The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1903, Page 2

VER-STRICKEN ITHACA IS IN MOUR NING FOR ITS DEAD. and remedy the evil. President Schurman himself, however, admits the situation is a grave one. . There ‘can be no denying the fact,” he said, “that the fever epidemic "Bhs assumed a serious aspect. We cannot get away from that view of it. Sey Tt is therefore patent that the alarm ‘existing among the students of the ‘ ity Js not without cause. We have bees forced to.the realisation |} t there has been a very marked falling off tn the attendance at lectures ii class rooms. y "The fact is, the university authorities have never once attempted to rage the departure of students who were in the, least fear of inocula- ‘tion by the fever germs. Oni the contrary, we met this feature of the case at the very outset of the epidemic by abrognting every rule of the univer- concerning the attendance of students and bidding every one go home © chose to do so. “Every student who showed the slightest symptoms of {Illness of what- @yer nature was told that he was at perfect liberty to absent himself from the university until such time as he felt safe in returning to his work, yen those who were perfectly well, but were in great fear of infection, have had the same license. SCHURMAN MAKES DENIAL. THE STUDENT DEAD. Wlakasot Mise Cora... -Gouverneur, Schlenker, Charies J Schoeborn, Henry A- Schumard, Oliver G, Spencer, Charlotte E Fulkerson, Mies Edna C. Helm, Charles E. Howell, Mise Esthe Jackson, Aaron. Robinson, Dean Gardner. Smith, Mre. Emma H- Vinton, James Chapin..Canal Dover, O. Weseman, George A those In charge that they would use none but boiled water on their tables, In addition to this, we have built booths on the campus at which pure spring water js supplied to the students in ample quantities. “So far as the sick are concerned, we feel that we have done everything within our power for them. When the fever began to spread among the the faculty aré concerned, The students are now fully aware that these of- ficials are bending every effort in their behalf. But this restoration of con-|who won one of the Pulitzer Free Scholarships at the university. He was fidence does not go so far as to include all of the members of the board of|a junior in the mechanical engineering course, and was considered one of .|for him like his mother. He battled with the fever; she told him to have for a coming honor man. trustees. The students refuse to overlook the fact that until recently sev-|the most promising men. students we immediately made preparations to meet the emergency. untyersity infirmary wag put in condition to accommodate the largest possi- jble number of patients, and in addition we established two annexes, greatly inoreasing the facilities for carlng for the sick. Then we sent to all of the |surrounding cities for help. We have employed nurses from Buffalo, {Roohester, Syracuse, Elmira, Binghamton and several other places. For the fifty-odd students who are now ill we have fifty trained nurses, THINKS FEVER IS ABATING. “I think I am safe in saying that the epidemic is abating at the pres- But, of course, with such an alarming number of cases it cannot be expected that the disease, even under the most favorable circumstances, will disappear in a day. eral of the members were closely allied with the Ithaca water-works, on which the whole blame for the fever epidemic has been placed. They refuse| country with h{s parents in 1882, when he was a baby. His early education was obtained under very considerable difficulties because of the limited means of his father, but he was persevering and finally won a Pulitzer Schol- arship. At the university he was obliged to do work outside in order to “Statements have been sent broadcast insinuating that the university guthorities have not taken proper steps to check the epidemic. these statements have even gone so far as to hint that the university holds Gh interest in the Ithaca Water Works, and will therefore do nothing that might tend to depreciate its property interests therein, _ ** “TI desire now to deny positively that the University holds a single share f the stock of the company. It 1s true that it does own $100,000 worth of @ first mortgage bonds of the company. But holding that interest, how an the institution be reasonably held to account for the conditions that @btain in the company? Have we anything to say about the management now to believe that this alliance has been wholly severed. FRATERNITIES HIT HARD BY THE FEVER PLAGUE ITHAGA, N. Y., Feb. 28—No where at Cornell has the fever scourge vice Sespatching reports to the families of stricken students. One of the struck deeper than in the homes of the fraternities. Most of them are de- | %0UNS women was just addressing a letter, presumably to an anxious pa- serted. Out of thirty-three students at the Phi Gamma Delta house