CAME WITH BUCKET AND BRUSH
TO PAINT CITY HALL BRIGHT RE D
Because he persisted in wanting to '
paint the city hall red. Gregorio Silva,
a well known character in police cir
eloSj found himself incarcerated in the
c’ty jail at 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon. Tho charge against him, how-|
e 'er. is a minor one and tho prisoner
will be given an opportunity to explain
to Judge Bucklev in the corporation
court Monday morning.
Silva appeared pt police headquar
ters seemingly with his steering wheel)
CAILS MUMS
IMMII ANARCHIST
Prohibitionist Says Shank’s
■ Reform Professions Are to
Hockwink the Peoole.
United Press.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 12.—‘-If
there is an anarchist on earth today he
is Mayor Lew of Indianapolis. If
I were not opposed" to capital punish
ment I would favor his execution.”
This was the shot fired at the mayor
of Indianapolis this evening by Eugene
IV. C. Chafin, prohibition candidate for
president at the last election in an ad
dress before the Marion county prohibi
tion convention. During his address
< hafin also said President Taft could
the “white slave” traffic
from Panama, but does not dare to
because it would mean political sui
cide.
‘"There is no reform about Mayor
Shank towards the saloons.” said
• hafin. “He stands for the perpetua
lieu of the liquor traffic in Indianap
olis and gullable church people are pat
ting him on the back for his lake re
form. He only doses thd saloons on
Sundays through fear of the wrath of
God.
‘‘All of his hullabaloo about reform,
Sunday closing, county local option
aud the like is simply a blanket to
blind the people's eyes 1o the truth.
The churches of Indianapolis that stand
up for Shank are nothing but republi
can club houses.”
ALAMO HEIGHTS
Ilas more to offer as a home site than
any other place in or around San An
tonio. See Alamo Heights today. The
street, car runs all' over in
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broken. He carried a pint bucket of
red paint and loudly proclaimed that
he had Mme to give tho city hall build
ing .mi artistic touch of the brush.
‘‘Silva didn't know whether to b<
gin on top or the bottom of the build
iug.” said Sergeant Beck. ‘‘We ad
vised hint to go below, believing that
it would not be wise for him to start
on the flagstaff. /officer Quintana ac
cordingly escorted him to Parlor .A,
where, while putting on tho first coat
ing. he will recuperate.”
HAMMERING HOME A LESSON.
A bioscope man. nt the bioscope
men’s presentation banquet to Thomas
A. Edison- at the Plaza hotel, praised
the industry of the inventor.
‘"Oh,” said Mr. Edison, smiling,
•‘we’d all be industrious if it were
made worth our while. Too many em
ployers give a man no interest in work
ing hard, and then expect hiiA to take ■
an interest in hard work. Good pay or I
a small share in the business —that's
the great laziness specific.
“A boy in a shop was one day
। swinging his hummer rather languid
। ly, when the boss, with angry looks,
| accosted him.
“ ‘Now, then, my lad,’ said the boss,
snatching the hammer away, ‘when 1
sec a man that takes his hammer by
the end of the handle, like this, and
I strikes fine, hard blows —bang, bang —
' like that. why. I pay that man any-,
• where from $l7 a week up.’
‘‘‘But.’ resumed the boss, ‘when a
'man takes his hammer by the middle, I
' this way, and strikes gentle—tap, tap '
i —like this, he only gets nine it week,
and he's the first to be Iqid off when (
we get slack.’
‘‘The boss, with a meaning look,
then extended tho hummer to the boy,
believing that he had driven home his
lesson rather neatly.
‘‘But the boy stepped buck.
“ ‘Would yon tnind showin’ me now.
I sir. he said, ‘where I ought to hold the ,
handle for three a week!’ ”
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Originator of American. Crusade Against
Tuberculosis Struggled Against Seeming
ly Hopeless Obstacles to Gain Recognition
j Dr. Edward L. Trudeau First
J Cured Himself After Studying
Disease and Then DevQted
’ । Life to Helping Others—Mar
■ velous Results Obtained in the
Twenty-five Years of Work.
By Phil P. Jacobs.
(Assistant Secretary of the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
♦ vention of Tuberculosis.)
A reception and dinner tendered to
Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, the founder of
I the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and.
I the originator of the Am-'t ican crusade
; against tuberculosis, early in February,
1 marked the cud ol the twenty-fifth
year of this life-saving work.
The gathering, which was largely at
tended by Dr. Trudeau's ‘‘graduates”
wns held at the sanitarium. Among the
many gifts presented to Dr. Trudeau,
fene of the most unique was a large au
. tograph volume, containing expressions
1 of appreciation nnd congratulation
I from hundreds of ex patients.
