The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1902, Page 3

OPHTHALMIA THREATENS EYES OF MANY THOUSANDS. SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE WHICH THREATENS EYES OPHTHALMIA—An inflammation of the eyes, which, if neglected, is followed by purulent ophthalmia, which is highly contagious and in many cases leads to blindness. The presence of the disease makes itself manifest by inflammation in the early stages and is easily recognized by that symptom. The second development |s the accumulation of pus when the dis- ease has reached its purulent state. Then, if neglected, blindness may Disease in Frevalent Stage Found in the Public Schools, and Health Authorities Take Steps to Stop Its Spread. THE | The startling discovery that a’ large percentage of the scholars in! the public schools of Greater *New | York are afflicted with eye disease Which is pronounced communicable has been made by specialist attached to the Health Board. Promptly upon the condition of affairs being officially announced the Health Board decreed that the eye disease named in the report of the specialist's investigation as con- tagious shall be treated as any other contagious disease such as measles and searlet fever—that is, the af- fiicted scholar must be removed result. juveniles, contracted ophthalmia, an eye disease oMclally pronounced by reason of the recent Investigation, to be a con- tagious disease. Got the Law P. a. Dr, Derby's ten little blind subjects | made a patietic picture which impressed itself eo vividly upon the minds of the legislators that the law enforcing sys- tematic and regular Inspection was passed in a jiffy, The la however, aid not pertain to public school ch dren and there never has been any In. vestigation among the youth of the city's school, no: until the matter wae ey taken up at the suggestion of Derby. He recommended that an experimental inspection be made. from among his or her classmates, & cole! ey ef eteeee| 5 , % to make an Investigation, He rc To Dr. Richard H. Derby, the well-| to public schosle-Henry street. and Known eye speciaiist who secured the|:he Norfolk street schools, “which he patsage of a law twelve years ago re-| Selected as being the most promising auiring the examination regularly of | forthe investigation. To the aston.sh- ered a remarkable number of cases of ophthalmia among the children of each school visited. What the Doctor Found. the due eyes of children in institutions Is the credit for the discovery of the ed condition generally of the eyes @f the children in the pubile schools.| Dr. Bradley's report, submitted to Dr. Dr. Derby is connected officially with| Derby, and by the latter presented to or D the Health Board, says: the Health Department, but his asso-| “In Henry street achool the lds of cintion in that otclal capacity 1s a work | 1,04 children (boys) were everted, and | 201 cases of communicable eye diseases | Hel found, Of these 201 cases 130 were pure of love more than a work of duty, When he appeared and calling, !n my opinion, for almost immediate operation. “In Norfolk street school the Ids of was accompanied by a group ys and girls whom he Tecelves no trachoma and 71 of Incipient trachoma before the Legis:ature twelve years ago|and_ conjuntivities. Sixty-six of the urgiag the passtge of the present law| fachoma cases were of the most severe | competing the rexular examination of| PS, With Upper and lower oul-de-sacs the ey of children Inmates of insti-|pably narrowing the palpebral fissure groupe in the presence of the mem-| 795 chiidren (boys) were overted and 114 Sere TOE A rt cases of communicable eye disease ee eee cnieen | found. “Of ‘these 114 cases, 8 were of were made blind through neglect. They | Sure trachoma and 27 of incipient trach- | hay, by association with other aMicted! oma and conjunctivitis. Sixty of these trachoma cases were of the most severe | type." Declared to Contagious. Immediately after the reading of the report before the Health Board, Com- missioner Lederle advocated the 1e- | cessity for ‘svetematic action, and tho Board decideg to make the inspection & part of | official functions, Follow- contazious diseace. and, henceforth, any child in the public schools found aim ed with the disease will be sent home and