The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1914, Page 3

Wie gee iS a ene ‘Pa EN (| DYING PATIENTS ONTO BELLEVUE pili Desire to Keep Down Own Death List Is Said to Be | Responsible for Lives. RIDES CRIPPLE MANY. ‘Committee Makes Startling Re- port to the Board of Aldermen. To keep down their death rate, Private hospitals throughout Greater New York were charged to-day be- fore the Hoard of Estimate with carrying desperately {ll or wounded Patients long distances to Bellevue. It is charged that numerous lives might have been saved had these patients been taken to the nearer Private institutions. ‘The conclusion drawn ts that the rivalry between the Private hospitals for the record Smallest number of deaths has re- sulted in deliberate sacrifice of human life by professional neglect. The revelations are made in a care- fully prepared report by the Hos- Pitals’ Investigation Committee, of which President MeAneny of the Board of Aldermen ts chairman, Yesterday Mayor Mitchel waa cios- eted for hours with Dr. John W. Brannan, head of the Board of Am- bulance Surgeons, and it ts under- Stood that more detatled and more remarkabie information than even that embodied in the report was ob- tained from him. The Hospital mittee al are not ki Investigiating Com- 8 that patients who in the long rides to Bellevue, to keep down the death rates, were badly injured—| some of them for life, Further, the | eommnittes reports that the rush of the dying to the city's biggest hos- | pital in the ambulances of the pri- vate hospitals is so great that the institution cannot properly treat its recuiar patients. SAME CONDITIONS EXIST KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL. The same wretched — conditi found to prevail at Bellevue were just en evident in the Kings County Hos- pital in Brooklyn. Here are some of the accusations: “That Flower Hospital has carried many patients in its ambulances tu Bellevue Hospital when practically at the point of death.” “That eighteen patients brought to Bellevue in private ambulances (in the three-month period under con- sideration) died on the day of ar- rival indicates a marked tendency on the part of private hospitals to carry dying patients to Bellevue rather than their own hospitals.” “The private hospitals in Brooklyn are evidently more prone even than ome of the private hospitals in Man- hattan to transfer patients on the point of death to Kings County Hos- pita j DISTANCE OF TRANSFER IN- JURIOUS TO PATIENTS. “The death of a large number of patients ‘within a short time after reaching Bellevue,” says the commit- tee, “would seem to indicate that a number of cases had been transferred fn a very critical condition, or else that the distance of transfer had a serious effect on the patient's tllness.” “This is apparently brought out by the fact that the death ‘ate is largest from the patients couuwng from the! northern t of Manhattan.” *¢ ¢ © “The death rate of cases from Flower Hospital was 17.7 per cent. and from the Presbyterian Hospital 11.3 per cent; a higher percentage in both cases is found among the patients, from other hospitals." The committee recommends the Ambulance Board or the Belle- vue authorities make rules to compel private ambulances to carry dying paticnts to the nearest hospitals. ee ales coment © | that | @xprean Messenger Charged With ft Conklin, of No Willtam F. 2 Eliza. | eth str Paterson, N. J., was ar-! raigned to-day befo United States Commissioner Stanton in Hoboken on a charge of embezzling $1,250 from the United states Express Company. The money. t from Washington and Was intrusted to Conklin a8 a messen- | ger of the express company, Conklin fended not guilty, He was held~ in 000 bail. | Sween, |blandly explained: | invite “I Think That the Unem- ployed Gre Justified in Doing Anything to Call Public Attention to Their Condition,” Says Mrs. Mabel Dodge. “Anything That Doesn't Injure People,’’ She Qualifies—“Of Course, 1 Don’t Believe in Dyna- mite and That Kind of Thing,” Adds the So- ciety Leader, but She Would Like to Help in| Bringing About a Proper | Organization of All| Labor. Mrs. Dodge, Who Attends Tannenbaum Triali Every Day, Says She Is a Student Watching Trend of Events. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A sphinx is sitting in General Ses- sions Court, watching the trial of young Frank Tannenbaum, with “participa ful assembly” in St. Alphonsus’ Church three weeks ago. The name of the sphinx ‘s Mrs. Mabel Dodge, and she lives at No, 23 Fifth avenue. One of the reasons why she is a sphifix is because, living where she does live, she quietly orders her car every morning, bumps over the rough cob- bles in the Centre street district, and watts the day through in the crowd- ed, not too well ventilated room on the second floor of the Criminal Courts Building, where the boy leader of the IL. W. W. is fighting for his liberty. Why ts @ society woman from Fifth avenue interested in such a trial? Is she an Anarchist? Is she a Socialist? Does she belong to the Industrial Workers of the World? Or is she « Haroun-al-Raachid-ess, a descendant in spirit of ‘the curious Caliph who would always desert his throne “for to admire and for to see, for to examine this world so wide?" HER ANSWERC TO THE QUES. TIONS ABOUT HER. Those are some of the questions they are whispering in General Sea- sions. And this ts what she told me: “I am not an Anarchist. 1 do not belong to the Socialist party. | am not a member of the Indus- trial Workers of the World. 1 am not a person who joins any- thing. | am a student and | am interested, keenly interested, in this trial and in all the circum- of the recent Ww. W. conflict with the etsablished or- der.” A few evenings ago Mrs. Dodge in- vited a number of I. W. W. leaders to her Fifth avenue home, Among those present were gentlemen with the euphonious names of “Wild Joe” O'Carroll, “Chowder Joe" O'Brien, “Omaha Doc" Roth and “Baldy” Me- But again Mrs. Dodge men merely to listen to their stories, I am a student and wished to get|>¥ Tannenbaum pushed and knocked |“ I did not| Over men and women worshippers in| information first hand, them.” » “What are your conclustons about them?” I asked. don't bore you, or disgusted? But are you pleased Do you agree with the people who sum up the I, W. W. as ‘a bunch of bums?’ consider them martyrs?” Mrs. Dodge shot me an inscrutable glance from under her level brows. Or do you One Ten Cent Box of EX-LAX The Famous Chocolate Laxative will regulate your bowels and relieve you of the miseries of Constipation If your stomach isn’t just right, if you have a bad taste inthe mouth, evated tongue, feel distressed after eating and have frequent head: take Ex-Lax. This will tone one Up 9 your stomach, aid digestion, pr tem. You will be su: appetite will come and strengthen the quickly your energy, rebition as ve just bodily to see how to you, Wc, 25¢ and 50c a Box, at All Drug Stores; whom | the police gharge ing in an unlaw-| them socially nor to feed | St: ‘There is something sphinx-like about her whole person, Her gray-blue eyes are curiously unreadable, The corners of her mouth, that other give- the-game-away feature, turn neither up nor down, Her cheeks are firm and pink and unlined, she has an excellent profile, and her voice is low and warmly toned. There is a decidedly unhurried quality about her speech, almost as if she framed ( every sentence in her mind before she uttered it, In the court room yen- terday she wore one of those decep- tively simple tailored suits and a long feather in her hat, Its color was neither green nor gray nor blue, but some tint as problematical as that of her opinions, “If some of tho unemploye: she hinted softly, “have qu: that are not altogether dei 1 think the blame should be placed on their environment rather than on the men. We all are acted upon by our surround- ings, and respond to them. As for Tannenbaum himself, it seem: to me that all the testimony goe to show that he is an earnest, simple young fellow who tried to do the best he could for his peo- ple, those whom he pitied and wanted to help.” “But do you approve of his meth- ods?” I asked. “Do you think the scene at St, Alphonsus's Church was Justifiable 2” ANYTHING TO CALL ATTENTION TO THEIR CONDITION, “I think that the unemployed are Justified in doing anything to call! the attention of the public to their condition," sald Mrs. Dodze, “Any- thing that doesn't injure people," she qualified quickly, “Of course, you know, I don’t belleve in dynamite and “T invited these | that sort of thing.” “But it is alleged that the men led Alphonsus's mitted, “They didn't,” replied Mrs. Dodge, Church,” I sub- “And I don't believe the tes- of some of the police on this ‘Then she tacked sweetly in the op- | posite direction. “If you're going to write an inter view with me,” she observed, wish you'd say that I think Mr, Tan- nenbaum is receiving « splendid fair trial, Judge Wadham is a won- derful