The address made at the reception
[recall tlai struggles of Dr. Trudeau, aud
; preseny one of the strangest chapters
if hi'J'ry that has ever been written,
a his® y full of discouragements and
failurJ yet abundantly crowped with
success, and, above all, n history that
tells of life brought within reach of
■ millions.
Thirty Seven years ago. Dr. Trudeau
contracted tuberculosis of the lungs,
just after entering upon what promis
ed to be a brilliant career in medicine.
Most of his colleagues and friends gave
him up for lost, but regardless of their
'warnings, he resolved to spend at least
one summer and winter in the Adiron
dack mountains. living in the open air.
On the site where Panl Smith’s new
hotel now stands, in the heart of vir
gin wilderness, forty-two miles from
| a railroad and one hundred miles from
auy center of culture, he lived fur
years. Into this remote spot there pen
etrated in 1883 an account of Koch's
discovery of the germ of tuberculosis.
Before this hope had been dead, but
now a wave of possibilities surgp-1
through Dr. Trudeau's mind, and ne
saw with the imagination of all
pioneers what tho future, with the
identity of the foe at last determine 1,
might hold in store. It was this clear
sighted vision of the future that start
ed tho campaign against tuberculosis
in America.
Surmounted Many Obstacles.
The obstacles which Dr. Trudeau had
■ <0 contend with were well nigh insitr
! mountable aud would have discouraged
almost any other man. When in 1883
he began his technical researches, fol
lowing up the discoveries of Dr. Koch
I in Berlin, he says: ‘‘l had from th?
I first many difficulties to contend with:
| no health, uo scientific training, no ap
. paratns, no access to books, and was
1 situated forty-two miles from a rail
toad in a primitive forest.” In a few
i short visits which he was able to make
। to New York he studied the elements
■ of bacteriology. The rest ot that high
ly specialized science, in which ho has
become an expert and an authority, he
I taught himself. His laboratory was e
small room in his house, and for the
' purpose of cultivating the tuberenia’-
badillus in a pure culture, he hnd to
arrange a series of boxes, one inside
tho other, heated with a kerosene lamp
and regulated by an improvised ther
mostat. Tn this oven, however, he sue.
[ec-eded finally in producing the little
rod-like germs. The guinea pigs which
he used for experimental purposes had
I to be kept in a hole in the ground to
' keep them from freezing.
In order to determine if environment
'had Mr effect upon tho tuberculosis
germ, Dr. Trudeau inoculated a largo
number of rabbits with his pure cul
ture. Several of those little animals be
[ turned loose on an island in St. Regis
lake, and others he locked up in a dark
cellar, and in various unsanitary places.
All of the rabbits left in unhealthfnl
surroundings died of tuberculosis with
in three months, wljile all of those al- j
lowed to run wild, teeovered.
Recalling this classic experiment. Dr. j
Trudeau says: ‘‘The results of this re
search increased my confidence in tho
influence of a favorable environment
on the course of the disease, and con
firmed niy faith in the value of the
sanitarium and epen air method of
treating tuberculosis, of which I was j
then making a practical application.”
Loses All in Fite.
Hardly bad the value and usefulness I
of this rude, homemade laboratory been
demonstrated, when one night, while
Dr. Trudeau was sick in New York, th?
lamp of his improvised box-oven ex
ploded and burned up his laboratory. 1
his house and everything he owned. It I
was here that another leader in the war !
tuberculosis showed his faith I
»n Dr Trudeau. ‘‘l am sorry to hear
oA your misfortune, but tnke my word
fol it, there is nothing like a fire to '
mwe a man do th* Phoenix trick.” I
The*.next dny. through tho generosity 1
of Gborgc r'. Poopor. Mrs. A. A. An- [
dvrsbu)aud others, funds wore supplied
for the erection of a fireproof labora
tory. which has become a world-renowa- 1
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led institute of research in tubere.u
j louis.
In I*Bs. amid the scoffing of most
I of his friends. Dr. Trudeau showed his
[faith in the open air movement by
starting the Adirondack Cottage Sant
। tarium <or persons who had tuberculo
sis, hut who could not afford to pay
more than $5 a week for their trea.
'mem. Dr. Trudeau recognized then
| what has been so dearly demonstrated
today, that tuberculosis is a poor man's
(disease, and that most of the victims
I of this malady cannot' afford to pay
[full price' for their cure.