accorded treatmen’ “I conalder this disco most Important which ‘has ever come to the attention of the board.” said | President Lederle to-day. “it has | opened up @ new avenue of Investixa- tlon for us and will recelve our undl- vided attention from this time on. It is probably fortunate the vaca- tion season for the children In 80 close at hand. It will glve us an opportun- ity to prepare for the general inspec- tlon which we have deciled to make regularly of the eyes of our public school children. We feel indebted to Dr. Derby for thus bringing this Im- portant matter to our attention, and everything that can be done will be done toward the prevention of the spread of the disease in future, Dr. Derby has said that a great deal of the blindness among children may be traced to the conditions now existing In the public schools where scholars af- I flicted with the disease are allowed to mingle with the other children, and the neglect which follows the first appear- ances of the disease. “We se now to have a regular | corpe of visiting inspectors whose duty it will be to visit each school regularly and Inspect the eyes of each scholar. By fall this system will have been well established and cannot fail to be fraught with good results, No ex- pense will be spared to take steps to Prevent and to preserve in many cases, I have no doubt, save the eyesight of our public school children.” FIGHT OFF PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS. Park Entomologist Says They Are Breeding by Millions and Will Soon Begin Work of Destruction. WASHINGTON, June 5.—Before an assemblage that crowded the Na- tlonal Theatre President Roosevelt to-day opened the eleventh annual convntion of the Association of Mili- tary Surgeons of the United States. On the stage with the President sat Secretary of Wer Root, Secretary of the Navy Moody, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, Secretary .Cortelyou, Surgeon-General Sternberg, of the Army; Surgeon-General Rixey, of the Navy; Surgeon-General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital Service; Preal- dent H. D. F. MacFarland, of the Board of Commiesioners of the Dis- trict of Columbia; Right RevaH Y. Satterlee, Bishop of the Washington diocese of the Episcopal Church; President 8S. 8. Adums, of the Medi- cal Society of the District of Colum- bla, and Major George Henderson, Surgeon-General of the National juard of the District of Columbia and Chairman of the Committee on ; Avrangements. The President said: “Iam glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this as- mont of Peru has advised the State De-| sociation and thelr friends to-day. The that the map of the country men of this assoclauion combine two pevred in the Peruvian section) professions, each of which 1s rightfully Pan-American Exposition Is not! held In high honor by all capable of ap- considered an offical publication. preciating the real work of man—the pro- nderstood that the map covered fession of the soldier and the profes- yndaries wi ch are in course sion of the doctor. smijuetments “Conditions in modern, civilization tend Orgulia Leucostigma and family have arrived, much to the discomfort of the park officials. The trive will not re- main all summer if Prof. Edmund B. Southwick can help it. He describes the city's callers as having red warts and yellow and dark strip Prof. Southwick is the park entomolo- gist and his new caller with the hard name je a caterpillar which threatens, to eat the leaves from the trees, Instead of meeting the visitors with a band at Sandy Hook, the Professor, with six a: stants, three hand pumps and a power spray with enough cyanide to i iW army of soldierg will go Through thé ec 1,70 acres of parks and attack the ilar visitor Prof, Southwick said: rat number of caterpillars are hate year, They will reach mi Our Pan prevention, We ying expedition d the maples expect that) Park De the th full growth in three weeks. aign is of ellmaary © . when we tv linden, trees, » trees not Include i will be i in. the defollated by 4} NOT OFFIC: ASHINGTON, June 5—The Govern- + be MODERN LIFE IS TOO EASY, ROOSEVELT TELLS DOCTORS. President Praises Profession of Army Sur- geons in Speech at Convention. more and more to make the average life of the community