The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 3, 1909, Page 7

MEN DIE LIKE DOGS AT GEORGETOWN Li rv ; Lay (Conoluded.) eo ose, The ventilation in this the stench is almost unbearable. Se rel of these sufferers have their wounds - essed in bed, and patients in adjoining beds are faced to breathe in the germ-charged atmosphere dur- gg the jeration. : CRIMINAL HANDLING OF REFUSE. disposing of refuse at the county hospital a laxity on the part of the officials almost ward is poor, "All the refuse of the institution, germ-reeking bondages, cotton from the “dressing room,” sweep- ‘jag from the wards and corridors, paper boxes used i as cuspidors, bits of decayed fruit, are ; in metallic casks in the wash rooms and later tpken down to the yard by two aged inmates. : A ise for flies—this is the King county hospital. | > They cover the walls of the rooms, they fly from patient ‘qo patient. they light on the food in great swarms, they cluster great buzzing clouds around the pails of refuse that sit in operating rooms. In the dining-room the patient has to keep one arm free keep the flies away from the food he is trying to eat. I saw Belcher spit out a mouthful of soup and crackers one ay. He arose with a curse and left the table. “What's the matter?” I called after him. | *I swallowed three flies,” he said. And Belcher isn’t a fy squeamish man. ATTACK MAN IN BED. T found a patient one day with his bed covers drawn clear I touched him and asked him what was over his face. "These flies, these flies,” he moaned. I can’t keep ‘em awgy. They are driving me crazy." One evening while Clerk Day and the waiter and I were at the table, Day amused himself by catching the flies alighted near his plate. The waiter and I kept count. In minutes Day had caught 24. The rest of the table watched EA | me It was considered a good joke. | _ “Don’t the flies die out in the winter time?” I asked. “They don't seem to,” I was told. “They are as thick then _Matang other time. I guess they live here all the year ‘round.” THEY SPREAD TERRIBLE DISEASE. NOW THE IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THIS 1s| THAT THERE IS NO WORSE AGENCY FOR SPREAD- “ING DISEASE THAN THESE SAME FLIES. SCIEN- STS HAVE PROVED THIS, AND IN EVERY BIG CITY IC-SPIRITED MEN ARE TRYING TO AROUSE TO THE DANGER THAT LURKS IN THE FLY. AE FLY'S FOOT CARRIES MILLIONS OF GERMS. : THE BILL OF FARE. Mason;Ehrman & Co., Distributers Seattle, Portland, Spokane “They are every- THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1999 nothing is ever done. Some of them dig vegetables from a neigh boring garden and cook these themselves to hélp out, Here's the diet for a convalescent: ° BREAKFAST—Mush, one tablespoonful; coffee, one-half cup; bread, one slice; butter, one small piece; Sugar, tablespoonful (with rice or mush), DINNER—Coffee, bread and butter, same allow- ance as at breakfast; one-half bowl of soup; one po- tato; small piece of meat, SUPPER—Bread, butter, tea and sugar rations the same as above; one-half bowl rice; one potato, COOKING IS BAD. The cooking is inferior to a Jackson st. hashery, while the material is worse, The butter looks all right, but is nauseating when applied to anything hot. Skimmed milk is served, even to the tubercular patients. The coffee and tea are inferior. The coffee looks like iron- colored water and tastes like it. Very little milk is used. The sugar is of an ordinary grade. The patients are allowed a tablespoonful when they have mush or rice. Other times they don’t get any. EGGS ARE VERY BAD, The eggs served to both inmates and patients are always doubtful. Sometimes they are good; often they are bad. They are cold storage eggs. You can guess their age by their odor. I have seen eggs served to typhoid and tubercular patients that were badly decomposed. The bread is always damp and the biscuits overcharged with some baking ingredient that makes them unpalatable. Em- ployes get pudding, but patients never. The puddings vary in shape, color, and general appearance, but always taste alike. IF LATE, GO HUNGRY. The table service is strictly boarding house style. One dish of food is placed on the table for every four men, If anyone | », is late, he loses out. . . . . * * to King county. Every mattress in the institution is filled with