The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1904, Page 3

: NN + THE WORLD GELOBIG43GOOO-OOD9646-4-05-96-4.558-9G6-6:9:.0F-09-5-6 O06 oe ® sea So eo o o Seven Dead and Twenty Iil in) Two Sections of the City! wth a Form of Spinal Men- ingitis. WO"\ST SINCE 1872, SAY HEALTH BOARD DOCTORS. | | If Little Ones Attacked Recover , Physicians in Attendance Fear They Will Never Regain All Their Faculties, | THE DEAD, | COHEN, HARRY, eight years old, of No, leon avenue HARRY, six years old, of No, 1583 avenue, MAUD, four years olf, of No. ark avenue, NORA, of No, 132 Edgecombe ave- nue, near One Hundred an CATHARIN HH, eighteen years old, of Hundred and Fifth street » MAY, thirteen years old, of No, 68 Bast One Hundred and Sixth street, BOLOMON, ELSIE, five years old, of No. 8 East One Hundred and Sixth street. THE DYING, HAGER. WILLIE, six months old, of No. 1588 Madison avenue. 2, FREDA, of No. 1624 Madison av 'EINBERG, GRACE, of No, 2 East One!‘ Hundred and Seventh atre An epidemic of spinal meningitis and !% Mgher that it has been tn the his- | tory of the department. Dr. Fidler's ‘Theory. spotted fever, a kindred malady, is rag- | ing in the eastern sectlon of Harlem and the lower east side. It was stated| Dr. Fidler, who has had all the cases, leither in the first instance or as con- sulting physician, sumed the proportions of a nlaz. an Evening World tepo:ter at the Board of Health to-day that, not since 1872 has the disorder reached its present virulent stage. Then it|clared tv swept the city like a plague and Belle- | 10-day the disease have been spread the atnosphere pital tents in which the victims of the | from the dedris of a torn-down |i dreadful contagion died by hundreds, adjoiing No. 1583 Madison avenue, In the past few weeks Gouvern BER yenero aenesty, eur) 1583 Madison avenue, the first patient Fidler attended, vue Hospital was surrounded with hos- Hospital has overflowed with spinal Thear His RumBuHG ce the ulady as- . dee of the neighbs: No, Dr. and who was KIDNAPPED GIRL NOT YET FOUND rough ood iding Detectives Fail to Find Any Trace of Little Six-Year-Old Josephine McCahill, Seen with meningitis and spotted fever patients; | stricken with the disease and died two Strange Man. in Harlem there are three funerals of Uttle viotims of the plague to-day at- tended by hundreds of frantic parents. eek. wreckage of became ill. who per- 8 and Prof, Northrop ago, had been playing about the this building before he Other children, ished from the malady later, also played There are twenty patients in the Mount | about tho bullding and Dr. Fidler rea- Sinat Hospital and scores of private pa-|#0N" that the germs, pent up in the Uents who are occupying the entire at-| dungerous fore whey veloc ewes: tention of physicians in the upper sec-| of Health special No trace has yet been found of six- year-old Josephine McCahill, who was kidnapped from her home at No. 1889 Third avenue last Monday evening. East One Hundred and Fourth street tion of the city. will make microscopic examinations of| Police station, have run down clue after That the spread of the disease has assumed alarming proportions was shown to-day when Prof, Northrop, the famous brain specialist, and experts of | find of the germ. Active and Deadly Germ. sultation in Harlem to devise some| “This germ,” sald Dr. Fidler, method of stamping out the disease. |0f the most active and deadly ki Prof. Northrop is attending six private |‘ D&steriologists, the Board of Health were called in con- Madison avenue and One Hundred and ease has numbered seven victims, all children, in their immediate nelghbor-| companied with hood alone. This results in e n | cess, Jt is what is called} Mrs, Bridget McCahill, the widowed Dk ‘ " tip Ih the tender “membranes ot | mother of the missing child, has scarce to the eph- a di patients and six hospital patients, its Thousands of familles liv: at|chilaren it eats its) way = ing about | Myrdal cella of the brain with deadly rs It discovers itself first when Sixth street are in a state of panic to-| the victim is seized with violent vomit- day because in the past week this dis- | ing. ‘Then follows the convulsions of all the locking of the jaws, tenacity. muscles, ace the wreckage of this building to-gp,.|lue, but have been forced to turn back They will also scrape the walls of ine|*t every point and begin their work rooms where the little patients diea| fresh. They frankly confess that they and examine whatever traces they can, 5@Vve @ mystery most baffling to solve and that until they find some trace of the strange man with whom Josephine was last seen they cannat hope for auc- ly slept since her daughter disappeared, ks If her friends think she ever will followed "by a peculiar lassitude.| recover the little one. Neighbors are with her throughout the day and night Uxcruciating agony.