one of great softness, of great eose, compared to what has been the case In the past, and, gentle- men, together with al! the advantages that have come from this softening of life, thus rendering it more easy, there are certain attendant disadvantages also, It 1s a very necessary thing that there shov81 be some professions, some trades where the same demands are made now es have been made in the past upon the herolc qualities in a man, and these demands are made ailke upon the soldier and upon the doctor, and how much more upon those who are both so'diers and doctors; upon men who have continually to face all the responsibility and all the risk faced by their brothers in the civilian branch of the profession, and who also in time of war must face much the same risks, often exactly the same risks, that are faced by their brothers in arms whose training is to kill and not to cure. (Laughter and applause). ‘ “It has been my good fortune, gentle- men, to some of your vofly at worl In the field, to see them carrying the wounded and dying from the firing line, themselves as much exposed to danger as those they were rescuing, and to see them working day and night in the field hospitals afterward, when even the intensity of the strain could hardly keep them awake, no fagged out were they by having each to do the work of ten.” (Applause.) In conclusion the President expressed gratification at the organization of the Surgcons andl urged them to perfect themselves as sclentific men able to operate with the scanty appara opportunities sometimes afforded In fe TURNS POLICEMAN ) 000 BROOKLYN IN HS BATHROBE, CHILDREN PARADE, Magistrate Forgets Judicial Forty-first Anniversary Day! Dignity and Thereby Cap- Marked, by Big Procession tures Boy Who Drinks His, Of Sunday-School Students Baby's One Cow’s Milk. in Eastern District. Maxistrate City, turned Bmith, of Long Island Twenty thousand Sunday-school chil- policeman this morning, dren dressed in white and c and clad Jn bis bathrobe, arrested 4 banners and religious mottoes marched , boy offender, He will next turn de>, through the streets of Williamsburg tectlve in his imagineary robes of of- this afternoon, It was the forty-first fice In order to cuich the paitners of annual parade of the scholars of the ehis prisoner, | Brooklyn Eastern District Sabbath- The Magistrate was awakened about | School Association. daylight by a noise in the yard of his house in Nott avenue, near Fly aver| of children Nite, He louked ubout and waw throe! tain, whore a mammoth grand etand bors coming up to the rear door, Mt | had been erected, from which thelr par- mith has a baby one month old, for/enty and members of the clergy re- Wom he takes the milk of one cow, | viewed the parade, Hymns were sung pd that milk he gitti fs Jealoualy, id the onlookers joined in, What was hie wraia, chen, when he} The children marched and counter. mwiek and drain ie oftt \ ro oviowed by: Gag Wiehe While the boy wae getthng the J Zatson Hobson, Borough Prenident the fluid the magletrate way getting Into 2M mand several Brockivn slate 0 Thee , ijl his bath robe, He surprised the enomy, Ney went to the Univermalint and was able to outrun the overfed Churoh aftor the parade, waere Kira Chief Mdward Croker addressed them, youngster, who had imbibed the milk. ‘The magiatrate took the Jug to the jail, Afier the religious exerciaes (hey march: ed back to thelr Sunday, schools, where re ‘ aad there had him pening arraly a ment in court, Maxistrate Bmith sald , that when he wert to the July he was ———— i Monam lor Broekiyn oe deer in couple WASHINGTON, June ~The House da he was Michae! Committee on * Ci reported the vill of Representative Fits: Shan ee veuhehh werald,of New York, appropr a ing Wi Masowskt nalvaly yemarkbed that when] 000 for the mebument to the martyre in Nig th 4 ‘ho di t tenke's bide tor 1 Ha could gel only two ml ey SS tee. hela the boy, wno | "nh M fifte of Marion #tr teh anu WO ferver out (he rying flags, | ¥rom fifty Sunday-schools the bands} marched to Bedford foun-| Library has favorably] Amert 40,000 CHILDREN IN JUNE PARADE. Jersey City Sunday-School Pupils Have Their Annual March and Are Reviewed by Mayor Fagan. The forty-ninth annual Sunday school | to-da | | parade tnok place in Jersey