straw. After a short time the straw breaks and holes form, Bed-ridden patients suffer untold agony from these holes, huge sores forming on their bodies at short notice. The mat- tresses do not yield to the weight of the body and as a result the patients awake but little refreshed after the night. OLD AND YOUNG TOGETHER. One of the more revolting features of the institution is the neglect of the officials to segregate the minor patients from the older ones. During my stay there were two boys there—Joe Mason and Birdie Cooper, both under 16 years old. These boys were suffering from a mental affliction, yet they were always kept with the older patients. They listened to their discussions jand learned to laugh at coarse jokes. The boys slept in the same ward with the older patients. No effort was made by the officials to prevent immoral teachings. LITTLE GIRLS KEPT THERE. In the female ward a girl scarcely 10 and another under 16 were kept. All day long they were in company with the older women and no official of the institution interested himself suf- ficiently to order otherwise. THE BATHS THINGS OF HORROR. All the patients in the institution are bathed on Friday and Saturday. The bath tubs are kept busy. The patients are given one towel a week—a rag towel about a foot long and six or eight inches wide, much like a dish towel. It is soaked through before the patient dries his face once. But he has to use it all week and at last for a bath towel. They learn to use their underwear for towels, WILL 60 ON SAYS Continued From Pi ed HENEY sands of people who for poor San Francisco and the many 4 | fought shoulder to shoulder with me in the good fight. | “Let us all firmly resolve that we will continue the battle for equality before the law with unabated vigor until success | j has crowned our efforts.” | NEW YORK, Tammany has mayor once mo Nov. 3.—Though | dollars a year, will stand as fol ted New York's | lows Fusion—thirteen votes. Tammany—three votes. This will not give much patron or Murphy to apportion among “taithful.” ee ee (Continued on Page 8.) remainder of the Tammany ticket rout | Im political circles thie is con: lered the worst kind of a defeat ould have come to Murphy, | n and their followers. | Personally, Murphy and Cohalen detest Gaynor. They forced hie jpomination on the democratic ticket because they belleved that personal popularity would elect the whole ticket. The diserimtinating vote, which chose the man put forward because | lof his good record, but refused to | | support the ticket behind him, re | D utted disastrously to the Murphy | plans. | Gaynor has been known for | years us @ “reformer” and there is \Httle tn his record that offers sat isfaction to Murphy. Though Gay. nor was bitterly attacked in the campaign, the men fighting for | Hearst and Bannard directed most RRR hk BANK CLEARINGS. eSattle. today. .$1,889,156.64 233,676.41 Clearings Balances . Tacoma. Clearings today. .$1,052,518.00 Balances . 132,461.00 Portland. today. .$1,386,094.00 98,928.00 Clearings Balances Kees eee eee eet eee ee eee ee The Healing Power of Pine which Gaynor ran, rather than at|through a forest of pine trees you him personally The charge .was made over and | sciously, the head was thrown back nomination of Gaynor, not because | with long, deep breaths the glorious he wanted Gaynor, but because he | pine-laden air, How invigorating it hoped that Gaynor would carry the | was—how healing! Tammany ticket through The medicinal Charles H. Whitman, the fuston|have been recognized in medical candidate for district attorney, was! practice for many years. For Sl elected as successor of William coughs and colds the mixture of Travers Jerome, defeating George |two ounce of Glycerine with a Gordon Batt by nearly 10,000.) half oune f Virgin Ol! of Pine This was a heavy blow for Tam-| compound pure and eight ounces of many, as the office of the prose-|pure Whisky {8 highly recommend cutor of New York county is one|ed. It ts claimed that a teaspoon. of the most important at stake in| ful of this mixture, four times a the election }day, will break a cold in twenty Another decisive defeat for Mur-| four hours and cure any cough that phy was scored in the election of |is curable. The Ingredients are not McAneny, for years president of | expensive