only three | Tet. when the telephone rang telling of the death of another man. As the are left. Two members of this fraternity—Oharles Schlenker and Elliott girl who was writing heard the name she fell forward with a cry, clinching “bonds in the water system of that city; it would he just as logical to hold pay his living expenses. hope, to be brave; that he must live for her. It wae no use. The boy that she had sent forth only a few months ago with all her fondest hopes, she took back with her the next day. There was young Elliott Maher. His classmen had all been ldoking forward to his doing something on the cinder path this year. He had a record for the 220-yard dash. And another athlete was Wessman, He was on the freshman crew and he, too, was lodked upon as a young mah who would some day put Cornell's colors to the fore. . All the ‘young men were not so well off as some who have beén men- tioned. Otto Kohls, of Rochester, was one. dear old mother lost no time in getting to his side, and when the end came she bore his body home; the boy who had always been her joy and who, when he went into battle with the world, would see to it that she should never want, He had a scholarship from the Rochester High School, and in the short time he had been at Cornell his instructors had picked him out ‘When he was taken down his One of the first victims of the scourge was George Anthony Wessman, ‘Wessman died on Feb. 13. He was a native of Sweden, coming to this A pathetic incident is said to have occurred In President Schurman’s s| Office during the week, where a number of co-eds were pressed into ser- Maher—ha ne forever, some of their chums are lying In hos) q | the paper between her hands. Telice (ane aie meeu and Her. companions resuscitated her and one of them picked up the letter- “We have established a daily bulletin system by which the families of such students as are on the sick ist are kept posted as to thelr condition. Every day a letter goes to every parent or guardian, and if any patient develops unfavorable symptoms after the sending of the letter a telegram is despatched giving the facts of the case, for we are not trying to conceal anything from the public, “Moreover, we do not advise any parent to send back their sons or Letters and messages come dally with requesta for a report In every case we have sent a ~ ‘thiat institution responsible for any contamination of the water supply there )@s to‘hold us responsible for conditions that happen to exist in the water (stem of Ithaca. “The university holds bondod interests in many other water companios im tho Bact and West. But are we held to account for any defect in the | Sohduct of these concerns? “From the very outset we have taken every possible step toward the @melioration of the conditions that unfortunately have obtained here, It ‘Roust first be understood that Cornell has never adopted what !s called the system, which practically compels all students to live within its the contrary, here the students are perfectly free to lodge _ §wherever they choose. The consequence is comparatively few of them live Plea on the campus, where we have our own water supply from i Creek. may follow them, while the rest have fied. There were six Phi Gama up to last evening, but peremptory orders from their worried families bent the head, which had fallen to the floor, As she handed it back she caught a step of three homeward. sity, Of the number who have gone away five have announced their inten- tion to go to other colleges. The Alpha Ian Omega house has only two left out of twenty-five, and they must look for a new shelter within a few days unless their brothers on the conditions as regards the epidemic. reply giving the plain, unvarnished facts and nothing more. “So far as the unversity work is concerned, we shall give the widest possible latitude to the students who by reason of Illness or absence from classes for any reason have fallen behind in their work. Special classes will be organized for their benefit and they will recetve full credit for any work done while away from the university. In addition to this, special op- portunities will be afforded for study during the summer vacation." CONFIDENCE IS RESTORED. There was a time here when the confidence of the student body In the This condition was manifested at the first mass-meeting of the students, who assembled to discuss ways and means of meeting the pestilential emergency. was speedily removed when they heard from the lips of President Schurman what steps had (been taken to check the epidemic. Confidence has been fully restored, as far as President Schurman and fraternities. Away from them have been snatched two splendid fellows who had everything ahead of them worth living and striving for, Probably no father could bave had a greater measure of grief meted out to tim than Oharlie Schienker’s. before he of his boy's death on