City ‘About 40,00 children of the different) Protestant churches took part, The Grand Marshal was Harry H, Karrler. Mayor reviewed the parade at the public etan erected in Hamilton Park, After th march the children were treated to ice- cream and oake at thelr respective Bunday school rooma, ENGINEER JOHNSON ILL, from Caisson Disense av 11 of Bridge Work, J. H. Johnson, an engineer, was taken from the Stevens House, No, % Broad: way, to the Hudson Btreet Hospital to- day, suffering from caisson disease. This disease attacks men who work in 41) atmosphere of condensed alr sYmpions are intenwe nauren und digel- ness, followed by excruciating heads In many instances the cinease proves fatal to woikinen empoyed Ja the pr liminary stagca of bridap conetructiy —— Vac Race at Kile The yaoht Virginia I, belonging to Ianac Blern, an uncle of Mra, Om Goelei, a the only American y t ene tered for the Kiel regattas thie sum- are j of the eves of schwol childre: In future | ing this. ophthalmla was pronounced a| very one of the| Fagan and other city oMclais) ‘The | E WORLD: THURSDAY EV. SNUNC, FUNKE 5, 1902 MISS HUTKOFF’S MARRIAGE THE SEQUEL OF ROMANCE, Wedded To-Day to Wil- liam Hepner at Tux- edo Hall and Couple Started to the Pacific Coast on Wedding Tour. A quiet wedding ceremony at Tuxedo Hall, Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue, to-day marked the union in marriage of Mr. William Hepner and Miss Frances Lillian Hutkoff. There were no bridesmaids nor ushers only intimate friends of the families of the contracting parties were in attend ance. After the ceremony Mr. Hepner and his bride started on a tour to the | Pacific coast and Yellowstone Park, which will extend over six weeks. Upon thelr return th New York they will re- side in a $50,000 mansion in Harlem, the present of the father to the bride, Mrs. Hepner is the daughter of Na- than Hutkoff, of No. 121 East Eightleth street, the leading importer of plate- glass in the city. She ts a young wom- an of charming personality and a great favorite in social circles. The first meeting of Mrs, Hepner and the young ELEVEN BABY CARRIAGES FOR LITTLE HERMAN KLEIN. Mother's Appeal! Meets Prompt Response from Sympathetic Evening World Readers. nd MRS. W2LLIAM HEPNER man who is now her husband was quitesin the United States, although he ts romantic. It was the old story of loye| comparatively a new comer to the Met- at first sight with the usual happy de-|ropoiltan fleld. His business start was velopment. made in Chicago, where he continues Mr. Hepner is the man who makes the! to maintain an establishment. It is sald wigs for the theatrical profession. His, of Mr, Hepner that everybody who acquaintance in and out of the show| knows him Ja his friend, and the im- business extends from coast to coast.| mense amount of wedding presents, The New York house of Mr. Hepner, at} combined with the hundreds of tele- No. 124 West Thirty-sixth street. Is the| grams and letters of congratulation, re- rendevour of the leading theatrical lights | ceived to-day, bear witness to the fact. FALLS IN SLEEP TO HIS DEATH. Aged Man Nods on Stoop of Herman Klein, the little east side] you come just show this letter ond t His Home and Is Found baby whose mother appealed to the] n#wer. Dead on the Gravel in readere of The Evening World for a] an omer of a go-cart wae receln Front: baby carriage, would to-day be a happy youngster could he be made to realize in advance the luxurious poss[bilities from Wiiliam Wilson, who keeps a news store at No. 131 Ryerson street, Brook- lyn. Offers of baby carriages were also Tecelved from Mrs, Wingad, of No. 204 of the two carriages that are already| West Sixty-ninth street; from I. L.