and can be bought in any the City club, to the office of pres: | good drug store, the genuine Virgin ide: t borough of Manhat-| Oil of Pine compound pure being tan, ating Haug, the Tammany |put up for dispensing only by the candidate. Cyrus Miller, the fysion | Leach Chemical Co,, Cincinnati candidate, was elected presidemt of | the borough of the Bronx, and George Cromwell was elected presi: | dent of Richmond borough. Al fred Esteers was chosen president of the borough of Brooklyn. The full extent of the defeat of ‘Tammany is shown by the fact that the board of estimate, which con trolg, the expenditure of a billion virtues of pine Prof. Stevens The man who guaran toes to teach you to dance, PRIVATE Lessons, with — muaic day and evening, and assemblion The beds at the hospital are a disgrace to the officials and| eet eee ee eeeee of their shafts at the ticket on| If you have ever taken a walk| will remember how, almost uncon: | over that Murphy had caused the | and Jungs expanded as you Inhaled! CONDEMN THE BLACK HOLE: WANT A PROBE Members of Beacon Hill Improvement Club De- mand a Grand Jury to} Investigate Charges. Protesting against the existence of the “black hole” tn the city jail and any abuse of the process of “sweating” prisoners, the Beacon Hill Improvement club passed resolutions drawn by Ole Hanson, | retterating the demand made by the club a month ago that a gfand jury be called to investigate charges of wrongdoing in the elty government The resolutions, with one follows Want a Grand Jury. of revolting a by which passed dissenting vote, are as | ‘| u theretore be it Resolved. the Muat Protect Prisoner, “I do not know whether or not there Is any truth in the charges that prisoners are tortured in the jelty jail,” said Mr. Hanson, in dis jeussing bis resolution, “I do know jthat that reife of barbariam, the |‘black hole,’ does exist; 1 do know | that in civilized country a prisoner, before being sweated, is makes will be used againat him at jthat here. A prisoner is not in jatl }to be bulldozed and beaten, he is kullty should alro protect his! rights, It i# possible that guilty mon may be made to confess by| the ‘third degree’ process, It tn also possible that inn men | may also be made to wn to things of which they are not guilty by the same process ‘I do not know if these charges | have any basis in truth know that when I av » judiciary ¢ ture last wi | r making it a r a prisoner in a Jail that th: routing attorneys of King, and Spokane counties and police officials from Seattle, Tacoma and Spokan aided by lepresentative Geor Tennant, brother of Capt. Tennant, of the Seattle detective force, | fought the bill in the committee | and defeated it there and that they later fought an amendment to the criminal code introduced in the Jogislature for the same purpose, | “Why should officers of the law , fight the enactment of such a law unless they feared ita operation, if passed?” Supt. of Public Valentine and rom me: better car #e¢ BOARD HELPS RIEF (Concluded.) Utilities A. L. Councilman Way i for securing a vice for Beacon Hill REFORM DEFEATED FROM NEW YORK TO FRISCO Reform went down to defeat tn over the country, from New York where Tammany won once again to Ban Francisco, where He was repudiated Mayor Tom Johneon, after eight years at the head of municipal affairs, during which time he has constantly fought for reform, was repudiated by the voters yesterday, and Herman C Baehr, republican county recorder, elected, after a 10-year democratic | reign tn Cleveland | San Francisco is tired of reform, and yesterday signified tts inten tion of going back to the old way of doing things which has made the Golden Gate city notorious the world over P, H. MeCarty, union labor can didate, elected mayor, stands for a Mberal policy and the making of Cleveland Rief and the county commis sioners have suffered a very de elded change of opinion since the first of the year. They say now| that the sheriff has nothing to do jwith the appointment of the game Warden Rief, and to continue to pay Rief $100 a month, it is none of my business,” said Sheriff Rob ert T. Hodge this morning. “By revoking Rief's commission as deputy sheriff and appointing J, ©. Liner to attend to any viola tions of the game and fish laws reported to this office, | have