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THE STANDARD MAGNjSEC ,
iTn pnl, 1912, J. Bruce Ismny.
official of the While Star steamer
lino, was roused In his berth on the
Titanic, as the ship was crossing
the Atlantic, and had struck an
iceberg. All seamen knew from the
llrst the vessel was mortnlh
wounded and to them at that mo
ment life was very dear.
"I mustescape." said Ismny ex
citedly. 'Be sure lo provide a place
for me. Space for rae must he re
served in one of the lifeboat?.'
If I can only pet away with my
life, seemed to be the uppermost
thought hi the mind of the officer.
Captain Smith provided a place In
a lioat for his superior, while the
captain, himself, observing the rule
of the sea of women and children
first, went ilown with his ship. As
Iema hurried to safety that dark
night which made cowardly men
show their cowardice, he passed by
Archie Rutt, President Tfcft's guard
Butt, standing near the lower boats,
aided the women as they put out
Into the great wide sea, and with
out a thought of himself, saw to the
pafety of those weaker ones about
him. Editor W, T. Stead had gone
1 i his stateroom early in the even
ing and never did come out on
deck.
John Jacob Astor assisted his ter
rified bride over the side of the
vessel and with one last look into
the darkness, grimly put his trust
in whatever fate the Almighty
might have in store for him. and
died a h (to's death While Tsmav
.is rushinc to safety, Tsadore
Sfraus was notified he could nut
hoard the lifeboats, but a place had
been reserved for his wife. Willi
true courage. Mis Straus turned
sway from life and safety io drown
with her husband on that monster
of the sea. As the heroes of that
terrible disaster in the rnld-Atlantb
went to their reward with courage
marking their faces, Ismay was car
ried out In safety on the boat
Which ralKht have carried the wife
of Tsadore Straus. He was p if cd
up by the Carpathla and eventually
returned to his office in England.
Life was the most valued thing
in the world the night Ismay es
caped death on the Titanic hut to
day life 1b an entirely different
1hins. ("ertnlnly none of the Ti
tanic widows wish their husband's
could exchange places with the
White Star line's director.
Like Benedict Arnold, Ismay Is
living a lonely life away from the
haunts of men. As Arnold Was
shunned by the English to whom
he had betrayed West Point. Ismay
was hunnod hy the English because
he bad played the coward in time
of disaster.
He is living in a remote house on
i ois Fhalrrge, at the Heel if the
Sea. The loneliest road In Ireland
runs from Minna to Costello along
the shore of Galway Bav Sheer
moor, treeless, bleak beyond words,
hardly a stone cabin In sicht and
no path but the stralcht mall road,
that Is the place to which J. Bnn
Ifcmay, the man who pulled himself
out of the Titanic by taking
woman's right for life in a boat, is
now living
Ismay Is a hermit. He has tied
from the sight of men w ho spurned
him and drew away their friendship
from him In the old days before
Ismay sailed on the Titanic he was
a Beau Brummel of Belgravla.
STEAMSHIP MAGNATE
IN HIGH SOCIETY.
Ismay of old wan hiph In the so
cial strata of the world. A wealthy
steamship magnate he did as he
pleased, and there were none to
say nay to him. He was not only
in the top notch of the social and
business world, but be was sur
rounded by fawning millionaires
who were delighted to have his good
wishes.
Then came the faleful trip on
the Titanic and Istnay's return home
In disgrace, It took months for
him to learn he was In disgrace.
When he landed 'n New York he
Issued statements defending him
self and defending his course. lb
explained he was not i seaman and
was not hound to the rules of the
sea. He said he did not know all
the women did not escape. He said
he was the same as any other pas
senger. He didn't like the Amer
ican attitude He resented an In
quiry on the part of Americana
into his conduct and finally re
lumed to England. determined
never to see America again. Tn
England he was sure he would be
treated differently.
But Ihe English had no more use
for him 1han the Americ ans Dis
graced In America he found he was
also disgraced at home The meu
who had been eager to receive
recognition, did toot wish to met I
him. There were "none too poor
to do him reverence "
Einally he resigned from the dl- fj
rectorate of the White Star llrie H
after he was made conscious of the li
fact his presence at the meeting-; li
caused a strained feeling to come 1
nver those present. It Is said thai I
at one of the meetings one of the
directors was discussing the quality
of a lifeboat they were planning to
adopt on one of the ships
The director referred to the Ti
tanic disaster and in his comments
spoke Incidenta I ly of the heroism
of Captain Smith. He realized th re
was a peculiar sensation oin rn
about hlin in the room, something
lie could not define Turning he
caught the eye of Ismay Hi re;
membered the part Ismny had
played and hesitated. The hesita
tion caused all in the meeting to
blush and look furitively at Ismay.