| A social gathering on the back stoop his. or to speculate on the perhaps Exel Nou, 38 West “One Hundred of old Philip Fay's house at No. 609 Ereator charme of the ix others that a Sects ity No, dy | at Tweitih areet was followed, early have been offered him. St. Nicholas ayenu this morning, and before the echoes of Mrs. Klein was very thankful and ex- ened great gratitude to the Wvening he But as yet he has not tested the new | Word and to the readers who no quickly possessions made his by the kindness For, in the farewells of the guests had ceased, in the death of the aged host by a singu- of The Evening World readers. came to her relief lar fatality, response to the mother’s appeal in Tues- i ox nealiatad a jong ame betare wn De Phillp Fay was a widower seventy- day's Evening World, scores of let-|Pusimnd wad fe moult dismrace iis farm. (two years old, Hix two sons, Geor ters offering her assistance have already | tly. His father is a rich man, but when, |and Charles Fay, livéd with him on the been received and yesterday two pretty | {Wo days ago, my landlady went to my | ground floor of the tenement-house No. father-In-law and told him that we 609 East Twelfth street. A number of old friends spent the © ing with them on the back stogp of the aouse, where they could enjoy thelr beer and their pipes and visit undisturbed. ‘i hie party Broke up shortly. atter mid- night. carriages were brought to ‘her home, No. 303 East Tenth steet, by little boys, who left messages of sympathy from their respeotive mothers. Mrs. L. Rosenfelt, of 142 East Eighty- eighth having read In The ven- Ing World that the young woman's hus- band, a oloak cutter, is out of work, called with an offer of employment for nin owed her two weeks board and were in great poverty he said he would not give Usa cent. He told her that if any one in the street were to ask him for assistance he would give it, but that he would not help his son because he had married me. “Tlove my little baby and I could not rto see him pining for lack of alr 4nd sunlight. The Byening World has been very good to us and Charles went with the vis- |{tors ‘to thelr car at the corner of the avenue, He was gone fifteen minutes and n he returned he found hs brother Among the many kind letters received | The ning World has also received rge asleep and nodding in his chair ny the young. mother, ‘thet, of Mra, | the following lett on the back stoop. His old father had (Amelia Gayorla was ithe tire: ‘to sncd| pator Rvening World: saeenely, dded, too, and nodded him- ts ray of sunshine {nt le rear case of Mra, Theresa Kieln, | & stoop. rf alaieuvene tt th ate nif sad hate tote et | Bo Charles thought as he saw the old tenement where the Kleins live. Mrs. Lagoris wrote Madame; Tals your belng enueman lying on the ground at the foot of the steps, but when he tried to arouse his father he could not. He was dead. Killed by a fall down three stops. There was a cut in his head, and though the death is beHeved to ‘have been accidental, the police are investt- for a baby ye above part ming 1 saw in in pond of No. M17 Kast Ninetieth street Editor Evening World: I have a baby carriage f ' i any time, as there is always some one et home. It ts & good strong busmy and has tote of | RO se. and 4 mo pet tn room, Tt belonged (ony slater. who ts dead to any mother 11 Lis a and who left, me her only tn your paper thls evening, If you, FR ROE The baby is now eight y send a repr lve. to my home wi hare’ ant uae tar tt, tt cout Your onder Tm leased to deliver thie NAMED FOR CONGRESS. away many a time, but I could never be for Mra Klein Mra MR. break becay rd Joping you will call tor | ever, btyeelphth atr conventions were held tn this elty to- POLICEMANFATALLY PROSECUTE & INJURED BY FALL, © NOTED DOCTOR, MOUNTAINS OF HATS. ummer Day Sights for A the youre with respect, AMELIA LAGOS’ | editor day, Still_another letter waa received from| f The Evening World that : Mies Nettle Iiioway No Tas ean | are rluge, lat het | ‘The following candidates for Congress son avenue,, She wi | were chosen: F District, HH. Dear Madame: Mavisig Just read your ap- | Bingham; Second District, Robert Ad- | peal to The ori gar a baby carriage i | Reiter Mvening ams, jr.; Third District, Henry Burk; J are ‘welcome it you ‘have noun ‘bythe f Fourth District, Robert H, Foerderer; thie letter teaches you Aw you our | that A i | husbands out of work, he-can call’ tar it | conuition and: ah With Diabieh Bomand: Marcel: ath at any time to-morrow forenoon. | | for it District, Ge D, MoCreary home Lo'clock, If 1 ain not here wh N All of the Congressional candidates "a 7 = ——|are renomination’, except George D. Mot ho is the candidate in t new distriet, ar’ flacer wun vary dear to me, aiid 100 ain Your valuable paper of the | Philadelphia Republicans Select | i fe others use of Bam In, of 303 