the stomach is admin- S One d Mer- od, except a small quantity of S| ritt & Chapman wrecking operations on beef tea, is tabooed. It was the cus- | the Spanish warships strolled into the s ago to use quinine in office of the company’s agent, Julian Cen- wtities, but that method of as been abandoned. he sald, In preparing for a summer season of r in Santiago the possible value Vo | = doya. “I am not feeling very w (Aj dully. “T guess it mus e heat.” vellow f \ Before Cendoya could reply his visitor of using immune troops was taken into [% if lurched heavily against a desk. The next careful consideration. A decision in the moment he was prc on the floor. The negative ed, the immunity of { agent knew from certain symptom: soldiers previously exposed to contagious what was the matter, and he has fevers being very much open to doubt. moned a native doctor living in the neigh- The Government's experience with im- borhood. An hour later the stricken man mune regiments during the Spanish- was resting in a boarding-house back of American war was such that it Is safe to the cathedral. Then the doctor, according say they will never again form a part of to the rules, made his report at the palace. the defensive forces of the United States, “It is pernicious malaria, senor,” he said at least from the “immune” standpoint. to General Wood. “The patient has all the H. H. LEWIS. A GROUP OF CONVALE AMERICAN S0LDIERS (N SANTAGO zttsr:: ing as this entrance to the harbor of Hon- white neglige suit, much like that of his more _civilized br r, but about his lines are not drawn very shoulder he wreathes a garland of flower this country there is less and in his wide-brimmed st h predominates . thrust many flowers and peacock fe climate. The wome also go barefoot. ne; n all the & bright-hued Mother Hubbard, be t moral rigidity t n 1 m e older > rigorou; e leader: \l affairs. They are the With festoons of gaudy flowers and g wnts of the missionaries who came Vines. s three-quarters of a centur In the Hawailan Islands one may select vy do not hesitate to extend the kind of ciimate that is best suited to re OpDC L h the half-breeds or him and know no other. He may select In fact many of the a spot that is sufficiently cool while yet tter a mely refined people. They frosts are unknown and chilling w ded in live in luxurious homes, send their chil- blow not; he may select another s ch, Scan- dren to American and European Institu- where the heat is excessive, or he may , Spaniards and sev- tions of learning and have ail the com- ascend from the sea to the mountain- .er peoples forts that wealth can bestow. As the re- and feel the air growing cooler with % hoat arrives at Honolulu it is sult there is very little of that feeling of most every step. In fact, as one scientist wd of curious, lazy people, color distinction that prevails in America. has remarked, “every graduation of tem- 16 more common people of Hawaii are perature, altitude and humidity, with ys are fil flowing _garments that the g picturesque and interesting study, for varying forces and volume of wind cur- plantations place of the semi-nudity that was the while they have made a pretense of adopt- rents, is presented in the Hawali 1 Bitivated however, for custom up to a short time ago. In fact, ing the customs of those with whom they Islands. Moreover, each grove, beach. 2 ompany has the first impressions that the strangef have been thrown in contact, they have vale. summit and belt of land preserves uarters here. It is also the loca- Tec of the city are its barefoot peo- gtill retained the traits that have been the Its respective climatic attributes almost Politic n other plantations, and its Pple, its smooth, hard, wide roads and its characteristics of the race since the earli- unchanged throughout the year. It i{s a place as or e alone represent & capital attractive doorway Set days of savagery. They still feast on this latter fact that has made these whites and > millfon dollars. There are That Hawali is a land of beauty is evi- taro, r h and pol, that queer mixture islands the ideal spot for invalids. A natives are w nis tations on olokai, but dent from the first glimpse that one has that looks like paste, feels like cold yeast certain climate may be selected and there protection of Uncle Sam. As to the na- the same time he does not feel any senti- of the ballot and there will be little dan- ent, to which all the of the country. You may go from one and tastes like buttermilk, and they are one may femain without fear of change, tve proper as he is seen in the common ment of gratitude at belng relieved from his one of our new possessions ished, is located there, it end of the globe to the other and not s careless, lazy people they always or by t ling about from place to place walks of life. he has no opinions at all the bondage of a monarchy. The simple us any trouble. a desirable place find a bit of scenery one-half as charm- have .been. he kanaka man wears a one may follow what s something like upon the subject. Of course there are fact is that political feelings of any kind RGE ALFRED EDWARDS. L ON PROPOSED BRIDLE PATH. GOLDEN GATE PARK. educated T A FUNERAL CAR - BAAYMEIESS S among . Peru Hawaiian gest of which of over fou ile it is vel \d all dressed in the loosé T ave take refooted fon of the seasons in the tem- still natives in high positions who are are a disturbing element and the average titudes.” fhorough royalists at heart, but even they native is decidedly averse to making any e fawaii is about as peaceful are willing to accept things as they are. effort either mental or physical Under VAl G i o see. The The common native, however, harbors no these circumstances it will only be neces- 15 Of the better class of resentment at what anti-annexationists sary for the United States Government B o afied to accept the have pleased to term his “downfall.” At to use wise discrimination in the placing