After many such clrcumstam -ismay
quit the directorate. He re
fused to make announcements of
his plans Some one one day wan -
CHN I" LR J. Bruce Ismay.
Upper left Archie
Butt. Upper center Isa
dore Straus. Upper right
Col. John Jacob Astor.
sd to f'md him and learned he had
dropped OUt of England as far as
he could find. He was baffled at
every turn when he tried to find
oui where the steamship magnate
had gone.
A search of the records of the
leading clubs of London and other
cities showed Ismay had withdrawn
his membership. The club mem
bers didn't want a coward on their
rolls and from time to time sug
gested to him that he withdraw. Is
may at first tried to argue. Ho
pointed out that he was of such
great value to the world that b.s
life was worth more than many oth
ers who had died In the sea. They
listened. Ismay had been a friend
of theirs, and the breaking of the
friendship was painful But after
he withdrew, the tubs breathed
easier.
A few months ago a traveler on
the coast of Ireland learned from
the residents that Ismay lived In
a little place furthei down the
coast. One of the travelers was
turlous to see the new home of the
magnate. He was taken to the
plat e. but a locked gate forbade
entrance The driver pointed his
whip at the house
"There he hides, " he said. "None
ever are admitted.
Tie ha shut the gates and liver
In his loneliness Money ho has
and gll that money will buy. But
he cannot shake oft the memories
on his mind Day after day he
must hear them the shrieks of
drowning men crying down tho
wind. This Is his curse. What he
diet will be remembered until the
Titanic is forgotten
"Lonely enough the place is. He
little thought we would know him
we that stood round the Marconi
masts at Clifton waiting a long
week for a word from across the
sea. Cast vour eye about this
place, bog. and moor, ami fields of
stone I have seen men and wom
en here, decent. Civil people, blue
vith hunger and starved with cold.
But not one of them all, old or
voung, would change places with
the man who lives in that lodge
Bruce ismay "
Civilising the Chief.
Not long ago Bishop Hartzcll
w.s visiting the mission station at
Old Umtali. His attention was at
tracted by Ihe approach of a eom
I'.inj of singing shouting natives,
led bv their chief, Ufritassa, head
of a large number of villages or,
Kraals, who had come Tr pay his
respects to the 'great white chief."
During the Interview, conducted
through an interpreter, the Bishop
explained the work which the mis
sionaries were trving to do. and
that he should be friendly. At the I
, onclusiOTi of the paiava, at id to - I,
lowing the custom .if that section.
Bishop Hartzell told Ihe chief that
he wanted to show Klfl kindly feel- i
lug by a present, and thinking that
the black man would probablj de
sire some trinket or gift Of little J
value as Is usually the case, ,
asked Umtassa what he would like.
the :hief said he would tell him j
the rtejri day. I
Early the following morning tn V
Bishop was awakened by the mis
sionary who stood in the doorway
with Umtassa.
I thought It all over." said the
latter "and now T know that I want
a white iron bed like white people
have " 9,
The r.iso rp was unable lo reply 1
to the somewhat unusual request- 1
Such articles arc very expensive In
that country. To refuse the duet,
.iter having himself suggested tho
giving of a present, would bo quite
Impossible, so the Bishop told the m
missionary to see that a bedstead
M..S brought out from Umtali, and
then indicated that the interview
. ia closed But (Imtaasa had not Kj
finished. . . l
v.hd s ou i m send a ong With
the bed a. mattress, some sheets and
two pillows," he added. i
Bishop HarUell In telling tins
Story, never falls to remark upon
the Somewhat surprising effect often
produced by the efforts of mission
aries to Christianize and civilize the .
natives of Africa."
Value of Cleanliness.