East i ye ne Ane ni tas hee stree!. betwe Tenth street 4 wieh to inform you that t Candidates—Old Members Indorse: | roadway and Thompot street. ‘The iS wore clothes to apare, > SLP Ss ia three-mory and. basement. frame call for PHILADELPHIA, June §—-Renublioan ALNST Congressional, county and Senatorial Seven You Stores, | ‘The weather wi@eacres haying pre ‘dicted a long hot summer, and New ‘oliceman George W. Mullen, of the { Hobert Sangtoves * » have h Y oF x felt a ee senroners | sanitary squad, died (o- In Moowevelt | & ft Maly’s phyale | (here teh hye hats ot Hospital of concussion of the brain, due | clans. and who has | to show that finst thlaag red, {to a fall down a hatchway. he was the medical adviser of the sraw hate. bel Kin the Monday Mullen was detalied to eorve #feat Garibaldi, was arrested — thiy / ad ame | Innpection notices upon a number of | mareing and arralkied in ihe Harlent these p firms, Including that of @. schacttier, | Kullee Qours REP DIBUAN 0 Ue Mt mountal No, 633 Weat Thirty-fourth street ie ' rk M aie tprub up in every direction about hh He entered the factory on’ the ground | Mm With practicing serine Rirawa in numbers more than can floor aid waked @ workman to take the OF tiles counted Bivies In variation, bewilder. y e « -oMce on the Attorneys sand Kigan, for the! ing to the nd here and ° nape Han notes te the oMice on the) Alirieyt Won Lie one, ¥aent ah in rough and smoot cond toor, hirawe W 4 little price tloket of a While the man was Mt Mullion | Of the mont x y phys) g MAF OF Hol Over #4 hen, again, aa ding door io the Meluna, but ‘ iid the dignified Panaina in rough’ and Alt dpened # sliding door in the 5 Fe va ttauan tha # i Atha re pte shapes ail of Which are at present | room, which opens In turn into # hit the Mich popular demand” With oorre, |way where the clevator runa, and | Sttempting (0 ‘ Feagera. “Bome of theav ky (or 8 wom stepped Into the shaft. He fell twelve) Pork He wan a a a tee aE feo, and was eked up ” luk Bexsions gman imaatne bam pagal Members. of tae firm oc: vinced M bal Young Ha: 8 he would fram the French Hawpita: ty i yuna door by rod wiay Nhoy are every where | and then had him xent to n rh spirit of cordiality Hospital awarded bin t makes buyers feel Mullon was marriod, thirtyorix yeare for services old and lived at No, 7 Waite hwo old mn the Brona jot Napicw z : ET we, = pac Mis apron wie | About by Mrs. | Help Wanted—Male ANT TO RENT A FURNISHBD ale Carmen. a detvou pi | aler Carmen, ive, who pre rye ded to be ate Applied to him men. far Foomt Advertise im the Sunday | f 0 Cocrip lon hie an office In yim steam ‘Werks, | Bost One Hundred and Tweilth wives, John Dame SonsiSons fronts; B.Altmank Go. Will offer in their Uciling Department, on Friday and Saturday, 4,000 Yards of Novelty Veilings, Black and colors, also combinations of White and Black, AT ONE-THIRD LESS THAN REGULAR PRICES, Eighteenth Street, Nineteenth Street and Sixth Avenue, SALE OF SUMMER Negligee Shirts, Underwear and Half Hose. | 1,000 Fine Madras Negligee Shirts, made to our special order In plain white, solid colors and stripes, cuffs attached or detached; — on sale at 98¢, each. Have been $1.50. ~ 2,000 White Madras Negligee Shirts, in pleated and plain | on sale at 5()o, each 6 Shirts, $2.78. — 5,000 Genuine French Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, ime — ported by us to sell at 75c. each; on sale at 5(Q, each 1,000 Fine Sea Island Cotton Shirts and Drawers ( (very him ” and airy), cuffs tipped with silk; always sold at $1.00; on sale at 750, each. The above lines of Shirts can be had long or short aeomgal Drawers, long or stouts. Half Hose—A large lot of Imported Lisle Thread and Cotten Socks, comprising black lace lisle, black lisle with white soles, fancy stripes and plain colors; 6 pairs, $1.88. le at . on sale at 25c. Prnines raaglie up aiaa Broadway, 8 and 9 Sts, B. Altman & €o. are prepared to receive Rugs for Storage under the / usual guarantee for safe-heeping. Repairing will also be attended to. MQGUL Elghteemth Street, Nineteenth Street, Sixth vewne, New York, EGYPTIAN CIGARETTE PLAIN or CORK TIP “THEY TASTE Goop” a ia Pountain WouLo not COME TO BAHOMET- A\nd like a wise man he took the Sunday jWorld ‘Want Route asthe quickest way to gat piss.