[ Anson Phelps Stokes gave the' first
I contribution of $5O Oto the new sani
tarium, nnd Frpncisco Bianchi gave the
(second $5OO. Tin' nuclons of the snub
tarium wns a little rod cottage heated
: by a wood stove and lighted by an oil
[lamp, in which Dr. Trudeau himself had
taken tho cure. Although tho institu
tion had a capacity fur only nine' pa
tients. it was with the greatest ,<Hffi
'eulty that the beds could be filled. Phy-
Isicians and laymen alike looked upon a
winter in the open air with the zero
temperature of the Adirondack* as lit
tle short of suicide. It was only
through the constant work of Dr, Al
fred L. Loomis of New York, tho
founder of Hu' Loomis sanatorinm nt
Liberty, N. Y., that enough patients
.were finally persuaded to go to Sar
janac lake- to fill the little institution:
[and it is largely through the' winning
| personality aud encouragement of Di.
t Trudeau that most of them were per
isuaded to stay after they arrived.
Contrast Is Presented.
Here was the actual beginning of the
I campaign against tuberculosis in Amer
-1 ica. From this little one roomed eot
itago have emanated the fires that have
. kindled a nation, nnd have aroused mil-
I lions to action. What a contrast the
twenty-five years present! Less than 11
‘ dozen patients were treated by Dr.
। Trudeau that first year: in 1909, over
117.000 tuberculosis patients received
treatment and assistance from various
[sources. Only one institution in 1885,
[ ind in 1910 we have 380 sanatoria nnd
i hospitals, 205 dispensaries and 391 as
[ sociations, all devoted to the
study and prevention of tuberculosis.
I The crusade against tuberculosis start
led with an investment of a few thou- i
sand dollars. Today the Adirondack
I Cottage Sanitarium is worth more than
a million and over $25,000,000 is invest-
I oil >n the property of other institution :
and organizations doing tuberculosis
work. The first year of treatment a'
Dr. Trudeau’s original institution cost 1
I than 310,000. Last year over
000,000 was spent in anti-tuberculosis
work, and governmental appropriations I
1 alone for 1910 aggregate $9,000,000.
Iwlreh with private expenditures will
I bring the total silver jubilee’s tuber
culosis fund to be spent this year up
r.o nearly $15,000,000. Twenty-five [
I years ago hardly a consumptive was
j cured of his disease and the death rate
was increasing in every civilized coun
try. Today thousands of sanatorium
‘ ’ graduates'' go out as cured every
year aud it is a well known fact that I
75 per cent of the incipient cases of
tuberculosis can be cured if they are
! given a chance. When Dr. Trudeau ,
started his work, he was almost alone 1
among those who seriously advocated ।
that tuberculosis could be restricted 1
and prevented. ‘‘Tuberculosis is pre
ventable,” is today a by word in mil
lions of American homes.
No words eau express the contrast
[better than Dr. Trudean's own. when
; he welcomed the International Congress .
| on Tuberculosis in Washington a year'
ago. ‘‘For thirty-five years,” said he. 1
‘‘l have lived in the midst of a per- '
petual epidemic, struggling with tuber- ;
culosis both within the walls and with
out. and no on; can appreciate better [
■ 1 ■■ ■ - — - -- - h. .
*. WOMAN IS KILLED BY *.
% NINE YEAR-OLD SON. S
.. K.
*■ United Press. *.
•• New Y. 1:. Feb. 12.—Mrs. %
’■ Agnes Brmi'. '■ years, was shot,- \
"• and instarC; Killed tonight by "■
% her 9\ei r old son. John, who "■
"■ was plaving with a revolver in "■
the kitchen • ' their house. The S
’■ mother was bolding her 2-year- *•
*• old son. Tl ms- when the gun •»
S went off ar ’ ••»•».'' ’ vnB h ’’ in *•
*• the right I- by the same
bullet that 'led ,lis mother.
I"» John is uiui' rrest. *•
i s-.?
I than I do the great, meaning of such a
meeting. 1 have lived through many
।of the long, dark years of ignorance,
hopelessness and apathy, when tuber
culosis levied its pitiless toll on human
life unheeded ami unhindered, when,
as Jacoud hns tersely put it, ‘the treat
ment of tuberculosis was but a medita
tion on death!’ But I hnve lived also
to see tho dawn of the new knowledge
to see the fall of the death rate of ta
bcrculosis. to see hundreds who have
i boon rescued, to see whole comm uni
: ties growing up of men and women
1 whose lives hnve been saved and whs
[ are engaged in saving the lives of oth
I crs. 1 have lived to see the spread of
the new light from nation to nation un
til it has encircled the globe and finds
expression today in the gathering of
the International Congress of Tube •-
culosis with all that it menus to s-i
-: enee. philanthropy and the brotherhood
j of mnn. ”
BLAME ENGINEHS
FOR PARIS FLODOS
Writers Claim Many Mistakes
Were Made —Great Losses
to Business.