Feb. 17 he had closed the doors of his business house in the little town of Batavia and announced bimself a bankrupt. The son at Cornell had been the apple of his eye.. EHdwerd Prime was the only son of Commander Prime, U. 8. N., at Present attached to the Pacific Squadron and on duty in the Far East. He was only a freshman, but the upper-clasemen knew him and they say he ‘was made of the “right kind of stuff.” home et Huntington, L. I., to the university as fast as the fastest trains would take her when she heard that her only child was down with the “oe igh received the news STUDENTS LIVE IN TOWN. ao. “The great majority of, the young men live in Ithaca proper, and it is a " etnong this large body of students that the epidemic has spread, Here on R the fampus, where we have complete control of the water situation, not _ j@ single case of typhoid has developed. ‘ “The moment the university realized that it was confronted with condi- ons that were undeniably serious, steps were taken to check the epidemic and so far as possible remove the cause of it. We made a personal can- yas of every student boarding-house in Ithaca and exacted pledges from university authorities was ehaken- But this lack of confidence His mother hurried from the family glimpse of the superscription, “My dearest Jimmie,” it read, and then she Out of a Zeta Pai family of twenty-six only five remain at the univer. | Y™erstood. One of the last to take the panic was Frank A. Mantel, of Auburn. started home on Wednesday last and arrived at midnight in a driving snow- storm. There was not a conveyance to be had at the depot, and he started forth bravely to walk the distance to his father’s house. reached ‘the door and had just strength enough left to ring the bell. His ‘The Phi G Delta men have been hit harder than any of the other mother opened the door, to have him fall unconscious into her arms. He He collapsed as he another fever victim and is critically ill. WOMAN SUICIDE; MAN DISAPPEARS, She went filled with hope for him, sure that po nurse could care|Miss Kate Dethon, Head Book- a HERE IS THE PERRIN RAGLAN---ISN’T IT A BUTE? DAUGHTERS SEE SENATORS HOPE T keeper at the Joseph Fellerth Brewery, Takes Poison After Interview with Anton Reichart BREAK DEADLOCK, WIFE SAYS HE’S NOT HOME. HOT TE AREAD Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, Who Seeks Another Term as Regent, Will Meet Keen Rivals; in New York Members. ‘Health Authorities Are Urging Active War on Dread Trachoma in Effort to Lessen Ravages in Public Schools. Republicans Agree on New Statehood Compromise Bill|cterx of the Joseph Fellerth Brewing to Present to Democrats. In the last number of the Medical Rec- : That location {9 not: entirely a factor @ppears a paper by Dr. Watter Eyre in the apread of the disease is shown @pecial to The Wrening World.) ——t ‘The mysterious suicide of Miss Kate Dethon, head bookkeeper and financial Company, of Williamsburg, and the dis- eppearance of Anton Reichart, a former omployee of the brewery, are puzsling Coroner Williams, of Brooklyn, and the ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The Repub- | williamsburg police. “Trachoma in the Public of New York.” ‘Yeatigations he brings out that trachoma Kindred contagious diseases of the Among children of school age. Is “more widespread than 4s generally sup- Since the work of iinproving Conditions in this respect has been un- Mertaken by the Board of Health there Was been a change for the better, but the figures show that from the opening Of school in September of lust year to by these figures. The general suppos!: tion Is that trachoma and kindred trou- bles of the eye flourish in crowded tenement districts. ‘The ‘table that the highest per- centage of infection waa found In the Moan leaders feel to-day that they are twenty: in a fair way to break the Senate dead-| 2™i## Dethon, who was only y lock and do away with the necessity for an extra session of either Congress ‘The only Republican holding out fs Benator Knute Nelson, .of | © VIOLATION OF THE RULES, shows, however, or the Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—The twelfth continental congress of the Daughters of the Amertoan Revolution convened in this alty to-day, Many of the leading members of the organization, that num- ‘bers 40,000 patriotic women, were present. Approximately 1,000 delegates and aiter- which 1s attended by from a fair class of homes, some of the schools in the most aqualld lower oast aide showed tage as low as 5, Authorities Aroused, Previous to Sept. 1, ‘The Republicans have agreed on the compromise Statehood bill they intend to present to the Democrats. promise . The com-| the head of the clerical department snd Provides tor one State now and 1901, ‘but slight one years old, fine looking and a re- markably clever business woman, lived Mantel is an athlete, and had been considered one of the most