| tying to comfort her, Josephine is the paralysis of the|the youngest of the six McCahill chil- Dr. Benjamin Fidler, of No. 1597 Mad- | Shire and death, z dren. . h ¥ new cases on .my , \ son avenue, who has had the majority| hana now and expect more will appent Child Vanished Suddenly. of the cases in this neighborhood, said | In the courso of the day. Pie ee earn teria | appearaice ot) little: JouepHi ake it ave warned them to kee} oxephine make aufferers to die rather than to live with! their children awa {rom the devrignc, the terrible marks the ravages of the| this torn to-day that it {s a mercy for the little |!" disease leaves behind. 500 Frantic Parents. Early to-day a crowd of 600 frantic CAUGHT STEALING nue, who died on Tuceday and whose burial will take place to-day. Hurcied to Other Funerals, ‘The grief of the women in the throng was pitiful to witness as the little coffin The parents alarmed, ing and similar wreckage, and if they obey my Instruc- tions The incidents that surround the dis- one of the strangest kidnapping stories that ever came to the attention of the New York police. Within the short d I belleve their children will @8-| space of five minutes she was ent away from her home, and the kidnapper used the old magnet that so quickly attracts children—a bag of ccandy, Late Monday afternoon Josephine was playing on the mother’s home, ored girl of the same age, jams, who then lived at 1 avenue, Josephine had her doll baby. but no carriage. So Elise sald she would run home and get hers. She did so, and was gone only about minutes, —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—__ was carried to the hearse and the| Three Arrested by Policeman, funeral cortege drove away. Then, curlously enough, as if to find further round for thelr sympathy and grief, the great crowd hurried around the cor- mer to No, 62 East One Hundred and Seventh street, where a hearse was waiting to take away the body of nine- year-old Catherine Lein, who died yes- terday of the contagion. From there they went to a house on One Hundred and Eighth street, where a third funeral ‘was in progress. ach The Board of Health records the dis- monly called the spotted fever. Dr.|her companions. While Mrs, Marle Napoll, of No. Hester street, was inspecting the stock on @ push cart in front of her home to- day three well-dressed girls approached her. Two of them gave her a dexterous shove, the other grabbed her pocketbook 195 Who Saw Them Snatch Purse) Lhat’s Your | from Woman in Front of Her Business ==—=KEEP DRINKING——— The trio started to ease as the cerebral spinal fever, com-! containing $1.6) and passed it to one of Guilfoy, chief of the Register Bureau} waik away but were gathered in by Po- in the Department, sald to-day that liceman Hinds, of the Mulberry stheet the fever had reached a more alarm-| station, who had seen the whole trans- ing stage than it has attained in thirty | action. years, and that the present death rate! Hinds placed them under arrest. a? =lhe was Joseph and Philip Labriola ran out of the hcuse. They, too, from a window. Watch thisRecord Grow tot ot COMPARISON FOR HELP SEEKERS. tot ot A glance will answer your question as to which is the best medium and which produces the desired results, . 6 6 ss we eee Cd World Wants # Always Supreme PRINTS PAID HELP WANTS—NONE FREE OR TO FILL UP SPACE. ee 18 other ‘The World Papers Alone Combined, 130 Sunday, May 1, 1690 1456 Monday,“ 24110 ° 265 Tuesday, 3, 1488 485 Wes, “ 4 1370 528 Thon, “ 5, 1274 513 had seen the theft When the Labriolas appeared the girl who had the: purse tossed it under a passing truck, but it ald not escape the eagle eye of Mrs, Na- oll, who rescued It at the risk of her 4 In Centre Street Court the girls were arraigned as Ida Davis, aged seventeen, of No. 10 Cannon street; Bessie Berko- witz, ‘sixteen, 7’ Sheriff street, and Fannie Cohen, seventeen, of No. 81 Goetck atreet. them for trial, The girls, who were prepossessing in appearance and refined in manner, told |a Children’s Society agent who ques- tioned them that they had been telling arents they worked In Hinds says that ¢ ‘0, Magistrate Moss held thelr factorles, been picking pockets si (markets for weeks and that they are members of a gang of who irl pickpockets systematically Fagins, just as some east side boys are. a | ACCIDENTALLY ASPHIXIATED. Woman Turned On Gas After Hx- { re. Elizabeth Kennedy old, of No, 3% East Fifty-third street, died to-day of gas asphyxiation, husband sald her death was purely ac- ‘eldental, Mrs. Kennedy had been in { for some time, and upon reti night, he sald, she accidentally turned on the gas after extinguishing It and sick half the time, or quit and have the =~ Supreme ' Fun Of being well again. as Postum Food Coffee need, “There's a Reason,”’ Get the little book, “The Road to Wellville” in each package, S9ODOS3 FEES Detectives Illich and Smith, of the; more on every dollar. constantly wrings her hands ana Dundee Marmalade. Standard the world over. Regular price, 25c.; ou Power — The great breakfast 5c | Smoked Heer food; a package... ccc ic Prunes—"'Blue Ribbon" b Fug Plan packed, a-Ib, Asparagn centrated essence. Roaat Neef—1-lb, tin Millar's Irish Jams. Special importation, pure fruits, rT is a deep well of comfort in time of | SOSOO9O04 ECTORS DIR oP THE W: UT. Co CHEESE IT! 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