judge, scrupulously just, and inatatent that the accused should be given the benefit of the law as much 4s the accusers, I think the radicals ought to fe very well satisfied with the conduct of this trial.” “Do you consider the I. W. W. a really important social phenome- | non?" I questioned, “Yes, because the I. W. W is a manifestation of “Something wrong with the present condition of things, which perm even = fore thousands of men to be idle or to work under unfair conditions. And charity is only a crutch. It seems to me that the first remedy to effect a proper organization of all labor. | should like to helo in bringing this about.” “And how will you do it?" “I bave not reached any conclu- | partment SEND Fair Society Woman Defends LW. W.; Is Neither an Anarchist Nor Socialist, But Thinks Unemployed Not to Blame pon “i i at te fy ‘Hee THE a ave THREE BURG In With Her, beaten, Water street, by three mas! glares early to-day. Towel, tho proprietor, was c escaped, The Towcis live at No. @ short time. barroom three men slipped door and suddenly confront ceoaled with handkerchiofs Mrs. Towel screamed. LARS Husband, Refusing to Open Cash Register, Is Thrown Because she disobeyed thetr order not to scream, Mrs. Rosie Towel was! day whic ked bur- Later Angelo ast in to keep her company, but the robbers did not fasten the door and they 66 James street, and have had the saloon but Shortly before 1 A. M. to-day while they woro sitting in the in a side od them. The burglars had their features con- and had caps pulled down over theirteyes. One of the ReRaeak: sions,” 5 fine, subtle smile, “Do you believe that the I. W. W. is sincere?” “I believe that they want to work conditions which under the have decided to be just, both the wages and the working day. and [ think that they have a right to exact those conditions.” “And why, really and truly why, ted yourself in this whole affair?” I persisted, But the sphinx of General Scasions have you inte: only smiled and smile TWO STEAL A TAXICAB AND RUN WOMEN DOWN |Crazy Flight Through 125ih Street, ape All Kinds of Collisions, Where They E: While Roswell D. Twenty-fifth street, ab, Soon after the aigzagging eastward Hundred and Sixteenth rowly escaping collisions with trucks, “Obviously they |More firmly than I had yet heard her | Tolley cars and pedestriana until the speak. ‘corner of Fifth avenue, ployees of the Street ( was reache The taxicab struck a line of hone, | swery Sarah § of No. and knocked nder, car of wheeling her nine baby in a carriage. Ky a chances twist of the wheel the drunken driver swung the car away crushing in time to avold Trilusky and thet side of the building. veoded tn stopping the and the ether man ran avenue and disappeared Mrs, Sanders was taken to Harlem show Hospital with a broken broken leg. M Dy eseaped with cab, (me Hundred and port of the accident reckleus driver, d Mra, Dodge, Cady 162 West One Hundred and Twenty- ninth street, a chauffeur, was eating jin @ resturant in One Hundred and near Lenox ave- hue, to-day two men stole his taxi- Both men had been drinking. taxicab through One were flushing the street, fifty-eight years old, 1405 Fifth avenue. Imbed to the sidewalk in front 5 East One Hundred and Six- teenth street and struck Mrs, Gertle Trilusky, twenty years old, months old girl) Then he suc- Trilusky slight dugan, discovering the loss of his) reported the theft to the West Twenty-third street police station just as the re. came could give the police no clue to the with her blunt instrument and then +} her, Another stifled her shr! kept the husband covered they including fastened the door. They “jimmied” open the sh taking $57 in cash and a n trinkets. papers. The cash register was lo when they it they ord He refuse out the ¢ hear beating the death, He contin The thi saloon to ret the ice box and th his hysterical wi lock the door this tim couple owe their liv ‘They n of No. Three Who Are Tired London Johnnies Come Sona “Lark.” appeared street, nar- where em- leaning De- | merry one, | nid Sellars and Ella Lava are here on a lark. “We are sick and tired of N#h Johnnies, and thou: down Mrs. jcome over here and # ‘Then the| York,” they chorused, might be able to ¢ millionaire, been coming over here and American yirls worth why shouldn't we try our the milliuns? | "This afternoon we will street car ove possibly to-m to Chica, will have @ so here, and will v claco and New Orle When inforin try of vast distances jbe impossible for the thelr