STRICTURES ARE SEVERE
Paris. Feb. 12. —The onslaught of re
j'.oof and reproach to which the en
gineerirg profession is now subjected
in Fran’o on the theory that its mem
bers are responsible for the invasion
t>f Paris by the floods is bitter in the
extreme.
Frederic Masson, of the Fren h
acadenty, asks who are more nefari
ous, the parliamentarians or the engi
neers. and substantially declares that
the latter are. He says that the pre
sumptuous and arrogant confidence of
the engineers in their dry formulae
prevent them from seeing plain facts,
ol which the veriest ignoramus wouht
take cognizance, dheh, for instance,
as that the windows which open on
the river only a few feet above its or
dinary level all along tho subway that
skirts its left bank invite disaster. Ho
piediets that once the city is driol
and scoured out the engineers will
sketch out plans for its restoration,
the chief feature of which will bo that
they will merely afford another stu
pendous opportunity for political job
bers aud corrupt contractors to maka
colossal fortunes.
Victim of Pseudo Science.
Charles Bos asserts pointblank that
Paris is the victim of the pseudo-sci
ence of tho engineers. The dry rot of
formal technology, he says, has done
the harm. These engineers, in their
fatuous conceit, commanded nature,
as did King Canute, to pause al a
certain point, and nature refused to
pause, simply because their modern
constructions, which were to have re
strained her. proved much feebler and
much less the creations of common
scuse and honest workmanship than
those of the modest engineers who
worked under the Valois kings and
the Bourbons.
‘‘l find that my estimate.” he eon ;
tinues, ‘‘that tho material damage
caused by tho inundation is at least
equal to that inflicted on Varis by the (
Germans and the communists in 1873 ■
and 1871. has since been confirmed by 1
the opinions of other writers, a ma
jority of whom even declare that it >
much greater. Further than this, vast
harm has l>ecn dque which it is utter
h impossible to estimate. The I.’ ‘
of Paris was to a very Large degr- e
disorganized for almost a fortnight. In
many departments of business delays i
were caused which are irreparable,
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well as others which it will take n t
very long time to overcome.
Spring Fashions Delayed.
For one thin, the spring fashions
will be considerably later than usual
—that is to say. their full bloom will i
be retarded in all tho high-cans dress
making establishments in Pnris, which,
under normal conditions, arc lighted
by electricity. Most of the work in i
these world-famous ateliers cannot lie
well done without it. Those plac«« !
wore suddenly deprived of every bit (
of electric light and were dimly iiln-;
minntod with oft lamps mid candles in-1
stead. About the same time the tele
phone service was absolutely para- ।
lyzed ia the whole central shopping
district. Appointments with fair pc- |
traits tn try on gowns could not be I
promptly mmle. Photographers wb > •
mnke much money every year by t >r >
dueing early pictures of the most stnn i
ning creations of the seamstress’ art;
are wringing their hands in despair.)
However, it is the small shopkeepers i
of the flooded section of the city who .
will probably suffer relatively th? |
gronts'St losses of nil. Thon there were
whole trades which were indirceth
stopped by the flood.
Mardi Gras Festival Ruined.
The Mardi Gras festival usually af
fords temporary opportunities for
inoney-mnking to thousands in all th-'
trade districts of Paris. They had
elected their carnival queens just lie
fore tho Seine overleaped its banks.
Unusual efforts wore to be put fort i
this year to make the Mardi Gras I
more brillimit than over, but not only
have the manufacture mid sale of
masks received a severe blow, but au
untold number of poor men and women
who wore counting on supplying con
fetti to the gay throngs of revelers [
nro now confronted by the order of
the prefect of t .e Seine that none of
this time-honored immuuitiou may be
used on that dny. Two evil effects oi
its use were feared, first, that dust
would arise from it which, mingling
with the dust of the streets, might dis-1
seiuinate typhoid germs far and wid’: (
end, second, that the confetti would
choke certain -portions of the sowers. !
Disappointment at the prohibition is i
not likely, however, to ruin the Manli j
Gras procession. Paris has already
largely recovered from its depression,
and all classes of people have been re- I
smning their habitual amusements for I
the last few evenings. A reaction •
fioin the gloom of last week is already [
manifesting itself in the guise of ex- I
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tion of Paris continues to improve, is
not very difficult to imagine.
MADRIZ WHOSE
RULE NEARS HID
President. Madriz of Nicaragua, who
is said to be forcing American citizens
to join his army in his battle with the
revolutionists. . Although constantly a*
suring the Washington authorities of his
pacific intentions, reports come in con
stantly that he is fomenting trouble all
the time. Business men of the" isthmu
complain that lie has also placed an
unlawful espionage and delay on the
mails. Washington has cabled the prop
er officials to make an investigation.
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