likely candidates for the 'varsity nine this year. A> natural saline pur- efficient kind, _ THE WORLO-FAMED CURE FOR CONSTIPATION Can be used as well as by the E eee one gives prom; i en asking vel full Hunyadi Janos (NOT HUNVADI WATER ONLY) and you will get the genuine with her mother and grandmother at No. 141 Leonard street. She had a large lary and shared In a fortune of $20,000 teft by her father on his death fifteen years ago. She entered the brewery five years ago as a bottle labeller, rose to was at the time of her death tn full two tn the future, Arisona and New| charge of the company's financial “Jan. 1, 1903, the appalling total af 20,316 ehildren were excluded trom the publig @ehools on account of some form of con- tagious eye disease, At appears that while for elghteen “Fears past work has been done in the Way ‘of treating and preventing tra- effort was made to stamp out the dis- ase in the schools. spectors were sent out to examine chil- dren and exclude those suffering from nates from all the Btates in the Union Mexico as one and Oklahoma another, | arrairs, with a provision allowing Arizona and New Mexico to separate under certain roviding for the even- Indian Territory, ‘The Repubdlicane do not expect the Demoorets to accept It, but they do ex- pect that before Congress adjourns on the Democrate will coneent to let the whole matter go over | Doll } jand thet an extra session of Congress will ¢hys be obviated, The Statehood situation sbifted four times ‘between 2 and 8 o'vlock this {eer afternoon, and at 3 it wae announced that both the Democrats and phe Re- publioans were @plit into factions and that all the hard work of the Jest two days for a compromise must be done |» The leaders took the ruins hae ete ot ® comeromlse | was unsigned, but was In Mies Dethon's When Senator Mason called up the Post-OMce Appropriation bill, which contains the Bt, wae egreed b: Dart of the bil showing that Quay be in session throughout chia week and already bids fair to be marked by several warm the principal one: being over Preaident-General, Mrs. congreas will conditions and + 1902, ary can tua) admission dren were excluded. From Ji to June 1, 1902, 1,701 children were ex- n followed the thorough | the examination in July and ever alnce «| Charles W, Fairbanks is a candidate to corps of experts has been at work en- deavoring to keep trachoma out of the Dol Poms as far as possi! the methods adopted fo and his assistants have ve 1s shown by. Gechools little attention has been paid to Not unui last July the Board of Health take up ect succeed herself for the seocord time. ¢ already has served ene term as President-General and one term before Tae have been lahat ax Vice-President General, and the { trachoma |opponents to her election claim that her leyoted to | cenure in both offices operate as two con- in the meaning of an |‘ titution, inhibit- pubitc schools, March 4 by lew, in the number ot 0 suffering from some cases treated in the hospitals 4 So great has the t tho hospitals were or. the patients, tinuous terms, amendment to the oo! has |ing the ofMcers from serving more than two continuous term ‘The advocates ot her re-election eon- daysl}tend that the amendment was not re- tronotive and that she is therefore eligl 3,283 were mil Boute purulent conjunctivitis. 4 & table showing the school established what {9 called the Health nt Hye and Har Dispensary at ne the number of cases examined ‘the’ percentage of pupils infected oe “ after the frat patent was admitted 3.501 new cases were treated Aes Were Operated upon, Mrs, Daniel Manning and Ofre, Donald both of New York City, .will the campaign © of the plan to eliminate Wish-basins and roller towels] b® conspicuous in President-General, The election will be! § f) held on ‘Thursday have been abolished In t Hath tubs have Police Not Told by Family. The police were not informed of her euicide and only learned of it when Dr Emil Frey reported the death to the Coroner, He sald that he had been call- ed to the house Saturday night and found Mies Dethon suffering from car- lc acid poisoning, Bhe was too far gone for relief and died within & few minutes after tis arrival. The Sooint reported to the Coroner that on @ trun! “ the girl's bed he found $700 in bills and @ check book of the Buehwick Bav- ings Bank in which was inclosed the ‘following note: “To the Bushwick Bank—Please give ‘bearer, my mother, all remaining mon- eys on my account, The note was haetily scrawled and handwriting. ‘The police questioned Miss Dethon's relatives, and they declared she had never had a love affair to their knowl- edge. All her time was given to her supporters | business. It was learned, however, that The official parliamentartan this yeat Mary Belle King Sherman, of ¥| Chicago, a member of the bar of that Jets of running we had not been willing th Benate mt once, WOMAN A BRAVE FIREFIGHTER, Coolly