programme In a. fortn kirls we thought New York States and that Ch who was aia row we will against the cab and he down Fifth arm and a} and the brulses. were suburbs. Mra. Francisco I, Madero, 1} Mexico's Inte President, was in. He) Orange about a rumor. that married. She denied it, sayin, port was malicious as well as eng a) rh to unloc ves then tur on and in the darkness came LOOK OUT MILLIONAIRES, SHOW GIRLS WANT YOU, to Niagara F. Falls and the othe: men hit ber on the head with some grabbed leks with a cloth, While the remaining burglar with his revolver, the other two carried her to the big ice box, threw her in and ent behind the onuk wr and drawer, umber of In their hurry they over- looked $50, a gold watch and three diamond rings covered with some cked and man to ‘use to do their bidding and they carried him to him in. witn did not te which the of the Over Three English show girls on the Lusitania of the Cunard line, which arrived to-day, made the voyage a They are Emmy Wilson, il, They the Eng- ht we would your New) erhaps we tch an American Our English lads have catching millions, and hand for take a ‘alls, and ridi w ck oF San Fran this is a coun night the greatly surprised was the oO and r places ——— Mra. Madero Not Married. widow of indignant to-day when asked at her home in Eaat whe had ig, the the ror false. oT IS LOCKED my FEAT TSS FIRES FOUR MILES UP IN ICE BOX BY jagged and locked In the tce|the elephant apartments-also lamp- box at her husband's saloon, No, 242] > und they could not open with Us T t.| since BO | | | | {fan to scream for help and forgot al KEEPER TEN FEET FOR} APART ARE PUT OUT TRYING TO DOLL HER UP} ON THE SAME ALARM Whistle in Merrick, L. 1, Wanns of Blaze in Wantagh —Family Rescued. The shrill blaste of the pumping station's fire whietle in Merrick, L. 1, summoning the firemen early this morning to a blaze in the home of George Manning, traveled four miles and aroused Mra. Thomas F. Braith- waite, wife of the pastor of the Mem- ortal Congregational Church in Wan- tagh. She glanced from her window and discovered that the parish house waa ablaze, Her husband and her son, Harry, extinguished the fire, a alight one, with patent extinguishers, Tho alarm which eaved the church building four miles away did not do as much for the Manning home, al- though the firemen kept the damage down to about $1,600 and preserved enough of the house to make tt pos- able to rebuild. A maid in the Manning home waa first aroused by the emoke after a fire had started from hot ashes in the cellar and emouldered there until it had gained headway. She aroused the household, and Mr. Manning aroused his wife and his four chil- dren, the eliest only seven years old, and marshaled them into his bed- room, which overlooked the top of the porch, BORROWED LADDER SERVES FOR RESCUE WORK. The fire was climbing the etaire and Manning, in hie pajamas, dropped off the porch, ran to the home of W. A. Grant text door, aroused Grant and then returned with a ladder bor- rowed from Grant's garden, He put the ladder up against the porch and carried down hia children, hie wife and the maid, Then he returned for @ pet dog which stood whining on the roof of the porch. He was exhausted and smoke from the window overcame him as he stepped inaide, intent on gathering some email valuables, Grant bd lyin him up the ladder and found senseless on the floor of hia toon | Grant dragged Manning to a win- dow, where tho air resusitated him, but Manning refused to leave, saying he must get some things from another The affects of tho smoke and at last | vescent lithla-water Grant seised Manning and by main = atrength dragged him through the windew and carried him down the ladder. Then the firemen arrived and found that thelr two reels of hone, each 500 feet long, would reach to the nearest hydrant only by laying them through the woods. It waa a difficult task in Among the arrivals on the Cunard] the darkness, but they finally got ner Lusitania this morning were tho] their stream of water on the house. faebias of diene ha aut Dose? SCARED TO DEATH BY AN ALARM OF FIRE thy Salvesen. His lordship is on the te i] Paralysis of Heart Follows Sudden Court of Appeals bench in Edinburgh, and is on his way to Arizona, where Awakening of New Jersey Schoolboy, ho has copper Interests, Last time Fright caused the death of Thomas he was there Madero was aharpshoot- ing near the border, and his visit was Reynolds, nineteen, a high school boy | O® of