Most people attribute the tm J"
mensely decreased rate of mortality J
In cases of severe surgical opera-
tions to the Increased skill of the n
profession, to their greatly-Improved
instruments, and the more skilful ,
nursing which is obtained In these
day.'. But the surgeon himself
would tell you that :t Is almost all ai
a mailer of absolute cleanliness, ,
the fact that noining is left undone ij
to insure absolute freedom from hi-
fectlon of any kind. This fact Is
emphasized by the extraordinary t
hand-washing regulations which are
in force at the various hospitals. .
Everybody who is even remotely f
connected with an approaching op- j'
eration Is supposed to spend twen
ty minutes in the all-important pro
cess of washing his hands.
For five minutes the surgeon
washes his hands with soap and
water, and t'hen cleans h's finger
nails. When he has done this, he
spends another live minutes doing
it all over again But this Is but a.
preparation for a third and far mon;
drastic ablution, for this time he
must wash his hanJs in alcohol Not
ont nt with this cleansing process,
however, he must now put his bunds I
through a process of sterilization
by soaking them fr at least live
minutes In a wash of corrosive sub
limate. By that time he may com
mence his duties, which mean life j
or death to some patient, with the j
satisfactory feeling that he has done
his best to approach hLs task with
clean hands
I NEW SURGERY RECOGNIZED IN MENDING OF BROKEN BONES-SCREWS ARE USED IN REPAIRING FRACTURES
ffjaBHl Only lately has the new surgery
EflSSBj of broken bones been recognized by
HjfflHI conservative practitioners as gen-
H ulnelv valuable. The idea of mend-
EhhSH Ing a thigh bone exactly as If it
ffi3S were a broken buggy shaft did not
appeal to men who had been suc-
KsBsH cessful in getting strong and straight
SfatfBM results from the old method of
nNHB putting the leg In splints or a cast
HH and keeping it there until firmly
BHH knit. But doctors who have en-
countered the worst and most e o m -
SMH plex breaks, ax nearly all Burgeon
9H do sooner or later, have had to ac-
HSHH knowledge that the new cleats ami
HHl plates achieve good results in cases
BH that must have been cripples under
Hj thp old method
HHjBH A Kansas City surgeon of large
HHbHh railroad practice has UHed the new
HJHBm mechanical bone surgery with the
BuH best results, not only In new breaks
HHb of the kind called "bad," but also In
HHlH old breaks that never were prop-
9H8 erly mended. While he admits that
RB j the new bone surgery Is still in an
HHH experimental stage, he declares that
HH it is lmmc-nsclv valuable, and has
KBB already saved many persons from
HJ becoming permanent cripples.
HH All his work la done with the aid
H of the x-ray. And he says that the
H x-ray Is the crux of nearly all th
new surgery a boon to mankind
hardly less valuable than anesthesia.
To be able to see not only Into the
diaphragm and to observe all that
goes on In the organic structure of
the body, but to see through Its
solid framework, makes for the re
construction of the whole science of
surgery. It was a blind and very
brave science twenty years ago.
Now it sees quite clearly.
By using the x-ray the surgeon
can tell whether it will be advis
able to employ the new cleats. If
the bone tit together exactly he
merely puts on the plaster cast and
leaves the rest to that admirable
surgeon Nature. But If thero Is
much splintering, and if pulling and
working tho member does not bring
about anything like order In tho
bony framework, the surgeon de
cide to make an incision oer the
break, expose the broken pieces
and repair them much as the village
carpenter repairs a broken wagon
tongue If the break blsect.s a joint
the surgeon Is almost certain to re
sort to the metal cleat, using two of
them on opposite sides of the bone
and fastening them securely with
long screws which run clear through
the bone. In some instances it is
only necessary to nail the plates in
place, for, with their aid, tho bono
unites with strength and aocuracy,
and the chief service of the plate Is
achieved In the first month of its
use. Of course, It is left in place,
and tho Kansas city surgeon says
that It causes no more Inconven
ience than a good metal filling In a
tooth
A stenographer In an office on
Walnut street had a bad fracture
of the left elbow a few years ago.