Proceeds to Put Out Flames That Threaten Her Home and Herself. rec acles in which the children former bathed thelr faces, hildren debarred or of trachoma are Have you seen the “Perrin raglan’? No? Well, Count Montesquiou has seen it and hin two barbe hot towels, while hi Yturrl te spraying him with viol to tone down his green pallor, and at that the Count has twenty-one over- coats, each one exceeding the other in sartorial flourish. All society 1s agog over the * Mr. Perrin is from Baltimore, / Month, the home of the terrapin. But what in| poe! fi more Important, he ts a friend of Harry | York Yacht © Lehr, and euch a nice man. ui Firat, it has a tail of ring pleats that flap and flutter and flop with the sraceful rhythm of pin feathere when Mr, Perrin walks, It i very cooky, donaher know. The wtrangest part of it ail, howe je that M was built by an Irisha How an Irishman ever fashioned th ring-talled region i@ a mystery t working on the nerves of Mr, friends, for how @ man with a brogue SOM-voloed coat is a quen- s Ls} ed and embrol in ese form hoods or sort of reefing can- rinse ammeneoe ect Sony 4re still applying jear friend Gabris! Of welcome of Presi rbanks, the reaponse by on the proper | Mra, Mary Phelps Montgomery, of Ore- nurses from the or he garment te track of them. bons thet tle about the Staye and halys 4 are Visited and | dent ards in high in Method of taking care of children with| gon, which i Jo time it ia hoped tones ; reentage of trachoma: | Public schonis 10 that Of the Rome |of the Memorial Continental si than S]flag presented to the society by the Bons fror from |of the American Revoluon of Wash. » task Ix} ington. ie taken sixteen took place this forenoon, eremony of raising on the site iieeuatianiierens WIFE JAILED FOR THEFT. Locked Up on Ob, nual cruise of tl fheteome thing fad ts wl fave to engage 's fave ik to the proper down the number of 1 at to. bein ected In the Roe ; " ‘ving Ngure shown ee | WILLIAM H, NAETHING DEAD. » Man Whe Wee Prominent 4 Masenio Clreles, William H. Neething. identified tf Baa ingrasi te, 4nd the steamboat Mae, # the other day and the Maria Bramont! has been ¢om- mitted to jall by Magistrate Connorton, ROPE AND | of Long leland City, for stealing $43 from her husband's savings. She lived with him and three children at With N. ¥., but Bers some young fellow, induced her to lei The husband traced the f al colle of rops from the deck ‘Of the Mac. While bravely fighting fire in her apartment et No. 1 Bae ond strest, to-dey, Mra. Catherine fine, & seametrens, wee severely burned about the face, army end hands, ors quared’’” if re the equivalent in apt, Bibert O. Sinit on Saturday evening after leaving the brewery Miss Dethon met Anton Reich art on the street and had @ long ocon- versation with him, Reichart had been employed et the brewery up to four weeks ago, when he lost his position. He then secured employment with the Nauor house of Charles Spohr, at No. 147 Leonard atreet, just opposiie Mi Dethon's home. Lost His Second Job, He jout bis place there on Saturday in place of worthless impo- sitions—often harmful. Jordan, tforiartyéCo, 166, 167 & 169 B. 23D ST., 2 Doors West of 3d Ave. Furnolture, Carpetings and Mod- ro Housefurnishings. YA ‘Wardrobe Couches, like design, with Oriental denim covers ing deeply tufted, soft spring body and edges, lined interior,without pillow; special... Long Credit Given, WALSH-MoGRORY.-—On Sunday, ‘Throga’s Neck, N. Y., ANNID M., belowed ah, friends are invited to attend on Wednesday, Feb 25, trom her Tesidence at 9.30 A. M. to St. Raymend’y Chureh, where « high mass will be eald ; the repose of ber soul at 10 o'clock. WILKIN®ON.—On night, and probably told Mise Dethon termant at convenience of family, of this when he met her before she en- tered her home, Half an hour after she left him @he drenk the oarbolic acid, Laundry Wants, Coroner Williams and the pollos have | kept cloe watch on Reichart’s home, at oleres that he did not retura from work G@aturday and'has not since appeared. cae eee bare CHAPLAIN TO BARTENDERS, the lambrequing on her parior mantic! The Bartend Union of Orange, them | which t# affiliated with the Federat Council the Wfocinot, and he made tion that verges on the i t tke dopartunens . a profoupd, Wut rep | the fact that Mr, Perrin drew atl the Gesigne for this ravishing garment may account for the unusual Firat Mr, Perrin based his garment on the raglan last of the long skirt pattern, ‘Then he gave tt the balloon Sib effect in the tear, Aolebing 1: off tn the They het hut tn @ #tone-breaker'’s oa) jargain, but | man among @ bolony of . nti obtained two warran: nrceny. and, tearing a row. . Was went to the oan: eo rope from his 2 of aimndry, Si "Puleon te! st tla ae NBR—One able to do family” alglbans ebie to do tamliy ave BOY Nor th Clacemons Laundry, S50 aad BOY WANTED in laundry. BOY te drive laundry wason wanted, Lowa