Harrison avenue, in Har- punctuated by the whistle ond ping of bullets, He doss not look forward to @ repetition of the mualc on the occasion of his return, rison, N. J., early to-day, He wan asleep at bis home when fire started in @ barn nearby. It was feared the blaze would spread, and, the occu- Lord Salvesen is u dignitied jurts: but has a keen sense of h pants of neighboring houses were awakened. declined to venture an the outcome of the trou “You know, twinkle in his eye, could not exp Keotch people ire! Fire! Get up!" shouted some one in the hallway outside of Reynolds's room, Suddenly aroused, the boy jumped out of bed, landing five fget away, He couldn't speak fot a while, but in @ short time was able to dress, it and watch the fire. When the blaze was out he com- plained to his mother of pains around his heart. In alarm she sent for Dr, Henry Alle He eaid after an amination: Your boy can't Iive an hour. has parajysin of the heart. In less than twenty-five minutes young Reynolda was dead, despite everything that could be done for him. The doctor sald he literally had | White Rege Coffee, Ouly 3Se.a been “scared to death.’ STERN BROTHERS Forty-second and Forty-third Streets, West of Fifth Avenue tionately in San Francisco @ any other city tm the cept Newport, R. 1. A&A nae says that of the men twenty-five and forty-8ve age 45.5 per cent. are Newport's figure is @ Jewel Objects to Spring Mc sage and Only Fox Ter- tier Saves Two Men. the population of any large’ the United States, report. Jowel, the larger of the two ele- Phanta at the Central Park men- agerie, had a feminine tantrum to- h spread dismay throughout (Prom the Chicago ‘There's nothing like bring out @ man's real “Or to bring out ie real kK and neatsfoot oil. Bill Snyder, head keeper, and his assistant, Bob Hurton, looked as though they had been blacked up for a minstrel show when they fled from the lady ele- phant’s displeasure, Snyder had selected to-day for giving Jowel her annual massage and spring polishing. The lampblack and oll not only improve the looks of the hide, but make the big beasts much more comfortable by softening the dry skin. But Jewel, who had been feeling grumpy for several days, eyed the preparations with displeasure. AB soon as ton dipped his long handled brush Into the pall filled with the massage mixture, with Snyder standing by with the ankus, Jewel twisted her trunk about Hurton’s body, under his arms and hurled him ten feet into a pile of hay, Bnyder called to Spot, the spiteful Iittle fox terrier which accompanies him for just such emergencies, and the dog leaped at Jewel's heels, snapping and barking. Jewel, meantime, had caught up the bucket of off and lampblack and whirled it In a wide circle, letting it hurtle to the ceiling and apatter in a shower. When Spot fastened his teeth In her ankle, however, she be- about the keepers, Zhey buret our of doors, black from head to foot, but safe, The dog skipped out clone be- hind them, Mr. Snyder and his assistant were observed carrying heavy chains and shackles to the door of the elephant house this afternoon in preparation for a forcible massage of the big suffragetto, THEY CALL THE TANGO HOT SCOTCH, SAYS LASS Hon. Dorothy Salvesen Arrives With Jurist Parent on Way to Arizona, ese Lk | One wishes ail else went as | Halves the cost of living. Tam a jurist and “8 an opinion. ‘The re all in sympathy in Ulster, and this The Hon, Dorothy is on en firat visit to America and says that she is gratifying the ambition of her life. In Scotland, she sald, the tango has superseded the Highland Fling, They call it the Hot Scotch and are very fond of it. ———____ Downtown Rallding. & retired promoter, re- siding at Columbus «avenue and ¢ Hundred and Fourth street, dropped dead to-day from heart disease on the twelfth floor of the building at No. Liberty street. He came to New ¥. from Minsourt twenty years ago, was a widower and is survived by two sons and one daughter. Dropa D John Walace in order to effect an immediatesclearance have decided to dispose of Their entire Spring Importations of original Paris Model Gowns and Tailored Suits On Monday, March 30th, and the following days, Regardless of the Cost of Importation The offering will comprise the latest and most desirable creations of Callot, Premet, Paquin, Cheruit, Doucet, Drecoll, Lanvin, Worth, Beer, Georgette, Bernard, Jenny, Charlotte, Maurer, Bechoff-David and other leading modistess Dressmaking Salon Fourth Floor ; —