done all that I consider it my duty to do. 80 long ag I am not to be held responsible for Rief's conduct, I am quite satisfied 4,3 ib 5 Pret told that any adminstons which he! { his trial, but they do not tell him) * | there elther to be proven guilty or | ° | released which } THE STONE, FISHER CO. | siumpacl naan ahaa p> as sooks innocent to The law punish bim if small women. Group No, 1—Misses’ Women's Suits, in satin s¢ | tweed, fancy worsteds, mannish ma | terials ; long-coated affairs, and with pleated skirts red. The Suits are high ¢ popular colors are included. | made to sell at $20.00 and 3 Modern Department Stores ‘Thompson suits for girls, in navy and of all-wool fabrics and care , such as green, red, olive, gray, brown, cardinal, reseda, navy and smoke SECOND AND UNIVERSITY. Of Absorbing Interest Women’s Suits at Stone, Fisher’s ESPITE rain and storm yesterday the Suit Section was crowded with buyers, and the business at the end of the day showed a new record. Most of the buyers came as a result of seeing the prizes secured by friends, relatives and neighbors last week. Tomorrow We Shall Have More Room, More Suits and Greater Values Than Ever The price is abs and Small leil, serge, satin lined Also Peter lass in every particular; made fully tailored. All the season’s Suits that were $25.00, are offered in this sale | fore I took office Rief came to me | for the neh b warden. If that is #o, why did Rief appeal to me personally and send his friends to me seeking bis reappointment? A few days be fourth time and| to know what | » to him, be-| tered another | it if 1 would} told me was going to cause he bad b job, and would ta not reappoint him. Even the coun ty commissioners at that time did not question my right to name the game warden, and no one will ac- SECOND AND UNIVERSITY. | San Francisco “the Parts of Amer yesterday's municipal elections ali) '¢4,” to use his Charles M trict attorney Heney, won he would pros as he is “convin to a successfu it,” which means the graft prosecution ia F » is a thing of the past. Tammany elected another mayor of vy York, Justice William J, Gaynor of Brooklyn, by @ 70,000 plurality, but lost its grip on the city finances The republicanfusion forces will control absolutely the board of em timates and apportionment, which will disburse approximately one billion dollars during the adminis- tration, so there is little joy in the victory for the Tiger Even in Washington the reform movement lost, when, in a bitter battle, the “wets” triumphed over the “drys” at Vancouver, Wash, such cases be carried _ that body of ever conceding me anything that I wasn’t eu titled to Will See That the Law Is Enforced. Rief no longer holds a commis- sion from me, and I can in no way be held responsipie for his conduct, If the commissioners want to call rden and pay him a to the law, and let apher have all the in- former's fees, which is a plain case of graft, it may by some be con- sidered none of my business, but I intend to make it my business, and to see that the law is strictly en- forced.” cure BURIED | NSEWER, j 9 3.—The body of pvaller, who was buried lin a sewer cave-in on Saturday, was recovered today. Evidences indt- cating that the woman had lived some tUme after the accident were | found. Horse Owners, Attention Rest of care and pasture for your orse for the winter. Phone Main 3 or Main 432. Inquire John Wal- e, Meadows. oe monks hroat, Pneumonia, Coughs, Sore T’ and all Lung Trouble, Leary Com pound. All druggists. THE STONE, FISHER CO. , aia urdly low. self-striped diagonals serges, in prunellas, in tweeds. The colors range fre | | | in | Group No, 3—Very distinctive Suits, with 40 to 46-inch Coats, and fancy worsteds and in striped Scotch » Particular attention is directed to the Tailored Suits for misses and There’s sure to be a brisk demand. Arrange to be here early tomorrow. Suits Worth $20 to $22.50, $9.50 Suits Worth $35 to $40 for $24.50 $9.50 $24.50 om | medium to dark,navy and black; and include all the newer shades of helio, raisin, brick, olive, myrtle, dark electric, brown, tan, light to dark gray and purple black. Suits that | class trade and would readily navy to middle blue, purple are plainly made for high- command $35.00 to $40.00. 1 On sale tomorrow at $24.50. THESTONEFISHERG.