It was mended Imperfectly after the
tild manner of the plaster cast and
the Joint was so crooked and so
weak that the girl had to give up
her position and go to work In a
'department store. After two years
of this, her elbow began to gl'e her
further trouble. It was ra.-ked
with pains. The surgeon who Is not
afraid to use the new cleats ex
amined the elbow with the X-ray,
made an incision and repaired the
preading pieces of bone in such
manner that today tho voung wom
an is hanging a typewriter in her
old office on Walnut street as en
ergetically as If hpr career as a
stenographer had never been Inter
rupted. "Setting a hip Joint was always
pure guesswork.' said the Kansas
City surgeon who must be name
less on account of the ethics of his
profession, "until we had tho x-ray.
and even then about half the hip
breaks could not be coaxed into the
proper position for a perfect mend
ing Here," and he held up an x
ray photograph, "is a hip perfectly
mended by the new method."
The hip of the photograph was
that of a Kansas City woman w1im
urc had hern effected in a Kansas
City hospital. The pp( '.it ion nei 1
sary for the exposure of the hip
bone, Its pleating and the closing
up of the wound, Is riot attempted
by many surgeons, but when it Is
skilfully done, as in the present in
stance, tho results are worth all the
trouble, for it means thut the pa
tient who must have been a cripple
under the old surgical regime, is
again structurally perfect.
Unless tho doctor ho set a
limb In the old way was an ex
ceptionally good guesser, the result
was all too apt (.. be a crippled
future for the patient, following a
long. hard, lle.fihcd winter.
The new surgery has been slow
in coming. As a class, surgeons
have been morn interested in the
organs that perforin the functions
of the human body than In Its
framework. It remained for the-
i
railroad surgeons, confronted by an
economic ne.essit. lo devise e
scheme that would mend the worst
sort of breaks and Insure a strong
Joint or good limb where the old
in. i hod could not. Railroad tom
panies or other corporations do not
like lo be eontinuallv paying for the
support of helpless cripples. It is
largely because of this great eco
nomi. need that the new bone sur
gery has come into wide recognition
and is coming Into general use
Now that anasthesla has lost Its
terrors and antisepsis is easily
aohleved, the necessary incision is
no obstacle.
Tho plates used are of soft steel
and they are applied with screws.
Sometimes ordinary wiie nails .are
used with entire success. These
have even been employed without
plates and they have held the pieces
of bone together until they were
firmly knit.
Asked whether the new method
had been tried on broken necks, the
Kansas City surgeon smiled and
shook hlB head, but said that death
from a broken neck was not, now
adays, a foregone conclusion.
' If the break Is high and tha
spinal cord compressed, as it usual
ly is," said the surgeon, "the pa-
f
tlent dies on the spot. This Is true
also of dislocation of the neck. In
one of the large dry goods stores of
this city a floorwalker placed hi
hand over the head of a small cash
Kirl whom he saw seated, when she
should perhaps have been doing
something else, and turned her
head quickly about so that he could
look into her face. You have seen
that done by grownups to children
over and over again. It was a per
fectly natural act and probably not
meant unklndlv, but the quick and
unexpected turning of tho child h
head dislocated her neck and I be
lieve she died as a result. Tho
spinal cord was compressed.
"There was a train wreck one da
on the other side of Armstrong and
In a single car there were nine
broken necks, caused by the conc-h
turning upside down Of these
nine, five died In the car and four
were taken out alive. One died
shortly, one lived three days, one
lived six months, and one recovered
to sue the company," said the doc
tor ruefully
"That, illustrates about right the
percentage of recoveries In the case
Of broken necks. Even more rare
l does the patient recover from a
broken back. I do not think the
new mechanical surgery 1 Jti ever be
employed to mend a fractured vci-
tebrae, but you never can tell It
may, or sunn other means quite as
effectual. The x-ray has taken bone
surgery out of the realm of guets- J
work and I believe the time is past
when any surgeon of repute will be
content to put a plaster cast on a '
leg or arm w ithout making sure the
bones are properly Joined.
It is the splendid future that 1?
just beginning for the science ot
surgery that makes it so interest
ing to be a surgeon ihse days."
said the dot tor. "The past ten
years h.i brought surgery a long
way forward and the next ten is
suing lo bring It a still longer way.
I am glad you are putting Kansas
Citv on the map in this respect, for
it belongs there, and in good big
letters We have a half dozen sur
geons who stand very high in their
profession, men who have no peer
in this countrj in the particular
lines they follow. Eastern leaders
In the science know this, but many
Kansas City people do not know
that every day in our local hos
pitals extraordinary feats of sur
gery are being performed. I am
proud to belong to a group of men
who ara ftoirjg a m-' ,n
I